Upcoming Courses: Spring 2026
GSS and will Core Courses
GSS 200 Intro: GSS (Skerrett/Snaza)
TR 1:30-2:45 pm (Skerrett); MW 10:30-11:45 am (Snaza)
FSSA, IFPE, AISO
An introduction to the broad, interdisciplinary field of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Special attention will be paid to the meaning and history of the terms "gender" and "sexuality" and to the political movements mobilized around those terms. Students will read both contemporary and historical materials and both primary and secondary sources.
GSS 201 will Colloquium (Gonzales)
TR 3:00-4:15 pm
IFWC
This course explores the link between knowledge/power and between theory/practice by examining and applying foundational terms and concepts central to social justice work. Prerequisite: will Program. 1 unit.
GSS 202 Feminist and Queer (Skerrett)
MW 9:00-10:15; 10:30-11:45 am
IFPE
Explores a range of queer theoretical approaches. Special attention will be paid to intersectionality, the social construction of identities, and how these constructed identities impact knowing, ethical reasoning, and conduct. Engagement of the theoretical underpinnings of political, ethical, or cultural issues.
GSS 301 will Senior Seminar (Ooten)
W 12:00-1:15 pm
This community-based learning course enables students to connect GSS theory and praxis, a central tenet of the will program, and reflect on their GSS learning. Prerequisite: will Program. .5 units.
Electives
ANTH 272 Global Women’s Reproductive Health (Nourse)
TR 3:00-4:15 pm
ANTH 301 Art and Anthropology (Dorsey)
T 3:00-5:45 pm
ANTH 303 Biopolitics in Medical Anthropology (Sweis) Special Contract*
TR 12:00-1:15 pm
ANTH 340 Borders and Migration (Dorsey)
MW 1:30-2:45 pm
CLSC 232 Daily Life in Roman Pompeii (Damer)
TR 10:30-11:45 am
CLSC 301 Greek Art and Archaeology (Baughan) Special Contract*
MW 130-2:45 pm
DANC 319 SEM: Collab Arts Dance, Humanities, and Technology (Diaz)
T 3:00-5:30 pm
ENGL 237 Queer Literatures (Snaza)
MW 9:00-10:15
ENGL 369 American Culture/American Film (Cheever) Special Contract*
TR 12:00-1:15 pm
HIST 213 Lawrence V. Texas (Holloway)
MW 9:00-10:15 am
HIST 220 Regan’s America (Yellin) Special Contract*
TR 10:30-11:45; TR 12:00-1:15 pm
HIST 240 Human Rights in Atlantic World (Watts)
TR 12:00-1:15 pm; TR 1:30-2:45 pm
HIST 298 ST: East Asian Women’s History (Loo)
MW 1:30-2:45 pm
Despite the long-standing conventions of Confucian patriarchy that sought to discipline and restrict women’s place in East Asian society, women have always acted as political subjects who inhabit, negotiate, articulate, and resist relations of power. This course pays particular attention to women’s experiences in the turbulent nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when older cultural structures were reinforced and reshaped by the emergence of patriarchal modern nation-states in Japan, Korea, and China. We will interrogate how Confucianism, nationalism, and colonial modernity constructed ideals of womanhood, and how women’s political subjectivity emerged both within and against these systems. This class is interested in how East Asian women understood and navigated encounters with the patriarchal family, the modern state, and colonialism, how they conceived of their own power and possibilities, and the strategies they pursued and the imagined futures they developed in response.
HIST 321 History of Work in Europe (Watts)
MF 12:00-1:15 pm
LING 203 Intro to Linguistics (Giancaspro) Special Contract*
TR 10:30-11:45 am
MUS 235 “I Want My MTV”: Music Video and the Transformation of the Culture Industry (Love) Special Contract*
MW 10:30-11:45 am
RELG 233 Sex and the Hebrew Bible (Graybill)
TR 10:30-11:45 am; 12:00-1:15 pm
RHCS 340 Rhetoric & Law (Mifsud)
TR 1:30-2:45 pm
SOC 316 Race and Ethnicity in America (Richards) Special Contract*
T 3:00-5:45 pm
SOC 321 Masculinities (Oware)
MW 9:00-10:15 am
SOC 379 Sexualities of Pop Culture (Troia)
TR 10:30-11:45 am
What can we learn from studying how sexuality is portrayed through our favorite forms of pop culture? How can representations of sexuality in pop culture shape our daily lives? This course utilizes a sociological perspective to better understand how social norms about sexuality are produced and challenged through popular culture. We will examine how ideas about sexual (non-)conformity are portrayed through film, television, news media, advertising, and digital media. This course focuses on how sexuality intersects with gender, race, and class to shape how sexual identities, relationships, desires, and behaviors are represented through mainstream and alternative media over the past century.
*NOTE: Courses designated as "Special Contract" carry GSS credit only if students make a contract with the professor at the beginning of the semester to do work specific to the GSS component of the course. Interested students should consult with the professor within the first couple of weeks of class to complete paperwork for GSS credit.
Please contact the program coordinator, Dr. Crystal Hoyt, with any questions.
Updated 10/17/2025