Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

FGSS 1940

By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2930, HIST 1930, LGBT 1940, SHUM 1930

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10368 FGSS 1940   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10369 FGSS 1940   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10370 FGSS 1940   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10371 FGSS 1940   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10372 FGSS 1940   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10373 FGSS 1940   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10374 FGSS 1940   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2010

Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program focused on understanding the impact of gender and sexuality on the world around us and on the power hierarchies that structure it. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7727 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17608 FGSS 2010   LEC 002

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2290

This course offers an introduction to central issues, debates, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Starting from the assumption that neither ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LGBT 2290

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7731 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2468

Medicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this medicalization of life may be one of the reasons that medical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468, BSOC 2468, STS 2468

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4621 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4622 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4623 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4624 FGSS 2468   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4625 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4626 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4627 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2505

While the march toward the Civil War centers race in our recollection of the nineteenth century, the question of slavery’s abolition was deeply intertwined with issues of gender and citizenship. One challenge ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2507, ENGL 2505

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17564 FGSS 2505   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sanders, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2575

This course focuses on the human condition of Chinese women after 1949. In the name of the Women's liberation movement since the early 1900s, do Chinese women eventually hold up the half sky? From the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 2575, CAPS 2575, HIST 2575

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10494 FGSS 2575   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10495 FGSS 2575   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 2727

What does it mean to be queer in the Middle East? How do queer Muslims and Arabs navigate their sexuality around contemporary legal barriers to same-sex sexual intercourse and social disapprobation? How ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17076 FGSS 2727   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Lawrence, J

      Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3210

Why are boys more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism, and why are women more likely than men to be diagnosed with depression? Are there different gay and straight brains? And how does brain ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIONB 3215, LGBT 3210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5467 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Bass, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3320

This course will examine the ways in which sex and gender impact the expression of severe psychopathology. We will try to understand these relationships using different levels of analysis. This will involve ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3320

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 14080 FGSS 3320   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Korfine, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3350

This popular course was introduced here at Cornell a decade ago. This year will mark the third time that we’ve been able to offer it, in light of all the moving parts and unique components that pulling ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3355, ASRC 3350, ENGL 3950

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 14641 FGSS 3350   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3400

Social Justice: Special Topics explores feminist, anthropological, and interdisciplinary perspectives on social justice. It connects domestic and international concerns and fosters active and engaged learning, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3420, ANTHR 3402, GOVT 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17499 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3550

?My existence is a scandal,? Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of ?art for art?s sake? and all that was ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3550, ENGL 3550, LGBT 3550

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7623 FGSS 3550   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3565

Mainstream media would have us believe that driving a new Toyota Prius, recycling, and shopping clean at Whole Foods would make us all food environmentalists, right? Additionally, climate change ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3565, ASRC 3565, ENGL 3565

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7695 FGSS 3565   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3820

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Syllabi: none
  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ILRGL 3820

  • 1.5 Credits S/U NoAud

  • 14161 FGSS 3820   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Mar 17 - May 11, 2027
    • Devault, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4000

This senior seminar constitutes the culmination of the FGSS major-it provides a unique opportunity to come together with all the other FGSS seniors to both put to use what has been learned and explore ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7728 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7729 FGSS 4000   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4035

A recognition of the importance of intersectionality has become increasingly key to not only understand the complexity of social identity and lived experience, but to combat discrimination and oppression. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRGL 4035

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14188 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Heinemann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4260

This seminar addresses the intersection of communication, culture, and identity through an examination of gender and the U.S. media system. After introducing students to key approaches to studying gender ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4260

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17112 FGSS 4260   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Duffy, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4260

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17114 FGSS 4260   LEC 002

    • MW
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Duffy, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4491

Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4490, PHIL 6490

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14964 FGSS 4491   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Manne, K

      Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4561

How has history shaped our notion of Black girlhood? What is our collective understanding of Black girlhood? How do we see and understand Black girls? Black Girlhood Studies is a multidisciplinary field ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 14092 FGSS 4561   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ailsworth, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4702

In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17093 FGSS 4702   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4991

To graduate with honors, FGSS majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an FGSS faculty member and defend that thesis orally before an honors committee. To be eligible for honors, students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7730 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6702

In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17046 FGSS 6702   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6880

This course offers an introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of the interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, providing graduate students with a range of disciplinary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7733 FGSS 6880   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person