Women's and Gender Studies Course Offerings

Women's and Gender Studies Courses for Fall 2024
Courses Instructors

WGST 100 Intro to WGST

  • Required for majors, minors, & concentrators
 Kiara Washington

WGST 233 SZ Leadership (1 cr)

  • Separate application process (prereq: WGST 232)
 Alice Rutkowski

WGST 310 Race, Class, and Gender 

  • Required for majors, minors, and concentrators
 Cathy Adams

ANTH 318/WGST 318 Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

  • Major Distribution: Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies OR Global Issues in Sex and Gender OR Gender in the Social World
 Jim Aimers

WSGT 495 Internship 

  • Capstone Option
 By Arrangement

Senior seminar is offered every spring; if you would like to complete your senior capstone project in the fall, contact Dr. Roth.

Please email Amanda Roth to add a class to this list or with any questions.

Women's and Gender Studies Courses for Summer 2024
Courses Instructors
ANTH 326 Race, Racism, and Antiracism Melanie Medeiros
PSYC 236 Human Sexuality (p) Jennifer Katz
WGST 100 Intro to WGST  Kiara Washington
WGST 202 Dismantling Disney & Pixar: Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Class in Animations Kiara Washington

 Please email Amanda Roth to add a class to this list or with any questions.

Fall 2024 List of Elective Courses (for Minors/Concentrators) and Distribution Courses (for Majors)

For Minors and Concentrators: Non-WGST prefix courses play the role of electives. Concentrators must select at least one course from humanities/arts and one from social science. Minors must select electives from at least two prefixes. Contact the WGST Coordinator (Amanda Roth, rothal@geneseo.edu) for advising or more information.

For Majors: For non-WGST prefix courses, note the distribution area the courses can apply to below each course. Seek advising from the coordinator (Amanda Roth, rothal@geneseo.edu) or your academic advisor about choosing among options for distribution areas where possible. In some cases, there may be additional possibilities for distribution areas for a course depending on the particular course material, but I have listed those that are most obvious given the title of the course. 

Courses  Instructors

ANTH 319 Politics of Reproduction*

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World 
 Brenna McCaffrey

BLKS 200 Intro to Black Studies

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
 Kiara Washington

ENGL 203 Marginal Spaces

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
 Caroline Woidat

ENGL 439 Captivity Narratives 

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
 Caroline Woidat

ENGL 467 Women & The Civil War

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
 Alice Rutkowski

FMST 369 Black Queer Cinema

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
 Mark Broomfield

HIST 249 BLM Past and Present

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
 Emilye Crosby

HIST 261 Native American History 

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
 Michael Oberg

HIST 266 Civil RIghts Movement in American History

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
 Emilye Crosby

HIST 270 History of Latin America to 1825 

  • Major Distribution: Global Issues in Sex and Gender
 Ryan Jones

HIST 292 Modern Islamic World 1800-Present

  • Major Distribution: Global Issues in Sex and Gender
 Mohammad Ansari

HUMN 222 Black Humanities

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts 
 Maria Helena Lima

GEOG 123 The Developing World

  • Major Distribution: Global Issues in Sex and Gender OR Gender in the Social World
 Jennifer Rogalsky

PASC 105 Performance as Social Change I

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts 
 Mark Broomfield

PSYC 236 Human Sexuality (p)

  • Major Distribution: Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
 Jennifer Katz

SOCL 105 Intro to Global Social Change

  • Major Distribution: Global Issues in Sex and Gender
 Lisa Meyer

SOCL 210 Sociology of Families (p)

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World
 Denise Scott

SOCL 245 Sociology of Sports

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World
 Bill Lofquist

SOCL 281 Topic: Gender and Science (p)

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World
 Anne Eisenberg

SOCL 281 Topic: Women in South Asian Society (p)

  • Major Distribution: Global Issues in Sex and Gender
 Denise Scott

SOCL 281 Topic: Sociology of Sexual Health (p)

  • Major Distribution: Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
 Amy Braksmajer

SOCL 325 Global Social Change (p)

  • Major Distribution: Global Issues in Sex and Gender
 Lisa Meyer

XLRN 150 Foundations in Social Identity

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
 Ashley Watson

XLRN 350 Dialogue Facilitation Training

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
 Christine Merrilees

(p) Prerequisites apply

* Registration restriction: restricted to ANTH, Sociomed, and WGST students until 4/17/2024

Note:

  • Note that many courses on the list have prerequisites. If you do not meet the prerequisite, you may contact the instructor and inquire about whether you could take the course for WGST purposes without having the prereq. (Though in some cases the answer will be "no".)
  • Also, in some cases, the above courses devote only a portion (usually about 30% or more) of the course material to gender and/or sexuality specifically, but many allow students to make choices about the focus of one or more assignments. If you are using a course in another program or department for WGST credit and the course has only partial focus on women, gender, and/or sexuality, then you should opt to focus a major assignment on one of those topics when possible.
  • Finally, in some cases, there are upper-level courses offered in other departments that are generally only available to majors, minors, or students with significant background in the relevant disciplinary areas. Those courses usually will not show up on this list; however, if you are a student who has the relevant background and you are taking a course not on this list that you believe has significant women/gender/sexuality-related content, please feel free to contact the WGST coordinator (rothal@geneseo.edu) to discuss.
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