Women's and Gender Studies Course Offerings

Women's and Gender Studies Courses for Spring 2024
Courses Instructors
WGST 100 Intro to WGST Kiara Washington
WGST 205 Art & Politics of Drag Alice Rutkowski
WGST 232 SZ Train-the-Trainer  Alice Rutkowski
WGST 320 Gender and Sexualities Amanda Roth
WGST/AMST/BLKS 490 Senior Seminar Olaocha Nwabara
WGST 495 Internship 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 Intersession 2023
 
Courses Instructors
ANTH 313 Global Health Issues Irene Ketonen
ENGL 111 Race & Rep in Lit & Media Kiara Washington
SOCL 105 Intro to Global Social Change Lisa Meyer

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

Spring 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

AMST 200 Race, Prisons, and Policing

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
Reece Torres

ANTH 288 Cross-Cultural Pol of Reprd***

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender
Brenna McCaffrey

BLKS 200 Intro to Black Studies

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

ENGL 111 Lit: N.K. Jemison Justice & Love

Beth McCoy
ENGL 11 Lit: Black British Short Story Maria Helena Lima

ENGL 336 Native American Literature

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

ENGL 337 African-American Literature

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
Beth McCoy

ENGL 346 African Literature

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender
Olaocha Nwabara

ENGL 458 Major Authors: Zadie Smith

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

HIST 267 Women & US Social Movements

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
Cathy Adams

HIST 275 Global History of Sexual Science

  • Major Distribution: Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies OR Historical, Political, Activist Studies OR Global Issues in Sex and Gender
Ryan Jones

HIST 282 History of Modern East Asia

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender
Ling Ma

HIST 470 History of Modern Mexico

  • Major Distribution:  Historical, Political, Activist Studies OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender
Ryan Jones

HIST 476 Modern China

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender 
Ling Ma

HUMN 222 Black Humanities

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

MUSC 336 Topic: Music, Move, Spectacle, & Fashion...

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
Anthony Lalena

PASC Performance as Social Change

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts OR Historical, Political, Activist Studies
Mark Broomfield

PHIL 204 Feminist Philosophy 

  • Major Distribution: Theories and Representation in Humanities and Arts
Amanda Roth

PLSC 361 Women & Politics

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
Hanna Brant

PLSC 417 Identity & Politics in the US 

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
Hanna Brant

PLSC 442 Human Rights in a Global Perspective 

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender

Raslan Ibrahim

PSYC 294 Peer Advocacy*

  • Major Distribution: Historical, Political, Activist Studies
Jennifer Katz

SOCL 210 Sociology of Families

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World
Denise Scott

SOCL 245 Sociology of Sports

  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World
William Lofquist

WGST 205 Art & Politics of Drag

  • Major Distribution: Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies
Alice Rutkowski

WGST 232 SZ Train-the-Trainer (2cr)*

  • Major Distribution: Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies
Alice Rutkowski

XLRN 350 Dialogue Facilitation Training

Christine Merrilees
   

* Enrollment by application/permission of instructor only

*** Registration is restricted to Anthropology & Sociomedical Science majors until 11/21/2023.

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.

Special Case Courses/Restrictions/Etc.

Courses Instructors

ANTH 313 Global Health Issues (restricted until 11/21)

  • Registration is restricted to Anthropology & Sociomedical Science Majors until 11/21/2023. Because of high demand in Sociomedical Sciences, enrollment for other students may not be possible.
  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World OR Global Issues in Sex & Gender 
Jesse Bia

PSYC 308 Psych of Women (PSYC 250, 251, or POI)

  • Note this course is approved to count for WGST, however, it is in high demand and students who are not in a PSYC program may not be able to enroll.
  • Major Distribution: Gender in the Social World
Jennifer Katz