Course code: WGSS 499
Taught: Spring 2026
Capstone course for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors. The WGSS Capstone is an opportunity for WGSS majors and minors to reflect and expand on what they have learned across their WGSS courses and to share those experiences with others. Level: Undergraduate
Course code: ENST 391
Taught: Fall 2025
This course provides theoretical and practical knowledge on the intersection between gender, environment, and climate change with a focus on U.S. climate challenges. The class begins with foundational theories of ecofeminism and explores the interplay between gender and environmental issues. In the second section of the course, students will explore intersectional evolution of ecofeminism through cases drawn from Indigenous and global storytelling. The final section will discuss modern ecofeminism and multispecies justice, including analysis of relevance to current challenges of environmental degradation and climate change. This course is structured around the application of theory to real-world climate change. Through this course, students gain critical skills to engage with gendered issues of climate change and envision alternative climate solutions through interactive coursework and discussion-based learning.
Course code: WRIT 101
Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Where you write from is as important as what you choose to write about; when you write, you are writing from somewhere, from a collage of somewheres. You come to this class, and to every blank page, carrying the unique and complex particulars of your own history—a hometown, a family, a friendship, a loss, a mystery. These are all places from which to write. Students will have the chance to write about what they love in different genres and for different audiences. They will also develop dynamic reading, writing, and research processes.
Course code: WGSS 263
Taught: Fall 2025
The course is designed to introduce students to the broad fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies through an overview of a number of the theoretical and experiential perspectives of WGSS from a social science perspective. Students will analyze the history of feminism, women’s studies, gender studies, and the growing field of queer studies; biological and psychological theories of gender; the social construction of gender as a product of history and culture; the relationship between gender and other categories of difference (race, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity); family and work; gender-based violence; the relationship between politics, economics, and gender; the representation of gender in popular culture; health and reproduction; and activism.