Fall 2024 courses
Course descriptions for AMETH, GWSS and STRAN are listed in numeric order
GWSS 105: Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (PDF)
Several online sections fall 2024
This introductory class is an interdisciplinary analysis of personal experiences and social and political institutions as they shape and are shaped by the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, citizenship, and ability on local, national, and global levels. Topics include the roles of biology and social construction in shaping gender and sexuality; sources of structural inequities; and feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist, and anti-colonial activisms.
Fulfills the "Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility" and "Human Diversity within the U.S." K-State 8 requirements.
GWSS 275: Gender, Race, and Sex in Science Fiction (PDF)
Dr. Valerie Padilla Carroll
8/19/24 - 12/06/24 ONLINE
This course explains the ways that gender, sex, sexuality, race, and class intersect in science fiction including Afrofuturism, Chicana futurism, and Indigenous futurism. Here, the ways that we imagine the future and the alien offer insight into contemporary concerns about gender, sexuality, race and racism, colonialism, imperialism, and justice.
Fulfills the "Social Sciences" K-State 8 requirement.
GWSS 325: Queer Studies/Concepts, History, and Politics (PDF)
Dr. Rachel Levitt
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 8:20 pm
Ever wondered about the history of queer activism in the U.S.? Want to know more about LGBTQ justice struggles? Come learn about queer history and politics in a fun and engaging class!
Fulfills the "Historical Perspectives" and “Human Diversity within the U.S.” K-State 8 requirements.
GWSS 365: Reproductive Rights and Wrongs (PDF)
Dr. Susan Rensing
Tu/Th, 1:05 - 2:20 pm
SisterSong defines reproductive justice as "the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities." How have people in the past fought for these rights and how many of these rights are currently under threat? This course will explore contemporary reproductive politics within the historical context of struggles for reproductive justice in the United States and globally. Our readings will center the most marginalized and examine how women of color have fought for reproductive freedom, how LGBTQ folks and disabled people have fought for the right to parent and for bodily autonomy, and how the feminist health movement fought for medical knowledge and autonomy in birth.
Fulfills the "Historical Perspectives" and “Human Diversity within the U.S.” K-State 8 requirements.
AMETH 370: Politics of Women of Color (PDF)
Dr. Keisha Clark
TuTh, 9:30 - 10:45 am
Deepen your commitments to the personal and political transformations necessary to build a world where we can all move beyond survival. Get inspired. Be fierce. Explore the coalitional politics of women of color from its earliest formation as the "Third World Women's Alliance" in the 1960s to its manifestation in present-day movements. All are welcome!
STRAN 400: Transforming Society (PDF)
Section A, Dr. Weaver
It is undeniable that the U.S. today is fractured by the joins, past and present, of colonialism, racism, misogyny, nationalism, ableism, Orientalism, transphobia, and homophobia. This class examines these fractures and joins, exploring social movements and conceptual interventions that upend and challenge the many oppressions that warp the fabric of our current social order. Threading history, ethnography, cultural studies, philosophy, fiction, and film, we take up ideas like intersectionality and structural violence as they emerge in and apply to projects such as disability justice and U.S. prisons. Through collective thinking in the why and how of making change, we engage the ethics and praxis of transforming society.
Fulfills the Human Diversity in the U.S. and Ethical Reasoning requirements and counts towards the queer studies minor.