Summer 2025 courses
Course descriptions for AMETH, GWSS and STRAN are listed in numeric order
AMETH 160: Introduction to American Ethnic Studies
May Intersession online
First 4-week summer session online
This course prepares students to function productively in our multicultural society and provides a deep understanding of America's race relations and how race and ethnic understandings have been shaped across history. We explore Native American, African American, Mexican/Latina/o American, Asian American, and white American historical dynamics. We offer you the opportunity to participate in some of the most difficult yet rewarding conversations in today’s America.
Fulfills the "Historical Perspectives" and "Human Diversity within the U.S." K-State 8 requirements.
Fulfills a "Social and Behavioral Sciences" requirement within the K-State Core.
GWSS 105: Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
First 4-week summer session online
Second 4-week summer session online
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, anti0racist, and anti-colonial activisms.
Fulfills the "Ethical Reasoning and Responsibility" and "Human Diversity with in the U.S." K-State 8 requirements.
Fulfills a "Social and Behavioral Sciences" requirement within the K-State Core.
GWSS 300: Queer Rights & The Law
First 4-week summer session online
In the last several years, there were more anti-queer bills proposed by legislators across the U.S. than at any other time in history, including fifteen here in Kansas. We are living through a remarkable backlash against the queer community. This course works to help us understand how we got here and what queer activists are doing to combat this threat to queer rights. This course examines how queer rights are constructed, enforced, and violated by the law. Course materials engage an intersectional approach, analyzing how racist, homophobic, nationalist, and abilitied assumptions inform the law and its enforcement. This course will look at how systems of "justice" and state enforcement mechanisms produce gendered surveillance, confinement, and violence. We will investigate how various scholars and social movements have understood law as both a site of violence against the queer community and as a potential solution to such rights violations.
Fulfills the "Human Diversity within the U.S." K-State 8 requirement; the U.S. Multicultural Overlay; the Social Sciences requirement for Arts and Sciences majors; one of the elective courses for the Queer Studies minor, the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies minor; the Intercultural Competence Certificate; the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Business Certificate. And students can also take it for Honors credit.