3570 Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

22nd Floor, 25 Park Place Building
P.O. Box 3969
Atlanta, GA 30302-3969

Phone: 404-413-6587
Email: wgss@gsu.edu
wgss.gsu.edu

Jennie Burnet, Director
Julie Kubala, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Georgia State University contributes to the University’s broader mission of encouraging critical thinking through a focus on feminist interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and community participation. WGSS makes explicit the ways in which gender and sexuality, in connection with other categories such as race, class, ability, and age, construct our understandings and experiences of the world. Furthermore, WGSS analyzes the ways public discourse relies on gender and sexuality to conceptualize such issues as war and militarism, policy, the environment, education, healthcare, economics, the media, and popular culture. In order to explore these issues, WGSS emphasizes the following areas of study: sexualities, race and globalization, and social change.

Programs

• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, B.A.

• B.A./M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

Courses

• WGSS 1099 - General Credit
• WGSS 2010 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• WGSS 3010 - Feminist Theories
• WGSS 3020 - Themes in Afro-Latin American and -Latinx Studies
• WGSS 3022 - Contemporary Issues in U.S. Latinx Cultures
• WGSS 3030 - Introduction to LGBT Studies
• WGSS 3040 - Globalization and Gender
• WGSS 3110 - Narratives of Race, Gender and Sexuality: Quare Readings
• WGSS 3120 - Families and Society
• WGSS 3130 - Gender and Society
• WGSS 3140 - Birth and Parenthood
• WGSS 3150 - Sexuality and Society
• WGSS 3356 - Queer Identities
• WGSS 3500 - Culture and Change in Africa
• WGSS 3710 - Sex and Love
• WGSS 3910 - Special Topics
• WGSS 3995 - Feminist Literary Criticism
• WGSS 4010 - Feminist Praxis
• WGSS 4040 - Gender, Race, and Class in Complex Societies
• WGSS 4110 - Black Women and Health
• WGSS 4111 - Anthropology of Self and Emotion
• WGSS 4130 - Communication and Gender
• WGSS 4150 - Women and Media
• WGSS 4210 - Gender and Power in Ethnographic Perspective
• WGSS 4220 - Refugees and Forced Migration
• WGSS 4240 - Sexuality and Gender in Asia
• WGSS 4310 - Girls
• WGSS 4340 - Gender and Film
• WGSS 4360 - Feminist Philosophy
• WGSS 4440 - Women in America
• WGSS 4470 - Visual Culture
• WGSS 4510 - Feminist Political Theory
• WGSS 4580 - Thinking the Body
• WGSS 4590 - Cultural Studies of Gender
• WGSS 4650 - Gender and Sexuality in European History
• WGSS 4720 - Feminist Issues in Contemporary Art
• WGSS 4740 - Women Artists
• WGSS 4750 - Black Feminist Thought
• WGSS 4760 - Activism: History and Theory
• WGSS 4770 - Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora
• WGSS 4780 - African-American Lesbian and Gay Activism
• WGSS 4791 - Sexuality, Space, and Global Cities
• WGSS 4810 - Feminism and Foucault
• WGSS 4820 - Feminism and Queer Theory
• WGSS 4830 - Class Matters
• WGSS 4842 - Sexuality and Nationalism
• WGSS 4844 - Youth and Sexualities
• WGSS 4846 - Gender, War, and Militarism in/and the Middle East
• WGSS 4870 - Honors Thesis I
• WGSS 4880 - Honors Thesis II
• WGSS 4910 - Special Topics
• WGSS 4930 - Senior Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies-CTW
• WGSS 4950 - Internship
• WGSS 4950 - Internship
• WGSS 4995 - Directed Readings BIS-CTW
• WGSS 4999 - Directed Readings