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UB Gender Courses

As a research center rather than an academic department, the Gender Institute itself does not offer courses, but we promote curricular innovation and academic courses related to women, gender, and sexuality offered by departments and schools throughout the University at Buffalo. The courses featured here highlight just a few of UB's outstanding gender-related courses.

Information about UB's BA, MA, and PhD programs in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies can be found at https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/global-gender-sexuality.html.

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Fall 2023

This list of courses showcases a sampling of UB's gender-related curriculum. For more information please contact the instructor.

UNDERGRADUATE

African-American Studies

AAS 312SEM - Gender Issues Cont Africa
Tue & Thur, 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Clemen 202
Instructor: Mopelola Ogunbowale

This seminar examines current policy frameworks and agendas such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and public policy responses to poverty, gender inequalities in democratic participation and socioeconomic development. It further interrogates burning issues of human...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

AAS 264SEM -Black Child in America
Mon & Wed, 5:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Clemen 04
Instructor: Deborah Pierce-Tate

The black child in America has been adversely impacted by the unique history of African Americans, principally by the unusual circumstances created by slavery and institutional racism over the years. This course seeks to examine how such historical trauma has shaped the identity of this specific...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

AAS 460SEM - Black Women in United States History
Tue & Thur, 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Clemen 107
Instructor: Lillian Williams

Examines the history of black women in the United States from the slave era through the reform movements that occurred after World War II.  Focuses on the range of demands placed on black women during the Gilded and Progressive eras the founding of the National Association of Colored...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

AAS 355SEM - Race, Class, and Society
Monday, 12:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Remote
Instructor: Y. Lulat

Considers how the social divisions of race, gender, ethnicity, and class in the United States today influence the functioning of society in terms of politics, economics, culture, and so on. The course also places special emphasis on current and historical African American experiences. This...

Credits: 4
Grading: Graded (GRD)

American Studies

AMS 102LEC - The Asian American Experience
M W & F, 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Baldy 125
Instructor: TBA

The Asian American experience from the beginning of Asians' and Pacific Islanders' entry into North America in the eighteenth century to the present. Investigates this phenomenon in connection with national and transnational power relations, economic structures, and political realities. Also considers the construction of American identities in the United States and their impact on Asian American ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

AMS 335LEC, ENG 387 & GGS 335- Women Writers
T & R , 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Fronczak454
Instructor: Sharon Beckford-Foster

This course studies writing by women across a variety of periods and genres, with focus on the historical and cultural context of women's lives. A: "Twentieth-Century Women Writers Study" treats writing of twentieth-century women, attending to its differences from and connections to earlier periods and mainstream traditions. B: "U.S. Women Writers" ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Art History

AHI 380LEC - Image And Gender
T & R, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Obrian 112
Instructor: Kari Winter

Considers the representation of gender (femininity and masculinity) in pictures, and the impact of gender on making and looking at art and media. Discusses works from several historical periods, concentrating on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and media. Topics and issues considered are the professionalization of the artist and myths of genius; artists and models; the problems of a feminine aesthetic; the nude; and the gendered spectator. This course is the same as GGS 308, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

AHI 380LEC - Image And Gender
M W & F, 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Obrian 10
Instructor: Mary Lyn Nutting

Considers the representation of gender (femininity and masculinity) in pictures, and the impact of gender on making and looking at art and media. Discusses works from several historical periods, concentrating on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and media. Topics and issues considered are the professionalization of the artist and myths of genius; artists and models; the problems of a feminine aesthetic; the nude; and the gendered spectator. This course is the same as GGS 308, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Classics

CL 210LEC - Women in the Ancient World
M W F, 10:00AM to 10:50AM
Academ 322
Instructor: Jackie Murray

Explores status of women; roles in literature; their social and economic context; and the origins of contemporary stereotypes and prejudices.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Environmental Design

END 322DIS - Race and Place in the Built Environment
Mondays, 6:00PM to 8:40PM
Hayes 217
Instructor: Dr. Henry L Taylor


ntroduces ways historical conceptions of race and place have impacted the shape and design of our built environment. Examines critical influence of race science on civilizational narratives used to determine meaning and content of 19th century American architecture and designed environments...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Environment and Sustainability

EVS 414SEM - Globalization and Gender
Thursdays, 4:10PM to 6:50PM
Clemen 102
Instructor: Barbara Wejnert

This course explores the complex relationships between globalization, well-being, and gender from a national and global, comparative perspective. It interrogates analytical and conceptual frameworks, definitions, and measurements of globalization enriched by theoretical investigations of a neoliberal world system and dependency theory to view how the complex relationships between these theories explain women's socio-economic and political position in developing and developed countries...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Information about UB's BA, MA, and PhD programs in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies can be found at https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/global-gender-sexuality.html.

GGS 101LEC Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
M W F , 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Cooke 114
Instructor: TBA

Introduces students to basic concepts in women's studies. Covers the history of the women's movement and its relation to the rise of women's studies as a discipline. Examines and discusses a multiplicity of 'recurring themes' affecting differing women's lives; including the social construction of gender, the impact of ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 103LEC Women's Bodies, Women's Health
M 3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.; W 6:30 p.m. - 7:20 p.m.; R 4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. OR F 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m Various Locations**
Instructor: Kelsey Lewis, PhD

This course provides an innovative and interdisciplinary introduction to women's bodies and health. The course starts from a foundational belief in the importance of studying women's experiences of their bodies and health. The main objective is to about how gender ideologies impact scientific research and ... 

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 109LEC - Intro To Sexuality Studies
T R , 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Park 145
Instructor: TBA

What is sexuality? How is sex related to gender? Are sexuality and gender `natural' expressions or ones created by culture? This class will explore these questions and more. While we tend to think of men/women and homosexuality/heterosexuality as opposites, the reality is far more nuanced: ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 1014LEC - Music in Society: Mus & Gender
Tue & Thur, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Slee B1
Instructor: Stephanie Vander Wel

This course is designed for students who wish to explore some of the interfaces between two fundamental aspects of human culture and identity, i.e. music and gender. We will examine the ways in which music has represented, reinforced, questioned...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 205LEC - Women In The Global System
M W F , 12:00 PM - 12:50 AM
Cooke 127A
Instructor: TBA

Explores how the current expansion of the world market is overturning the seclusion of women in traditional societies and looks at the consequences of globalization on the lives of women throughout the world. Women in developing countries share common patterns of location and differentiation within ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 228SEM - Intro To Feminist Theory
Tue & Thur , 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Talbert 106
Instructor: TBA

Introduces to the complexity of feminist thought and theorizing through a discussion of many of the major schools of feminist thought and past and present debates within feminist theorizing as it has developed both within the United States, and abroad. A solid grasp of the core theories, their fundamental approaches, ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 241SEM - Women in Developing Countries, Socio-Economic and Political Perspectives
M W F 3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m
Talbert 111
Instructor: TBA

Survey of women's socio-economic and political status in developing counties.  Examination of policies and practices that shape their lives, as well as discourses that construct their experiences.  Analyzes women's organizing, advocacy and ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 325SEM - Violence In Gendered World
T & R , 11:00 AM - 12:20 AM
Talbert 111
Instructor: Dr. Kari J Winter

Gendered violence emerges from cultural ideologies that intersect with other cultural formations, including economics, race, religion, law, nationalism, militarism, environmental destruction and so on. Our readings and discussions will focus on three areas: 1. ideologies of gender that rationalize and encourage...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 379SEM - Sex: Gender & Pop Culture
M W F, 9:00 PM - 9:50 PM
Talbert 111
Instructor: TBA

The advent of television in 1950s America, coupled with technological advances in filmmaking popularized visual culture as a primary means of both naming and interrogating the ways in which we understand the social constructions of race, sex, gender, and sexuality. Feminist perspectives are ways ofexamining how these social constructions (and expectations) are shaped by popular culture, mainly television programming and films; and thus shape our ideas about ourselves and others as "feminine" and "masculine" and "sexual" beings. We discuss...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 439SEM & HIS 439SEM- Gender And The Cold War
M , 9:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Park 532
Instructor: Victoria W Wolcott

This course will examine how the cold war's politics and culture, including its foreign policy, shaped gender relations and sexuality in the United States. In addition to readings, we will analyze various forms of popular culture and social policy. Students will also discuss the significance of gender and the cold war for understanding contemporary American politics and culture. This course is the same as HIS 439 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

History

HIS 367SEM - Women, Gender and Sexuality in Africa
Tue & Thur, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Clemen 106
Instructor: Ndubueze Mbah

How do African women and men construct and reorder their lives on a daily basis?  How do they negotiate their positions, ascribed gender roles and identities in familial, communal, and national spheres?  What are the salient and socio-economic and political issues facing them?  How do they emerge as agents of social change?  Examines current policy frameworks and agendas such as the Millennium ...

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Indigenous Studies

IDS 306SEM - Indigenous Feminisms
T & R , 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Cooke 114
Instructor: Mia R. Mckie

Examines theoretical framework of Indigenous feminisms and associated debates within Indigenous communities, activist camps, and academia. Engages with nation-specific, place-based histories, philosophies, peoples, and futures emerging from rooted Indigenous feminisms. Focuses on nation-specific expressions of Indigenous feminist thinking and action.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Sociology

SOC 314LEC - Sociology Of Gender
M W F , 10:00 PM - 10:50 PM
Capen 108
Instructor: Sara DiPasquale

This course explores the social and cultural construction of gender, focusing on the ways that femininities and masculinities are constructed from infancy through adulthood in the United States. Includes how gender shapes--and is shaped by--major social institutions such as media, sports, and work, as well as other characteristics such as social class, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. This course is the same as SSC 316, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

SOC 343LEC - Gender & Crime
Tue & Thur , 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Nsc 216
Instructor: TBA

This course explores the important and under-studied intersection between gender and crime, focusing on how gender shapes contact with the justice system as offenders, victims, and as workers in the criminal justice system. We will explore a number of issues related to gender and crime, including delinquency and offense patterns by gender (and the gender gap in official crime statistics), the gendered nature and experience of victimization, the interaction between gender and various stages of the criminal justice system, the experiences of women who work as criminal justice practitioners, and how race, class, age, and sexuality intersect with gender to create unique criminal and victimization patterns for particular groups of men and women.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Philosophy

PHI 347LEC - Feminist Philosophy
M W F , 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Cooke 127B
Instructor: Sarah K Vincent

Examines the degree to which fundamental concepts that lead philosophical investigation are affected by gender prejudice, and perhaps also by other cultural blinders such as those related to race or nationality.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

Public Health and Health Professions

PUB 400SEM - Special Topics Public Health-Sexual Health Education
M W , 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Parker 104
Instructor: Elizabeth Bartelt

This course serves as an introduction to the field of sexual health education from a public health lens, focusing on the importance of addressing sexual health disparities, understanding sexual health education strategies, and learning about management of sexual health education programs. Course content will include a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and similar identities; sexually transmitted infections; teenage pregnancy; and sexual assault. Students will explore additional tasks specific to sexual health education including advocacy and public health communication.

GRADUATE

Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

GGS 514SEM - Globalization, Gender and Sustainability
Thur, 4:10PM - 6:50PM
Clemen 102
Instructor: Barbara Wejnert

This course explores the complex relationships between globalization, well-being, and gender from a national and global, comparative perspective. It interrogates analytical and conceptual frameworks, definitions, and measurements of globalization enriched by theoretical investigations of a neoliberal world system and dependency theory to view how the complex relationships between these theories explain women's socio-economic and political position in developing and developed countries. The class is centered on analyses of relevant readings that form a base for a class discussion about globalization and women's experiences in globalized societies. In particular, it focuses on policies and practices that shape people's opportunities and life experiences and illustrate constraints and advancements that affect women's positions worldwide. Drawing from multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks, this course focuses on interdisciplinary social sciences, global development, and gender. This course is dual listed with GGS 414. This course is the same as EVS 514 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

Credits: 3
Grading: Graded (GRD)

GGS 518SEM - Readings in Feminist Theory
Wed, 3:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Clemen 1004
Instructor: Gwynn Thomas

Feminist theories represent a complex and ever-expanding body of work that is truly interdisciplinary in its topics, themes, scope and impact. This course will familiarize students with many of the major schools of feminist thought: Liberal, Radical, Socialist, Psychoanalytic, Postmodern, Black, Chicana, Native American and Global/Transnational feminist theory. In addition to analyzing key foundational works associated with each of these schools of thought, we will also be focusing on a number of recent works that seek to engage with many of the fundamental debates that have emerged within feminist theory. These works attempt to open new areas for thought and inquiry while responding to previous criticisms.

Department of Law

LAW 896TUT - Family Violence & Women's Rights Clinic
Tue & Thur, 3:00PM to 4:30PM
Obrian 406
Instructor: Judith Olin

In the U.S., one in three women and one in four men within their lifetime has been a victim of some sort of physical violence by an intimate partner.   Erie County has high rates of domestic violence and child abuse, with the highest number of intimate partner homicides in New York outside of New York City. Students are invited to join the fight towards attaining justice and safety for victims of intimate partner violence. Students will gain a holistic understanding of the complex set of laws and courts that govern...

Credits: 1.00 - 6.00
Grading: Graded (GRD)