Please find here a list of courses (by semester) that include LGBTQ+ topics, case studies, and content. We recognize that terms are variable (and debated) so by LGBTQ+ topics, please understand that we warmly invite faculty, departments, and programs to list all courses that include LGBTQ+ content broadly defined, namely topics related to the fields of queer studies, topics/individuals/experiences related to gender diversity and/or sexual diversity and, of course, their many intersecting identities.
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**Courses are alphabetized by Undergraduate/Graduate/PhD, then first listed department/program name, then course title, then courses from other CUNY campuses (made upon request by our CUNY colleagues).**
Spring 2023
ARCH 51510: Topics in the History of Architecture and Society
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Cassim Shepard
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate AND Graduate)
Description: HOUSING JUSTICE: This advanced seminar frames housing justice as a distinct and interdisciplinary focus of study, introducing many of the key disciplines — including architecture and urban planning, anthropology and sociology, and political science and economics — that have advanced specific theoretical approaches to understanding housing in contexts of poverty around the world. We will excavate some key episodes over the past 150 years when these disciplines have informed attempts by practitioners — including designers, activists, journalists, philanthropists, and policymakers — to improve the design and delivery of housing for low-income populations. Using the lens of “housing justice” and “a right to housing,” the course explores and critiques contemporary discourse on “affordable housing” as a strategy for dealing with the global housing crisis. By looking at the core assumptions and approaches that various disciplines have applied to the complex conundrum of housing, the course will provoke students to ask questions and formulate a personal position about the role of research, government, finance, and design in addressing the global housing crisis.
ART B8711: Gender and Sexuality in Mughal Arts
Term/Time: Spring term | In-Person | Wednesdays 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Molly Aitken
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: We look at the visual and performing arts in Mughal South Asia as a theoretic and methodological resource for LGBTQ studies. We focus especially on a hermeneutics grounded in guising, especially through forms of cross-dressing in ecstatic devotion and in urban cultures of pleasure dominated by courtesans. The class combines canonic readings in gender and queer studies with emerging scholarship on gender and sexuality in premodern South Asia. Our primary resource are the visual arts of early modern South Asia, which emphasized the embodied, affective and multisensorial. Here queerness and cultural hybridity collaborated. For those with an interest in postcolonial theory, the course ends with the devastation of Mughal arts in South Asia in large part because of its celebration of the erotic and the gender fluid. We are in the midst of a resurgence of interest in all that was lost. Be part of the journey!
BIO 46000: Animal Behavior
[cross-listed with BIO A6000]
Term/Time: Spring term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Osceola Whitney
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Description: The biological bases of behavior, with emphasis on such topics as the development, evolution, genetics and ecology of behavior; sensory physiology; social behavior and communication. This is a flipped, online course. Students will read one textbook chapter and watch one pre-recorded lecture prior to attending one of the synchronous, 30-minute discussion sections each day. Both exams in the course will be asynchronous and can be taken during any two-hour window of time within a specified 24-hour period.
NOTE: Required textbook: Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition, Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Edition: 4, Year Published: 2019, Price: 46.11 USD, ISBN: 9780226448381
BLST 30245: Black, Gay, Arts and Idea
Term/Time: Spring term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45PM
Instructor: Abdul-Qadir Islam
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Exploration of the intersections of Blackness and LGBTQ+ identity through various art forms.
NOTE: ZERO-COST TEXBOOKS
ANTH 20100: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Term: Spring Term | In-Person and Online Options | See Times Below
Instructor/Time/Location:
1. James Tolleson | Tuesday, Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45AM | TBA
2. James Tolleson | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM | NAC 5/101
3. Bruce Burnside | Monday, Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM | TBA
4. Bruce Burnside | Friday 11:00AM-1:30PM | Online-Synchronous
5. Joan Lopez | Monday 5:00PM - 6:15PM | Online-Asynchronous
6. Omnia Ibrahim | Monday, Wednesday 12:30PM-1:45PM | In-Person
7. Instructor TBA | Tuesday, Thursday 8:00AM-9:15AM | Online-Asynchronous
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This class provides a general overview of the field of socio-cultural anthropology. As this class is an excursion into the field of socio-cultural anthropology, our main goal will be to understand, complicate, and theorize “culture.” Students are expected to leave with a fuller understanding of socio-cultural anthropology, ethnographic method, and the complexities of cultural life. The main questions in this class will be: What is culture? How do cultural practices vary across social contexts? How can culture be multiple and contradictory? What does an ethnographic method look like to study culture? Students will leave this class with a greater grasp of the “culture” concept and ethnographic methodologies.
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Lara Alonso Pinero
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces students to the study of language from an anthropological perspective. Topics include the structure of language and its relationship to other kinds of communication; language use in face-to-face interactions; the relationship of language to class, race, ethnicity, gender, and other forms of social difference; and the role of language in mass-media
ANTH 20300: Human Origins
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Matthew Reilly
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An introduction to biological anthropology, this course will explore the biological and cultural elements of what makes us human. The fossil record of our hominid ancestors and the behavior of our primate relatives will lead to considerations of human variation and issues of social consequence like race, genetics, and inequality.
ANTH 23600: Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality
[cross-listed with WS 24659]
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Wednesday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how gender and sexuality are iterated, performed, challenged, and managed. Instead of seeing gender and sexuality as coherent and easily quantifiable categories, this class delves into the many contradictions in the categories of gender and sexuality in order to unpack everyday taken for granted assumptions. Furthermore, students will examine how these categories intersect, how they inform each other, and how they gain traction with race, class, and ethnicity.
NOTE: All readings and materials will be ZERO cost
ANTH 31123: Anthropology of Popular Culture
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Eliza Marks
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Anthropology of Popular Culture delves into the various realms of popular culture. These forms of popular culture range from cinema to TV to sport. Through an anthropological investigation of popular culture, the class will explore how identities and worldviews are negotiated,challenged, and managed through consumption. In the process, the class will analyze the many practices of appropriation, consumption, reception, and cultural production. In this class, you will engage with larger debates about popular culture while testing out whether we are victims to mass production or whether we appropriate in many contradictory ways. This class will involve critical analysis of ethnographies on popular culture in order to understand the workings of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
ANTH 31968: Language and Gender
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous and Asynchronous | Tuesday 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Andrea Ariza Garcia
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how language, gender, sexuality, power and identity are interwoven. Drawing on linguistic anthropology, critical sociolinguistics, feminist and queer theories, and ethnographic case studies, we’ll focus on topics such as gender identity, performativity and language use, ideologies of gender and language, sexual orientation, and processes of nationalism and globalization that are interwoven with gender and sexuality. The course will take an intersectional approach to all these topics, with a particular focus on intersectionality and Black feminism in week 11. The aim of this course is to think, reflect, and learn about ourselves as socio-historical and cultural beings permeated by linguistic interactions that reinforce and/or resist gender normativity.
ANTH 31968: Language and Gender
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An examination of the idea of race from biological, sociocultural, and historical standpoints, particularly as it arose in support of the development of western European colonialism and imperialism. Also investigated will be the role of race/racism via-a-vis socioeconomic inequality, gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
ANTH 32600: Anthropology of Disability: From Memoir to Ethnography
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous and In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Bernardo Spaulonci Chiachia
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course is one of the Department’s 300-level offerings and can fulfill the major requirement for one 300 level elective. It speaks to the Department’s commitment to addressing pressing issues and pursuing a public anthropology in its curriculum and also further develops the curriculum in medical anthropology because of the attention to trauma. It expands the Department’s cross-cultural offerings and addresses critical contemporary issues from an ethnographic and theoretical perspective that can have policy implications. It may be of particular interest to students looking toward careers in international contexts in fields such as development, humanitarianism, human rights or who wish to pursue professional work in the U.S. with populations fleeing from war and other contexts of violence.
EDCE 5700C: Multi-Cultural Education
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Monday 4:50PM-7:20PM
Instructor: Jesús Fraga
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: Education that is Multicultural, EDCE 5700C, analyzes the various components of a desirable education in a pluralistic society, provides opportunities for developing curriculum and strategies which reflect respect and dignity for all people, examines students’ needs within a humanistic framework, and critically examines instructional materials for bias and enrichment. New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world, and its teachers and students bring a spectrum of cultural, racial, linguistic, sexual orientations, and ethnic backgrounds to their classrooms. Schools play a large role in rejecting or affirming this diversity through an education that falls along the continuum of mono-cultural to multicultural. This course address five umbrella topics in Multicultural Education: 1. Immigration/Migration/ Refugees, 2. Race and Ethnicity, 3. Languages and Dialects, 4. Sexual Orientation/LGBTQ+, and 5. Religion. Furthermore, the course will assist students to reconsider personal assumptions and beliefs about diversity, and analyze how schools and society have set-up inequitable opportunities for some groups while maintaining the privilege of others. The course considers teaching as a political activity and explores ways for educators to “teach against the grain” through culturally and locally relevant pedagogy.
NOTE: Required textbook: Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, Author: Nieto, Sonia; Bode, Patty, Publisher: Pearson, Edition: 7, Year Published: 2017, Price: 27.45 USD, ISBN: 9780134047232
HIST 31685: LGTBQ World History
[cross-listed with ANTH 31685 & WS 31685]
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Dr. Yaari Felber-Seligman
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course focuses on the history, contributions, and experiences of gender and sexually-diverse individuals throughout world history, with particular emphasis on nonwestern cultures. It broadly explores changes and debates within the field of history as a whole and the stakes of centering historical analysis on individuals often overlooked or erased by mainstream history writing. The course will balance big-picture discussions with case studies drawn from the instructor’s geographic expertise. These will include examples of precolonial LGBTQ history, how nonwestern cultures conceptualized gender and sexual diversity, the fraught imperial and colonial periods, and contemporary historians’ efforts to diversify curriculums and public knowledge. Students will research a related topic of their choice and develop a final project that can take the form of a research proposal, a teaching unit, or a presentation for the public (such as a film proposal, informative website, podcast series, etc).
NOTE: All readings and materials will be ZERO cost
LALS 31118: Racialization: Single Mothers, Sexual and Religious Minorities
[cross-listed with SOC 31145]
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course offers an introduction to the study of minority and majority group relations in the United States with a comparative focus drawing from examples in Latin America and Europe. We examine the historical factors that have led to the creation of a white majority and a black minority in America and other national contexts; how a minority or majority status is created and internalized by individuals and their youth. We pay close attention to how increasing economic and wealth inequality, globalization and immigration affects the formation of new, minority groups and statuses drawing on the example of growing share of working poor or 'missing class' individuals in America; the life chances of the undocumented, and those of single migrant mothers, religious minorities such as Muslim youth and the networks of sexual minorities that help them integrate in society and cope with glaring discrimination and exclusion. Students will be able to engage in informed debates about how increases in family, ethnic, racial and sexual diversity in the US and other nations will help close the historical divides between white and black groups in America. They will also master new knowledge on how race and racialization processes take place in Latin America or in nations such as Brazil and the Dominican Republic where efforts have been made to alleviate racial inequality and tensions, but where blacks and mulattoes have historically make up the majority of the poor and whites and light-skin people still make up the ruling elite.
NOTE: All readings and materials will be ZERO cost
LALS 31136: Migration, Gender and Health in Latinx Communities
[cross-listed with SOC 31153]
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online | Synchronous | Monday, Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Iris Lopez
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Through an interdisciplinary feminist approach, this course explores how women, men, and youth experience health problems related to migration and social inequality. We will place health risks within a transnational context, examining the socio-economic, political, and cultural influences on particular social problems and health outcomes and critique the political discourse on health and how they construct racialized, sexualized others. We examine health promotion and other programs that aim to design culturally sensitive interventions about health problems by migrants and how communities and individuals work toward alleviating their own health risks. Some familiarity with Spanish is helpful.
PSY 35700: Community Psychology
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Richard Clark
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This is an OER-based Zero-cost course designed to introduce students to the field of community psychology. Community psychology is primarily concerned with individuals in their social context. Community psychology seeks to support and understand communities and conduct research that helps these communities thrive. Sometimes community psychology engages more broadly doing work focused on the large connected and diverse communities such as the Black community and sometimes it more focused such as a community of students at a single university. As a critical community psychologist myself my focus has always been on social justice, change, and activism. As such this course will engage with critical theories, concepts, and methods within the field of community psychology. In doing so it is my hope that students will gain a deeper understanding of community psychology. The course will move away from and challenge the traditional community deficit models and instead emphasize community psychology that focuses on community issues, engagement, empowerment, activism, and work.
NOTE: All readings and materials will be ZERO cost
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 11:00AM-12:15PM
Instructor: Christopher Hoffman
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: What is queerness and what does it have to do with psychology? In this course, we will attempt to “queer” psychology by applying a critical lens to psychology’s study of sexuality and gender. Together, we will examine issues of queerness, identity, physical and social environments within the field of psychology
SPAN 45300: Gender Issues in Spanish Letters
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 3:30PM-4:45PM
Instructor: Araceli Tinajero
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An exploration of the impact of gender in the literature of the Spanish-speaking world. 50% of the course will be devoted to films, plays, and art.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost. Class taught in Spanish but students may participate in English. Please contact Professor Tinajero for registration ( atinajero@ccny.cuny.edu ).
THTR 21700: Queer Theatre
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 3:30PM-4:45PM
Instructor: Brandon Judell
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An exploration of LGBTQ identity as portrayed in predominantly American dramas of the past century. Students will learn about key figures and texts, starting with Oscar Wilde, followed by consideration of stereotypical and groundbreaking portrayals of queer people, as well as analyzing plays with themes of homophobia, self-hatred, acceptance, AIDS, familial interaction, and the evolution of the LGBTQ rights movement in a hetero-normative society.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost.
WS 10000: Women's Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
Term: Spring Term | TBA | See Times Below
Instructor/Time/Location:
1. Arielle Cribb | Monday, Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM | TBA
2. Instructor TBA | TBA | TBA
3. Jasmina Sinanovic | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM | TBA
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An introduction to issues that arise when women's lives and gender roles become the focus of critical inquiry. How do different societies and academic disciplines define women? How do women's experiences vary in relation to factors such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age and nationality? How have women resisted, adapted to, and transformed "women's space" in the United States and elsewhere?
WS 24659: Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality
[cross-listed with ANTH 23600]
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Wednesday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how gender and sexuality are iterated, performed, challenged, and managed. Instead of seeing gender and sexuality as coherent and easily quantifiable categories, this class delves into the many contradictions in the categories of gender and sexuality in order to unpack everyday taken for granted assumptions. Furthermore, students will examine how these categories intersect, how they inform each other, and how they gain traction with race, class, and ethnicity.
NOTE: No textbooks, no pre-requisites
WS 25441: Gender and Sexuality in New York Politics
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Bianca Guerrero
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: While New York City failed to elect its first female Mayor in 2021, it did elect a majority-women City Council. Governor Cuomo resigned in disgrace, elevating his Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul to the state’s highest post. What difference, if any, has this representation made? The state repealed a “walking while trans” ban that advocates argued led to discrimination against the LGBTQ community. How did they win that battle?
This class will look at these questions and more to understand the roles of women, genderqueer, and LGBTQ+ New Yorkers in our political landscape. We will evaluate how housing, workers’ rights, public safety, and other issues affect these communities, and what advocates are currently fighting to change
WS 31012: LGBTQ History, Culture and Movements
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online | Monday, Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanović
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course traces the history of LGBTQ people as well as struggles for recognition and acceptance both in the US and globally. With attention to how sexual identity intersects with race, class and gender, the course will examine how LGBTQ people can be placed within historical and political contexts. We will question how and why homosexuality became criminalized and the movements that led to decriminalization. We will spend a significant portion of time on the USA and Western Europe in the 19th and 20th century and the development of a contemporary LGBTQ movement. We will also look at how people of various gender identities and sexualities lived before and outside of European colonial context and explore how European colonization influenced changes in perception of people with gender variant identities as well as people outside of heteronormative sexual practices in their local communities.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost
WS 31122: Blancas, Negras & Morenas: Gender and Race in Another America
[cross-listed with ANTH 23600]
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Iris Lopez
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Description unavailable.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost
WS 31123: Latinas’ Reproductive Rights
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous and Asynchronous | Tuesday, Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Iris Lopez
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Description unavailable.
WS 31167: Coming of Age in the African Diaspora
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Wednesday 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will be an examination of feminist/womanist/political awakenings in young women throughout the African Diaspora. This examination will be through literature by Black women from various regions and time periods. The course will be centered in the philosophy of the “personal is political” and how the awakening to this fact affects the trajectory of the young women’s lives in these works.
WS 32459: Criminalization and Mass Incarceration
[cross-listed with ANTH 32459]
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Asynchronous |
Instructor: Sharon White-Harrigan
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An in depth look at the systemic racism and classism that has fueled the pipeline of incarceration, the policies and practices of the carceral state and the continuous impact it has on the people.
WS 32463: Queer of Color Critique Towards Utopia
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous | Tuesday, Thursday 6:30PM-7:45PM
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: In What’s Queer About Queer Studies, editors say that queerness can never be presumed in advance. Queerness is not a cohere term, rather they would say, it is always in flux, reinventing itself as a process and identity. In this course, we will examine this assertion and ask, who is queer? Why are they queer? When are they queer? Beginning with Cathy Cohen and Roderick Furgeson we will learn the connections between the process of racialization and queerness. We will then move to theorists such as Jasbir Puar who examines the relationship between the Racial State and queerness. Finally, we will interrogate the relationship queer studies, and queer of color critique has with antiblackness and settler colonialism. We will end this course drawing on Jose Munoz’s theories on utopia in order to discuss the future of queer theory and its usefulness in the project of abolition, and in reimagining the world as we know it.
WS 32463: Queer of Color Critique Towards Utopia
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Wednesday 5:00PM-8:00PM
Instructor: Professor Roulette
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Description unavailable.
Winter Session 2023
ANTH 20100: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor/Time/Location: Joan Lopez
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This class provides a general overview of the field of socio-cultural anthropology. As this class is an excursion into the field of socio-cultural anthropology, our main goal will be to understand, complicate, and theorize “culture.” Students are expected to leave with a fuller understanding of socio-cultural anthropology, ethnographic method, and the complexities of cultural life. The main questions in this class will be: What is culture? How do cultural practices vary across social contexts? How can culture be multiple and contradictory? What does an ethnographic method look like to study culture? Students will leave this class with a greater grasp of the “culture” concept and ethnographic methodologies.
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Term/Time: Winter Term | Online-Synchronous | Tuesday, Thursday 9:00AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Andrea Ariza Garcia
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces students to the study of language from an anthropological perspective. Topics include the structure of language and its relationship to other kinds of communication; language use in face-to-face interactions; the relationship of language to class, race, ethnicity, gender, and other forms of social difference; and the role of language in mass-media
ANTH 20300: Human Origins
Term/Time: Winter Term | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor: Julie Lozano
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An introduction to biological anthropology, this course will explore the biological and cultural elements of what makes us human. The fossil record of our hominid ancestors and the behavior of our primate relatives will lead to considerations of human variation and issues of social consequence like race, genetics, and inequality.
ANTH 31965: Museums & Anthropology
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Synchronous and Asynchronous | Wednesday, Friday 9:00AM - 11:45PM
Instructor: Bruce Burnside
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: What does it mean to preserve, display, and remember culture? Though museums were foundational institutions for anthropologists to display and interpret culture, in recent decades critical questions of ownership, voice, and decolonization have become forefront for museum studies. Through a series of readings, films and discussions this course will critically engage with anthropological concepts and entanglements with museums in our historical and contemporary world. We will explore issues of diversity and inclusion, colonialism and ownership, and voice and representation. We will critically assess major museum institutions, community museums, experimental museums as well as monuments and ask what it means to represent, negotiate and contest human material and visual culture.
ANTH 31978: Forced Migration
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online-Asynchronous |
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: The Anthropology of Forced Migration provides a critical overview of contemporary theoretical approaches to forced displacement, migration, and dispossession. The readings focus on ethnographies of exclusion and belonging and lived experiences of forced migration and exile.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost
WS 10000: Women's Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
Term: Winter Term | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor/Time/Location:
1. Asale Angel-Ajani | Online | TBA
2. Asale Angel-Ajani | Online | TBA
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An introduction to issues that arise when women's lives and gender roles become the focus of critical inquiry. How do different societies and academic disciplines define women? How do women's experiences vary in relation to factors such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age and nationality? How have women resisted, adapted to, and transformed "women's space" in the United States and elsewhere?
WS 31467: Post Trauma Recovery (PTR): Healing Our Communities
[cross-listed with ANTH 31467]
Term: Winter Term | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor/Time/Location: Sharon White-Harrigan
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: A in-depth look at the causes and effects of trauma through Incarceration/Reentry, Domestic/Intimate partner violence, Police Brutality, Grief, Substance Abuse and how to begin the process of healing.
Fall 2022
ANTH 20104: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Term: Fall Term | In-Person | Wednesdays 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Instructor/Time/Location:
1. James Tolleson | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM | Room TBA
2. James Tolleson | Tuesday, Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45AM | Room TBA
3. Ola Galal | Friday 11:00AM - 1:30PM | Room TBA
4. Ola Galal | Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM | Room TBA
5. Jennifer Lutton (she/her) ( jlutton@ccny.cuny.edu ) | Monday, Wednesday 5:00PM - 6:15PM | Room TBA
6. Susanna Rosenbaum (she/her) ( srosenbaum@ccny.cuny.edu ) | Tuesday 6:00PM - 9:20PM | Room TBA
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This class provides a general overview of the field of socio-cultural anthropology. As this class is an excursion into the field of socio-cultural anthropology, our main goal will be to understand, complicate, and theorize “culture.” Students are expected to leave with a fuller understanding of socio-cultural anthropology, ethnographic method, and the complexities of cultural life. The main questions in this class will be: What is culture? How do cultural practices vary across social contexts? How can culture be multiple and contradictory? What does an ethnographic method look like to study culture? Students will leave this class with a greater grasp of the “culture” concept and ethnographic methodologies.
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Andy Tan ( ztan@gradcenter.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces students to the study of language from an anthropological perspective. Topics include the structure of language and its relationship to other kinds of communication; language use in face-to-face interactions; the relationship of language to class, race, ethnicity, gender, and other forms of social difference; and the role of language in mass-media
ANTH 31256: Masculinity and Latinidad: Redefining Masculinities in the U.S.
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesday 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Mariana Romo-Carmona (she/her) ( mromocarmona@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: The concept of hegemonic masculinity has been used to explain societal behaviors in terms of men's power over women. In this course, we will analyze the connection to the marginalization of Latinx communities in mainstream U.S. culture, and the way stereotypical cultural attitudes are too easily attributed to machismo and stagnant characterizations of Latinx men, i.e., behaviors that conform to racist expectations of men of color. We will also explore how Latinx men break with tradition in the arts, literature, and popular culture
ANTH 32400: Violation of Human Rights
Term/Time: Fall Term | Online - Synchronous | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Margarita-Asha Samad-Matias ( asamadmatias@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: A review of the development of human rights accords and legislation, followed by an examination of international institutions overseeing and enforcing human rights standards. Special attention will be given to media and institutional responses to human rights issues, such as those tied to international, regional, and class injustices, with an emphasis on situations involving women and social minorities/oppressed groups
ART B8711: Gender and Sexuality in Mughal Arts
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Thursday 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Molly Emma Aitken (she/her) ( maitken@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: Early critical theory in art history addressed questions of gender and sexuality to the European tradition, and that shaped how the discipline, even today, conceptualizes the male gaze and the formative role of images in the formation of sexual subjectivities. This class turns to the visual arts of South Asia during the Mughal period (1556-1858) to consider a different regime of gender, sexuality and the image. What does it mean to theorize gender and sexuality outside European traditions? We revisit canonic readings on these topics, as well as examples of critical thinking about gender and sexuality from other areas of art history. We consider how historians of Mughal art have begun to find a way forward to deal with Mughal works of art that put sexuality front and center of political and social discourse, and together we consider possible avenues for the future
BLST 31179: Black Queer Subjectivities
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Thursday, Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Abdul-Qadir Islam (he/him)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Black Queer Subjectivities will examine LGBTQ communities throughout the African Diaspora mostly through the lens of historical work. The course will span the 14th century to the present across the African Diaspora. Students will engage in robust discussion about both historical works as well as literary and film products connected the LGBTQ communities across the African Diaspora
EDCE 5700C: Multi-Cultural Education
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Wednesdays 4:50PM-7:20PM
Instructor: Jesús Fraga (he/him) ( jfraga@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: Education that is Multicultural, EDCE 5700C, analyzes the various components of a desirable education in a pluralistic society, provides opportunities for developing curriculum and strategies which reflect respect and dignity for all people, examines students’ needs within a humanistic framework, and critically examines instructional materials for bias and enrichment. New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world, and its teachers and students bring a spectrum of cultural, racial, linguistic, sexual orientations, and ethnic backgrounds to their classrooms. Schools play a large role in rejecting or affirming this diversity through an education that falls along the continuum of mono-cultural to multicultural. This course address five umbrella topics in Multicultural Education: 1. Immigration/Migration/ Refugees, 2. Race and Ethnicity, 3. Languages and Dialects, 4. Sexual Orientation/LGBTQ+, and 5. Religion. Furthermore, the course will assist students to reconsider personal assumptions and beliefs about diversity, and analyze how schools and society have set-up inequitable opportunities for some groups while maintaining the privilege of others. The course considers teaching as a political activity and explores ways for educators to “teach against the grain” through culturally and locally relevant pedagogy.
NOTE: Required textbook: Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, Author: Nieto, Sonia; Bode, Patty, Publisher: Pearson, Edition: 7, Year Published: 2017, Price: 27.45 USD, ISBN: 9780134047232
HIST B0704: History of South Africa
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Tuesdays 4:50PM-6:50PM
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman (they/them) ( yfelberseligman@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: Includes some LGBTQ+ content. Home to some of the earliest humans, the long history of South Africa represents themes that mirror broader African history and also key struggles that shaped the United States. The course explores the complex history of southern Africa as a region and the country of South Africa specifically. Through a series of case studies, it highlights important cultural, social, economic, and political themes along with past scholars' approaches to them. The course also delves into the complexities of recent identity politics, historical memory, and public history projects in South Africa, all impacted by the country's earlier history.
HIST 27600/BLST 31201: Africa and the Modern World
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Tuesdays, Thursdays 2:00PM-3:15PM
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman (they/them) ( yfelberseligman@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Includes some LGBTQ+ content. This course explores the dynamics of history, economy, society, and politics in Africa from 1500 to present. Topics include Africa-world interactions, the growth of African states, economies, and cities, and changing forms of popular culture, gender, and livelihoods. The course will move between discussions of Africa-wide developments and local events. Rather than sharply divide African history into precolonial, and postcolonial segments, it will explore changes and continuities. Moving between discussions of Africa-wide developments and case studies of remarkable individuals and specific African societies, the course examines how the history of five key centuries continues to define Africa today.
LALS 31118: Racialization: Single Mothers, Sexual and Religious Minorities
[cross-listed with SOC 31145]
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga (she/her) ( nfuentes@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course offers an introduction to the study of minority and majority group relations in the United States with a comparative focus drawing from examples in Latin America and Europe. We examine the historical factors that have led to the creation of a white majority and a black minority in America and other national contexts; how a minority or majority status is created and internalized by individuals and their youth. We pay close attention to how increasing economic and wealth inequality, globalization and immigration affects the formation of new, minority groups and statuses drawing on the example of growing share of working poor or 'missing class' individuals in America; the life chances of the undocumented, and those of single migrant mothers, religious minorities such as Muslim youth and the networks of sexual minorities that help them integrate in society and cope with glaring discrimination and exclusion. Students will be able to engage in informed debates about how increases in family, ethnic, racial and sexual diversity in the US and other nations will help close the historical divides between white and black groups in America. They will also master new knowledge on how race and racialization processes take place in Latin America or in nations such as Brazil and the Dominican Republic where efforts have been made to alleviate racial inequality and tensions, but where blacks and mulattoes have historically make up the majority of the poor and whites and light-skin people still make up the ruling elite.
MCA 34100: Radio Journalism
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Thursdays 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Instructor: Camille Petersen (she/her) ( camillefvpetersen@gmail.com )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This is a basic course in radio reporting and production. Students learn to write for the ear and incorporate the creative uses of sound in telling a news story. Production techniques are an integral part of the course Students receive actual on-air experience in the news department of WHCR, the college's community radio station. No prerequisites required. Note from Professor Petersen: "The class is an excellent space for students to tell stories about LGBTQ+ lives and issues. It's also a space for telling their own stories. In the class, they'll learn how to report, write, and edit audio stories and get hands-on experience with podcasting."
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Friday 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Christopher Hoffman (he/him) ( choffman@gradcenter.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: What is queerness and what does it have to do with psychology? In this course, we will attempt to “queer” psychology by applying a critical lens to psychology’s study of sexuality and gender. Together, we will examine issues of queerness, identity, physical and social environments within the field of psychology
PSY 31914: LGBTQ+ Counseling
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Instructor: Hailey Wojcik
Credits: 3-9 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course aims to empower clinicians to conduct culturally-competent, evidence-based clinical mental health care with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, intersex, and often unnamed gender-expansive communities. We will discuss historical and contemporary issues, as well as best practices and guidelines for mental health counselors working within youth, college/university, and hospital/healthcare settings. Students will also engage in self-reflection to examine the ways in which their own identities and experiences may influence therapist-client dynamics.
PSY 8343J: Sex and Gender
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesday 9:45AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Margaret Rosario (she/her) ( mrosario@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: This course aims to address the determinants, development, and implications for mental and physical health and for positive adaptation of sex and gender identities. By the end of the course, the student should appreciate and understand the biopsychosocial factors underlying sex and gender, as well as the relations of those factors to health
PSY V5650: Gender and Psychopathology
Term/Time: Fall Term | Online-Synchronous | Monday 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Instructor: Brett Silverstein (he/him) ( bsilverstein@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: The course will focus on theories and findings related to why specific psychological disorders tend to be much more prevalent among women and others tend to be much more prevalent among men. Readings will include theoretical work on gender, studies of the methodology used in relating gender and psychopathology, and research on the connection between gender and particular disorders, including perhaps depression, some anxiety disorders, disordered eating, autism, and conduct disorder.
SCI 31105: Identity and Representation in Games
Term/Time: Fall Term | Hybrid | Monday, Wednesday 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Nick Fortungo (he/him)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This discussion-based class explores how games have dealt with questions of identity. By looking at specific games and writings about games that ask questions about the role of race, gender, sexuality, and class, the course critically examines how games have dealt (or not dealt) with these issues. A variety of speakers representing different parts of the industry present their own experiences and work on these topics. Assignments ask student to apply the ideas they've explore in class readings, play, and conversations to the games and game culture they consume.
SOC 31910: Science of Sex and Gender
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructors: Christine Li (she/her) ( cli@ccny.cuny.edu ), Maritsa Poros (she/her) ( mporos@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will explore the biological basis of sex and sociological understandings of gender, including where the two intersect. The interaction between genes on the Y chromosome with genes on other chromosomes to determine biological sex will be explored. The course will also explore the social construction of gender and how gendered identities shape everyday life, including at the intersection of sex and gender
SOC 38210: Sociology of Gender
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Benjamin Porter
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: TBA (See CUNYfirst for updates)
THTR 31115: LGBT Film and Theatre
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesday, Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Brandon Judell (he/him) ( bjudell@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: A celebratory exploration of queer identity as portrayed in international theatre and films in the post-Stonewall era, from 1969 on. We will explore presentations of both stereotypical and emancipated portrayals of gay people dealing with homophobia, self-hatred, acceptance, AIDS, familial interaction, and the evolution of the GLBT rights movement in a heteronormative society.
WS 10000: Women's Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Monday, Wednesday 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanovic (they/them) ( jsinanovic@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An introduction to issues that arise when women's lives and gender roles become the focus of critical inquiry. How do different societies and academic disciplines define women? How do women's experiences vary in relation to factors such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age and nationality? How have women resisted, adapted to, and transformed "women's space" in the United States and elsewhere?
WS 24659: Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality
Term/Time: Fall Term | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Wednesday 12:00PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how gender and sexuality are iterated, performed, challenged, and managed. Instead of seeing gender and sexuality as coherent and easily quantifiable categories, this class delves into the many contradictions in the categories of gender and sexuality in order to unpack everyday taken for granted assumptions. Furthermore, students will examine how these categories intersect, how they inform each other, and how they gain traction with race, class, and ethnicity.
WS 31715: Black Art in the Age of AIDS
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Thursday 5:00PM - 7:50PM
Instructor: Tod Roulette
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will examine African American history, literature, art, theater, performance, film and fashion. This interdisciplinary approach will examine, in particular, black gay men and the distinct creative and political identity they have created about race and sexuality. After the discovery of AIDS in 1981, gay men faced a great deal of prejudice, discrimination and isolation. One way they countered the exclusion, silence and hate, was through artistic mediums. Their creative responses to the dual prejudices of racism and homophobia will be discussed and analyzed with visits from men who created during the 80’s and 90’s and by viewing performances
(Hunter College) ASIAN 390.19/WGS 300.38: Asian American Queerness
Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Tuesdays and Fridays 4:00PM - 5:15PM
Instructor: Glenn Magpantay ( gmagpant@hunter.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will explore the issues, struggles, political organizing, and theory of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders. Through readings of historical and modern texts, law and public policy, film and video, guest speakers, and field work, students will come to understand the intersection between LGBT identity and racial/ ethnic identity.
(John Jay) POL 318: The Law and Politics of LGBTQ Rights
#1 Term/Time: Fall Term | In-Person | Thursday 10:50AM - 12:05PM
#2 Term/Time: Fall Term | Online-Asynchronous
#1 Instructor: Katie Zuber
#2 Instructor: Natalie Johnson
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: The course explores legal and political issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the United States. It focuses in particular on contests over the criminalization of same-sex activity; the enactment of legal protections for LGBTQ people and their families; the marriage equality movement; and contemporary debates over the scope of federal non-discrimination protections, transgender rights, and exemptions for those who object to LGBTQ equality on religious grounds. The course aims to give students a deeper appreciation of the constraints, opportunities, and strategic choices that have shaped the development of LGBTQ rights in law and policy, both historically and in the present day.
Summer 2022
LALS 31313: Caribbean Sexualities: Power and Privilege
Term/Time: Summer Term | Four Week - First (6/6 - 7/5) | Online | Asynchronous
Instructor: Daniel Nieves (he/him) ( dnieves@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines Caribbean sexualities—identity, desire, interaction, and structure—with a particular emphasis on the Spanish Caribbean, allowing students to explore themes useful for them in developing a broad comparative perspective on the region. The course takes as a fundamental premise that since the first moments of “contact” with Europeans, the insertion of the Caribbean into the global economy has been crucially marked by relations of inequality. This inequality is negotiated through the representation and commoditization of bodies and desires. The readings and discussions will focus on finding ways to account for the agency of Caribbean peoples while remaining aware of the power dynamics within which their bodies become legible within and outside of the region.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost
PSY B9846: Psychology of Sexuality & Gender
Term/Time: Summer Term | Four Week - First (6/6-7/5)| Online | Synchronous | Mondays and Thursdays 8:30am - 11:00AM
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba (he/him)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces theories and concepts regarding psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review relevant research, and consider history, criminalization, pathologization, and depathologization of gender and sexual diversity. Students will gain a well-rounded background and will learn how this field of study relates to the present.
PSY 32200: Psychology of Sexuality & Gender
Term/Time: Summer Term | Four Week - First (6/6-7/5)| Online | Synchronous | Mondays and Thursdays 8:30am - 11:00AM
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba (he/him)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces theories and concepts regarding psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review relevant research, and consider history, criminalization, pathologization, and depathologization of gender and sexual diversity. Students will gain a well-rounded background and will learn how this field of study relates to the present.
PSY 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior
[cross-listed with WS 31107]
Term/Time: Summer Term | Three Week - First (8/3-8/23) | Online | Synchronous | Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 1:00PM - 4:20PM
Instructor: Leticia Perez (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Sexual behavior, attitudes, developments, and the consequences of the behavior are examined from a psychological perspective. Topics include historical and cross cultural view points, theories of human sexuality, gender roles, sexual dysfunction, sexual preference, psychological development of adult sexuality and aging sexuality
Spring 2022
PSY 8441J: Health of Lesbians/Gays/bisexuals
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Tuesdays 2:00PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Margaret Rosario (she/her) ( mrosario@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: Doctoral Letter Grades
Description: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are a neglected segment of the population whose health has only recently been investigated systematically. The health of LGB individuals requires attention, given reports of poor mental and physical health. This course will examine the mental and physical health of LGB individuals.
EDCE 5700C: Multi-Cultural Education
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Wednesdays 4:50PM-7:20PM
Instructor: Jesús Fraga (he/him) ( jfraga@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: Education that is Multicultural, EDCE 5700C, analyzes the various components of a desirable education in a pluralistic society, provides opportunities for developing curriculum and strategies which reflect respect and dignity for all people, examines students’ needs within a humanistic framework, and critically examines instructional materials for bias and enrichment. New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world, and its teachers and students bring a spectrum of cultural, racial, linguistic, sexual orientations, and ethnic backgrounds to their classrooms. Schools play a large role in rejecting or affirming this diversity through an education that falls along the continuum of mono-cultural to multicultural. This course address five umbrella topics in Multicultural Education: 1. Immigration/Migration/ Refugees, 2. Race and Ethnicity, 3. Languages and Dialects, 4. Sexual Orientation/LGBTQ+, and 5. Religion. Furthermore, the course will assist students to reconsider personal assumptions and beliefs about diversity, and analyze how schools and society have set-up inequitable opportunities for some groups while maintaining the privilege of others. The course considers teaching as a political activity and explores ways for educators to “teach against the grain” through culturally and locally relevant pedagogy.
NOTE: Required textbook: Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, Author: Nieto, Sonia; Bode, Patty, Publisher: Pearson, Edition: 7, Year Published: 2017, Price: 27.45 USD, ISBN: 9780134047232
ARAB 31303: Minorities in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature and Cultures
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Jeremy Randall (he/him) ( jrandall@gradcenter.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces students to modern and contemporary representations of minorities in the Middle East North Africa through a diverse selection of literature and cultural productions. Students will be introduced to short stories, novellas, films, and art by and about racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities within and from the region. Students will examine how cultural, social, political, demographic, geographic, and economic situations can assemble and circulate minority identities throughout the region. [Potential topics that students will study include but are not limited to the Arab diaspora in France, LGBTQ+ communities in Lebanon, Iraqi Jews, domestic workers in the Emirates, and Afro-Palestinians.]
NOTE: Taught in English
BLST 31961: Queer Caribbean Writing
[cross-listed with ENGL 31933]
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Mondays and Wednedays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Kedon Willis (he/him) ( kwillis@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Queer Caribbean writing surveys the fiction, non-fiction, and poetry of queer Caribbean authors to examine how their engagement with crises facing the region integrates the experiences of gender and sexual non-conforming individuals. In this course, students will learn the major themes of Caribbean literature generally, while being introduced to the basic principles of queer and postcolonial ideas as expressed in the literature. Students can expect to interact with writings from diverse national settings, including Jamaica, Haiti, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
NOTE: Low textbook cost
ENGL 45402: Advanced Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Medieval Bodies
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Elizabeth Mazzola (she/her) ( emazzola@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Medieval bodies are bodies in flux; they can be male and/or female; transcendent or transgender; holy, airborne, animal, wounded, armored, even reborn. This course will survey readings from Beowulf to Malory, covering Anglo-Saxon poems from the 8th century all the way to 15th century Arthurian romances, and looking for ideas about and ambitions for managing flesh. We will also seek out contemporary parallels and examine questions plaguing bodies even nowadays like: What renders a body dead or illegal or disabled? How might gender conformity pave the way for love or divine favor? how do gender rules change over time, with wealth or with special equipment? What ennobles beastly bodies or gives trees souls and songs?
NOTE: ZERO textbook costs
HIST 31685: LGTBQ World History
[cross-listed with ANTH 31685 & WS 31685]
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Dr. Yaari Felber-Seligman (they/them) ( yfelberseligman@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course focuses on the history, contributions, and experiences of gender and sexually-diverse individuals throughout world history, with particular emphasis on nonwestern cultures. It broadly explores changes and debates within the field of history as a whole and the stakes of centering historical analysis on individuals often overlooked or erased by mainstream history writing. The course will balance big-picture discussions with case studies drawn from the instructor’s geographic expertise. These will include examples of precolonial LGBTQ history, how nonwestern cultures conceptualized gender and sexual diversity, the fraught imperial and colonial periods, and contemporary historians’ efforts to diversify curriculums and public knowledge. Students will research a related topic of their choice and develop a final project that can take the form of a research proposal, a teaching unit, or a presentation for the public (such as a film proposal, informative website, podcast series, etc).
NOTE: All readings and materials will be ZERO cost
LALS 31998-S: Latinas in Transition and Translation
[cross-listed with INTL 31973 & WS 31994]
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Synchronous | Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Prof. Mariana Romo-Carmona (she/her) ( mromocarmona@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Course Description: This course will study the contributions of Latina writers to the field of Latinx Studies in the U.S. Through their literary and scholarly work we explore the roots of Latinx culture in this country and how the politics of race, gender, and class have defined the field with Latinas at the forefront of the struggle.
NOTE: No textbooks required
PSY 357: Community Psychology
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | NAC 7/220 | Synchronous | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Richard Clark (she/they) ( r.connorclark@gmail.com )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This is an OER-based Zero-cost course designed to introduce students to the field of community psychology. Community psychology is primarily concerned with individuals in their social context. Community psychology seeks to support and understand communities and conduct research that helps these communities thrive. Sometimes community psychology engages more broadly doing work focused on the large connected and diverse communities such as the Black community and sometimes it more focused such as a community of students at a single university. As a critical community psychologist myself my focus has always been on social justice, change, and activism. As such this course will engage with critical theories, concepts, and methods within the field of community psychology. In doing so it is my hope that students will gain a deeper understanding of community psychology. The course will move away from and challenge the traditional community deficit models and instead emphasize community psychology that focuses on community issues, engagement, empowerment, activism, and work.
NOTE: All readings and materials will be ZERO cost
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Mondays and Wednedays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Christopher Hoffman (he/him) ( choffman@gradcenter.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: What is queerness and what does it have to do with psychology? In this course, we will attempt to “queer” psychology by applying a critical lens to psychology’s study of sexuality and gender. Together, we will examine issues of queerness, identity, physical and social environments within the field of psychology.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost
THTR 21700: Queer Theatre
Term/Time: Spring Term | In-Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Kiera Bono (she/her) ( kbono@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: An exploration of LGBTQ identity as portrayed in predominantly American dramas of the past century. Students will learn about key figures and texts, starting with Oscar Wilde, followed by consideration of stereotypical and groundbreaking portrayals of queer people, as well as analyzing plays with themes of homophobia, self-hatred, acceptance, AIDS, familial interaction, and the evolution of the LGBTQ rights movement in a hetero-normative society.
WS 31012: LGBTQ History, Culture and Movements
Term/Time: Spring Term | Online | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanović (they/them) ( jsinanovic@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course traces the history of LGBTQ people as well as struggles for recognition and acceptance both in the US and globally. With attention to how sexual identity intersects with race, class and gender, the course will examine how LGBTQ people can be placed within historical and political contexts. We will question how and why homosexuality became criminalized and the movements that led to decriminalization. We will spend a significant portion of time on the USA and Western Europe in the 19th and 20th century and the development of a contemporary LGBTQ movement. We will also look at how people of various gender identities and sexualities lived before and outside of European colonial context and explore how European colonization influenced changes in perception of people with gender variant identities as well as people outside of heteronormative sexual practices in their local communities.
NOTE: ZERO textbook cost
Winter Session 2022
BIO 46000: Animal Behavior
Term/Time: Winter term | Online | Synchronous and Asynchronous | (select one time frame) MoTuWeThFr 8:30AM-9:00AM or 9:30AM-10:00AM or 10:00AM-10:30AM
Instructor: David J. Lohman ( dlohman@ccny.cuny.edu )
Credits: 3 Credits (Graduate)
Description: The biological bases of behavior, with emphasis on such topics as the development, evolution, genetics and ecology of behavior; sensory physiology; social behavior and communication. This is a flipped, online course. Students will read one textbook chapter and watch one pre-recorded lecture prior to attending one of the synchronous, 30-minute discussion sections each day. Both exams in the course will be asynchronous and can be taken during any two-hour window of time within a specified 24-hour period.
NOTE: Required textbook: Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition, Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Edition: 4, Year Published: 2019, Price: 46.11 USD, ISBN: 9780226448381
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