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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Fall 2025
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Miriam Urizar
Credits: 3 (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. 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
NOTE: College Option
ANTH 22804: Urban Anthropology
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Mix | Thursdays 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Instructor: John Calagione
Credits: 4 (Undergraduate)
Description: Anthropological perspectives on the understanding of the urban experience. Urbanization and urbanism from an international perspective. The forces that shape people's lives in the metropolis. Topics will include the role of institutions, landscapes, ethnicity, race, class, poverty, gender, and culture in urban life with an emphasis on New York City. This course is offered as a HYBRID and students must be prepared to use online resources and participate in weekly online discussions.Prerequisite: IAS 10300 or IAS 10400 or equivalentAnthropological perspectives on the understanding of the urban experience. Urbanization and urbanism from an international perspective. The forces that shape people's lives in the metropolis. Topics will include the role of institutions, landscapes, ethnicity, race, class, poverty, gender, and culture in urban life with an emphasis on New York City. This course is offered as a HYBRID and students must be prepared to use online resources and participate in weekly online discussions.Prerequisite: IAS 10300 or IAS 10400 or equivalent
NOTE: *Complete this form to be placed on the wait list for a course offered in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences for the Summer and Fall 2025 sessions. **Stops need to be cleared before you register and seats will not be held beyond 24 hours of notification. ***This form only for CWE students wanting to get into a closed course OR uptown students needing permission for an IAS/CWE course. ****SUBMIT ONE SEPARATE FORM FOR EACH COURSE https://form.jotform.com/250495820208961*Complete this form to be placed on the wait list for a course offered in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences for the Summer and Fall 2025 sessions. **Stops need to be cleared before you register and seats will not be held beyond 24 hours of notification. ***This form only for CWE students wanting to get into a closed course OR uptown students needing permission for an IAS/CWE course. ****SUBMIT ONE SEPARATE FORM FOR EACH COURSE https://form.jotform.com/250495820208961
ANTH 23600: Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Credits: 3 (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: College Option
ANTH 35000: Race and Racism
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Hybrid Asynchronous | Wednesdays 9:30am – 10:45am
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Credits: 3 (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. (W) 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. (W)
ART A6806: Art & Crisis in Latin America & Latinx U.S., 1940-1990
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Thursdays 6:15pm – 9:05pm
Instructor: Anna Indych
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: This class focuses on artistic responses to crisis and instability in the art of the Americas in the post-World War II era and includes the work of Latinx artists in the United States. During this time of upheaval, artists mobilized heterogeneous and oppositional practices such as geometric abstraction, conceptual art, mail art, street interventions, murals, performance, video art, and earth art. Course discussions will focus on the aesthetic strategies artists cultivated to tackle the effects of colonialism, state violence, abrupt modernization, migration, exile, and violent dictatorships in various countries and regions. In discussing the relation of Latin American and Latinx art and artists to European and U.S. cultural centers; the emergence of multi-media art; the role of art criticism on the notion of the popular; and the rise of arts institutions (modern art museums, international biennials and fairs, galleries, cultural exchanges), we will also consider the ways in which postwar art in the Americas reflects and has been codified against a north-south geopolitical order and a Euro-centric and dominant art history. As the global struggle for racial and social justice continues, what can we learn from artists in the global south? What can we learn from a history of art that seeks out the voices of the underrepresented, the marginalized, and the oppressed? And how can artists, critics, educators, historians, and museum professionals engage the crises of the past to inform and transform our present?
ART 201500/HUM 20001: Democracy: Humanities & Arts in Action
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Wednesdays 11:00am – 1:50pm
Instructor: Marit Dewhurst and Rhonda Fitzgerald
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: We’ll be digging into what’s happening into the world, meeting social change agents doing work in the field, and developing tools to nurture diverse democratic communities right now. We’ll explore how the arts and humanities give us solid tools to do this work, so there will be music, art, historical analyses, philosophical discussions, and a lot of interactive fun. All majors are welcome.
NOTE: Experimental; Low Textbook Cost
BLST 21009: Black Women’s Resistance: Narratives of Safety and Survival
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Shanelle Matthews
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: In the 20th and 21st centuries, the safety and survival of Black women have become central to rethinking public safety. The #SayHerName campaign exemplifies this shift, offering a platform for voices often marginalized by mainstream media. This course examines how Black women in the US, impacted by the intersection of patriarchal misogyny and anti-Black racism, face both hypervisibility and invisibility. Their experiences with public safety are often ignored, complicating discussions about state-sanctioned violence and their protection. We will explore how narratives around gender and race shape public safety perceptions and policies. Through videos, readings, podcasts, guest speakers, and discussions, this course investigates the role of narrative power and rhetoric in shaping the experiences and advocacy for the safety and freedom of Black women and girls. We'll analyze how these narratives impact their rights and the broader fight for their well-being and self-determination
NOTE: Experimental; Low Textbook Cost
BLST 31152: African Cinema: Gender & Culture
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays 2:00pm – 4:45pm
Instructor: Boukary Sawadogo
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: African Cinema: Gender & Culture
NOTE: Experimental
BLST 31961: Queer Caribbean Writing
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30am – 10:45am
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Credits: 3 (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: Experimental
ECO 34150: Entrepreneurship: Women & Diversity
19579-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Wednesdays 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Instructor: Kim Wales
19578-LEC
Term/Time: Fall Term (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Kim Wales
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course provides an overall historical context for women as entrepreneurs and recognizes ethnic, racial, religious and socio-economic diversity of women entrepreneurs
EDCE 20600: Observing Children and Their Development
19857-LEC
Time/Term: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Thursdays 4:50pm – 7:20pm
Instructor: Staff
19861-LEC
Time/Term: Fall Term (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course is grounded in the notion that how children think, how their language develops, and how their families, their culture, and their environment influences and shapes them affect how they learn in school. Salient themes explored include the child as a maker of meaning, the nature of intelligence, attachment, gender identification, and the social context of development (i.e. race, culture, and class)
NOTE: College Option
BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000
ENGL 36900: Rhetoric of Social Movements - Queer Liberation
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30am-10:45am
Instructor: Olivia Wood
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines the verbal and non-verbal rhetorical strategies of groups and individuals attempting to effect social change and the counter-strategies of those who oppose them, using the U.S. LGBTQ+ liberation movement as a case study. We will look at how social movements attempt to transform perceptions of social reality, alter the self-perception of protestors, develop demands, legitimize the movement, prescribe courses of action, mobilize for action, and sustain the movement. We begin by understanding how the rhetorics of social movements operate by looking at three time periods in the United States: the emergence of gay identity and early homophile societies (late 1800s-1960s), the emergence of the Gay Liberation movement post-Stonewall (1969-1980s) and the response to the AIDS crisis (late 1980s-1990s). We then move to examining 21st century topics in the movement(s) for LGBTQ+ rights, including the fight for marriage equality, anti-trans laws and policies, intersections of oppressions, LGBTQ+ content in schools, and more. For their final project, students will choose a contemporary topic in the fight for queer liberation and examine the rhetorical techniques used by activists involved.
NOTE: Prior rhetorical study is helpful but not required. Students from disciplines outside of English are welcome. This class counts toward the undergraduate certificate in language, writing, and rhetoric. Anyone who hasn’t taken ENGL 25000 but has completed ENGL 21001, 21002, 21003, or 21007 can Olivia Wood ( owood@ccny.cuny.edu ) for permission to register.
ENGL 37100: Selected Topics in African American Literature
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Janee Moses
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: What do Ma Rainey and Beyoncé have in common? Are blues performances the origin of black feminism(s)? How has each, in her times, shaped black women’s conceptions of identity? Their negotiations with race, gender, sexuality, and class? Through the lenses of music, performances, and fiction, this course will explore these questions, examining the tradition of early blues women such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Billie Holiday and the impact of their feminist legacies on artists and writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course is divided into four parts: Part 1 provides the theoretical foundation for examining the blues as both sound and language practice or song and text. Part 2 explores the method of the blues tradition in novels and performances to examine how black women use language to deal with complex circumstances in their romantic and familial relationships. Part 3 examines the legacies of blues women in black feminist rhetoric and scholarship of the late 20th century, focusing specifically on the emergence of new black radicalisms and hip-hop culture. Part 4 interprets popular formulations of Black Feminism with 21st century performer, Beyonce´.
HIST 27600: Africa and The Modern World
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores the dynamics of history, economy, society and politics in Africa from 1500 to the 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 todayThis course explores the dynamics of history, economy, society and politics in Africa from 1500 to the 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
HIST 31264: Islamic Political Movements
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Beth Baron
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course focuses on the proliferation of Islamic political movements in the Middle East in the last century. Islamist movements of many different kinds have occupied center stage within their societies and have been important to both regional and international politics and policy making. These groups have sought to “re-establish” what they see as Islamic moral and political orders through preaching, missionizing, electoral politics, and/or violence. Some have taken to combating nominally Muslim regimes that they consider un-Islamic. Others have waged war against the “West” or fought to redeem formerly Muslim lands. In this course, we will look at the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; the Iranian Revolution and its exports; the rise, fall, and rise again of the Taliban in Afghanistan; jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS; and nationalist movements such as Hamas in the West Bank/Gaza and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria. What do the Islamists in these organizations have in common and how do they differ? What are their objectives regarding gender, society, and the state? How do they go about obtaining their objectives?
HIST 31685: LGBTQ World History
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 — Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman
Credits: 3 (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: Experimental; ZERO Textbook Cost
HIST 32850: The French Revolution
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 — Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Clifford Rosenberg
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: A thorough introduction to the French Revolution - one of the defining events of modern times, and the crucible in which key elements of modern politics were forged or redefined: universal manhood suffrage, human rights,civil equality, direct democracy, ideological dictatorship, nationalism, women’s liberation, and revolution itself
HIST B0000: Historical Methods and Historiography
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Monday 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Instructor: Clifford Rosenberg
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Focus on the methods that have shaped the conceptualization and writing of professional history over the past few decades. Methods studied may include those of Marxists, the French Annales school, social-scientific history, gender history, anthropological history, historical sociology, the history of material culture and consumption, the history of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, global and transnational history, environmental history. Area readings will vary with instructor. (Required for all M.A. students) Focus on the methods that have shaped the conceptualization and writing of professional history over the past few decades. Methods studied may include those of Marxists, the French Annales school, social-scientific history, gender history, anthropological history, historical sociology, the history of material culture and consumption, the history of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, global and transnational history, environmental history. Area readings will vary with instructor. (Required for all M.A. students)
HIST B8102: Early Africa: A Research Seminar
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays 4:50pm – 6:50pm
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Featuring classic and new scholarship along with methodology workshops on oral history and historical linguistics, this seminar will trace how scholars have uncovered Africans’ cosmologies, ideals, and debates on topics such as family, gender, sexuality, governance, well-being, and the environment. Based on the semester, our case studies will focus on societies located in parts of eastern, central, or southern Africa during the dynamic eras of expanding scale and new connections found in the first millennium CE up to the 1700s
NOTE: ZERO Textbook Cost
IAS A5010: Graduate Research Methodology
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Mondays 6:00pm — 7:40pm
Instructor: Rafia Zafar
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: The course's focus is to explore the process of interdisciplinary, comparative research. More specifically, the class will introduce students to the field of "New American Studies" and teach them how scholars working in an interdisciplinary and transitional context think, argue, research, and write. First, students will trace the changing definition of American Studies: Originating as a field of study with a focus primarily on the United States, the field has expanded to encompass research spanning all of the Americas, which include the disparate and often marginalized cultural zones within. Second, they will study the field relationship to twentieth-century social movements and related theoretical models and contemporary approaches to research, including Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminist theory, queer theory, post-colonial theory, and studies of ethnicities and race. Finally, the course will expose them to various research techniques necessary to conduct interdisciplinary research and produce graduate-level writing in their study of the Americas coursework. In readings and position papers, students will identify and consider methodologies across the disciplines. In the final assignment, students will implement the research methodologies discussed over the course of the semester. They will choose a topic, develop a research agenda, conduct interdisciplinary research, and write a final research proposal, with an annotated bibliography
IAS 26000: Writing the City
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Hybrid Asynchronous |
Instructor: Kathlene Mcdonald
Credits: 4 (Undergraduate)
Description: This introductory course prepares students to write for the Social Justice and Urban Life major. It pairs literary texts with select themes and readings from IAS 2XXXX, Right to the City, such as mental health and urban living, education, displacement, racial and gender justice, climate change, disability, and transit. It will develop students? critical writing, information literacy, and library research skills through shorter writing assignments and a final ten-page academic essay
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IAS 31216: Women and Work
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Hybrid Asynchronous | Wednesdays 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Instructor: Susanna Rosenbaum
Credits: 4 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines the impact of women workers on contemporary U.S. society and the role of work in women's lives. Women are most unlike male workers because they have two work sites: in the paid labor force and in the household. This course focuses on the intersection, conflicts, and tensions within as well as those between these work sites. The primary goal of the course is to provide students with the ability to understand the social, economic, and historical contexts of their lives as workers
NOTE: *Complete this form to be placed on the wait list for a course offered in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences for the Summer and Fall 2025 sessions. **Stops need to be cleared before you register and seats will not be held beyond 24 hours of notification. ***This form only for CWE students wanting to get into a closed course OR uptown students needing permission for an IAS/CWE course. ****SUBMIT ONE SEPARATE FORM FOR EACH COURSE https://form.jotform.com/250495820208961*Complete this form to be placed on the wait list for a course offered in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences for the Summer and Fall 2025 sessions. **Stops need to be cleared before you register and seats will not be held beyond 24 hours of notification. ***This form only for CWE students wanting to get into a closed course OR uptown students needing permission for an IAS/CWE course. ****SUBMIT ONE SEPARATE FORM FOR EACH COURSE https://form.jotform.com/250495820208961
INTL 20600: Global Social Theory
20015-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30pm – 4:45pm
Instructor: Dora Suarez
19803-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
20016-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous |
Instructor: Dora Suarez
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces students to key questions and concepts in the social sciences. Over the semester, students engage with the wide variety of texts—by authors from around the world—that together comprise global social theory. The focus is on learning how to read these texts carefully with an eye toward using them to analyze the contemporary world. In particular, the class asks students to explore the following questions: What does it mean to understand humans as thoroughly social, cultural, and historical creatures? How do humans create, maintain, and transform their social worlds? How are forms of social difference (e.g. race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender, sexuality, etc.) produced and how do they shape our experiences? In what sense is the contemporary world shaped by particular pasts? What historical transformations lie on the horizon? 3 hr./wk.; 3 crThis course introduces students to key questions and concepts in the social sciences. Over the semester, students engage with the wide variety of texts—by authors from around the world—that together comprise global social theory. The focus is on learning how to read these texts carefully with an eye toward using them to analyze the contemporary world. In particular, the class asks students to explore the following questions: What does it mean to understand humans as thoroughly social, cultural, and historical creatures? How do humans create, maintain, and transform their social worlds? How are forms of social difference (e.g. race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender, sexuality, etc.) produced and how do they shape our experiences? In what sense is the contemporary world shaped by particular pasts? What historical transformations lie on the horizon? 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr
NOTE: ZERO Textbook Cost
INTL/SOC 31140: Human Mobility and Social Change
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30am – 10:45am
Instructor: Maritsa Poros
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores the causes, patterns and impacts of human migration and social change, including forced migration, displacement and the experiences of refugees. Themes will include: theories of migration; globalization, development and migration; securitization of immigration; human smuggling and trafficking; racism and exclusion; transnationalism and diasporas; conflict, the environment and forced migration; and austerity and mass expulsion. The class will offer a global perspective as well as focusing on American immigration
NOTE: This course will be cross-listed with INTL 31140
JWST 31129: Female Sexuality in Judaism
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am-12:15pm
Instructor: Terry Wasserman
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Female Sexuality in Judaism
LALS 12600: Introduction to Latina/o/x Studies and Immigration
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30am-10:45pm
Instructor: Pedro Ortega
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course begins with a key question: What does it mean to be Latina/o/x today? We consider the history of Latina/o/x people in the U.S. and the immigrant and settlement experiences of different communities, such as Mexicans, Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans, as well as the theories and debates around the formation and meaning of Latina/o/x identities. We then discuss the profound ways that Latina/o/x people have shaped the contemporary U.S., both in the Southwest (Arizona, Nevada, Texas, etc.) and beyond. We also analyze the challenges that an increasingly visible and diverse Latina/o/x presence poses for the ways that different people imagine and understand the identity of the U.S. We discuss the historical factors pushing and pulling people from Latin America and the Caribbean to migrate to the U.S. and the dynamics that shape “integration” especially for racially minoritized immigrants. Finally, we gain an appreciation of how immigration can both promote social mobility as well as introduces new forms of inequalities, especially for Latina women and other gendered and radicalized minorities.
LALS 29700: Special Topics in Latina/o/x Studies
30019-LEC: Latinas and Reproductive Rights
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Iris Lopez
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Latinas and Reproductive Rights: The course examines the historical, cultural, social, political and ethical issues surrounding reproductive health care for Latinas. Special emphasis is given to the denial of rights, especially cultural differences in prenatal care and overuse of the sterilization procedure for Latinas in previous decades in the United States. Latinas and Reproductive Rights: The course examines the historical, cultural, social, political and ethical issues surrounding reproductive health care for Latinas. Special emphasis is given to the denial of rights, especially cultural differences in prenatal care and overuse of the sterilization procedure for Latinas in previous decades in the United States.
30055-LEC: Latinx Youth & Social Justice
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: What is social justice? What does social justice (and injustice) mean in the context of a diverse, global city like New York? We will address these questions by examining how our ideas about justice and injustice measure up against the everyday experiences of people from different social groups in urban contexts from the U.S. and around the world. The course will provide a survey of classic and contemporary ethnographies of urban life (qualitative case studies relying primarily on observation), with an emphasis on relationships of power, privilege, and inequality, and a special focus on Latinx communities and the immigrant experience. What is social justice? What does social justice (and injustice) mean in the context of a diverse, global city like New York? We will address these questions by examining how our ideas about justice and injustice measure up against the everyday experiences of people from different social groups in urban contexts from the U.S. and around the world. The course will provide a survey of classic and contemporary ethnographies of urban life (qualitative case studies relying primarily on observation), with an emphasis on relationships of power, privilege, and inequality, and a special focus on Latinx communities and the immigrant experience.
NOTE: SEEK STUDENTS ONLY
LALS 39600: Advanced Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15am
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: From Maquilas to Ex-Machinas: Gender, Technology and Inequality - This course explores the sociology of economic development, gender and race inequality to examine the link between science, technology, and the rise of women as new subjects of innovation, pleasure, labor, and sexual exploitation in a new digital economy. A key and first objective of this course will be to familiarize students with an interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges gender studies, economic development and immigration, feminist thought, science fiction, AI and Cybernetics, and philosophies of technology and communication. A second objective is to conduct critical analysis of technological development’s impact on the hiring of ethno-racial minorities, mostly women from Latin America and the Global South, for work in ‘maquila’ industries; the wide-web porno industry, and as invisible workers in data harvesting and content monitoring, at the bottom rung of the new digital economy. A third objective will be to explore the impact of the digital economy on new forms of development, migration, social mobility, as well as oppression and racialization of labor. We conclude with a critical reflection about technology and AI-driven innovations as new ontological sites of power inequality and colonialization, but also as complex systems of discovery, innovation, and pleasure in everyday life. Students will benefit from the additional insights of guest lecturers who conduct either academic research or work as technological innovators or professionals in the digital economy.
MCA 26000: Topics in Cinema Studies
29963-LEC: African Cinema: Gender and Cu
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays 2:00pm – 4:45pm
Instructor: Boukary Sawadogo
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Since the 1990s, African cinema has been undergoing major changes in its thematic treatment and aesthetics as the anticolonial discourse is losing momentum. These changes reflect an emerging trend of African films challenging established cultural norms about gender roles, sexuality and women’s condition. So, topics that were once considered taboo are now brought to light and communities have to self-examine some of their own practices and beliefs.
29966-LEC: African American C
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Thursdays 2:00pm – 4:45pm
Instructor: Boukary Sawadogo
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course tracks parallel movements in the historical development of African and African American cinema from their origins to the present. These two cinematic traditions and practices share similarities in how the film medium was appropriated as an instrument not only to strike back at stereotypical representations of the black subject in colonial and Hollywood films, but also to present Afrocentric or Black storytelling and aesthetics—Black cinema. As independent cinemas, African and African American audiovisual productions have also adopted (dis)similar strategies in establishing connections to dominant cinema through their respective modes of production and distributionThis course tracks parallel movements in the historical development of African and African American cinema from their origins to the present. These two cinematic traditions and practices share similarities in how the film medium was appropriated as an instrument not only to strike back at stereotypical representations of the black subject in colonial and Hollywood films, but also to present Afrocentric or Black storytelling and aesthetics—Black cinema. As independent cinemas, African and African American audiovisual productions have also adopted (dis)similar strategies in establishing connections to dominant cinema through their respective modes of production and distribution.
MUS 20100: Hip Hop Music
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 — Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous |
Instructor: Matthew Carter
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: The history of hip hop from the 1970s to the current moment. Four primary areas of focus: the music, its business and promotion, technology, and the cultural/political impact of hip hop on representations of Blackness and constructions of gender, race, and authenticity
NOTE: BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000 REQUIRED
PSY B9904: Decolonizing Mental Health
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 25 — Dec 22) | In Person | Wednesdays 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Instructor: Lewis Zuchman
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Decolonization is the process of deconstructing colonial ideologies of the superiority and privilege of Western (White Patriarchal) thought and approaches. While decolonization is generally considered in reference to geo-political systemic structures, its applicability to mental health service delivery is of critical import to psychology. Colonization perpetuates the status quo, maintaining power dominance of a White, Patriarchal, Racist, Homophobic hierarchy. Western mental health and social service methodologies serve to perpetuate colonization, justifying the dominance of a White, Patriarchal systemic structure. This course will serve to examine the systemic implication of a mental health service delivery that 'blames the victim', and perpetuates an oppressive systemic culture that deleteriously impacts the lives of women, immigrants, folk of color, LGBTQ folk, etc. Western mental health focuses on pathology, branding traumatized and oppressed folk as 'ill', mentally unbalanced, paranoid, 'out of control', etc. Decolonizing mental health service delivery enables the psychology student to focus on a Strength Based approach, that emphasizes 'positives', and, employs a non-directive, empowering therapeutic stance. The psychologist/therapist is neither god, nor more powerful all-knowing. Rather, a decolonizing mental health approach emphasizes the partnership of therapist and patient. The therapist listens, shares, participates in full partnership with his/her patient. Illuminating this course will be the writings and clinical practice of Frantz Fanon, an Afro-French psychiatrist and 1960's spokesperson of the successful Algerian Revolution against French colonial oppression. Finally, the empowerment process inherent in therapeutic healing, is embedded within an understanding of context and trauma. Oppressed folk reflect rage, resistance, as well as internalization of said oppression, resulting in self-destructive behavior. Enabling such folk to see, feel, and comprehend their oppression is a critical first step in healing
PORT 32100: Reading and Writing Portuguese I
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Instructor: Regina Castro McGowan
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Lays the foundations for students further understanding of grammar and different forms of expository and analytical writings in Portuguese. The short stories studied in this course address topics such as the representation of national self-identity, slavery, the indigenous, Afro-Brazilian and immigrant cultures, the Lusophone diaspora, gender, and regional differences encountered throughout Portuguese speaking countries. Readings and class discussions in Portuguese. Prerequisite: PORT 22600 or scoring at the exempt level. 3hr./wk.; 3 cr
NOTE: PRE: PORT 22600. CO: PORT 32200
PSC 23600: Political Systems of Latin America
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: Sherrie Baver
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Contemporary political systems in selected countries. Emphasis upon the cultural environments, constitutional foundations, and practices, political and administrative patterns, political instability and revolution, the role of the family, church, army, intellectual and caudillo, and the relations of these governments with each other and the world
PSC 25100: New York Grassroots Movements
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Instructor: John Krinsky
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: A survey of social activist organizations pushing for policy change around, race, inequality, gender, immigration, policing, and workers’ rights in New York City. The course explores their history, effects, dilemmas and contemporary relevance, and the development and functioning of American political institutions at federal, state, and local levels
PSY V5650: Gender and Psychopathology
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays 3:30pm – 6:00pm
Instructor: Brett Silverstein
Credits: 3 (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
PSY V6582: Counseling Adolescents
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays 10:00am – 12:30pm
Instructor: Waleed Sami
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Adolescent counseling will be examined with emphasis on the issues unique to their stage of life. These include pubertal development, cognitive development, identity, dating and sexuality, family, peer relationships, school and work all within a multicultural context
PSY 8343J: Sex and Gender
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Mondays 9:00am – 10:45am
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba
Credits: 3 (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 31172: Emerging Adulthood
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Brent Maximin
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course provides an overview of theories, research, and issues in the study of human development during emerging adulthood. It focuses on the major biological, cognitive, and social changes during emerging adulthood; the psychosocial issues of adolescence and emerging adulthood, including identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, and achievement; and the contexts in which adult development occurs, particularly families, peer groups, schools, work, and popular culture. This course discusses empirical research, theories, and public policy This course provides an overview of theories, research, and issues in the study of human development during emerging adulthood. It focuses on the major biological, cognitive, and social changes during emerging adulthood; the psychosocial issues of adolescence and emerging adulthood, including identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, and achievement; and the contexts in which adult development occurs, particularly families, peer groups, schools, work, and popular culture. This course discusses empirical research, theories, and public policy
PSY 32115: Queer Psychology
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: The main goal of this course is to introduce you to different theories, research, and concepts in Queer Psychology. This is a broad introduction that gives you the lay of the land in this field. In this class, we will be exploring the terms associated with SOGIE topics, Sexual Orientation, Gender, Identity, and Expression. Throughout this course, we will take a deep dive into the history of LGBTIQ Psychology, and why it is important to study today. Lastly, we will also be taking a dive into current research associated with LGBTIQ people in regards to research methods, children and parenting, prejudice, discrimination, and mental health, sexual health, chronic illness, and lastly particular challenges this community faces through a psychological lens The main goal of this course is to introduce you to different theories, research, and concepts in Queer Psychology. This is a broad introduction that gives you the lay of the land in this field. In this class, we will be exploring the terms associated with SOGIE topics, Sexual Orientation, Gender, Identity, and Expression. Throughout this course, we will take a deep dive into the history of LGBTIQ Psychology, and why it is important to study today. Lastly, we will also be taking a dive into current research associated with LGBTIQ people in regards to research methods, children and parenting, prejudice, discrimination, and mental health, sexual health, chronic illness, and lastly particular challenges this community faces through a psychological lens
PSY 32130: Psychology of Shame
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 - Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Michael Rifino
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: In an increasingly inequitable world, how are we to understand shame today? Silvan Tomkins, a prominent psychologist on affects, understands shame as one of the primary ‘negative affects’ fundamental to selfhood and behavior. Yet, recent scholarship has ignited a renewed engagement with the topic of shame, broadening its conceptualizations and exploring its practical implications for personhood, education, social inequalities, agency and resistance, and diversity. These innovative approaches emerging from psychology and related disciplines (sociology, anthropology, political science, etc.) are considering how shame is experienced on the individual dimension generated through specific material conditions and sensed dynamically relational ways. Influenced by psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and cultural theory and research, this course will offer an overview of how shame has been studied as a cultural and social phenomenon and an individual experience
NOTE: PRE: PSY 10200 OR 10101 & 247
PSY 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior
19232-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 - Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Rhyan Toledo
19233-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 - Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Rhyan Toledo
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course is designed to explore the psychology of human sexuality. Biological, psychosocial, and socio-cultural research is presented concerning all aspects of human sexuality. Specific topics covered include sexual anatomy and physiology, gender identity/development/expression, sexual identity/development/expression, contraception, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, sexually transmitted infections, sexual assault and misconduct, sex work, and sex lawsThis course is designed to explore the psychology of human sexuality. Biological, psychosocial, and socio-cultural research is presented concerning all aspects of human sexuality. Specific topics covered include sexual anatomy and physiology, gender identity/development/expression, sexual identity/development/expression, contraception, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, sexually transmitted infections, sexual assault and misconduct, sex work, and sex laws
NOTE: ZERO Textbook Cost
PRE PSY 10200 or 10101 and 22600 or 24600 or 24700 or 24900
PSY 24900: Psychology of Personality
19262-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00pm – 6:15pm
Instructor: Tiffany Floyd
19265-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30am – 10:45pm
Instructor: Daniel Osterhout
19263-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Tatia Chxeidze
19264-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Fai Tsoi
41024-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Richard Clark
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores the determinants of personality from a variety of perspectives, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic, while also exploring how personality is influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, and culture. Students come to appreciate different perspectives regarding how and why people differ from one another
NOTE: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10200 OR 10299
SOC 33700: Special Topics in Latin American and Latino/a/x Studies
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This special topic's full course title is From Maquilas to Ex-Machinas Gender, Technology and Inequality. Course description: This course examines the work experiences of immigrant women in the U.S. and of other women in nations of Latin America and the Global South, with a focus on how their participation in digital economies shape new forms of development, migration and the racialization of labor. Questions guiding this course include: What kinds of labor and workers drive new digital economies? How do industrial jobs in ‘maquilas’ or factories owned by international capitalists in developing nations, like the Dominican Republic, Mexico, or the Philippines, affect the lives of women and their eventual migration elsewhere? What technological innovations and mechanisms lead women to find jobs in data processing plants, call centers, or virtual sex work? This course familiarizes students with studies on economic development and international migration, gender and feminist thought in AI and Cybernetics, and philosophies of technology and communication. Students will learn to conduct critical analysis of how technological development impacts the lives and status of women, especially among Latinas and Asians, who work as invisible laborers at the bottom rung of new, digital economies. This course will be cross-listed with LALS and WS 296.
SPED 3300K: Building Community in Inclusive Contexts
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Hybrid Asynchronous | Wednesdays 4:50pm – 7:20pm
Instructor: Armineh Hallarán
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Children come to school as unique learners who negotiate the world within complex and ever-shifting intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and ability. This course prepares teacher candidates to conceptualize human diversity as a resource (rather than a liability) and to facilitate caring classroom communities within which all learners are viewed as valuable. Participants will acquire in-depth understanding of techniques that nurture the development of an interdependent learning community based upon trust, mutual respect, and acceptance. Issues specific to classroom dynamics and access are considered in the instance of physical setting, curriculum, and teaching strategies as each relates to building community in the classroom. In addition, community building in the larger school context (including strategies for initiating and sustaining school change) will be addressed as well as transition issues that bridge to the outside community (community-based inclusion). Attention will be given to language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and technology as appropriate and consistent with the N.Y. State Learning Standards. 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr
SSC 31169: Leadership, Organizing, and Action
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person
Instructor: Anjali Rodrigues
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: In this intensive, accelerated course, students will engage with three core questions: Who are my people? What challenges do we face? and How can we transform our resources into the power needed to address these challenges? In this critical moment in U.S. history, the course offers an opportunity to collaborate with fellow students passionate about social justice, while equipping them with the tools to build people power and create sustainable strategies for impactful change. By the end of this course, students will have the practical skills and relationships to lead effective, community-driven organizing efforts aimed at real-world impact.
NOTE: This class meets over two weekends—September 5-7 and September 19-21. Following the in-person sessions, students will complete 2-3 individual coaching sessions (30 minutes each) with a teaching fellow. Additionally, two virtual lectures will take place on Thursday, October 30, and Thursday, December 4, from 5:30-7:00 PM.
WS 10000: Woman’s Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
20497-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
18605-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanovic
19915-LEC
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Asale Angel-Ajani
Credits: 3 (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? (W)
NOTE: ZERO Textbook Cost
WS/SOC 31112: Daughters of Immigrants: Inequality and Social Mobility
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30pm – 4:45pm
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Key themes of this course are social mobility and inequality in both the U.S. and Latin American context. While the course provides an overview of the immigration experience for Latino youth in general, it has a special emphasis on the experience of Latina women and girlsKey themes of this course are social mobility and inequality in both the U.S. and Latin American context. While the course provides an overview of the immigration experience for Latino youth in general, it has a special emphasis on the experience of Latina women and girlsKey themes of this course are social mobility and inequality in both the U.S. and Latin American context. While the course provides an overview of the immigration experience for Latino youth in general, it has a special emphasis on the experience of Latina women and girls
NOTE: Experimental
WS 29100: Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
20518-LEC: Gender and Religion
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30pm-4:45pm
Instructor: Omnia Khalil
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This class explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, and religion in the 20th and 21st centuries. It provides an in-depth understanding of male and female bodies—and beyond—through the lens of the four waves of feminism. Additionally, it offers readings from religious studies that examine gender and sexuality within various religious contexts.
19800-LEC: Women’s Activism in U.S. History
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00pm-3:15pm
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores the history of women’s formal and grassroots activism in the United States. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine how women's activism speaks to larger questions about freedom of speech, political change, equitable opportunities, and the advancement of our ever-changing understanding of gender and gender expression.
19900-LEC: LGBTQ History, Culture, and Movements
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Hybrid Asynchronous | Wednesdays 2:00pm-3:15pm
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanovic
Credits: 3 (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.
19656-LEC: Black Women’s Resistance
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am-12:15pm
Instructor: Shanelle Matthews
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines how Black women face both hypervisibility and invisibility. We will explore how narratives around gender and race shape public safety perceptions and policies, as well as the experiences and advocacy for the safety and freedom of Black women and girls.
NOTE: Low Textbook Cost
19799-LEC: Global Mass Incarceration
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Saturdays 12:00pm-2:30pm
Instructor: Asale Angel-Ajani
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: coming soon...
WS 39100: Advanced Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
24483-LEC: Disaster Capitalism and Creative Community Resistance
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30pm-4:45pm
Instructor: Asale Angel-Ajani
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will explore the role of states and societies living through natural and human-made disasters. We will draw on insights from global and local communities that have survived disasters and are resisting historical and economic trauma. We will focus on the creative activism and the social imagination of exploited and under-resourced communities, exploring how practices of solidarity economics, timebanks, stewardship, participatory democracy, and ideas of the commons, ignite change and unify communities.
24486-LEC: The Monstrous Body: Blackness, Power, and Representation
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Tuesdays 5:00pm-7:30pm
Instructor: Efe Igor
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course invites students to critically examine how Black bodies have been historically constructed as “monstrous” and how this perception has shaped the experiences of African diasporic peoples over time. From the early colonial period to the present, how has the concept of “monstrosity”—both literal and figurative—been imposed on Black people, and how have they subverted, reclaimed, and reimagined these narratives of monstrosity?
19903-LEC: Post Trauma Recovery (PTR)
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | Online Synchronous | Saturdays 11:00am-1:30pm
Instructor: Sharon White-Harrigan
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: An 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.
38136-LEC: LGBTQ World History
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In-Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00am-12:15pm
Instructor: Yaari-Felber Seligman
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will explore the role of states and societies living through natural and human-made disasters. We will draw on insights from global and local communities that have survived disasters and are resisting historical and economic trauma. We will focus on the creative activism and the social imagination of exploited and under-resourced communities, exploring how practices of solidarity economics, timebanks, stewardship, participatory democracy, and ideas of the commons, ignite change and unify communities.
SUS 7305S: Social Entrepreneurship
Term/Time: Fall (Aug 26 – Dec 22) | In Person | Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Instructor: Gabriel Foreman
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Social entrepreneurship – the practice of addressing social needs utilizing business principals – is an exciting and dynamic field. The Social Entrepreneurship course will introduce you to the strategies and skills needed to launch an enterprise aligned with your personal and professional interests. In the course, each two-student team will design and pitch a business model that addresses challenges in areas that can include education, environment, health, LGBTQ+, social justice, and more. Course readings and assignments will provide a framework to the team’s startup concept development in preparation for the final pitch video competition. Major themes of the course include startup “bootstrapping”, i.e., the practice of launching a startup with minimal investment; systems thinking; and pitching your ideas. No experience required. Sustainability students will be expected to complete additional graduate-level work
Summer 2025
ANTH 23600: Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Term/Time: Summer (July 7 – August 1) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Credits: 3 (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 assumptions taken for granted. Furthermore, students will examine how these categories intersect, how they inform each other, and how they gain raction with race, class, and ethnicity
NOTES: College Option; ZERO Textbook Cost
ANTH 35000: Race and Racism
Term/Time: Summer (Jun 2 – Jun 30) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores the history of ecological art beginning in the 1960s up to present-day artists fighting for social, political, and environmental change and the decolonization of nature. In considering art and the environment, our class will be structured according to some of the most urgent issues we currently face, including: pollution, ecocide, species extinction, environmental racism, environmental sexism, pandemics, global warming, and climate change. While our present moment is dire, we will work to find hope in the solutions and tools offered by artists, activists and collectives—from ecofeminists to indigenous rights movements to protest groups like Extinction Rebellion—food empowerment projects and other forms of social mobilization, as well as humanities disciplines outside art history that inform our aesthetic responses to environmental crises. As is only fitting for this course, we will explore and learn about artists, collectives, and activists from all walks of life
NOTES: College Option
INTL 20600: Global Social Theory
Term/Time: Summer (Jul 7 – Aug 1) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Dora Suarez
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course introduces students to key questions and concepts in the social sciences. Over the semester, students engage with the wide variety of texts—by authors from around the world—that together comprise global social theory. The focus is on learning how to read these texts carefully with an eye toward using them to analyze the contemporary world. In particular, the class asks students to explore the following questions: What does it mean to understand humans as thoroughly social, cultural, and historical creatures? How do humans create, maintain, and transform their social worlds? How are forms of social difference (e.g. race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender, sexuality, etc.) produced and how do they shape our experiences? In what sense is the contemporary world shaped by particular pasts? What historical transformations lie on the horizon? 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr
NOTES: ZERO Textbook Cost
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and political boundaries
Term/Time: Summer (Jun 2 – Jun 30) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience.
PSY 24900: Psychology of Personality
Term/Time: Summer (Jul 7 – Aug 1) | Online Synchronous
Instructor: Seth Sebold
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores the determinants of personality from a variety of perspectives, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic, while also exploring how personality is influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, and culture. Students come to appreciate different perspectives regarding how and why people differ from one another
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology
Term/Time: Summer (Jun 2 – Jun 30) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
Credits: 3 (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 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior
Term/Time: Summer (Aug 04 – Aug 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Rhyan Toledo
Credits: 3 (Undergraduate)
Description: Sexual behavior, attitudes, developments, and the consequences of the behavior are examined from a psychological perspective. Topics include historical and cross cultural viewpoints, theories of human sexuality, gender roles, sexual dysfunction, sexual preference, psychological development of adult sexuality and aging sexuality.
PSY 32200: Psychology of Sexuality & Gender
Term/Time: Summer (Jun 2 – Jun 30) |Online Synchronous | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu: 8:30am-11:00am
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba
Credits: 3 (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 B9846: Psychology of Sexuality and Gender
Term/Time: Summer (Jun 2 – Jun 30) | Online Synchronous | Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 8:30am – 11:00am
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: This course will introduce theories, concepts and epistemologies regarding the psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review and evaluate some of the most relevant research on gender diversity (its history, appeal, benefits and limitations) and sexual diversity (its history, criminalization, pathologization, de-pathologization and current insights)
SCI 31105: Identity and Representation in Games
Term/Time: Summer (Jun 2 – Jun 30) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 (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 games culture they consume
NOTES: Experimental
SPED 3300K: Building Community in Inclusive Contexts
5746-LEC
Term/Time: Summer (Jul 7 – Aug 1) | Online Mix | Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 6:00pm – 9:15pm
Instructor: Pedro Prado-Romero
3680-LEC
Term/Time: Summer (Jul 7 – Aug 1) | Online Mix | Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 6:00pm – 9:15pm
Instructor: Armineh Hallaran
5745-LEC
Term/Time: Summer (Jul 7 – Aug 1) | Online Mix | Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 6:00pm – 9:15pm
Instructor: Christopher Yawn
Credits: 3 (Graduate)
Description: Children come to school as unique learners who negotiate the world within complex and ever-shifting intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and ability. This course prepares teacher candidates to conceptualize human diversity as a resource (rather than a liability) and to facilitate caring classroom communities within which all learners are viewed as valuable. Participants will acquire in-depth understanding of techniques that nurture the development of an interdependent learning community based upon trust, mutual respect, and acceptance. Issues specific to classroom dynamics and access are considered in the instance of physical setting, curriculum, and teaching strategies as each relates to building community in the classroom. In addition, community building in the larger school context (including strategies for initiating and sustaining school change) will be addressed as well as transition issues that bridge to the outside community (community-based inclusion). Attention will be given to language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and technology as appropriate and consistent with the N.Y. State Learning Standards. 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr
WS 10000: Women’s Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
Term/Time: Summer (Aug 4 – Aug 22) | Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Sharon White-Harrigan
Credits: 3 (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?
Spring 2025
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22)
Instructor(s):
[LEC 33883] Luis Quesada Nieto, Online (Synchronous), Tuedays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
[LEC 42568] Andy Tan, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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
Note: Low Textbook Cost
ART 31530: Modern Art in Latin America (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Bianca Moran
Description: An overview of the various currents of modernism that developed in Latin America from 1900 to 1945. Emphasis will be placed on the artistic production of certain countries, such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, and Uruguay
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost; PRE: ART 10000 & COREQ: ART 21000 or ENGL 210##; This is considered a GROUP 2 art history course.
ART B8726: Love, Metaphor and Vision in Early Modern India (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Wednesdays 6:15PM - 9:05PM
Instructor: Molly Aitken
Description: This is a class about what love imagery made possible for South Asia’s multiethnic, religiously diverse society during Mughal imperial rule (1556-1858). The pervasive theme of love in Mughal fine arts suspended cultural differences in poetics, intellectual play, and mysticism to result in a distinctive aesthetics that emphasized emotional affect. We follow the theme of love as it circulated through the closely interrelated mediums of painting, textiles, poetry and music. Gender and sexuality are be front and center of our discussions, along with self-fashioning and the bonds fostered through connoisseurship. Class discussions and assignments encourage students to ask new questions and to explore untried methods, especially with a view to globalizing the discipline
ASIA 31180: Japanese Empire (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Seiji Shirane
Description: Japanese empire, 1895-1945. Topics will include the dynamics of colonial culture, issues of gender and marginality, and emerging debates on wartime responsibility and memory
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
BIO 31141: Health Equity: Biological and Social Determinants of Health (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Larry Au; Bao Vuong
Description: How do social structures and inequalities affect biological processes and human health? This course draws on perspectives in biology and sociology to examine how racism, genderism, economic inequality, the built environment, pollution, climate change, and other human activity affect stress, addiction, immune responses to infectious diseases and cancer, obesity, aging, genetics, and epigenetics. Students will also learn how government policies, industrial activity, or community activism can affect access to healthcare. Students will contribute to improved health equity by designing interventions that address biological and social determinants of adverse health
Note: Low Textbook Cost; PRE BIO 10100 AND BIO 10200
BLST 28200: Modern and Contemporary Latin America (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Instructor: Emmanuel Lachaud
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays
[LEC 34978] 9:30AM - 10:45PM
[LEC 34979] 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Description: This course will introduce students to several major narratives of modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean history from the late eighteenth century through the late twentieth century. We will examine concepts such as race, colonialism, slavery, religion, revolution, culture, radical, liberal, and conservative politics, social processes, identity, and even the notion of a “Latin America.” Each unit is designed to investigate how these themes have shaped the Latin American landscape and the world around it chronologically, historically engaged with the creation of ideas surrounding identity, nation, and belonging. Students are encouraged to bring in further perspectives, and other aspects of knowledge
BLST 31188: Performing Black Womanhood in the United States (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Laurie Woodard
Description: African American women’s identity is a highly contested social, cultural, and political (not to mention immensely personal) cite. Throughout the twentieth century, black and white men and white women generated the dominant images of black women in literature, theater, film, music, and the media. Casting them as Mammy, Peola, Jezebel, Welfare Queens, Quota Queens, and Nappy-headed Hos, cultural producers, politicians, and spin doctors have dismissed, hyper-sexualized, de-sexualized, objectified, and demonized black women. Yet, simultaneously, black women have defined themselves and fought bitterly to claim control of their bodies, representation, and rights as citizens of the United States. These efforts have both challenged and reinforced the dominant narratives, as for every stereotype that is dismantled, a new one seems to grow back, hydra-like in its place. Performing Black Womanhood explores the social, cultural, and political ramifications of identity formation and representation and the ways in which twentieth-century black women performed (both on and off the stage and screen) aspects of their identity and attempted, with varying levels of success, to control their images and influence political agendas. We will look closely at the lives, careers, and images of a number of African American women and read a variety of primary texts including novels, film, music, autobiography, play scripts, and poetry as well as secondary literature
BLST 31267: Coming of Age in the African Diaspora (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
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
BLST 31912: Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Pedro Henrique Da Silva Lino
Description: In this course, students will become acquainted with some of the best contemporary literature of Portuguese-speaking Africa. We will be reading authors from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique in English translations from the original Portuguese. Through these novels we will discuss the representations of cultural and national identities in Lusophone Africa in the context of political expression, gender roles and patriarchy during the time and following the wars of independence that ended centuries of Portuguese colonial rule in the region. Readings: Pepetela – Mayombe Paulina Chiziane – The First Wife: A Tale of Poligamy Germano Almeida – The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo Abdulai Sila – The Ultimate Tragedy Course requirements: Attendance and participation Quizzes on the assigned readings Midterm paper Final paper
Note: Experimental
BLST 31974: Witches, Brujas, & Voudou Queens: Exhuming The History of African-Based Religions in the Americas (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Sheriden Booker
Description: In 2016, Puerto Rican rapper and Santer¿a priestess Princess Nokia (Destiny Frasqueri) released the song ?Brujas? capturing the spirit of a generation looking to exalt and reclaim the historically maligned spiritual legacies of African and indigenous women. Drawing on anthropology of religion texts as well as historical case--ranging from Tituba, the enslaved Native American women targeted in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692; the little known ?Vodou Trials? of 1850?s New Orleans where Voudou priestesses publicly protested and fought the NOLA Police Department; the witch-hunts and yellow press in early 1900?s post-independence Cuba; to the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court Case Church of the Lukumi Babaluaye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, Florida; M¿e Stella de Oxossi?s induction into the Bahian Academy of Letters; and Beyonc¿'s Lemonade?this course will look at the ways African-based spiritual systems have been preserved, recreated, criminalized and re-legitimized within the context of enslavement, postcolonial nation building, contemporary race relations, and pop culture movements. We will explore how these processes have particularly impacted notions of feminine agency and gender roles within marginalized religious communities. Students will gain an introduction to various African-based religious systems including but not limited to Santeria (Lukumi), Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl¿, and Jamaican Obeah, and to the extent time allows, allied indigenous religions such as Curanderismo. (BLST 10200: African Heritage in the Caribbean & Brazil not required for enrollment, but is a suggested prerequisite to this course.)
Note: Experimental
EDCE 20600: Observing Children and Their Development (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person
Instructor(s):
[LEC 001] Carolee Bongiorno, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
[LEC 002] Randy Brozen, Tuesdays 4:50PM - 7:20PM
Description: This course is grounded in the notion that how children think, how their language develops, and how their families, their culture, and their environment influences and shapes them affect how they learn in school. Salient themes explored include the child as a maker of meaning, the nature of intelligence, attachment, gender identification, and the social context of development (i.e. race, culture, and class)
Note: College Option; BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000
EDCE 22200: Schl Amer Soc Blng (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid Synchronous, Mondays 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Kevin Perez
Description: Analysis of selected social, political and economic forces that influence the school, especially in urban settings. Special attention to immigrant, bilingual and language minority groups. (Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 22100 and 22200)
Note: College Option; BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000
EDCE 5300C: Theories, Policies, and Programs for Emergent Bilingual Students (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid Synchronous, Thursdays 7:30PM - 10:00PM
Instructor(s):
[LEC 34116] Kevin Perez
[LEC 34117] Kristy Dela Cruz
Description: This course explores the historical background policies, approaches, and theoretical foundations of bilingual education and other educational programs for immigrant, bilingual, and language minority students. It also considers the social, political, and economic context that surrounds the education of immigrant students in urban schools
EDCE 7410A: Social Foundations in Urban Arts Education (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid Synchronous, Mondays 4:50PM - 7:20PM
Instructor: Wendy Rojas, Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz
Description: The course will explore the history and purpose of arts education in urban contexts and how arts education has been impacted and implemented. Through critical analysis the course will explore how the dynamics of in-and out-of-school learning structures relate to larger social, cultural, economic, political and historical forces. This course will investigate the ways that social class, race, gender, community, ability, ethnicity, immigration, and sexuality intersect and impact educational experiences and the roles of arts education in that process. The course is taught by using arts integration techniques to further model using the arts as a tool to teach. This course will also explore current educational policies and their impact on arts education at the international, federal, state, and city level, and how the arts can be solution-oriented in the school reform movement in urban settings. Includes 15 hours of fieldwork. 3 hr./wk
EDUC 22100: Urban Schools in a Diverse American Society (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online Synchronous, Wednesdays 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Carol Huang
Description: The social context of schooling. An inquiry into the philosophy, history, sociology, quality, immigration, and the education of children from non-dominant cultures. Digital technology will be used as much as possible in data gathering. (Students may not receive credit for both EDUC22100 and 22200.
Note: College Option; BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000
ENGL B2126: Global Harlem (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Wednesdays 4:45PM - 6:35PM
Instructor: Boukary Sawadogo
Description: The course examines Harlem as a nexus of the encounters and exchanges between African Americans, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. The various iterations of the internationalism of Harlem are critically examined through four thematic categories: •The Harlem renaissance movement and the negritude literary movement •Solidarity movements: civil rights movement and anticolonial struggles •The making and presence of African immigrant enclaves in Harlem • Gentrification of the neighborhood
ENGL 32803: Global Publishing (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Thursdays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Edison Garcia
Description: Global Publishing offers a comprehensive exploration of international book export. Students delve into key aspects of book production and organizational dynamics, examining the evolving landscape of global publishing pre and post COVID-19. Through case studies and discussions, students learn how to initiate new publishing business ventures and foster collaborative efforts, with a focus on regions such as Asia, India, Europe, Australia, and Latin America. By course completion, students gain a nuanced understanding of global publishing principles, preparing them for careers in the dynamic field of international book export
Note: Experimental
ENGL 36401: War and Post-War in 20th Century (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Keith Gandal
Description: The unprecedented, meritocratic mobilizations for the World Wars and Vietnam effected dramatic social transformations in masculinity, the role of women, gender relations, sexual behavior, and the status of ethnic Americans and African-Americans. This course explores the representation of these mobilization-inspired transformations in modernist and postmodern literature, a brand new project in literary study
Note: Experimental; Textbook Required
ENGL 36525: New World Seminar (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring Term (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Grazyna Drabik
Description: The immigrant experience has been richly represented in American literature since the beginning of the 20th c. Numerous narratives, in fiction and non-fiction, chart the dynamics, variations, and stages of the migration experience focused around the ur-concept of the "American Dream” and the process of "assimilation/acculturation" by which immigrants "become Americans," espousing promises of a new life. These diverse narratives constitute a fundamental part of American cultural history. More recent works also challenge the literary canon, defined by national boundaries, questioning mainstream values and representation of American identity. The New World Seminar pays special attention to a complex dynamic of cosmopolitan cities; the pull of cross-continental connections; points of tension characteristic of lives that strive to bridge two worlds, the country of origins and the adopted homeland; and the cultural impact of the massive and prolonged displacement. Many prominent, internationally recognized writers highlight the pain and conflicts resulting from such displacement, but they also explore new options and possibilities contained in the richness of bi-cultural, in-between, and trans-national identities
ENGL 36909: Working Class and Labor Movement Rhetoric (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring Term (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Olivia Wood
Description: The U.S. labor movement is experiencing a surge of new growth. Workers at major companies like Amazon and Starbucks are unionizing. In 2023 alone, we saw strikes from Hollywood writers and actors, hotel workers in LA, the “Big 3” automakers, and a very near strike by UPS workers. Higher education itself is one of the labor movement hot spots, with graduate student workers, undergraduate workers, and even student athletes forming new unions. This surge presents a series of critical rhetorical situations with high and immediate stakes: how can workers convince their coworkers to unionize, or to go on strike? How can workers convince others to support their strikes, especially workers in service professions like teachers and nurses? During an organizing drive or a contract campaign, workers and employers wage rhetorical battle with one another during class struggle. An enormous amount of writing is produced. In this class, we’ll examine the different rhetorical strategies and genres that organized workers use to achieve their goals, with a focus on contemporary movements and current events, alongside key historical works of working class rhetoric and rhetorical scholarship
HIST 28200: Modern and Contemporary Latin America (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Instructor: Emmanuel Lachaud
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays
[LEC 42379] 9:30AM - 10:45PM
[LEC 42488] 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Description: Contemporary economic, social and political problems of Latin America and the Caribbean studied in historical perspective. Themes include foreign economic and political intervention; labor systems and patterns of land ownership; class, ethnic, and racial relations; the politics of reform, revolution and authoritarianism
Note: College Option
HIST 31149: The Ottoman Empire (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Lale Can
Description: This course is a survey of the Ottoman Empire from its roots as a Turkic principality in medieval Anatolia to its role as a world power in the 15th through early 20th centuries. Topics will include political adaptation and innovation; inter-communal relations; the history of law, gender, and center periphery relations; Ottoman relations with Europe; and the Ottoman legacy in the Modern Middle East and Balkans
Note: Experimental
HIST 31208: The United States Since Watergate (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Instructor: John Gillooly
Description: This course will examine the main trends of the last three decades of the 20th century and their interconnections. Among these are: The Watergate crisis and increasing cynicism about government and politics; economic decline and stagflation in the seventies; the rise of the new conservativism and the transformation of the Republican and Democratic Parties, the course of the Cold War and its ending; the return to free-market capitalism at home (Reagan Revolution) and abroad (globalization), accompanied by the upsurge in immigration; growing economic inequality and rates of imprisonment; the aftermath of the sexual revolution and the restructuring of gender and family relations; the rise of multiculturalism,and the ensuing culture wars
Note: Experimental
HIST 31238: Performing Black Womanhood in the United States (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Laurie Woodard
Description: Performing Black Womanhood explores the social, cultural, and political ramifications of identity formation and representation and the ways in which twentieth-century black American women performed (both on and off the stage and screen) aspects of their identity and attempted, with varying levels of success, to control their images and influence sociopolitical agendas. We will look closely at the lives, careers, and images of a number of African American women and read a variety of primary texts including novels, film, music, autobiography, play scripts, and poetry as well as secondary literature
HIST 31384: Afr-Amer Women’s Hist (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online Mix, Saturdays 1:00PM - 2:40PM
Instructor: Nayanda Moore
Description: Afr-Amer Womens Hist
Note: Experimental
Students who want permissions for this course can request them here: https://form.jotform.com/222995305110955 The course is offered under the auspices of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe
HIST 31694: Japanese Empire (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Seiji Shirane
Description: This course will examine Japan's modern history by considering historical work that reexamines the period of the Japanese empire, 1895-1945. Topics will include the dynamics of colonial culture, issues of gender and marginality, and emerging debates on wartime responsibility and memory
Note: Experimental; ZERO Textbook Cost
IAS A6260: Magical Realism in the Americas (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online Synchronous, Wednesdays 6:20PM - 8:00PM
Instructor: Jerry Carlson
Description: Used to describe everything from the hit tv series Six Feet Under to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Prize masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, the phrase Magical Realism appears frequently in reviews and criticism. It has become common media parlance. But what does it really mean? Where is the magic? Where is the realism? As a storytelling form, how does it function? And for whom? Our course will explore how Magical Realism emerges from different communities in the Americas at different times and places. We will visit novels and films from the Caribbean, Latin America, Native America, and the African American South. Authors may include Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jesmyn Ward, among others. Films may include Guantanamera(Cuba), Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico), and Daughters of the Dust (USA), among others. A key question will guide the course. How does Magical Realism offer alternative ways of knowing the world as it is?
Note: Textbook Required
IAS A6270: Slavery, Gender, and Colonial Legacies in the Caribbean (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Synchronous), Tuesdays 5:30PM - 7:10PM
Instructor: Sophie Marinez
Description: This course examines the legacies of colonialism across the Caribbean, from the unspeakable violence that began with the genocide of the autochthonous communities and the enslavement of populations forcibly imported from Africa to the various modes of ideological justifications and their spiraling effects across the region over time. A focus on gender will explore questions of miscegenation, women’s refusal of forced reproduction, and various modes of rebellion that culminated with the Haitian Revolution—an event that, like a domino effect, dismantled an entire system across the Americas and intervened in renewed debates on human rights. We will also see how colonialism is not a thing of the past—it persists to this day through legislation, state-sponsored violence, extractive economies, environmental depredation, and anti-Black narratives. Classic and recent scholarship in history, social theory, cultural studies, environmental studies, and literary works will animate our class discussions and writing assignments over the semester
INTL 20600: Global Social Theory (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Instructor: Dora Suarez
Term/Time:
[LEC 33696] Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
[LEC 33695] Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Synchronous), Tuedays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Description: This course introduces students to key questions and concepts in the social sciences. Over the semester, students engage with the wide variety of texts—by authors from around the world—that together comprise global social theory. The focus is on learning how to read these texts carefully with an eye toward using them to analyze the contemporary world. In particular, the class asks students to explore the following questions: What does it mean to understand humans as thoroughly social, cultural, and historical creatures? How do humans create, maintain, and transform their social worlds? How are forms of social difference (e.g. race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender, sexuality, etc.) produced and how do they shape our experiences? In what sense is the contemporary world shaped by particular pasts? What historical transformations lie on the horizon? 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr.
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
INTL 31116: Gender & Work (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Chang Liu
Description: Gender & Work
Note: Experimental; Zero Textbook Cost
IR B3122: International Development (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays 7:15PM - 9:15PM
Instructor: Emily Coppel
Description: Examines ?magic bullets? of poverty alleviation in global development including microfinance, cash transfer, and poverty ?graduation programs and schemes. Students will analyze interventions for their effectiveness, contextual relevance, and gender sensitivity. Geographic focus is South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
LALS 10200: Latin American and Caribbean Civilizations (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Pedro Ortega
Description: A survey of Latin America's economic, social, political, and cultural development from the Pre-Columbian era to the present. The course will focus on selected topics and themes including: colonization and resistance to colonization; the formation of social structures and labor systems; patterns of dependent development; reform, revolution, and counter-revolution
LALS 10204: Latin America-Carib Civ (4 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid Asynchronous, Wednesdays 6:20PM - 8:00PM
Instructor: Carlos Aguasaco
Description: Latin Amer-Carib Civ
Note: Experimental; College Option
Students who want permissions for this course can request them here: https://form.jotform.com/222995305110955 The course is offered under the auspices of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe
LALS 29300: Education, Technology, and the Future Pedagogy of Latino/a/x Students (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Synchronous), Mondays and Wednesdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Lovell Quiroz
Description: This course explores three main questions involved in the education of Latino/a/x and other nonwhite youths in the US; namely, (1) how do immigration and technological innovation affect the education of students within majority-minority schools in the U.S.? 2) How does the emergence of new technological innovations affect the development of pedagogical practices for teachers and administrators within these schools? and 3) what is the role of technology in both the creation of new forms of educational pedagogies, future careers and opportunities as well as new forms of less overt inequality, exclusion and racialization in schools concentrating Latino/a/x youth and historically racialized students? The course will draw on interdisciplinary theories within Latino/a/x Studies, De-colonization theories; Critical Pedagogies, Racialization, Intercultural education, Immigration, Inequality and Social Mobility, to examine the role of education and technology in the emergence of new forms of pedagogies, inequality as well as opportunities for social mobility among historically excluded school youths
Note: Experimental
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and political boundaries (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience
Note: Experimental
LALS 31107: Latinas and U.S Immigration (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Description: Latinas and U.S Immigration
Note: Experimental
LALS 31132: Blancas, Negras & Morenas: Gender and Race in Another America ( 3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Description: Blancas, Negras & Morenas: Gender and Race in Another America
Note: Experimental
LALS 31136: Migration, Gender and Health in Latinx Communities (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online Mix, Tuesdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Iris Lopez
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
Note: Experimental
LALS 31169: Migration and Law (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Thursday 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Ramon Guerra
Description: "This course offers an introduction to the field of international migration and US law. Specifically, this course will examine the relationship between the various and historical migration patterns and the laws that govern such migration in the US. This course will also discuss how politics, economics and globalization has shaped current migration trends and the US immigration legal system."
Note: Experimental
LALS 31304/SOC 32604: Power, Resistance, and Popular Protest: Social Movements in Latin American (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: This course explores several key social movements that during the last decades have shocked the political, economic, and social foundations of countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Using social movements theories, this course delves into the roots, development, and implications of popular mobilization to resist neoliberalism and global capitalism
Note: Experimental
LALS 31315: Brown Lives Matters: Racialization, Police Violence and the US Latino/a/x Community (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: This course examines three main social processes: (1) how national and local organizations -such as the immigration apparatus, law enforcement agencies, the criminal justice system, and the Media have historically criminalized Latinx communities; (2) how processes of racialization have been used to manufacture and target specific social groups and identities to justify the killing, detention, search, surveillance, and sterilization of black and brown bodies; and (3) the ways in which Latino/a//x communities have organized to contest these forms of oppressions, ideologies and practices. To examine these historical dynamics, this course review theories of policing, power, oppression and resistance case studies, and peer review articles
Note: Experimental
MUS 20100: Hip Hop Music (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Matthew Carter
Description: The history of hip hop from the 1970s to the current moment. Four primary areas of focus: the music, its business and promotion, technology, and the cultural/political impact of hip hop on representations of Blackness and constructions of gender, race, and authenticity
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost; BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000 REQUIRED
PHIL 31127: Africana Philosophy and Philosophy of Race (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Sean Apparicio
Description: Africana Philosophy is a relatively new area of philosophical research that seeks to examine and explore the problems faced by the people of the African diaspora, meaning those who have ancestors from the African continent. (Primarily from Africa, the Caribbean, and both North and South America.) In this course we will be considering the different ways Africana Philosophers sought to address various philosophical problems such as those arising from their struggle against racism, colonization, and the legacy of slavery. We will also pay particular attention to how they conceived of their racialized identity and what impact it may have had on their work. But first we’ll begin by briefly exploring what philosophers refer to as the metaphysics of race. In this section, we’ll try to get a sense of what we mean by race or races. Are races groups of people that share similar physical traits? Or does one’s ancestry determine one's race? Or are races merely something created by human social or cultural practices—and if so, how? As we know, racial classification is significant, because it can confer negative social and political values onto individuals by using their ‘race’ as a means of regulating their socio-political life and as a rationale for their dehumanization. This will then help us get a better understanding of the issues raised by a people whose humanity has been challenged and called into question
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
PSC 20800: American Political Thought (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Avery Williams
Description: The origins and development of American political thought from the Puritan times to the present. The course will include study of basic themes in American thought: the scope and bounds of legitimate government power, majority rule and minority rights, federalism and centralization, participatory democracy, checks and balances, religious freedom and separation of church and state. The course will include study of major political issues emergent since Reconstruction: race and gender issues, immigration, urbanization, multiculturalism, business-government relations, management of the American economy, and America's relationship to the world. Also counts as a political theory and philosophy course
Note: College Option
PSC 22900: Women and Politics (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Karen Struening
Description: This course explores the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary feminism and analyzes the changing dimensions of women's participation in American politics. Electoral, interest group, and elite level political involvement will be discussed and comparisons made with women's political role in other nations. (W)
Notes: College Option
PSC 31671: Law, Policy, and Social Change (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid (synchronous), Mondays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Instructor: Kevin Jennings
Description: This course examines how policy and law can create social change with a focus on lessons from the modern LGBTQ+ movement in the United States. We look at how movement leaders and organizers have deployed different strategies over time in its quest for equality and justice. The course will examine differences and similarities between early efforts in the 50's and 60's to combat the pervasive discrimination against LGBTQ+ people; the community's response to the AIDS epidemic in the 80's and 90's; efforts to win marriage equality; and the current battles around trans rights.
Note: Course materials will include both print and film resources and the instruction will be seminar-style.
PSC 38000: Fem Political Thought (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Mira Morgenstern
Description: How do the presence and awareness of women change political thought and the practice of politics? This course analyzes the connection between politics and everyday life – particularly as it concerns women’s participation -- and asks whether and how this interaction can increase the practice of democracy. As we read works from Plato to Harriet Taylor Mill to modern thinkers who explore the nitty-gritty of women’s activities, we focus on the implication of feminist political thought for the theory and practice of democratic politics
PSY 24900: Psychology of Personality (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22)
Instructor(s):
[LEC 32759] Kaitlyn Schlick, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
[LEC 32760] Tatia Chxeidze, Online Synchronous, Sundays 12:30PM - 3:00PM
[LEC 34452] Richard Clark, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM
[LEC 36469] Daniel Osterhout, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30AM - 10:45PM
Description: This course explores the determinants of personality from a variety of perspectives, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic, while also exploring how personality is influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, and culture. Students come to appreciate different perspectives regarding how and why people differ from one another
Note: College Option; PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10200 OR 10299
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
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 31191: Decolonizing Mental Health (3 credits)
PSY B9904: Decolonizing Mental Health (3 credits - Undergraduate and Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Wednesdays 3:30PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Lewis Zuchman
Description: Decolonization is the process of deconstructing colonial ideologies of the superiority and privilege of Western (White Patriarchal) thought and approaches. While decolonization is generally considered in reference to geo-political systemic structures, its applicability to mental health service delivery is of critical import to psychology. Colonization perpetuates the status quo, maintaining power dominance of a White, Patriarchal, Racist, Homophobic hierarchy. Western mental health and social service methodologies serve to perpetuate colonization, justifying the dominance of a White, Patriarchal systemic structure. This course will serve to examine the systemic implication of a mental health service delivery that ‘blames the victim’, and perpetuates an oppressive systemic culture that deleteriously impacts the lives of women, immigrants, folk of color, LGBTQ folk, etc. Western mental health focuses on pathology, branding traumatized and oppressed folk as ‘ill’, mentally unbalanced, paranoid, ‘out of control’, etc. Decolonizing mental health service delivery enables the psychology student to focus on a Strength Based approach, that emphasizes ‘positives’, and employs a non-directive, empowering therapeutic stance. The psychologist/therapist is neither god, nor more powerful all-knowing. Rather, a decolonizing mental health approach emphasizes the partnership of therapist and patient. The therapist listens, shares, participates in full partnership with his/her patient. Illuminating this course will be the writings and clinical practice of Frantz Fanon, an Afro-French psychiatrist and 1960’s spokesperson of the successful Algerian Revolution against French colonial oppression. Finally, the empowerment process inherent in therapeutic healing, is embedded within an understanding of context and trauma. Oppressed folk reflect rage, resistance, as well as internalization of said oppression, resulting in self-destructive behavior. Enabling such folk to see, feel, and comprehend their oppression is a critical first step in healing.
PSY 31909: Psychology of Murder (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Synchronous), Saturdays 9:30PM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Kutay Agardici
Description: This course explores the factors contributing to one becoming a murderer. There will be discussions on a wide array of violent crimes including serial killings. These individuals will be examined from various perspectives including cognitive, behavioral, and psychodynamic, while also exploring the influences of child development, gender and age differences, social media, and human nature
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
PSY 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Rhyan Toledo
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
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost; PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700, OR 24900
PSY B9846: Psychology of Sexuality & Gender (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 2 - January 23) , Online Synchronous, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 12:00PM - 3:20PM
Instructor: Elvine Belinda Andjembe Etogho
Description: This course will introduce theories, concepts and epistemologies regarding the psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review and evaluate some of the most relevant research on gender diversity (its history, appeal, benefits and limitations) and sexual diversity (its history, criminalization, pathologization, de-pathologization and current insights)
Note: Textbook Required
PSY V5800: The Health of LGBT Individuals (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Thursdays 9:30AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Margaret Rosario
Description: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are a neglected segment of the population whose health has only recently been investigated systematically, and who may be at greater risk for poor mental and physical health. We will examine theories and consider sociodemographic characteristics to help students develop a solid grasp of the biopsychosocial exigencies and health of LGB individuals.
PSY V6560: Multicultural Issues In Counseling (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Thursdays 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: N/A
Description: An introduction to the role of political and socio-cultural factors such as ethnicity, race, social class, religion, gender, and age in the delivery of culturally relevant and psychologically appropriate mental health services. Students develop the appropriate skills relevant to working with diverse communities in the United States
Note: Mental Health Counseling Students ONLY
PSY V6591: Lifestyle And Career Development (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Tuesdays, 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Waleed Sami
Description: Lifestyle and Career Development examines the major theories of career development. The course examines the effect of depression, anxiety and substance abuse in a work environment. The effects of ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, gender, and sexual orientation on career development are also examined
Note: Mental Health Counseling Students ONLY
PSY 8440J: Diversity issues in clinical psychology (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Thursdays 9:45AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Deidre Anglin
Description: Catalog Description This doctoral-level graduate course is designed to enhance the level at which clinical psychologists in training consider and discuss pertinent topics affecting the mental health of ethnic minority populations. Course material will focus largely on populations of African, Latino, and Asian descent, highlighting the variability that lies within these groups
Note: Low Textbook Cost
This class will meet in NAC 8/132
SCI 31105: Identity and Representation in Games (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid (Synchronous), Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Nicholas Fortugno
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 games culture they consume
Note: Experimental
SOC 31184: Health Equity: Biological and Social Determinants of Health (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Tuesdays and Thursday 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Larry Au; Bao Voung
Description: How do social structures and inequalities affect biological processes and human health? This course draws on perspectives in biology and sociology to examine how racism, genderism, economic inequality, the built environment, pollution, climate change, and other human activity affect stress, addiction, immune responses to infectious diseases and cancer, obesity, aging, genetics, and epigenetics. Students will also learn how government policies, industrial activity, or community activism can affect access to healthcare. Students will contribute to improved health equity by designing interventions that address biological and social determinants of adverse health
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
This course is cross-listed with Bio 311-41 Health Equity: Biology & Society / Health equity: Biological and Social Determinants of Health with Prof. Bao Vuong.
SOC 31198: Love & Relationships (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Justin Beauchamp
Description: How do social norms and cultural expectations about gender, sexuality, family, and marriage shape how we think about love and relationships in contemporary societies? This course simultaneously deconstructs and reconstructs our understanding of love and relationships—from romantic, to platonic, to familial, to sexual, and other intimate connections—using a sociological lens. We explore themes ranging from what love is and what love should be, to how normative and non-normative relationship structures (e.g. monoamory, polyamory, relationship anarchy, etc.) have changed, to what kinds of relationships (e.g. romantic partnership, friendship, situationships, marriage, chosen family, etc.) institutions recognize and support.
Note: Zero Textbook Cost
SOC 34100: Disability Studies (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Jack Levinson
Description: Surveys this transformative interdisciplinary field, informed by critical approaches to race, gender and sexuality, which offers an approach to disability as a social, political, and cultural category and a personal identity and lived experience. Readings include current and historical material, theoretical and empirical, from the social sciences, humanities, and arts
SOC 34200: Globalization (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: James Biles
Description: Examines the structures, processes and interactions that make up contemporary globalization in the economy, politics, culture, media, social movements, civil society, migration, and the environment. It considers debates about the historical emergence of globalization and its causes and consequences in everyday life and emphasizes the importance of understanding race, class, gender and other categories of oppression and how they are deployed through power relations in the global order
Note: May be cross-listed with INTL 31123 Globalization
SOC 38209: Sociology of Sexualities (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Justin Beauchamp
Description: Research on and about human sexuality is incredibly broad and diverse, and spans many different fields of study. While we will focus on sexuality using a sociological lens, we will draw from some of these other fields—as well as non-academic resources—to dissect sexuality as a social phenomenon. Drawing upon sociological, feminist, queer, and disability theories, this course examines the conceptualization, reproduction, and stratification of sexualities in different historical and cultural contexts. We will explore how interactions among ideological, racial, religious interests have created normative systems of sexual classification that justify not only disciplinary systems of punishments and rewards, but also unequally distributed power among those who conform, innovate, or deviate from norms. We will unpack how sexuality shows up in many social institutions and spheres of social life, from media, to education, to religion, to culture, to the legal system, to family and relationships, and more.
Note: Zero Textbook Cost
SPAN 34100: Hispanic Civilizations I (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), HyFlex, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: N/A
Description: An overview of Spanish and Latin American culture and history from its origins to the beginning of the 19th century. With a transatlantic approach, the class will examine critical and cultural aspects that define Spain and Latin America. Typically, a midterm and a final examination as well as a paper will be required
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost; PRE: SPAN 22600 OR PRE: SPAN 19400, OR PLACEMENT EXAMINATION
SPAN 45400: Latino Culture and Literature in the U.S. (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), HyFlex, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Carlos Riobo
Description: An exploration of the Latino cultural legacy and its contemporary influence in the United States. The study of the development of Latino communities, history and patterns on immigration, and similarities and differences among these communities. This course will also focus on sociological, economic, political and anthropological factors such as transculturation, assimilation, linguistic similarities, problems of identity and discrimination. It will also examine various psychological factors of the Latino cultures throughout the U.S. through the different ways of expression such as art and literature, taking into account the elements that distinguish these from those of their countries of origin and North America. The course will normally be conducted in Spanish. Readings my be in Spanish and English
Note: College Option; Textbooks Required; PRE - SPAN 32200
SUS 7305S: Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), Hybrid Synchronous, Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Gabriel Foreman
Description: Social entrepreneurship – the practice of addressing social needs utilizing business principals – is an exciting and dynamic field. The Social Entrepreneurship course will introduce you to the strategies and skills needed to launch an enterprise aligned with your personal and professional interests. In the course, each two-student team will design and pitch a business model that addresses challenges in areas that can include education, environment, health, LGBTQ+, social justice, and more. Course readings and assignments will provide a framework to the team’s startup concept development in preparation for the final pitch video competition. Major themes of the course include startup “bootstrapping”, i.e., the practice of launching a startup with minimal investment; systems thinking; and pitching your ideas. No experience required. Sustainability students will be expected to complete additional graduate-level work
Note: Low Textbook Cost
THTR 21300: Theatre History III (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: N/A
Description: The study of plays and production styles prevalent throughout the Twentieth Century in Europe and America. This course will consider a selection of important plays and such important movements as: Symbolism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, Theatre of the Absurd, Theatre of Images, the rise of the Broadway musical, the Off-Off Broadway theatre movement, the rise of Afro-American and Latino schools of writing and production, New German Realism, Post-Modernism, etc
Note: College Option
THTR 21700: Queer Theatre (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: N/A
Description: Queer Theatre
WS 10000: Women’s Gender Roles in Contemporary Society (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor(s):
[LEC 33709] Jasmina Sinanovic, Tuesdays and Thursdays
[LEC 33713] Arielle Cribb, Mondays and Wednesdays
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? (W)
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
WS 24563: Women’s Lives in Global Crisis (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
Description: This course will examine the roles women are expected to embody during times of societal stress and conflict versus the actual roles they inhabit. This exploration will be enhanced by the course?s multimedia approach which allows us to see the shared commonalities and threads of resistance and affirmation that occur across political, cultural, and global spheres. Poetry, plays, novels, and memoir will be used alongside peer reviewed articles, historical accounts, and both documentary and narrative film. Global Crisis is defined, for this course, as violence - both traditional state waged war and communal conflict, migration - forced and ?voluntary?, environmental crisis, genocide, human rights violations, and political repression/upheaval/etc. Women often simultaneously embody roles of resistance to and in support of societal needs, forging new identities along the way. The study of what appears to be a contradiction leads to a more nuanced understanding of the intersection of power and the lived realities of women. This exploration affords an opportunity to expand ideas around what it means to be a woman living in times of crisis. Importantly, it demands we address what the larger societal implications and benefits are when we consider women?s voices in working to address and remedy crisis and conflict
Note: Experimental; ZERO Textbook Cost
WS 31117: Performing Queerness (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanovic
Description: Performing Queerness course will examine how we develop and question different meanings around queer bodies through performance practices in everyday life and on stage. We will analyze how queer identities are regulated, reinforced, recreated, and subverted through embodied modes of performance. Some of the questions we will discuss are: What is queer performance? Is queer performance a matter of identity or aesthetics? Spatial and temporal influences on our understanding of queer performance? Does queer necessarily mean radical? What are some examples of international queer performance? Does queer performance change based on a culture or is there a shared sense of what it is? What is the connection between queerness and globalization? In countries with high levels of homophobia queerness is often seen as a Western import – how much are artists contributing to cultural colonialism? Does audience affect our understanding of the performance? What is the relationship between class and performance? What is the connection between the gender identity in performance and queerness? We will look at a brief history of LGBTQ performance and its current connection to mass media. We will look at a variety of performances – in mass media, through social networks as well as live performances – theater, drag, burlesque, poetry and more.
Note: Experimental; ZERO Textbook Cost
WS 31164: Being Queer, Being Trans (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In-Person, Mondays 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Michael Elster
Description: Both trans and queer are expansive terms that carry connotations beyond just gender or sexual identity. This course examines some of the various ways being trans or being queer have been rendered historically and socially, from the records of medical institutions and colonial accounts of non-European gender and sexuality, to historical and contemporary accounts produced by trans people themselves. This course covers a range of queer and trans perspectives to uncover what they can tell us about the organization of sex, gender, race, class, and other forms of social difference
WS 31167: Coming of Age in the African Diaspora (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring (January 25 - May 22), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
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
Note: Experimental; Low Textbook Cost
Winter 2025
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time(s): Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online Mix, Wednesdays and Fridays 9:00AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Luis Quesada Nieto
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
Note: Low Textbook Cost
ANTH 32400: Violation of Human Rights (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
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
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost; College Option
INTL 33200: Transnational Feminisms (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Description: This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary fields of gender, feminist, and women’s studies and, more specifically, to transnational feminisms. The course will engage with an array of feminist themes and issues such as: the body, reproductive justice, and the role of race and gender in capitalist societies. We will also study the ways that feminisms have been created and sustained in spite of constructed borders of nation, sexuality, and citizenship
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The Crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and Political Identities (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience.
Note: Experimental
PSY B9846: Psychology of Sexuality and Gender (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Synchronous), Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 12:00PM - 3:20PM
Instructor: Elvine Belinda Andjembe Etogho
Description: This course will introduce theories, concepts and epistemologies regarding the psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review and evaluate some of the most relevant research on gender diversity (its history, appeal, benefits and limitations) and sexual diversity (its history, criminalization, pathologization, de-pathologization and current insights)
PSY 24900: Psychology of Personality (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Asynchronous)
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
Description: This course explores the determinants of personality from a variety of perspectives, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic, while also exploring how personality is influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, and culture. Students come to appreciate different perspectives regarding how and why people differ from one another
Note: College Option, PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10200 OR 10299
PSY 31909: Psychology of Murder (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Synchronous), Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 5:00PM - 8:20PM
Instructor: Kutay Agardici
Description: This course explores the factors contributing to one becoming a murderer. There will be discussions on a wide array of violent crimes including serial killings. These individuals will be examined from various perspectives including cognitive, behavioral, and psychodynamic, while also exploring the influences of child development, gender and age differences, social media, and human nature
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
PSY 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Synchronous) Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 12PM - 3:20PM
Instructor: Elvine Belinda Andjembe Etogho
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
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost, PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700, OR 24900
SOC 31189: Abolitionist Sociology: Restoring Care and Connection in Oppressive Sys through Liberatory Framewks (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Synchronous), Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 1:30PM - 5:08PM
Instructor: Siobhan Pokorney
Description: In the US, contemporary institutions, such as schools, prisons, and healthcare organizations, underserved and even harm their constituents. How could these systems be re-imagined through Black Feminist Abolitionist movements so that they serve stakeholders? This course centers the voices of those ensnared in carceral systems and explores key conceptual frameworks, practices, and genealogies of abolition, especially in relation to Black and queer feminisms. This course delves into the relationship between dismantling prisons and other carceral systems, including, but not limited to, family regulation, immigration, capitalism, schools, psychiatry, and gender and family norms. In critiquing Social Work practice within progressive change movements and exploring Abolitionist Social Work, the course creates space for freedom dreaming and radical reimagining of our communities without oppressive and harmful systems
Note: Experimental
The Jan. 2-23, 2024 course schedule for this winter class is as follows: Tues., Wed., Thur., and Fri. 1:30pm-5:08pm online synchronous. Please inquire with the instructor
Siobhan Pokorney ( spokorney@gradcenter.cuny.edu ) if you have any questions.
WS 31141: SPEAK UP! Addressing Gender-Based Harm (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter (January 2 - January 23), Online (Asynchronous), No Scheduled Times
Instructor: Sharon White-Harrigan
Description: This course provides an in-depth exploration of gender-based harm and its multifaceted impacts on individuals, communities, and society at large. Through a combination of scholarly research, documentary films, narrative cinema, and interactive discussions, students will examine various forms of gender-based violence—including domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and online harassment—while considering the social, cultural, and economic factors that contribute to these issues
Fall 2024
ANTH 20100: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person/Online Asynchronous/Online Mix
Instructor(s):
[19186-LEC] James Tolleson, In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9:30AM - 10:45AM
[19187-LEC] Adam Mikhail, In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays, 9:30AM - 10:45AM
[20855-LEC] Staff, In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays, 12:30PM - 1:45PM
[20859-LEC] Gregory Morton, In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
[20860-LEC] Staff, In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
[20874-LEC] Joan Lopez, Online Asynchronous
[32374-LEC] James Tolleson, In Person, Fridays, 11:00AM - 1:30PM
[32375-LEC] Joan Lopez, Online Mix
ANTH 20200: Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person/Online Asynchronous
Instructor(s):
[19220-LEC] Miriam Urízar, In Person Mondays, Wednesdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
[20875-LEC] Luis Quesada Nieto, Online Asynchronous
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 21009: Black Women’s Resistance: Narratives of Safety and Survival (3 credits - Undergraduate)
BLST 21009: Black Women’s Resistance: Narratives of Safety and Survival (3 credits - Undergraduate)
WS 21009: Black Women’s Resistance: Narratives of Safety and Survival (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Shanelle Matthews
Description: In the 20th and 21st centuries, the safety and survival of Black women have become central to rethinking public safety. The #SayHerName campaign exemplifies this shift, offering a platform for voices often marginalized by mainstream media. This course examines how Black women in the US, impacted by the intersection of patriarchal misogyny and anti-Black racism, face both hypervisibility and invisibility. Their experiences with public safety are often ignored, complicating discussions about state-sanctioned violence and their protection. We will explore how narratives around gender and race shape public safety perceptions and policies. Through videos, readings, podcasts, guest speakers, and discussions, this course investigates the role of narrative power and rhetoric in shaping the experiences and advocacy for the safety and freedom of Black women and girls. We'll analyze how these narratives impact their rights and the broader fight for their well-being and self-determination
ANTH 23600; Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality (3 credits - Undergraduate)
WS 24659: Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
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 reaction with race, class, and ethnicity
ANTH 29607: Undocumented, Unafraid, Unashamed: The Power of the Immigrant Youth Movement
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Hybrid Asynchronous, Wednesdays, 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Cristina Jimenez Moreta
Description: This class will explore how undocumented young people organized themselves, built a movement, disrupted immigration politics, and won policy change that changed the lives of thousands of people. The class is designed to look at the origins of the movement, the political conditions that shaped it, and the social justice movement lineages that inspired its leaders. With immigrant and refugee communities facing greater attacks and scapegoating this class will also explore the movement?s present strategies and its future
ANTH 31140: Birthing Justice
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Hybrid Asynchronous, Wednesdays, 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Description: This course explores how Birthing Justice is both an analytic framework and a social movement within the US. By focusing on the intersectional nature of oppression, students will learn how and why racial disparities in maternal health persist in the US. Lastly, and most importantly, the lives and voices of women of color who both advocate for Birthing Justice and who also experience Birth Injustice will be central to the course
ANTH 31403: Women and Violation of Human Rights
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Hybrid Asynchronous, Mondays, 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Burcu Ozdemir Demir
Description: TBA
ARCH 51510: Topics in the History of Architecture and Society (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Wednesdays, 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Instructor: Cassie Shepard
Description: Various elective topics covering all times periods and geographic regions to fulfill required credits and concentration needs
Note: B. Arch Students only
BIO 37800: Science of Sex and Gender (3 credits - Undergraduate)
SOC 37800: Science of Sex and Gender
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Christine Li; Maritsa Poros
Description: the course will explore the interactions among genes on the Y chromosome with genes on other chromosomes as determinants of biological sex. Sociologically, the course will investigate the social construction of gender and how gendered identities shape everyday life, including at the intersection of sex and gender (e.g., intersex and trans expressions of sex and gender)
BIO 46000: Animal Behavior (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 11:00AM - 12:45PM
Instructor: Osceola Whitney
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
Note: Requirements: PRE - BIO 10200 (MIN C)
BLST 31176: Cuban & Afro-Caribbean Cultures: Gender, Power, and Race (3 credits - Undergraduate)
LALS 31176: Cuban & Afro-Caribbean Cultures: Gender, Power, and Race
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Online Synchronous, Mondays, Wednesdays, 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Dorothy Bell
Description: With a focus on the intersection of gender, power, and race as essential dimensions of cultural and societal experience, this interdisciplinary course explores the cultural, historical, and social aspects of Cuba and other Afro-Caribbean societies. The course begins with the historical roots of Cuban and Afro-Caribbean cultures, exploring the impact of colonialism, slavery, racial discrimination, and independence on the region and how cultural traditions have been used to resist and challenge these forces. Topics include the impact of revolutionary movements, the role of the state in shaping artistic expression, the influence of political ideologies on the cultural landscape of these spaces, and how broader historical and political events have influenced these cultural experiences. Students will engage with various sources, including historical documents, social science studies, literature, music, film, and visual art. Designed for students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to studying culture, history, and society, as well as students interested in Latin America and the Caribbean, gender and women’s studies, African diaspora studies, and cultural anthropology, the course will challenge students to think critically about how gender, power, and race intersect in shaping cultural experiences and to develop their analytical and interpretive skills
BLST 31972: AFRICANS IN HARLEM (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Boukary Sawadogo
Description: Africans are not the face of immigration debates in the United States as has traditionally been the case of other migrant and diasporic groups. Yet, Sub-Saharan African émigrés are growing in many places, doubling their number every ten years since the 1980s to reach two million in 2019. Nowhere is this more vibrant than in the historically Black neighborhood of Harlem in New York City. The first major wave of West African immigrants—Senegalese, Malians, and Guineans—moved to Harlem in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Prior, Ethiopian refugees, African students and diplomats in the 1960s and 1970s had already made Harlem their home. The course examines stories and experiences of African-born migrants and their varied and dynamic influences on Harlem. Also, Africa and Black Americans have historically fostered exchanges in and around Harlem as evidenced by connections made during the Harlem Renaissance and solidarity movements. The course uses different materials and resources, including literary texts, films about and/or set in Harlem, and visits to communities, historical sites, and cultural institutions
ENGL 27000: Literatures of Diversity (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Keyon Willis
Description: This course introduces majors to the themes and discussion of issues surrounding writings from non-canonical or underrepresented groups
Note: Requirements: BOTH PARTS OF ANY FIQWS OR ENGLISH 11000
ENGL 36504: Contemporary Women Writers (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Kathleen Mcdonald
Description: Thiscourse will present opportunities to analyze and interpret a diverse set of recent novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by women writers that contribute to our sense of the material realities of women's lives within the context of the personal and the political, the domestic and the global. We will consider the ways in which these writers portray issues such as intimacy, sexuality, home, place, empowerment, and self-invention, as well as how they chronicle migration, illness, care, loss, violence, division, connection, and success. By reading a diverse spectrum of writers, we'll enlarge our sense of what is possible and what is significant in women's writing today
Note: Students who want permissions for this course can request them here: https://form.jotform.com/222995305110955 The course is offered under the auspices of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe
HIST B8015: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Atlantic Africa (3 credits- Graduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, 4:50PM - 6:50PM
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman
Description: Along with the growing recognition of Africans? dynamic roles in shaping the Atlantic world has come attention to the many complex ways that these encounters have shaped African societies. Featuring new, innovative scholarship, this course delves into the entangled histories of ideas of gender, sexualities, and power as they developed in Atlantic Africa between the 15th-20th centuries. Ideal for any students interested in Atlantic world, African, or comparative histories, our case studies reveal that often these themes were central to both individuals and to societies? strategies of politics, economics, colonialism, resistance, and spirituality
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
HNSC. 4153: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21) In Person/Online Asynchronous (Brooklyn College)
Instructor: Nic Rios
Description: 3 hours; 3 creditsDevelop an understanding of historical and contemporary health issues facing sexual minorities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer). Topics include factors that contribute to negative health outcomes in LGBT populations related to mental health, HIV/STIs, substance use, smoking, certain types of cancer, and victimization. HNSC 4153 and WGST 3608 are the same course.Prerequisites for HNSC 4153: HNSC 1100; and a prerequisite or co-requisite of HNSC 2181Prerequisites for WGST 3608: HNSC 2181
Note: SAME AS WGST 3608
INTL 20600: Global Social Theory (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21) In Person/Online Asynchronous
Instructor(s):
[21487-LEC] Dora Suarez, In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
[21489-LEC] Dora Suarez, Online Asynchronous
Description: This course is designed to introduce International Studies majors to key questions and concepts in the social sciences. Over the semester, students engage with the wide variety of texts?by authors from around the world?that together comprise global social theory. The focus is on learning how to read these texts carefully with an eye toward using them to analyze the contemporary world. In particular, the class asks students to explore the following questions: What does it mean to understand humans as thoroughly social, cultural, and historical creatures? How do humans create, maintain, and transform their social worlds? How are forms of social difference (e.g. race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender, sexuality, etc.) produced and how do they shape our experiences? In what sense is the contemporary world shaped by particular pasts? What historical transformations lie on the horizon?
INTL 21016: Geographies of Violence (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor(s):
Omnia Ibrahim Khalil
Description: In this class, we will study ways of thinking about the meanings of violence, when it is legitimate and when it is not, and what differentiates it from resistance. Through the geographies of the world, we will study how violence has been shaped by the history of nation-state formation and the roles it plays in politics as well as in economic and social life. Students will also examine case studies on gender-based violence, and violence in religious and racial formations.
INTL 31140: Human Mobility and Social Change (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Maritsa Poros
Description: This course explores the causes, patterns and impacts of human migration and social change, including forced migration, displacement and the experiences of refugees. Themes will include: theories of migration; globalization, development and migration; securitization of immigration; human smuggling and trafficking; racism and exclusion; transnationalism and diasporas; conflict, the environment and forced migration; and austerity and mass expulsion. The class will offer a global perspective as well as focusing on American immigration
LALS 13100: The Hispanic Urban Child (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Online Mix, Mondays, 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Instructor: Lucia Brea
Description: A survey of the sociological, psychological and educational needs of Hispanic children in the New York City public schools. Emphasis will be given to the study of language problems, family structure, race relations and community life.
LALS 31112: Daughters of Immigrants: Inequality & Social Mobility (3 credits - Undergraduate)
WS 31112: Daughters of Immigrants: Inequality & Social Mobility (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Description: Key themes of this course are social mobility and inequality in both the U.S. and Latin American context. While the course provides an overview of the immigration experience for Latino youth in general, it has a special emphasis on the experience of Latina women and girls
LALS 31118: Racialization: Single Mothers, Sexual and Religious Minorities (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
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
LALS 31174: Latinx Youth & Social Justice (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: What is social justice? What does social justice (and injustice) mean in the context of a diverse, global city like New York? We will address these questions by examining how our ideas about justice and injustice measure up against the everyday experiences of people from different social groups in urban contexts from the U.S. and around the world. The course will provide a survey of classic and contemporary ethnographies of urban life (qualitative case studies relying primarily on observation), with an emphasis on relationships of power, privilege, and inequality, and a special focus on Latinx communities and the immigrant experience
Note: SEEK STUDENTS ONLY
LALS 31147: Latinx Media Studies (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Isvett Verde
Description: This course is cross listed with Latinx Media Studies MCA 31147. (Course ID# 152316)
MCA 31147: Latinx Media Studies (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Hybrid Synchronous, Mondays, Wednesdays 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Staff
Description: This course is part of the NBCU Academy Fellows Program. The Latinx population in the U.S. reached a record 60.6 million in the United States in 2019. That means those of Latinx descent account for 18 percent of the U.S. population, according to Pew Research. Yet mainstream media often fails to reflect the serious concerns of the fastest growing segment of the population. This course will analyze and explore the way mainstream news organizations report about Latinx issues and depict and represent Latinx people. It will examine cultural icons and stereotypes and look at how Latinx media deals with the same subjects. The class will also cover social media's role in informing, and also disinforming, the Latinx community in the U.S. and throughout the world
MCA 31133: African Cinema: Gender and Culture (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Staff
Description: Changes in African cinema reflect an emerging trend challenging established cultural norms about gender roles, homosexuality, transgenderism, and female power. Topics that were once considered taboo are now brought to light and communities are now self-examining their own practices and beliefs. In this regard, the course aims to showcase the diversity of social practices and beliefs by focusing on African communities but also engage students in the debates about how the film medium can effect social change. The film corpus under study is representative of the geographical and linguistic differences in African productions
PSC (31175): Social Change through Law and Policy (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Hybrid, Mondays, 5:30PM - 7PM
Instructor: Kevin Jennings
Description: This course examines how policy and law can create social change with a focus on lessons from the modern LGBTQ+ movement in the United States. We look at how movement leaders and organizers have deployed different strategies over time in its quest for equality and justice. The course will examine differences and similarities between early efforts in the 50's and 60's to combat the pervasive discrimination against LGBTQ+ people; the community's response to the AIDS epidemic in the 80's and 90's; efforts to win marriage equality; and the current battles around trans rights. Course materials will include both print and film resources and the instruction will be seminar-style.
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
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 31191: Decolonizing Mental Health (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Wednesdays, 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Instructor: Lewis Zuchman
Description: Decolonization is the process of deconstructing colonial ideologies of the superiority and privilege of Western (White Patriarchal) thought and approaches. While decolonization is generally considered in reference to geo-political systemic structures, its applicability to mental health service delivery is of critical import to psychology. Colonization perpetuates the status quo, maintaining power dominance of a White, Patriarchal, Racist, Homophobic hierarchy. Western mental health and social service methodologies serve to perpetuate colonization, justifying the dominance of a White, Patriarchal systemic structure. This course will serve to examine the systemic implication of a mental health service delivery that ?blames the victim?, and perpetuates an oppressive systemic culture that deleteriously impacts the lives of women, immigrants, folk of color, LGBTQ folk, etc. Western mental health focuses on pathology, branding traumatized and oppressed folk as ?ill?, mentally unbalanced, paranoid, ?out of control?, etc. Decolonizing mental health service delivery enables the psychology student to focus on a Strength Based approach, that emphasizes ?positives?, and, employs a non-directive, empowering therapeutic stance. The psychologist/therapist is neither god, nor more powerful all-knowing. Rather, a decolonizing mental health approach emphasizes the partnership of therapist and patient. The therapist listens, shares, participates in full partnership with his/her patient. Illuminating this course will be the writings and clinical practice of Frantz Fanon, an Afro-French psychiatrist and 1960?s spokesperson of the successful Algerian Revolution against French colonial oppression. Finally, the empowerment process inherent in therapeutic healing, is embedded within an understanding of context and trauma. Oppressed folk reflect rage, resistance, as well as internalization of said oppression, resulting in self-destructive behavior. Enabling such folk to see, feel, and comprehend their oppression is a critical first step in healing.
PSY B9904: Decolonizing Mental Health (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Wednesdays, 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Instructor: Lewis Zuchman
Description: Decolonization is the process of deconstructing colonial ideologies of the superiority and privilege of Western (White Patriarchal) thought and approaches. While decolonization is generally considered in reference to geo-political systemic structures, its applicability to mental health service delivery is of critical import to psychology. Colonization perpetuates the status quo, maintaining power dominance of a White, Patriarchal, Racist, Homophobic hierarchy. Western mental health and social service methodologies serve to perpetuate colonization, justifying the dominance of a White, Patriarchal systemic structure. This course will serve to examine the systemic implication of a mental health service delivery that 'blames the victim', and perpetuates an oppressive systemic culture that deleteriously impacts the lives of women, immigrants, folk of color, LGBTQ folk, etc. Western mental health focuses on pathology, branding traumatized and oppressed folk as 'ill', mentally unbalanced, paranoid, 'out of control', etc. Decolonizing mental health service delivery enables the psychology student to focus on a Strength Based approach, that emphasizes 'positives', and, employs a non-directive, empowering therapeutic stance. The psychologist/therapist is neither god, nor more powerful all-knowing. Rather, a decolonizing mental health approach emphasizes the partnership of therapist and patient. The therapist listens, shares, participates in full partnership with his/her patient. Illuminating this course will be the writings and clinical practice of Frantz Fanon, an Afro-French psychiatrist and 1960's spokesperson of the successful Algerian Revolution against French colonial oppression. Finally, the empowerment process inherent in therapeutic healing, is embedded within an understanding of context and trauma. Oppressed folk reflect rage, resistance, as well as internalization of said oppression, resulting in self-destructive behavior. Enabling such folk to see, feel, and comprehend their oppression is a critical first step in healing
PSY 31195: Sociology of Mental Health (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Erela Portugaly
Description: This course investigates the complex social and cultural processes that shape our experiences and meanings of mental health. The course will begin by outlining a sociological approach to mental health distinguished from psychological and biomedical models. Special attention will be paid to how experiences of mental health intersect with axes of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and to understanding the psychological traces of histories of colonialism, slavery, war, and migration. Students will use the course methodologies and theories to trouble normative concepts of health and wellness in order to arrive at alternative definitions of health and healing. The course is interdisciplinary in scope and will draw on frameworks of mental health from diverse fields including medical sociology, affect theory, critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and disability studies to explore the entanglements between our psychic lives and social words
PSY 32400: Psychologies of People in Place: From Climate Change to Gentrification (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21) Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Christopher Hoffman
Description: How do we understand the interactions between ourselves and the places in which we live, study and work? Do these places affect who we are? What happens when natural disasters impact our communities? What happens when rising rents push us out of our neighborhoods? Are our identities impacted? In this course we will study basic concepts of Environmental Psychology and apply them to human situations
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
PRE: PSY 10101 OR 10200 AND PSY 24700 OR 24900 OR PSY 22600 OR PSY 24600.CO: PSY 32100
PSY 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21) In Person/Online Asynchronous
Instructor(s):
[20305-LEC] Hayley Hancock, In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
[20304-LEC] Rhyan Toledo, Online Asynchronous
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
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
Requirements: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700, OR 24900
PSY 35700: Community Psychology (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Online Synchronous, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Instructor: Richard Clark
Description: The use of psychology in the solution of community problems, and the impact of social and psychological stressors is examined from a community-wide perspective. How can communities and neighborhoods be measured for mental health strengths and dangers? What kinds of preventive actions and strategies, and what kinds of treatment and programs can be taken on a community-wide basis to promote mental health?
Note: Requirements: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700, OR 24900
PSY V5650: Gender and Psychopathy (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, 3:30PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Brett Silverstein
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
PSC 20800: American Political Thought (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Mira Morgenstern
Description: The origins and development of American political thought from the Puritan times to the present. The course will include study of basic themes in American thought: the scope and bounds of legitimate government power, majority rule and minority rights, federalism and centralization, participatory democracy, checks and balances, religious freedom and separation of church and state. The course will include study of major political issues emergent since Reconstruction: race and gender issues, immigration, urbanization, multiculturalism, business-government relations, management of the American economy, and America's relationship to the world. Also counts as a political theory and philosophy course
PSC 22600: Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Harold Forsythe
Description: An investigation of the political activities of various minority groups and the challenges of governing a plural society. The class also explores the immigrant experience as well as religious identities. Among the specific topics covered are ethno-racial political identities, political mobilization (i.e. social movements and interest groups), political attitudes, voting behavior, and public policies affecting minority groups
SOC 38210: Sociology of Gender (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays, 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Justin Beauchamp
Description: Sociology of Gender
WS 10000: Women’s Gender Roles in Contemporary Society (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person
Instructor(s):
[24972-LEC] Jasmina Sinanovic, Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:30PM - 1:45PM
[24974-LEC] Arielle Cribb, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
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? (W)
WS 31350: Black Power Women: Autobiography and Biography
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
Description: This course will examine the issues of race, politics, and gender through the narratives of Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, and Afeni Shakur. The exploration of each woman’s lived experiences illuminate the culture in which they made their choices to become political activists and in which their trials took place. We will also dissect the biases and prejudices of the larger culture, and the implications this held for each woman. We will supplement our readings of their autobiographies/biographies with womanist and feminist writings. Students will critically examine each narrative and supporting documents through class discussions and essays
Note: Low Textbook Cost
WS 31467: Post Trauma Recovery (PTR): Healing our communities (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), Online Synchronous, Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Sharon White-Harrigan
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
WS 31715: Black Art in Aids Age (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Thursdays, 5:00PM - 7:50PM
Instructor: Tod Roulette
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
WGST. 2100: Key Ideas in LGBTQ (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Fall 2024 (August 28 - December 21), In Person, Mondays, Wednesdays, 2:15PM - 3:30PM (Brooklyn College)
Instructor: Stephanie Bonvissuto
Description: 3 hours; 3 credits Concepts, theories, and texts central to the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer experience: definitions of sex, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation; queer theory; intersections of sexuality, race, gender, ethnicity, (dis)ability, and class; study of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) politics, communities, identities, and new social movements; representations of gender and sexuality in popular culture, religion, arts, literature, and visual culture; examination of different disciplinary and methodological approaches. Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 1230 or WGST 1001 or permission of the coordinator
Note: CORE CURRICULUM 1230, OR WGST 1001 WITH A GRADE OF C OR HIGHER, IS REQUIRED TO TAKE THIS COURSE
Summer 2024
SOC 31925: Sexuality, Gender, and Disability (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Hybrid, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 2:30PM - 5:25PM
Instructor: Siobhan Pokorney
Description: Drawing upon sociological, feminist, queer, and disability theories, this course examines the conceptualization, reproduction, and stratification of sexualities in different historical and cultural contexts; We explore how interactions among ideological, racial, religious interests have created normative systems of sexual classification that justify not only disciplinary systems of punishments and rewards, but also unequally distributed power among those who conform, innovate, or deviate from norms.
Note: LOW textbook costs.
ANTH 20100: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer term, Online Asynchronous/Online Mix
Instructor(s):
[1143-LEC] Bruce Burnside, Online Mix, Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Mondays, Wednesdays 11:00AM - 2:25PM
[1170-LEC] Joan Lopez, Online Asynchronous, Summer Session 1 (August 5 - August 23)
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 ethnographic method look like to study culture? Students will leave this class with a greater grasp of the “culture” concept and ethnographic methodologies. 3 hr./wk.; 3 cr
ANTH 20300: Human Origins (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (August 5 - August 23) Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Julie Lozano
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 and Sexuality (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Description: This course explores how gender and secuality are iterated, performed, challenged, and managed. Instead of seeing gender and secuality as coherent and easily quantifiable categories, this class delves into the nany contradictions in the categories of gender and secuality 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 raction with race, class, and ethnicity
ANTH 32100: Health Issues and Alternatives (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Description: A comparative and holistic study of concepts and practices of wellness and healing in various cultures. The course examines the origins, philosophies and applications of diverse cultures' healing systems to the prevention and treatment of selected dis-ease conditions. The class will also explore the many alternative modalities now available in this area.
COM 3082: Gender Communication (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Instructor: Benjamin Gillespie
Term/Time:
[LEC-8223] Summer Session 1 (June 10 - July 11), Online Asynchronous
[LEC-8232] Summer Session 2 (July 15 - July 11), Online Asynchronous
*Brooklyn College
Description: This course examines the theories and applications of gender in various communication contexts. Areas to be studied include: basic gender communication theories, roles and stereotypes, gender differences in verbal and nonverbal communication, processes and socialization, images of gender in the media, gender considerations in education, the impact of gender on friendships and romantic relationships, and mixed group vs. same sex group interaction
Note: Prerequisite: COM 1010 or COM 2020
EDCE 5300C: Theories, Policies, and Programs for Emergent Bilingual Students (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/ Time: Summer Term, Online Mix
Instructor(s):
[2002-LEC] Devon Hedrick-Shaw, Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1) Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:00PM - 7:30PM
[2016-LEC] Kristy Dela Cruz, Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Tuesdays, Thursdays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Description: This course explores the historical background policies, approaches, and theoretical foundations of bilingual education and other educational programs for immigrant, bilingual, and language minority students. It also considers the social, political, and economic context that surrounds the education of immigrant students in urban schools
EDCE 5700C: Mulit-Cultural Education (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Summer term, Online Mix
Instructor(s):
[5734-LEC] Aminata Diop, Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Mondays, Wednesdays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
[2005-LEC] Jesus Fraga, Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Tuesdays, Thursdays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Note: No textbook Costs
[2011-LEC] Aminata Diop, Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Tuesdays, Thursdays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
[2015-LEC] Jesus Fraga, Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Mondays, Wednesdays 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Note: No textbook Costs
Description: 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; critically examines instructional materials for bias. Includes 10 hours of fieldwork
ENGL 36906: #HotLaborSummer: Labor Movement/Working Class Rhetorics (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Instructor: Olivia Wood
Term/Time:
Summer Session 2 (July 15 - July 11), Hybrid, Mondays and Wednesdays (in-person) Tuesdays and Thursdays (online), 8:30AM-11:05AM
Description: This course examines the theories and applications of gender in various communication contexts. Areas to be studied include: basic gender communication theories, roles and stereotypes, gender differences in verbal and nonverbal communication, processes and socialization, images of gender in the media, gender considerations in education, the impact of gender on friendships and romantic relationships, and mixed group vs. same sex group interaction
Note: Zero-cost textbooks
HIST 31220: Gender and Women in the Middle East (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Online Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 11:30AM - 2:05PM
Instructor: Hamideh Sedghi
Description: This course examines the history of women and gender from the rise of Islam to the spread of contemporary Islamic political movements. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which religion shapes women's lives as well as the ways in which women shape religion, women's roles in political and social movements, gendered economic activities, and gender relations
INTL 20600: Global Social Theory (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Dora Suarez
Description: This course is designed to introduce International Studies majors to key questions and concepts in the social sciences. Over the semester, students engage with the wide variety of texts?by authors from around the world?that together comprise global social theory. The focus is on learning how to read these texts carefully with an eye toward using them to analyze the contemporary world. In particular, the class asks students to explore the following questions: What does it mean to understand humans as thoroughly social, cultural, and historical creatures? How do humans create, maintain, and transform their social worlds? How are forms of social difference (e.g. race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender, sexuality, etc.) produced and how do they shape our experiences? In what sense is the contemporary world shaped by particular pasts? What historical transformations lie on the horizon?
Note: Requirements: PRE-INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 20100
INTL 21014: Borders and Migration (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Ozden Ocak
Description: Migration has been a persistent subject of political debate and academic discussion in the post-war era. However, the meaning of the term, the field of study, and the political interventions it calls for have shifted over time. This course offers an overview of select issues in and approaches to the politics of borders and migration, including but not limited to "integration of immigrants," "development and migration," "transnational migration," and "border security."
INTL 31965: Decolonizing the Witch (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Griselda Rodriguez
Description: There is a current reclamation of the ?witch? or the ?bruja? as a source of socio-psychological resistance. The resurgence of Goddess-based ancestral practices across the world is a testament to a deep-seated need to transform existing oppressive structures. In this multidisciplinary course students will learn about the historical trajectory of the ?witch? as a source of feminist and feminine political resistance. Moreover, the course's focus on critical race theory will center witches of color as a way to disrupt the potential white-centric cooptation of the present resurgence of the Bruja.
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and political boundaries (3 credits - Undergraduate)
[LEC-10197] Carlos Encina Oleart
INTL 31180: El Gaga and Dominican Culture (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Hybrid Synchronous
Instructor: Jonathan De Oleo Ramos
Description: El Gaga: A Forbidden Expression of Afro-Dominican Culture," will explore this forbidden folkloric music and dance with African roots. The course will blend theory and practice. The former will expose students to historical, humanistic, and expressive perspectives on the artform. Students will also engage in hands-on sessions, becoming familiar with different aspects of the performance. The course will also feature interactions with experts and practitioners.
WS 29400: Queerness of Color: The crossing of Gendered, Racialzied, and political boundaries (3 credits - Undergraduate)
[LEC-1892] Staff
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Asynchronous
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience
LALS 31304: Power, Resistance, and Popular Protest: Social Movements in Latin American (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: This course explores several key social movements that during the last decades have shocked the political, economic, and social foundations of countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Using social movements theories, this course delves into the roots, development, and implications of popular mobilization to resist neoliberalism and global capitalism
MUS 27104: Latin Popular Music (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 30), Hybrid Asynchronous, Tuesdays, Thursdays 6:20PM - 8:00PM
Instructor: Carlos Velasquez Torres
Description: A group of courses dealing with the history and literature of jazz
Note: Requirements: PRE - MUSIC 10100
Students who want permissions for this course can request them here: https://form.jotform.com/222995305110955 The course is offered under the auspices of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe
PSC 31161: LGBTQ Politics (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Hybrid Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Staff; Karen Struening
Description: This course will explore LGBTQ protest, politics ,and policy from the end of WW II to the present. We will begin with the persecution of the LGBTQ community in the 1940s and 1950s and then examine how LGBTQ movements began, often as a response to discriminatory policing. We will explore early writings in Queer theory before examining the government neglect and the protests to it that accompanied HIV/AIDs. Our next step is to look at policies from the 1990s to the 2020s, with Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the Military to Bush’s Defense of Marriage Act to Marriage Equality under Obama. We will read several critical Supreme Court cases that decriminalized same-sex sexuality and cases that legalized marriage equality and allowed private businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples. Finally, we will examine the most recent effort to politicize LGBTQ people, especially transgender individuals. Throughout this course, we will look at clashes within the LGBTQ movement between radical and liberal factions, women and men, the dominance of whiteness and efforts to be inclusive. In addition, we will examine how new modes of sociality developed by the LGBTQ movement have contributed to mainstream culture
PSY 24900: Psychology of Personality (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2), Online Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 8:30AM - 11:00AM
Instructor: Seth Sebold
Description: This course explores the determinants of personality from a variety of perspectives, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic, while also exploring how personality is influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, and culture. Students come to appreciate different perspectives regarding how and why people differ from one another
Note: Requirements: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10200 OR 10299
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
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 32200: Psychology of Sexuality and Gender (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 8:30AM - 11:00AM
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba
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 (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (August 5 - August 23) Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Rhyan Toledo
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
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
Requirements: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700, OR 24900
PSY B9846: Psychology of Sexuality and Gender (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 8:30AM - 11:00AM
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba
Description: This course will introduce theories, concepts and epistemologies regarding the psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review and evaluate some of the most relevant research on gender diversity (its history, appeal, benefits and limitations) and sexual diversity (its history, criminalization, pathologization, de-pathologization and current insights)
SOC 31152: Immigration and the Second Generation (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Mix, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 8:30AM - 11:25AM
Instructor: Jennifer Sloan
Description: The second generation, native-born of foreign parentage, is often caught between two distinctive worlds of their immigrant parents and American society. The study of the second generation is a cutting-edge topic in the fields of immigration and ethnic and racial studies as they are making the transition from school to work. The course examines the ways in which children of immigrants are integrating into different US institutions, such as education, economy, politics, as well as American culture. A key concern is to examine existing theories of assimilation in terms of the similarities and differences between the old (turn of the 20th century) and new (post-1965) second generation. Another important issue is whether the children of immigrants are doing better than their parents educationally and occupationally, given the structural changes in American economy and society. In light of the current political debate about immigration policy, which directly affects the children of undocumented immigrants, the course will also cover this often overlooked group. Although the course will deal with the United States as a whole, the experience of children of immigrants who have grown up in New York will also be highlighted
Note: This course meets during Summer 1 (Jun. 3 - Jul. 1). There will be online synchronous class meetings 1-2 times per week during the scheduled class time (i.e., 8:30AM - 11:25AM). Please inquire with instructor Jennifer Sloan ( jsloan@ccny.cuny.edu ) if you have questions.
SPAN 31131: The Films of Pedro Almodovar (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 5:30AM - 7:55AM
Instructor: Carlos Riobo
Description: Pedro Almodovar is known today as the internationally acclaimed Spanish auteur whose cinema went from being transgressive and amateurish to winning major international awards. This dramatic arc may also be applied to society and culture in post-Franco Spain. This course will analyze selected films that may trace Spain's self-refashioning, beginning with Madrid's counter cultural movement known as La Movida in the early 1980s, through Spain's transition to democracy, to today. Topics to be discussed include: queer studies, feminist studies, the melodrama, the Hollywood Formula, and anxiety of influence. The films that we will analyze may include Pepi, Luci, Bom; Todo sobre mi madre; Entre tinieblas; Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios; La flor de mi secreto; Carne tremula; Todo sobre mi madre; Dolor y gloria; and Madres paralelas. This interdisciplinary course will be conducted in both English and Spanish to accommodate a diverse range of students. Assignments will include a midterm examination and a 8-12-page final paper
Note: Low Textbook Cost
WS 10000: Women’s Gender Roles in Contemporary Society (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer term, Online Asynchronous
Instructor(s):
[1888-LEC] Sharon White-Harrigan, Summer Session 1 (August 5 - August 23)
[1887-LEC] Jasmina Sinanovic, Summer Session 2 (July 8 - August 2)
[1886-LEC] Asale Angel-Ajani, Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1),
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? (W)
Note: ZERO Textbook Cost
WS 31350: Black Power Women: Autobiography and Biography (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (June 3 - July 1), Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Arielle Cribb
Description: This course will examine the issues of race, politics, and gender through the narratives of Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, and Afeni Shakur. The exploration of each woman’s lived experiences illuminate the culture in which they made their choices to become political activists and in which their trials took place. We will also dissect the biases and prejudices of the larger culture, and the implications this held for each woman. We will supplement our readings of their autobiographies/biographies with womanist and feminist writings. Students will critically examine each narrative and supporting documents through class discussions and essays
WS 31713: Introduction to Women of Color Eco-Feminisims: Feminist Intersections with Other (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (August 5 - August 23) Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Christelle Jasmin
Description: This course is designed to familiarize you with the major concepts at the intersection of environmental studies, animal studies, and food politics particularly as they are troubled by racialization, capitalism, colonialism, and sexism. We will survey contemporary and classic texts from a wide array of disciplinary, political, and personal perspectives. Through readings and discussions, you will be introduced to key theoretical concepts such as, environmental racism, slow violence, racial ecologies, total liberation, settler colonialism and racial capitalism. These topics will allow for critical examination of the connection?s human, non-human animals, and the earth have with various struggles
Spring 2024
UNDERGRADUATE
ART 31162/ B8062: Gender, Desire and the Gaze in Early Modern Visual Arts (3 credits - Undergraduate and Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online Synchronous, Tuesday 6:15PM - 9:05PM
Instructor: Molly Aitken
Description: The course takes a global perspective on gender and sexuality in early modern visual arts. In seminar style, we relate readings to a selection of artworks from Europe, Asia and the Islamic world to think about how early modern visual arts structured erotically charged vectors of looking and being looked at that confirmed, hyperbolized, instrumentalized and even made magic of gender norms. We look at gender play and the regulation of gender in and through the visual arts. The subject of gender before the advent of gender studies offers means to think outside of familiar frames of analysis, and the goal of taking a global perspective is to critique methods that developed primarily in relation to European art. A basic proposition will be that the visual arts have historically been gendered. The hope is to imagine new interpretive horizons
ANTH 20100: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online/ In person
Instructor(s):
[20521-LEC] Joan Lopez, Online Mix, Wednesdays 5PM - 6:15PM
[20571-LEC] Joan Lopez, Online Asynchronous
[20537-LEC] Bruce Burnside, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
[20529-LEC] Rafael Munia, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30PM - 1:45PM
[20540-LEC] staff TBA, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays and Thursdays 8AM - 9:15AM
[20536-LEC] James Tolleson, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
[20535-LEC] James Tolleson, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11AM - 12:15PM
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 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 (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Luis Quesada Nieto
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 (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online/In Person
Instructor:
[20538-LEC] Prash Naidu, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursday 11AM - 12:15PM
[20539-LEC] Julie Lozano, Online Asynchronous
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 (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online Synchronous, Mondays and Wednesdays 2PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
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
ANTH 31968: Language and Gender (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Andrea Ariza Garcia
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.???
EDCE 5700C: Multi-Cultural Education (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, Online/In Person
Instructor:
[43642-LEC] Aminata Diop, Hybrid Synchronous, Mondays 5:30PM - 8PM
[43656-LEC] Staff TBA, Online Synchronous, Mondays 5:30PM - 8PM
Description: 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; critically examines instructional materials for bias. Includes 10 hours of fieldwork
ENGL 36502: Literatures of Globalization: Forms of Transnational Intimacy (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Ashna Ali
Description: This course introduces students to the concept of globalization through the frame of intimacy and emotions. What kind of new intimacies are born within transnational families that speak multiple languages? What kind of misunderstanding and alienation is produced when words like ?homosexual? do not exist in one language but are crucial to the identity and growth of a multilingual character? When families and communities are affected by tragedies born of capitalism, what can and cannot be talked about, and what is the effect of those silences? When adults are traumatized by poverty, war, colonization, or migration to the point of avoiding talking about their experiences, how do their children understand themselves emotionally and culturally? When traditional family units are unable to provide the necessary support structures to meet a young person's needs, what do those individuals have to do and understand to find different roots with their chosen kin? We?ll think together about issues of gender, sexuality, identity, food, and emotional connection through the novels and poetry that dramatize the impact of globalized experience
HIST 31089: African-American Cultural and Political History (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 5PM- 6:15PM
Instructor: Laurie Woodard
Description: Throughout the 20th century, African Americans have employed a variety of strategies toward the attainment of social, political, and economic equality. At different historical moments, specific agendas, tactics, and participants have come to the forefront, yet the overall objectives remain the same. During the 1920s and 1930s, many African Americans put forth a fusion of cultural and political activism as the vanguard of the movement. We will explore the intersection between culture and politics during this period and examine its place within the larger struggle for equality. Using primary and secondary sources, this course will look beyond traditional literary models and present students with a deeper and more complete understanding of the complex and dynamic social, cultural, and political phenomenon known as the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance. The key themes the course will address are: Agency, Resistance, Self-determination, Citizenship, Political Activism, Gender, Sexuality, Color, Tactics, and Civil Rights. Students are required to complete weekly readings and audio, and visual assignments and to be prepared to discuss them in class. Students must also complete a final research project on a topic of their own choosing that culminates in a 15-page paper
INTL 21004: Model United Nations, Part II (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person, Tuesdays 5PM-7:15PM
Instructor: Rafal Szczurowski
Description: INTL 21004 (20547) is a course that combines theoretical knowledge about the UN with practical simulations of global diplomacy. We will analyze the practice of multilateral diplomacy through the prism of individual governments, their interests, and actions. We will also prepare to represent Albania at the NMUN conference, organize local simulations with CCNY MUN club, and volunteer for Future We Want MUN Conference
SOC 34100: Disability Studies (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In-Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Jack Levinson
Description: Surveys this transformative interdisciplinary field, informed by critical approaches to race, gender and sexuality, which offers an approach to disability as a social, political, and cultural category and a personal identity and lived experience. Readings include current and historical material, theoretical and empirical, from the social sciences, humanities, and arts.
SOC 38209: Sociology of Sexualities - Sex, Love, Relationships, and Identity (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In-Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Justin Beauchamp
Description: Drawing upon sociological, feminist, queer, and disability theories, this course examines the conceptualization, reproduction, and stratification of sexualities in different historical and cultural contexts; We explore how interactions among ideological, racial, religious interests have created normative systems of sexual classification that justify not only disciplinary systems of punishments and rewards, but also unequally distributed power among those who conform, innovate, or deviate from norms.
Note: ZERO textbook costs.
PSY 24900: Psychology of Personality (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Richard Clark
Description: This course explores the determinants of personality from a variety of perspectives, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic, while also exploring how personality is influenced by factors such as gender, ethnicity, and culture. Students come to appreciate different perspectives regarding how and why people differ from one another
PSY 35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person
Instructor:
[20723-LEC] Rhyan Toledo, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM
[20728-LEC] Rhyan Toledo, Online Asynchronous,
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
Requirements: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700, OR 24900
PSY 35700: Community Psychology (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person, Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Ghina Abi Ghannam
Description: The use of psychology in the solution of community problems, and the impact of social and psychological stressors is examined from a community-wide perspective. How can communities and neighborhoods be measured for mental health strengths and dangers? What kinds of preventive actions and strategies, and what kinds of treatment and programs can be taken on a community-wide basis to promote mental health?
Requirements: PRE - PSYCHOLOGY 10101, OR 10200, 10299, AND 24700 OR 24900
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays and Thursdays 8PM - 9:15PM
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
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
THTR 21700: Queer Theater (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Staff TBA
Description: Queer Theatre
WS 10000: Women’s Gender Roles in Contemporary Society (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person
Instructor:
[20440-LEC] Arielle Cribb, Mondays and Wednesdays 11AM - 12:15PM
[43351-LEC] Jasmina Sinanovic, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11AM - 12:15PM
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? (W)
WS 31012: LGBTQ History, Culture and Movements (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, In Person, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanovic
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 the time on 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 and well as people outside of heteronormative sexual practices in their local communities.
WS 32459: Criminalization and Mass Incarceration (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Spring, Online Synchronous, Saturdays 11AM - 1:45AM
Instructor: Sharon White-Harrigan
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
GRADUATE
ART 31162/ B8062: Gender, Desire and the Gaze in Early Modern Visual Arts (3 credits - Undergraduate and Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring term, Online Synchronous, Tuesday 6:15PM - 9:05PM
Instructor: Molly Aitken
Description: The course takes a global perspective on gender and sexuality in early modern visual arts. In seminar style, we relate readings to a selection of artworks from Europe, Asia and the Islamic world to think about how early modern visual arts structured erotically charged vectors of looking and being looked at that confirmed, hyperbolized, instrumentalized and even made magic of gender norms. We look at gender play and the regulation of gender in and through the visual arts. The subject of gender before the advent of gender studies offers means to think outside of familiar frames of analysis, and the goal of taking a global perspective is to critique methods that developed primarily in relation to European art. A basic proposition will be that the visual arts have historically been gendered. The hope is to imagine new interpretive horizons
HIST B8953: New Directions in World History (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Spring, Online Synchronous, Mondays 7PM - 9PM
Instructor: Yaari Felber-Seligman
Description: This course emphasizes new directions and previously neglected topics in the field of World History based on the instructor’s expertise. May include, but not limited to, histories of ancient non-western worlds, nomadic and sea-faring peoples, indigenous cultures, gender, LGBTQ individuals, everyday life, popular culture, and the so-called “Big History” that emphasizes broader, nonhuman planetary/environmental history as part of the curriculum. Class readings and assignments will emphasize new directions in research, practice, and pedagogy
Winter 2024
UNDERGRADUATE
ANTH 32600: Anthropology of Disability: From Memoir to Ethnography (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter, Online Mix, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Bernardo Spaulonci Chiachia M
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
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The crossing of Gendered, Racialized and political boundaries (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter, Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience
PSY 31825 Psychology of love (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Term: Winter, Online Synchronous, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 6:00PM - 9:20PM
Instructor: Mabel Gomez
Description: Psychology of love
SOC 31189: Abolitionist Sociology: Restoring Care and Connection in Oppressive Sys through Liberatory Frameworks (3 credits - Undergraduate)
Term/Time: Winter, Online Synchronous, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 1:30PM - 5:08PM
Instructor: Siobhan Pokorney
Description: In the US, contemporary institutions, such as schools, prisons, and healthcare organizations, underserved and even harm their constituents. How could these systems be re-imagined through Black Feminist Abolitionist movements so that they serve stakeholders? This course centers the voices of those ensnared in carceral systems and explores key conceptual frameworks, practices, and genealogies of abolition, especially in relation to Black and queer feminisms. This course delves into the relationship between dismantling prisons and other carceral systems, including, but not limited to, family regulation, immigration, capitalism, schools, psychiatry, and gender and family norms. In critiquing Social Work practice within progressive change movements and exploring Abolitionist Social Work, the course creates space for freedom dreaming and radical reimagining of our communities without oppressive and harmful systems
GRADUATE
PSY B9846: Psychology of Sexuality & Gender (3 credits - Graduate)
Term/Time: Winter, Online Synchronous, Days/Times TBA
Instructor: Staff TBA
Description: This course will introduce theories, concepts and epistemologies regarding the psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review and evaluate some of the most relevant research on gender diversity (its history, appeal, benefits and limitations) and sexual diversity (its history, criminalization, pathologization, de-pathologization and current insights)
Fall 2023
BIO 37800: Science of Sex and Gender
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Maritsa Poros (she/her) and Christine Li
[cross-listed with SOC 37800]
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will explore biological and sociological understandings of sex and gender. From the biological viewpoint, the course will explore the interactions among genes on the Y chromosome with genes on other chromosomes as determinants of biological sex. Sociologically, the course will investigate the social construction of gender and how gendered identities shape everyday life, including at the intersection of sex and gender (e.g., intersex and trans expressions of sex and gender).
ENG 36904: Rhetoric of Social Movements - Queer Libration
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Olivia Wood (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines the verbal and non-verbal rhetorical strategies of groups and individuals attempting to effect social change and the counter-strategies of those who oppose them. We look at how social movements attempt to transform perceptions of social reality, alter the self-perception of protestors, legitimize the movement, prescribe courses of action, mobilize for action, and sustain the movement. We begin by understanding how the rhetorics of social movements operate by looking at three time periods in the United States: the emergence of gay identity and early homophile societies (late 1800s-1960s), the emergence of the Gay Liberation movement post-Stonewall (1969s-1980s), and the response to the AIDS crisis (late 1980s-1990s). We then move to examining contemporary topics in LGBTQ+ studies, including the fight for marriage equality, anti-trans legislation, intersections of oppressions, LGBTQ+ content in schools, and others. Students will choose a contemporary topic in the fight for queer liberation and examine the rhetorical techniques used, from songs and slogans to television and social media.
NOTE: Zero Cost Textbooks
INTL 31116: Gender & Work
[cross-listed with SOC 31138]
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Chang Liu
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Why is some work considered to be women’s vs. men’s work? Why are so few business leaders women and/or persons of color? How can working fathers be encouraged to take on more parenting responsibilities? This course explores sociological explanations for such gender inequalities by examining gendered work, gendered division of labor, and the intersection of race and gender in labor markers. The course also covers feminist critiques and other perspectives on waged and unwaged work under capitalism in the U.S., with insights from countries in the Global South.
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The Crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and Political Boundaries
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | Online-Asynchronous | Mondayvand Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience.
PSY 31158: Queer Psychology
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Instructor: Carmen Garcia
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 2023 | In-Person | Tuesday and Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Hailey Wojcik
Credits: 3 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.
SOC 38210: Sociology of Gender
[cross-listed with INTL 31126]
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Justin Beauchamp (they/them, or any pronouns)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines gender as social systems, with attention to how these have been used to categorize persons, impose or assert individual and collective identities, and justify inequalities across history and national and cultural contexts.
Throughout the course, we will both deconstruct and reconstruct our own conceptions of gender, with particular emphasis on the colonial, capitalist, white supremacist, cisheteropatriarchal underpinnings of our current Western understandings of gender (we will define all of these terms in class). We will cover topics ranging from Indigenous knowledges and experiences, to global notions of gender, to intersectionality, to gender norms and social roles in the U.S. context. Our analysis of gender will span various realms of society, including politics, media, education, families and relationships, law, the workplace, and much more. We will also have units on trans, non-binary, genderqueer, and other gender non-conforming identities and communities, including an analysis of the most recent wave of anti-trans rhetoric and legal action.
This course will be very participatory, and will require a great deal of conversation among the students in the class. As we know, our contemporary notions of gender are quite complex, and this course seeks to take a deep dive into understanding the historical, political, social, and economic components of how we think about gender as a construct.
NOTE: Zero Cost Textbooks
SOC 31160: Latinas and Reproductive Rights
[cross-listed with LALS 31300]
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | Online-Synchronous | Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor: Iris Lopez (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: The course examines the historical, cultural, social, political and ethical issues surrounding reproductive health care for Latinas. Special emphasis is given to the denial of rights, especially cultural differences in prenatal care and overuse of the sterilization procedure for Latinas in previous decades in the United States.
SOC 31905: Sociology of Mental Health
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Tuesday and Thursday 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Instructor: Erela Portugaly, Ph.D. (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course investigates the complex social and cultural processes that shape our experiences and meanings of mental health. The course will begin by outlining a sociological approach to mental health distinguished from psychological and biomedical models. Special attention will be paid to how experiences of mental health intersect with axes of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and to understanding the psychological traces of histories of colonialism, slavery, war, and migration. Students will use the course methodologies and theories to trouble normative concepts of health and wellness in order to arrive at alternative definitions of health and healing. The course is interdisciplinary in scope and will draw on frameworks of mental health from diverse fields including medical sociology, affect theory, critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and disability studies to explore the entanglements between our psychic lives and social words.
SOC 31180: Disability Studies
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Jack Levinson (he/him)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Surveys this transformative interdisciplinary field, informed by critical approaches to race, gender and sexuality, which offers an approach to disability as a social, political, and cultural category and a personal identity and lived experience. Readings include current and historical material, theoretical and empirical, from the social sciences, humanities, and arts.
THTR 21700: Queer Theatre
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Tuesday and Thursday 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Instructor: Brandon Judell (he/him)
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.
THTR 31115: LGBT Film and Theatre
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Tuesday and Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Instructor: Brandon Judell (he/him)
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 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanović (they/them)
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, men and those who do not fit in either category? How does gendered 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?
NOTE: Zero Cost Textbooks
WS 31130: LGBTQ+ Activism in U.S. History
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | Hybrid | Monday (asynchronous) and Wednesday (in-person) 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Instructor: Lindsay Zafir (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will focus on the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) social movements in the U.S. We will examine why the movement emerged in the middle of the 20th century and track the changing goals and strategies activists adopted over time. We will pay close attention to persistent conflicts over issues like revolution vs. reform; coalition vs. single-issue politics; difference vs. assimilation; and grassroots vs. professional organizations. Finally, we will look at the connection between LGBTQ+ movements and other movements on the left and right. In particular, we will trace the LGBTQ+ movement's relationship with movements for racial, gender, and economic justice as well as the ways LGBTQ+ activism shaped – and was shaped by – anti-gay and anti-feminist movements. We will end by thinking about the future of LGBTQ+ movements in our current moment of backlash.
WS 32463: Queer of Color Critique Towards Utopia
Term/Time: Fall 2023 | In-Person | Monday and Wednesday 9:30AM - 10:45AM
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart (he/him)
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.
NOTE: Zero Cost Textbooks
Summer 2023
ANTH 21007: Sex and Gender in Latin America
[cross-listed with INTL 21007]
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Online-Synchronous | Monday and Wednesday 11:30AM - 2:25PM
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course is an introduction to the study of gender in Latin America and examines how ideas about personhood that emerged during the colonial period still inform social practices and political policy throughout the region. It takes an intersectional approach to understanding current feminist and disidencia movements against gender violence, for reproductive justice, and in favor of sex workers’ rights.
ANTH 23600: Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (4 Weeks) | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how gender and secuality are iterated, performed, challenged, and managed. Instead of seeing gender and secuality as coherent and easily quantifiable categories, this class delves into the nany contradictions in the categories of gender and secuality 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 raction with race, class, and ethinicity.
ENGL 35411: Sexuality, Festivity, and Animality in the English Renaissance
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (4 Weeks) | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30PM to 5:05PM
Instructor: Robert Yates
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course surveys early modern texts to ask what roles sex and sexuality and celebrations and festivities play in constructing the concept of the animal (human and non-human)? This course will explore the strategies that early modern texts (poems and plays, religious and scientific tracts, works of political philosophy and household management) used to represent, categorize, know, and speak of and for animals (human and non-human). Scholarly essays, articles, book chapters, and the occasional book will invite us to consider how the early modern texts continue to live within works of history, theory, literary criticism, and popular culture. More particularly, we will investigate how critical writings form objects of study, such as sex and sexuality or ritual celebrations and festivities, through their engagement with the early modern texts we are reading
HIST 31220: Gender and Women in the Middle East
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 11:30AM - 2:05PM
Instructor: Hamideh Sedghi
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course examines the history of women and gender from the rise of Islam to the spread of contemporary Islamic political movements. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which religion shapes women's lives as well as the ways in which women shape religion, women's roles in political and social movements, gendered economic activities, and gender relations.
LALS 29400: Queerness of Color: The Crossing of Gendered, Racialized, and Political Boundaries
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course explores how Latin American and Caribbean queer diasporic cultures have assimilated, challenged, influenced, deconstructed, and/or transformed gender and sexual categories. We will review a constellation of case studies such as the San Francisco Gay Latino Alliance, the Young Lord Movement, the queer subversion in Mexican Chican@ art activism, and Latinx support for rights movements in the Trump era. To this end, Latinx and Queerness of Color... reviews critical theoretical selections, monographs, fictional accounts, visual art, and oral history in order to explore the new forms of identities and social movements emerging among queer Latino/a/x groups in America and the forms of oppression as well as resistance that these groups experience.
PSC 31161: LGBTQ+ Politics
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Hybrid (in-person and synchronous) | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Karen Struening (she/her)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course will explore LGBTQ protest, politics ,and policy from the end of WW II to the present. We will begin with the persecution of the LGBTQ community in the 1940s and 1950s and then examine how LGBTQ movements began, often as a response to discriminatory policing. We will explore early writings in Queer theory before examining the government neglect and the protests to it that accompanied HIV/AIDs. Our next step is to look at policies from the 1990s to the 2020s, with Clinton?s ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? in the Military to Bush?s Defense of Marriage Act to Marriage Equality under Obama. We will read several critical Supreme Court cases that decriminalized same-sex sexuality and cases that legalized marriage equality and allowed private businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples. Finally, we will examine the most recent effort to politicize LGBTQ people, especially transgender individuals. Throughout this course, we will look at clashes within the LGBTQ movement between radical and liberal factions, women and men, the dominance of whiteness and efforts to be inclusive. In addition, we will examine how new modes of sociality developed by the LGBTQ movement have contributed to mainstream culture.
SOC 31925: Sexuality, Gender, and Disability
[cross-listed with PSY 31925]
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Hybrid (in-person and asynchronous) | Monday and Tuesday 2:30PM - 5:25PM
Instructor: Siobhan Pokorney, LCSW
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: This course applies a critical lens to the study of sexuality, gender, and disability. We examine how social oppression is experienced by persons whose physical, cognitive, or psychological characteristics fall outside of socially constructed norms. In particular, we investigate the complex historical influences that impact how people discuss sexuality and disability. For example, people with disabilities have been considered asexual, hypersexual, or as victims, all of which deny their agency as sexual beings. We use disability, feminist, critical sexuality, and queer theories to explore and question various issues effecting the sexual lives and experiences of persons with disabilities and how these might help us understand gender and sexuality more generally. To understand the intersection of sexuality and disability, we engage with scholarly readings, news articles, popular media, social media, and TV shows/movies.
PSY 32200: Psychology of Sexuality & Gender
[cross-listed with PSY B9846]
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Online-Synchronous | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 8:30AM to 11:00AM
Instructor: Sebastian Cordoba
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate AND Graduate)
Description: This course will introduce theories, concepts and epistemologies regarding the psychologies of gender and sexual diversity. We will review and evaluate some of the most relevant research on gender diversity (its history, appeal, benefits and limitations) and sexual diversity (its history, criminalization, pathologization, de-pathologization and current insights).
SOC 31926: Sociology and Queer of Color Critique
[cross-listed with BLST 31926]
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (4 Weeks) | Hybrid (in-person and asynchronous) | Tuesday and Thursday 2:30PM - 5:25PM
Instructor: Colin Ashley (he/him)
Credits: 3 Credits (Undergraduate)
Description: Why are mainstream LGBTQ+ studies and queer theories so white-centered, while theorizations of race and ethnicity pose heterosexuality as the norm? Using the interdisciplinary framework of Queer of Color Critique, we explore how to expand and challenge the heterosexual and white-centered assumptions of sociology of sexualities, gender, and race through the perspectives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people of color. To examine how such social constructions of sexualities and gender intersect with race, ethnicity, class, ability, and other social identity categories, we examine macro level issues of colonialism, imperialism, immigration and migration, mass incarceration and policing as they pertain to racial and sexual/gender minorities. We will also cover immediate and ongoing issues, such as transphobia, drag queen phobia, activism/social movements, media representation, homelessness, and book banning that impact the everyday experiences of LGBTQ+ people, especially queer youth.
NOTE: Zero Cost Textbooks
WS 10000: Women's Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
Term/Time: Summer Session 1 (4 Weeks) | Online-Asynchronous
Instructor: Jasmina Sinanović (they/them)
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, men and those who do not fit in either category? How does gendered 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?
NOTE: Zero Cost Textbooks
WS 32463: Queer of Color Critique Towards Utopia
Term/Time: Summer Session 2 (4 Weeks) | In-Person | Tuesday and Thursday 2:30PM - 5:25PM
Instructor: Carlos Encina Oleart (he/him)
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.
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 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 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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