Spring '23 New and Exciting GWST Course Offerings!

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:38:08 -0400

Check out these new and exciting GWST course offerings for Spring 2023! Download the attached flyer for course details.

GWST 381: Reproductive Justice

The course investigates the histories, cultural politics, and embodied practices of human reproduction in the US using a reproductive justice framework. It examines heteropatriarchal and white supremacist institutions and ideologies that shape American notions of appropriate family formation, national belonging, and reproductive liberty/duty. It considers the impacts of both material technologies for preventing, interrupting, and assisting procreative processes and organized advocacy for sexual and reproductive rights, health, and justice on diverse reproductive lives. Instructor: Dr. Carole McCann

GWST 390-01: Black Girlhood

An interdisciplinary examination of the history, the present, and the future of black girlhood with a focus on the US. Special attention is paid to race, gender, media, and social justice. Instructor: Courtney Cook

**This course is cross-listed with AFST 340