Graduate Program

Spring Term Schedule

Spring 2025

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
GSWS 412-1 Queer Theory Stefanie Dunning T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
The goal of this course is to radically problematize the concepts of queer, gender and sexuality, fundamentally questioning the assumptions that attend the usage and deployment of these terms in quotidian discourse. This will not be your typical queer theory course as we will not move from the center to the margins, relegating racialized bodies to the position of reactionary actors responding to an epistemic erasure. Rather we will center these critiques as the basis for a new canon and thus grounds for theory. This is a gradute student section. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 447-1 Indigenous Women: From Aztlan to Oaxacalifornia Alanna Radlo-Dzur T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
How are Indigenous women represented in art? What is revealed in the differences between autochthonous representations and those created by outsiders? Focusing on images of Nahuatl-speaking women specifically, this course considers the intersecting roles of gender and power, labor and knowledge, sacrifice and sustenance in the conception of Nahua femininities from the pre-Hispanic period to the present day. Topics include the changing perception of Aztec female deities in New Spain and their Chicana reclamation, as well as historical figures such as Malinche, “tongue” of Hernán Cortés, and Doña Luz Jiménez, muse to the Mexican Muralists who fostered a cultural and linguistic revival in her community. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 496-01 International Human Rights Jean Pedersen M 9:00AM - 11:40AM
What does it mean to be human? What political, economic, religious, social, or sexual rights might be part of different people's working definitions? This course will look at both a) the historical development of conflicting theories of human rights and b) more contemporary debates about their ideal extent, their exercise, and their enforcement. Special topics will include debates over the meaning of the American and French Revolutions, the fight to design an International Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II, the history of organizations such as Amnesty International, and the controversy around UN events such as the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2000 and 2005 Millennium Summits in New York City. Location (M 9:00AM - 11:40AM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
GSWS 496-01 International Human Rights Jean Pedersen
What does it mean to be human? What political, economic, religious, social, or sexual rights might be part of different people's working definitions? This course will look at both a) the historical development of conflicting theories of human rights and b) more contemporary debates about their ideal extent, their exercise, and their enforcement. Special topics will include debates over the meaning of the American and French Revolutions, the fight to design an International Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II, the history of organizations such as Amnesty International, and the controversy around UN events such as the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2000 and 2005 Millennium Summits in New York City.
Monday and Wednesday
Tuesday
GSWS 412-1 Queer Theory Stefanie Dunning
The goal of this course is to radically problematize the concepts of queer, gender and sexuality, fundamentally questioning the assumptions that attend the usage and deployment of these terms in quotidian discourse. This will not be your typical queer theory course as we will not move from the center to the margins, relegating racialized bodies to the position of reactionary actors responding to an epistemic erasure. Rather we will center these critiques as the basis for a new canon and thus grounds for theory. This is a gradute student section.
GSWS 447-1 Indigenous Women: From Aztlan to Oaxacalifornia Alanna Radlo-Dzur
How are Indigenous women represented in art? What is revealed in the differences between autochthonous representations and those created by outsiders? Focusing on images of Nahuatl-speaking women specifically, this course considers the intersecting roles of gender and power, labor and knowledge, sacrifice and sustenance in the conception of Nahua femininities from the pre-Hispanic period to the present day. Topics include the changing perception of Aztec female deities in New Spain and their Chicana reclamation, as well as historical figures such as Malinche, “tongue” of Hernán Cortés, and Doña Luz Jiménez, muse to the Mexican Muralists who fostered a cultural and linguistic revival in her community.
Tuesday and Thursday
Wednesday
Wednesday and Friday