Women Gender and Sexuality Summer Courses

WGSS 3001 L21 - Queer Theories
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: TTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

An introduction to the academic discipline of queer theory, focusing on foundational thinkers (e.g., Butler, Foucault, Sedgwick, and others as well as their philosophical and psychoanalytic precursors and interlocutors. The course will also address selected issues currently under discussion in the discipline. These may include the role of activism, the relationship between queer theory and feminism theory, attention to race, and intersections with postcolonial theory.

Instructor: Mowlabocus, Sharif
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AMST, ASAM, ASHS, ASLT, CCUS, COLI, INST, ISIN, PJGS, PJST, PLUR

WGSS 3002 PW1 - Feminist and Women's Studies
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online: TTh, 05:30PM-06:00PM

This course provides a historical perspective on feminism and women’s experience, including 19th and 20th-century American movements for women’s rights as well as texts that influenced the development of feminist thought and theory. It is one of three required courses for WGSS program.

CRN: 15047

Instructor: Farland, Maria
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ADVD, AMST, ASHS, HIAH, HIST, HIUL, PJGS, PJST

COMC 2277 V11 - Media and Sexuality
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

By all accounts, we have witnessed an explosion of LGBTQ representation in the media over the last decade. This course critically examines the terms of this new visibility and inquires into the exclusions that accompany the recognition of certain queer and trans subjects. Through the study of media, film and popular culture, we will explore how representations of sex and sexuality are also central to the construction of ideas about race, class, gender, and nation.

CRN: 14886

Instructor: Moorman, Jennifer
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: CCUS, CELP, EP3, PJGS, PJST, WGSS

COMC 4380 L21 - Media and Moral Philosophy
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: TTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This seminar examines public discourse through the lens of moral philosophy. Debate in the public sphere often uses moral narratives to make sense of difficult issues or events. When something grips the national attention—such as a school shooting, a hotly contested election, or an environmental disaster—we don’t just need to know what happened, we also need to grapple with why. We want to understand whether and how this changes who we are as a society and our place in history. To this end, news and social media create diverse and often contradictory narratives about who is blameworthy and who is a victim, about what moral goods are at stake and the best way to protect and promote them. Understanding these narratives in moral terms is crucial to becoming an ethically informed public citizen because it helps us grasp the deeply human stakes underlying what may often seem like endless newsfeed chatter. Each iteration of the course focuses on a different issue. In this version of the course, we will be looking at the moral narratives around gender.

CRN: 14931

Instructor: Schwartz, Margaret
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, ASAM, ASRP, CCMS, CCUS, CMST, EP4, VAL, WGSS

ENGL 4403 PW1 - Extraordinary Bodies
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

From freak shows to the Americans with Disabilities Act, people with non-normative bodies have received special, and not always welcome, attention from their peers. This course will study the experience of people with anomalous bodies from a variety of personal and social perspectives.

CRN: 15059

Instructor: Sanchez, Rebecca
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AMST, ASLT, COLI, DISA, EP4, VAL, WGSS

SOCI 3610 R11 - The Family
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill, Hybrid: TTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

The study of American family patterns within the context of cultural variations throughout the world. This course will examine past myths about the American family; present trends in American family life, such as changing sex roles, new concepts of child-rearing, and adjustment of kin networks to metropolitan settings; and newly emerging forms of marriage and the family.

CRN: 14896

Instructor: Rodier, Ann
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, ASHS, ASSC, WGSS

THEO 3715 PW1 - Classic Islamic Texts
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

This course explores classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary texts of Islam, including the Quran, Hadith, and philosophical, historical, mystical, ritual, and legal texts.

CRN: 15054

Instructor: Kueny, Kathryn
3 credits

Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or HPRH 1001 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1007 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1010 or HPLC 1401
Fordham course attributes: GLBL, HHPA, HUST, INST, ISAS, ISIN, ISME, MEST, MVST, MVTH, REST, STSN, STXT, THHC, WGSS

Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only. Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).

Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.