Graduate Course Offerings

Please navigate below to discover which Graduate Seminars have been, will be, and currently are offered by the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department

Current Offerings

Current Offerings | Spring 2026

WGSST 7701 - Feminist Inquiry II
Dr. Linda Mizejewski
In person, Tuesdays, 11:15am - 2:00pm

WGSS 7701 is a follow-up to WGSS 7700, which provided the background and theoretical frameworks of feminist thought. 7701 can also serve as a stand-alone course for any student who wants to pursue feminist scholarship; 7700 is not a prerequisite. 7701 explores feminist inquiry as a practice, ideology, and interrogation of traditional disciplinary approaches. The purpose of this seminar is to have students reflect on their research practices and questions, explore the implications and processes of engaging with other scholars, and understand the constraints and contradictions of working within institutions. Three writing workshops will give students opportunities to improve their writing skills.

WGSST 7760 - Feminist Methodology
Dr. Jennifer Suchland
In person, Mondays, 11:15-2:00 pm

This is a graduate seminar in feminist methods. Rather than a catalogue of methods as techniques from which one can choose, we explore some of the stakes of knowledge production, including questions about authorship, accountability, and accessibility. We will think about how research methods can contribute to and unsettle colonial institutions (such as universities, disciplines, and curriculum) as well as ways to navigate strategies that “engage” communities traditionally excluded from academia. In addition to critical thinking about methods, the course assignments ask you to articulate your methodological claims/concerns and practice individual and collective knowledge creation.

WGSST 8800.01 - Feminist Perspectives on Ableism
Dr. Octavian Robinson
In person, Wednesdays, 2:15-5:00 pm

Pivoting away from disability to focus on ableism, the overarching focus of our inquiry is to understand ableism as a structure of power and how it, as historian Susan Burch writes, “shape-shifts…and is connected to other systems of power...” Grounded in disability justice, our conversations will analyze the complexities of identity, subjectivity, power, carcerality, and societal structures as undergirded by ableism. We engage with recent scholarship and community discourses at the nexus of critical disability theory and feminist studies. *Counts for the interdisciplinary specialization in disability studies.

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Upcoming Courses

Former Offerings

Current Offerings | Spring 2025

WGSST 7701 - Feminist Inquiry II
Dr. Linda Mizejewski
In person, Tuesdays, 11:15am - 2:00pm
Class number 28055

WGSST 7702 - Feminist Methods
Dr. Jennifer Suchland
In person, Mondays, 2:15-5:00 pm
Class number 35182

WGSST 8800.02 - Feminist Legal Studies
Dr. Lyn Tjon Soei Len
In person, Wednesdays, 2:15-5:00 pm

This seminar explores feminist interventions in law and examines how law shapes, enforces, and naturalizes power dynamics. Drawing on diverse feminisms (including critical race feminism, feminist abolition) the course grapples with the law’s relation to feminist pursuits of a more just world. We explore legalism as a necessary tool for marginalized people, alongside law as a tool of oppression against which radical feminist practices seek transformation and abolition. This seminar is ideal for those interested in gender studies, legal studies, and the relation of law to feminist movements.

Trans & Queer Theories Special Topics Seminar

WGSST 8800.04 - Trans & Queer Theories
Dr. Jian Chen
In person, Thursdays, 11:15am - 2:00pm

This seminar reflects on the many contributions and directions of trans and queer studies at the university from the late twentieth century to the first quarter of the twenty-first century. What are the expansive and nonlinear “origins” of queer studies and trans studies and the concerns, subjects, and methodologies that activated their establishment through university disciplines? We still start with some of the more recognized inaugural moments for queer and trans studies, including queer literary and cultural theories in the 1980s and 1990s and transgender/transsexual “autotheory” in the 1990s, while broadening our understanding of the lineages of feminist, racial, indigenous, and ethnic critique, cultural work, and political activism that shape queer and trans studies from their earliest moments onward. We will discuss the continued development and transformation of trans and queer studies to the present through a capacious intersectional lens in dynamic relationship to shifting social conditions and identities.