(Also offered as HIST 5555.)

Professional orientation in the field of WGSS and potential future workplaces. Topics include starting an MA project, advice on mentoring and networking, preparing for the job market, and confronting institutional barriers to diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Theoretical underpinnings of diverse feminist methodologies and interdisciplinary scholarship. Contemporary debates in the field and ethical dilemmas faced by researchers using feminist, interdisciplinary and intersectional epistemologies. Relationship to critical race, indigenous, and queer methodologies. Guided experience in designing and producing feminist scholarship.

Overview of feminist and critical epistemologies and pedagogical tools for use in interdisciplinary classrooms in varied academic contexts.

A collaborative seminar focused on supporting students in completing their MA project. Opportunity to reflect on the WGSS knowledge and skills learned and future goals.

Topics of current interest from a feminist perspective.

With a change in topics, may be repeated for credit.

(Also offered as POLS 5410.) Major debates at the core of black feminist theory, emphasizing the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression uphold and sustain each other in contemporary U.S. politics.

(Also offered as SOCI 5613.) Analyses of theories that simultaneously take into account dynamics of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, and other dimensions of social inequality and difference. How scholars research intersectionality, the limits and possibilities of different approaches, and the types of methodologies that are most effective for intersectional analysis.

(Also offered as SOCI 5614.) Sexuality as an axis of citizenship in diverse national and international contexts. Analysis of access to citizenship, relationship recognition, marriage rights, heteronormativity and compulsory heterosexuality, trans citizenship claims, immigration, asylum, sex work, reproductive rights, sex education, racism and racialization, colonialism, and social justice.

An examination of care and caregiving across different threads of feminist scholarship in sociology, science and technology studies (STS), and disability studies. Key topics include how care is raced and gendered, disability as an axis of inequality, and how approaches to care have evolved, particularly in feminist disability studies/disability justice.