Courses

For a full list of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality course descriptions, see the University Bulletin.

Academic Year Fall Semester Spring Semester
2020-21 Fall 2020 TBA

Covid-19 Update: All WGS graduate courses, including those offered through GCWS, are online for Fall 2020.

Graduate students may also enroll in cross-registered courses with Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern, Simmons, Tufts, and UMass Boston through the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women and Sexuality (GCWS). The current list of courses through the consortium for Academic Year 2020-21 is located here. 

Core Courses

WGS 205a - Graduate Foundational Course in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

An advanced interdisciplinary inquiry into the history, theories, concepts, and practices that have formed women's, gender, and sexuality studies as a scholarly field, with particular attention to current intellectual trends and critical controversies.

WGS 208b - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Seminar

Examines theories and practices of women's, gender, and sexuality studies as produced in various disciplines and in interdisciplinary ways, to offer students a historical and contemporary awareness, and to allow students to understand and critically analyze feminist scholarship across a range of disciplines. By the end of class, students will produce a set of research questions or proposal that will help them conceptualize their own independent research projects.