USC Catalogue 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]
Gender and Sexuality Studies
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The Gender and Sexuality Studies major is designed for students drawn to the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality. In exploring how gender and sexuality have operated across time and cultures, students will engage with the approaches and methodologies of established disciplines: sociology, literature, history, political theory, religion; as well as interdisciplinary fields like queer studies and ethnic studies. Our curriculum analyzes how gender and sexuality operate in politics, popular culture, the workplace, health, science, sports, intimate life and the very production of knowledge itself. Our classes emphasize that gender and sexuality are not stand-alone categories but rather take shape through their intersection with outer relations of power, including race and ethnicity, religion, class and nationality. Majoring in Gender and Sexuality Studies prepares students for graduate school in the social sciences and the humanities as well as in law, business and education. In addition, the major and each of our several minors prepare students for work in governmental and non-governmental organizations, communications and the media, arts and public service.
Mark Taper Hall of Humanities 422
(213) 740-8286
FAX: (213) 740-6168
Email: gender@dornsife.usc.edu
Chair: Karen Tongson, PhD
Faculty
Dean’s Professor of Gender Studies and Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies: Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, PhD (Political Science)
USC Associates Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies: Jane Junn, PhD (Political Science)
Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies: Alice Echols, PhD* (History)
Professors: Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla, PhD (Latin American and Iberian Cultures); Michael Messner, PhD* (Sociology); Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, PhD (Sociology); Eliz Sanasarian, PhD (Political Science and International Relations); Lisa Schweitzer, PhD (Public Policy); Karen Tongson, PhD (English); Sherry Marie Velasco, PhD (Latin American and Iberian Cultures)
Director, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives: Joseph Hawkins, PhD (USC Libraries)
Associate Professors: Timothy Biblarz, PhD (Sociology); Sheila Briggs, PhD (Religion); Oneka Labennett, PhD (American Studies and Ethnicity); Sunyoung Park, PhD (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Francille R. Wilson, PhD (American Studies and Ethnicity)
Professor (Teaching): Diana Blaine, PhD
Associate Professor (Teaching): Atia Sattar, PhD
*Recipient of a university-wide or college teaching award.
Undergraduate Degrees
Internship
A special feature of the undergraduate program is the internship, a required class for majors in which students gain valuable job skills and professional connections. Students have chosen internships related to gender and sexuality at health clinic, Hollywood studios, law offices, and the ONE Archives, the world’s largest LGBTQ archive. The major also includes a capstone class, which offers students the opportunity to study intensively with a professor in her or his current area of research. Students should consult with the student services adviser in Gender and Sexuality Studies the semester before taking the internship class for assistance with placement. There is also a minor in gender and sexuality studies.
Minor in Gender and Social Justice
The minor in Gender and Social Justice is tailored for students interested in careers in the area of social policy. The minor is unique in its focus on the ways in which large-scale social and economic processes such as neoliberalism, globalization and economic precarity are connected and gendered. Topics include gender and violence; human trafficking; migration; reproductive rights; global human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; the prison state; prostitution and sex work. Students will examine the complexities of translating feminist theorizing into social policy.
Minor in LGBTQ Studies
The interdisciplinary minor in LGBTQ Studies establishes sexuality as a critical category of analysis for humanists and social scientists. The minor enables students to explore the shifting social organization and cultural meanings of same-sex sexuality and gender identification.
Graduate Degrees
Gender and Sexuality Studies also offers a graduate certificate, a credential that is increasingly necessary for tenure-track positions in gender and sexuality departments and in disciplines searching in the area of gender and sexuality. We encourage graduate students to participate in conferences and to organize campus lectures.
Bachelor’s Degree
Minor
Graduate Certificate
Gender and Sexuality Studies
- • SWMS 105g Identity Development of the Contemporary Female
- • SWMS 106g Identity Development of the Contemporary Male
- • SWMS 210gmw Social Analysis of Gender
- • SWMS 212gp Introduction to Gender and Sexuality: American Perspectives
- • SWMS 215gw Introduction to Gender and Sexuality: International Perspectives
- • SWMS 219gp Introduction to Feminist Theory
- • SWMS 221g Introduction to Queer Theory
- • SWMS 227gp Death and Gender in Urban Contexts
- • SWMS 300 Women in Antiquity
- • SWMS 305 Childhood, Birth and Reproduction
- • SWMS 306 Contemporary Issues in LGBTQ Studies
- • SWMS 308 Advanced Gender Theory
- • SWMS 310 Gender and Social Justice
- • SWMS 311 Gender and Sexuality Studies: Internship
- • SWMS 316 Gender and Global Issues
- • SWMS 321 Gender and Judaism
- • SWMS 324 Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- • SWMS 325 The Science of Sex Differences: A Gender and Sexuality Studies Approach
- • SWMS 330m Culture, Gender and Politics in South Asia
- • SWMS 335 Gender, Religion, and Sexuality
- • SWMS 336 Health, Gender and Ethnicity
- • SWMS 337 The LGBTQ Revolution and the Media
- • SWMS 344m Sexual/Textual Diversity
- • SWMS 349 Women and the Law
- • SWMS 350g Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy
- • SWMS 355 Transgender Studies
- • SWMS 358 U.S. Gay and Lesbian History
- • SWMS 367 Gender and Creative Labor
- • SWMS 370 Sex, Love, and Marriage: An Introduction to Kinship
- • SWMS 372 Human Sexuality
- • SWMS 374gm Women Writers in Europe and America
- • SWMS 375 Women and Gender in China: Past and Present
- • SWMS 378 Gender and Sexuality in Literary Theory
- • SWMS 380 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective
- • SWMS 381 Sex, Power, and Politics
- • SWMS 383 French Women Writers
- • SWMS 385m Men and Masculinity
- • SWMS 389 Gender, Sexuality and Food Cultures in the U.S.
- • SWMS 390 Special Problems
- • SWMS 392 Junior Seminar in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- • SWMS 395m Gender, Media and Communication
- • SWMS 402 Human Trafficking
- • SWMS 410 Senior Seminar in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- • SWMS 412 Gender, Sexuality and Media
- • SWMS 425 Queer Los Angeles
- • SWMS 430 Gender and Sexuality in Korean Literature and Culture
- • SWMS 434m Women and Aging: Psychological, Social and Political Implications
- • SWMS 435m Women in Society
- • SWMS 442m Women’s Spaces in History: “Hussies,” “Harems,” and “Housewives”
- • SWMS 445 Studies in Gender and Feminism
- • SWMS 456 Women in International Development
- • SWMS 467 Gender and the News Media
- • SWMS 490x Directed Research
- • SWMS 492 Gender and Sexuality Studies: Honors Thesis
- • SWMS 499 Special Topics
- • SWMS 504 Theories of Race, Class and Gender
- • SWMS 516 Seminar: Feminist Theory and Communication
- • SWMS 553 Race, Gender and Sexuality
- • SWMS 554 Women in Global Perspective
- • SWMS 556 Seminar on Women and the Family in China
- • SWMS 560 Feminist Theory
- • SWMS 567 Body, Power and Politics
- • SWMS 588 Seminar in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
- • SWMS 590 Directed Research
- • SWMS 593 Practicum in Teaching Gender Studies
- • SWMS 599 Special Topics
- • SWMS 610 Research and Proposal Writing in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- • SWMS 621 Gender Discrimination
- • SWMS 623 Family Law
- • SWMS 630 Studies in Gender
- • SWMS 640 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
- • SWMS 642 Sex and Gender in Society
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