Exciting Fall 2022 Courses in WGSS

Are you still wondering what to take this Fall?

Check out these great courses with open seats in WGSS. We have both in person and online options. 

LGBT448L: Black Queer Studies (Blended Format)
MW 11:00am - 11:50am SPH 0307
F 11:00am - 11:50am Online
Sydney Lewis

Black Queer Studies is an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to LGBTQ+ Studies and Race Studies. In this course, we will center Blackness to meditate upon the overlapping and interwoven categories of race, gender, and sexuality with the goal of decoupling whiteness from LGBTQ+ studies and decoupling heterosexuality from Black studies. We will look at texts from the social sciences and humanities as well as some short literature and film in order to trace topical trajectories of Black queer thought. 

WGSS 360: Caribbean Women
TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm Online
Michelle Rowley

This interdisciplinary course offers an analysis of the lives and experiences of women across the Caribbean region. We will draw on film, literature, policy, poetry, music, and folklore to examine Caribbean women's roles in individual, national, social, and cultural formations. Special emphasis on contemporary women's issues and organizations.

WGSS 370: Black Feminist Thought 
MW 10:100 am - 11:15 am Key 0116

Zenzele Isoke 

What do bell hooks, Hortense Spillers and adrienne maree brown have in common...?

Beyonce!

This course introduces students to black feminist politics, writing, social and cultural analysis, and research. Throughout the trimester, the contemporary history of black feminist thought is conceptualized as a transformative praxis that centers the intellectual and cultural radicalism of African descended women both inside and outside of the academy. Centering black women’s lived experiences and social and political theorizing , we historicize and contextualize theories of black feminist standpoint, intersectionality, and, lastly, decolonial poetics.

WGSS 488B/ WMST 698B: Health Inequality and Social Determinants: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Matter       

F 11:00 am-1:30 pm SQH 4103
Ruth Zambrana  (rzambran@umd.edu) 

Requirements are senior standing and basic understanding of research and scientific literature including any discipline for example social sciences, public health, public policy, or STEM  sciences  with an interest in inequality across the life course. Can also be taken as a graduate course as WMST 698B.

Please email wgss@umd.edu and rzambran@umd.edu to request permission to register for the course.