Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

2026–2027

252 courses

GSWS 0002Gender and Society
GSWS 0003Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory
GSWS 0011Study of a Woman Writer
GSWS 0020First Year Seminar: Gender and Politics
GSWS 0023Study of a Theme Related to Gender & Sexuality
GSWS 0031Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East
GSWS 0050Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
GSWS 0051Writing the Self: Life-Writing, Fiction, Representation
GSWS 0087Desire and Deception in Medieval Erotic Literature
GSWS 0090First-Year Seminar: Italian American Studies
GSWS 0092First-Year Seminar: Italian Film and Media Studies
GSWS 0093First-Year Seminar: Race and Ethnicity in Italy
GSWS 0094First-Year Seminar: Italian Gender Studies
GSWS 0095First-Year Seminar: Italian Fashion
GSWS 0096First-Year Seminar: Italian Visual Studies
GSWS 0097First-Year Seminar: Italian Foods and Cultures
GSWS 0098First-Year Seminar: Italian Literature
GSWS 0099First-Year Seminar: Italian Innovations
GSWS 0228Studying Sex
GSWS 0320First Year Seminar: Black Queer Traditions
GSWS 0333First Year Seminar: Queer History and Theory
GSWS 0400Womanism and Identity Politics in the Realm of Hip-Hop
GSWS 0500Introduction to Disability Studies
GSWS 0511Global Inequalities: A Comparative History of Caste and Race.
GSWS 0513Benjamin Franklin Seminar: 19th-Century American Literature
GSWS 0527The Aftermath of Slavery: Language, Storytelling, Experimentation
GSWS 0531Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Gender, Sexuality, and Literature
GSWS 0630Women in Modern Iranian Literature and Cinema
GSWS 0700Iranian Cinema: Gender, Politics and Religion
GSWS 0776Young Adult Literature
GSWS 0786Provocateurs: Feminists Onstage
GSWS 0800Men & Masculinities in America
GSWS 0860Is This Really Happening? Performance and Contemporary Political Horizons
GSWS 0982Non-Major Elective Credit Abroad
GSWS 0993Non-Major Transfer Credit
GSWS 1010Freud: The Invention of Psychoanalysis
GSWS 1011The Family
GSWS 1025Shakespeare Now
GSWS 1027Sex and Representation
GSWS 1041The Romantic Period
GSWS 1042Population and Society
GSWS 1043Literature Before 1660
GSWS 1060The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines
GSWS 1100Women in Jewish Literature
GSWS 1101Sociology of Gender
GSWS 1122Witches, Rebels, and Prophets: People on the Margins in Early America
GSWS 1131Crime and Criminality in Early America
GSWS 1146Queer German Cinema
GSWS 1172Bodies, Race and Rights: Sex and Citizenship in Modern American History
GSWS 1180The Art of Revolution
GSWS 1190Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
GSWS 1200Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
GSWS 1201African-American Literature
GSWS 1202Divinities, Diviners and Divinations: Religions of the African Diaspora
GSWS 1215Love, Lust and Violence in The Middle Ages
GSWS 1242Love and Loss in Japanese Literary Traditions: In Translation
GSWS 1260Latinx Literature and Culture
GSWS 1279Women in Theatre and Performance
GSWS 1300Theories of Gender and Sexuality
GSWS 1310Gender, Sexuality, and Literature
GSWS 1330Writing Women, Part 1
GSWS 1331Writing Women, Part 2: Sexuality and Power, 1700-1799
GSWS 1351Contemporary Fiction & Film in Japan
GSWS 1361Sex Matters: Politics of Sex in the Modern Middle East
GSWS 1400Asian American Gender and Sexualities
GSWS 1410Asian American Women: Nation, Self and Identity
GSWS 1411Queer Chinas: Sexuality and Politics in the Sinophone World
GSWS 1427Wild Things: Children’s Literature and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
GSWS 1490Law and Social Policy on Sexuality and Reproduction
GSWS 1500Introduction to Disability Studies: Form, Text, and Practices
GSWS 1550Holding Space and Making Place: Creating Community in West Philadelphia Schools
GSWS 1600Trans Studies
GSWS 1680Sex and Socialism
GSWS 1761Sex and Empire
GSWS 1765Human, Humanity, Humanitarianism: A Global History from Abolitionism to USAID
GSWS 1800The Sexuality of Modern Art
GSWS 1861Othello
GSWS 2000Topics In Classicism and Literature: Epic Tradition
GSWS 2021Topics in Renaissance Literature
GSWS 2072Modernism Seminar on Gender & Sexuality