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  • FG110 Introduction to Feminist and Gender Studies

    Introduces the theories and methodologies constitutive of Feminist & Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that examines the historical, contemporary, and always changing relationships between power and markers of identity, such as gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, dis/ability, and citizenship. Informed by the legacies of the civil rights, student, labor, LGBTQ, and women’s movements, this course encourages reflection on student participation in institutions of power and privilege, as well as their role in affecting change.

  • GS100 Bridge Scholar Programs: Public Enemy Number One: The War on Drugs Blacks & Latinos

    In June 1971, President Richard Nixon officially declared a “War on Drugs,” stating that drug abuse was “public enemy number one.” Subsequently, he increased federal funding for drug-control agencies and introduced mandatory prison sentencing for drug-related crimes. More specifically, he created the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In its early stages, the DEA boasted 1,470 special agents and a budget of less than $75 million. Today, the agency has nearly 5,000 agents and a budget of $2.03 billion. Less than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan reinforced and expanded many of Nixon’s policies. For example, in 1984, First Lady Nancy Reagan launched the “Just Say No” campaign, which claimed to educate children about the dangerous implications of drug use; and in 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which established mandatory minimum prison sentences for some drug offenses. These efforts have been heavily criticized along the lines of racism, because, as Steven W. Thrasher notes, “Drugs have long been used to scapegoat Black and Latino people, even as study after study finds that white youth use drugs more than their non-white peers and white people are the more likely to have contraband on them when stopped by police.” Despite this, U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III recently expressed a desire to “bring back” the “war on drugs.” Hence, through various interdisciplinary frameworks—such as Black Feminist Studies, Anthropology, Critical Race Feminism, Borderlands Studies, Critical Media Studies, and Latinx Studies—this course examines these and other debates regarding drug trafficking and abuse in the U.S. and Mexico, especially concerning race, class, gender, and other social, cultural, and political markers and particularly considering the escalation of the drug war in the post 9/11 climate of national securitization.

  • Faculty Executive Committee

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  • FG214 Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin

    Through myriad multidisciplinary critical perspectives—such as Black Feminism, Transnational Feminism, and Critical Race Theory—this course examines how the identities of Black, Jewish, Turkish, and LGBTQI communities, as well as (im)migrants, refugees, victims of Neo-Nazi terrorism and police brutality, and other marginalized people are constructed in Germany, particularly how these constructions are dependent on racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression. Additionally, it examines how these people and communities resist and reproduce these narratives as they construct their subjectivities.

  • FG110 Introduction to Feminist and Gender Studies

    Introduces the theories and methodologies constitutive of Feminist & Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that examines the historical, contemporary, and always changing relationships between power and markers of identity, such as gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, dis/ability, and citizenship. Informed by the legacies of the civil rights, student, labor, LGBTQ, and women’s movements, this course encourages reflection on student participation in institutions of power and privilege, as well as their role in affecting change.

  • FG200 Feminist Theory

    Surveys and historicizes feminist theories, including, but not limited to, Black feminism, Transnational feminism, Xicanisma, Marxist feminism, Transfeminism, and Ecofeminism. This course encourages students to understand feminist theory as a multivocal intellectual project grounded in shifting geopolitical conjunctures.

  • PY100 Introduction to Psychology: Bases of Behavior

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  • FG240 Hip Hop and Feminism

    Feminist intellectuals have long-studied hip hop’s theories and politics, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. Beyond simply locating oppression within hip hop culture—music, art, fashion, dance, film, and other elements—these intellectuals have examined the impetuses for and implications of these problematics. Additionally, they recognize hip hop’s resistive and generative qualities, especially how it has challenged the denigration of marginalized communities for over 40 years. This course examines this contention and contradiction, especially considering how these problems have been revised, resisted, rejected and reproduced within and outside of hip hop culture.

  • PY116/PY408 Cultural Psychology

    PY116: Cultural Psychology. Introduces students to the theories and methods of studying culture and psychology. Focus is on psychological research that links culture to mental processes and the comparative study of cultural effects. Several topics are covered: development and socialization, self and personality, diversity and multicultural ideologies, ethnic and racial identities, bi/multiculturalism and intersectionality, stereotyping and bias, enculturation and acculturation, intergroup contact, motivation, cognition and perception, judgement and decision making, close relationships, emotion and mental health, and morality and justice. Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures or Social Inequality. PY408: Topical Seminar: Cultural Psychology. An in-depth consideration of the theories, methods, and the contemporary debates of studying culture and psychology. In addition to building a foundation of research that links culture to mental processes and the comparative study of cultural effects, student will have additional workshops to study details of cultural psychology methodologies and will propose an empirical research project in cultural psychology. Additional research trips with local researchers in cultural

  • CC106 Critical Inquiry Seminar: "Knowledge, Identity, and Power"

    Investigates the dynamics and consequences of power, how power is mediated through identities, and the relationship of these issues to the representation and production of knowledge. Also examines the theories and methodologies constitutive of Feminist & Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that examines the historical, contemporary, and always changing relationships between power and markers of identity, such as gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, dis/ability, and citizenship. Informed by the legacies of the civil rights, student, labor, LGBTQ, and women’s movements, this course encourages reflection on student participation in institutions of power and privilege, as well as their role in affecting change.

  • Pre-NSO Modules and NSO Attendance Quizzes – 2020

    Pre-NSO Modules and NSO Attendance Quizzes

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