All Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and SXL Courses

0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

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Number Title Codes
GSF 80S Special Topics in Writing
GSF 89S First-Year Seminar in Gender Studies
SXL 89S First Year Seminar
GSF 101S Gateway Seminar: Gender and Everyday Life CCI, EI, W, SS
GSF 110S Embodied Blackness EI, CZ, SS
SXL 116 Sexual Pleasure in the Modern World CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 122 History of Latinxs in the United States CCI, CZ, SS
GSF 160S Gateway Seminar: The Global Sixties: Race, Revolution, Sexuality CCI, R, W, ALP, CZ
SXL 160S Gateway Seminar: The Global Sixties: Race, Revolution, Sexuality CCI, R, W, ALP, CZ
GSF 188S Gateway Seminar: The Price of Sex: Gender and the Global Political Economy EI, R, W, CZ, SS
GSF 189 Women and Gender in the Middle East CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 190A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 190S Special Topics in Women's Studies
SXL 190S Seminars in Selected Topics
GSF 191FS Intersections of the Sexual Brain CCI, STS, CZ, NS
SXL 191FS Intersections of the Sexual Brain CCI, STS, CZ, NS
GSF 195 Critical Approaches to Global Issues CCI, W, CZ, SS
GSF 198 LGBTQ/Queer Cinema and Cultural Production ALP, SS
SXL 199S Introduction to LGBTQ Studies CZ
GSF 199S Thinking Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Theory CCI, SS
GSF 201 Race, Film, and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 202S Introduction to LGBTQ Studies CZ
GSF 206S Women, Gender, and Christian Origins CCI, W, CZ
GSF 209S Muslim Women Across the Ages CCI, W, CZ, SS
GSF 211S Gender and Slavery in the Americas CCI, EI, W, CZ
GSF 212 Gender in Dance and Theatre CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 214 Contemporary Israeli Cinema CCI, EI, ALP
GSF 216 Gender and Socialism CCI, EI, CZ, SS
GSF 217 Gender and Culture CCI, SS
GSF 220 Case Studies in Global Sexual and Reproductive Health CCI, STS, W, SS
GSF 221 Women at Work: Gendered Experience of Corporate Life CCI, STS, SS
GSF 222 Gender and Philosophy EI, CZ
GSF 222S Gender and Philosophy
GSF 223 Manifesto Workshop: Climate Change, Afro-/Solar Punk, and Performance CCI, EI, ALP
GSF 225 Women and the Political Process R, SS
GSF 226S Writing American Politics EI, R, W, CZ, SS
GSF 227S Politics of Pandemics EI, SS
GSF 229S Space-Body-Image CCI, ALP
GSF 230 Gender in the Economy CCI, EI, R, SS
GSF 232 Gender and Language CCI, R, SS
GSF 233S Documenting US Women's Health Post-Roe v. Wade EI, R, CZ
GSF 235S Clinical Issues for the LGBTQ Community CCI, SS
SXL 235S Clinical Issues for the LGBTQ Community CCI, SS
GSF 236S Selena: Music, Media, and the Mexican American Experience CCI, ALP
GSF 239 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History CCI, EI, W, CZ, SS
GSF 239D Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History CCI, EI, W, CZ, SS
GSF 240S Reading Like a Queer CCI, ALP
GSF 241S Bodies at Work EI, SS
GSF 242 Race, Gender, Class, & Computing CCI, STS, W, SS
GSF 243S Sound, Music, and Gender CCI, ALP
GSF 244S The Politics of Motherhood: Security Mothers, Soccer Moms, Movement Moms, and Beyond CCI, CZ
GSF 245S Women in Visual Arts, 1400-1800: Theory and History ALP, CZ
GSF 248S Book Publishing & Marketing: A Case Study of the Romance Fiction Industry CCI, W, ALP, CZ
GSF 251FS Gendering the Renaissance CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 253S Popular Arts and Culture in Africa CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 256S Climate, Culture and Identity CCI, EI, NS, SS
GSF 258S Women and Power in the Renaissance EI, W, CZ
GSF 259S Brazil, Race, Sex, and the Body CCI, CZ
GSF 260 The Actress: Celebrity and the Woman CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 261 From History to Fantasy: Medieval Religions in Film & Fiction CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 263S Representing Breast Cancer: Feminist Literature, Art, and Film CCI, W, ALP, CZ
SXL 264S Race, Gender, and Sexuality CCI, SS
GSF 265S Introduction to Digital Feminism R, STS, SS
GSF 266 Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 267S Picaras and Outlaws: Global South Feminisms CCI, ALP
GSF 269SA Gender and Immigration between Europe and the Middle East CCI, ALP
GSF 272S Sexuality and the Law CCI, EI, CZ, SS
SXL 272S Sexuality and the Law CCI, EI, CZ, SS
GSF 273S Gender and Media CCI, SS
GSF 274S Masculinities & Global Politics CCI, W, SS
GSF 275 Food, Farming, and Feminism CCI, EI, SS
GSF 276 Performance Art History and Theory CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 277D Global Art Since 1945 CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 277S Global Art Since 1945 CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 278 Sex/Gender - Nature/Nurture: Intersections of Biology and Society STS, NS
SXL 278 Sex/Gender - Nature/Nurture: Intersections of Biology and Society STS, NS
GSF 279 Melodrama East and West CCI, ALP
GSF 281 Avant-Garde Art 1900-1945 CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 283S Spanish Civil War and Its Effects Today: History, Gender, Literature, Film
GSF 285S Love, Sex, Madness in Caribbean Fiction and Film FL, ALP
GSF 288S Global South Asia: History and Culture of Diaspora CCI, CZ
GSF 290 Selected Topics in Women's Studies
SXL 290 Selected Topics
GSF 290A Selected Topics in Women's Studies
SXL 290S Seminars in Selected Topics
GSF 290S Selected Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 290SA Selected Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 291 Independent Study
GSF 293 Research Independent Study R
SXL 295S Sex Work: The Politics of Sexual Labor CCI, SS
GSF 296S Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture CCI, CZ
GSF 298S Global Humanitarianism CCI, EI, R, SS
GSF 299 Hip Hop and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 301S Theory Today CCI, ALP
GSF 314 Introduction to Critical Theory CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 315SA New York Scenes R, ALP
GSF 320 Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
GSF 320S Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
GSF 322S Sex, Politics and Feminist Philosophy EI, CZ
GSF 323SA Transnational Muslims in Germany: Politics of Migration, Religion, and Culture CCI, EI, CZ, SS
GSF 325S Understanding Mediation CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 333S Bad Behavior EI, STS, CZ, SS
GSF 335S Decolonization: Histories, Meanings, Struggles CCI, EI, CZ, SS
GSF 338S Women and Visual Media Studies CCI, ALP
GSF 339S Women and Film: Directors of the Diaspora CCI, ALP
GSF 350 Brains, Everywhere CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 350S Brains, Everywhere CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 352S Sex Work: The Politics of Sexual Labor CCI, SS
GSF 354S Intro to Psychoanalytic Theory ALP
GSF 355S Black Feminism and Fashion CCI, W, ALP
GSF 360S Feminist Activism: Social Movements CCI, W, CZ, SS
GSF 361 Money, Sex, Power CCI, CZ, SS
GSF 362S Gender and Popular Culture CCI, W, SS
GSF 363S Interpreting Bodies: Identity and Beyond CCI, SS
GSF 364S Race, Gender, and Sexuality CCI, SS
GSF 365 Gender and Political Theory CCI, SS
GSF 367 Feminist Ethics CCI, EI, SS
GSF 367S Feminist Ethics CCI, EI, SS
GSF 369 Transnational Feminism CCI, EI, R, SS
GSF 369S Transnational Feminism CCI, EI, R, SS
GSF 370S Queer Theory CCI, ALP, SS
GSF 375 Reproductive Ethics EI, STS, SS
GSF 376S Black Feminist Theory CCI, R, CZ, SS
GSF 382S Intimacies: Sexuality, Nation, and the State CCI, EI, W, CZ
GSF 383S Breakdown: Madness, Self, Fiction CCI, ALP
GSF 386S Politics of Sexuality CCI, R, W, CZ, SS
SXL 386S Politics of Sexuality CCI, R, W, CZ, SS
GSF 387 Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 390 Special Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 390S Special Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 399 Black Religion, Anguish, and Liberation CCI, EI, CZ
GSF 401 Gender and the Law CCI, EI, SS
GSF 402S James Baldwin and Toni Morrison CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 404S Ethics of Hope CCI, EI, SS
GSF 405S Indigenous Americas CCI, W, SS
GSF 412S Capstone Seminar - Globalization: Asia and Asian America CCI, R, STS, CZ, SS
GSF 432S Gender, Sex and Citizenship CCI, EI, SS
SXL 432S Gender, Sex and Citizenship CCI, EI, SS
GSF 438S Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction CCI, ALP, CZ
SXL 438S Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 439 Queer China CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 460S Weil, Beauvoir, Murdoch: Three Women Philosophers in Mid-Twentieth Century Europe CCI, EI, ALP
SXL 470S Queer Theory CCI, ALP, SS
GSF 490 Advanced Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 490S Advanced Topics in Women's Studies
GSF 493 Honors Independent Study R
GSF 494 Honors Independent Study R
GSF 499S Senior Seminar in Women's Studies CCI, R, W
GSF 501S History of Sexuality CCI, CZ, SS
GSF 502S Queer China CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 510S New Directions in Asian American Studies
GSF 511S Dystopia, Speculation, and the Transhuman: Octavia Butler CCI, EI, ALP
GSF 521S Black Ethnographers EI, SS
GSF 526S Crafting Ethnography CCI, EI, SS
GSF 541S Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Science STS, CZ
GSF 584S Global History of Medicine CCI, EI, STS, CZ
GSF 590 Topics in Feminist Studies
GSF 590S Selected Topics in Feminist Studies
GSF 602S Blackness, Social Death, and the Volatile Sacred CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 609S Transpacific and Global Asia/America: Connecting Divided Histories and Knowledges CCI, ALP
GSF 611S Film Feminisms CCI, ALP, CZ
GSF 650S Black-Queer CCI, R, ALP
GSF 682S Simone de Beauvoir EI, ALP, CZ
GSF 701S Foundations in Feminist Theory
GSF 707S Precarity and Affect
GSF 709S Science, Medicine, and the Body
GSF 732S Women in Art: Early Modern Women Artists, Patrons, and Networks
GSF 740S Critical Genealogies
GSF 750S Gender and Aesthetic Theory
GSF 765S Existentialism, Nihilism, and Religion
GSF 771S Graduate Seminar: Theories of Corporeality
GSF 780S Teaching Race, Teaching Gender
GSF 820 Consent: Sex and Governance in the Age of Revolution
GSF 860S Major Figures in Feminist Thought
GSF 890 Advanced Topics
GSF 890S Advanced Topics in Feminist Studies
GSF 891 Independent Study
GSF 960S Interdisciplinary Debates (Topics)