Dr. Christie Launius, Department Head

Professors: Bhattacharya, Broyles-Gonzalez, Cooper, Depaoli, Dodd, Gonzáles, Hedrick, Janette, Kurtz, LeHew, Muturi, Nel, Spears, Tatonetti, and Wood
Associate Professors: Baird, Breen, Brimhall, Chronister, Falcone, Fritch, Garni, Hubler, Kanost, Karlin, Knoblauch, Leader-Picone, Longmuir, Luly, Matlock, McCrea, Pakaste, Roshanravan, Tolar, Tushabe, Vallenga, and Wheatley
Assistant Professors: Antonioli, Bardham, Bender, Levitt, Padilla Carroll, Sarmiento, Shapkina, Weaver, and Yelich-Biniecki
Instructors: Borello, Earles, Franchitti, and Gott

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785-532-5738
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E-mail: GWSS@k-state.edu
www.k-state.edu/GWSS

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 

faculty and students analyze personal experience and social institutions as they shape and are shaped by gender, sex, sexuality, race/ethnicity, class, (dis)-ability and global location. This analysis enables both an understanding of oppression as well as a vision of social equity and justice. Courses examine histories and theories that illuminate the origins and dynamics of discrimination; legal and political efforts to work for social change both within the U.S. and globally; and the achievements and leadership of women, LGBT populations and people of color.

GWSS is an interdisciplinary field, offering course in 18 other departments and programs across the university. Faculty members foster interactive learning and encourage students to consider their own experience in relation to course content.

The department offers an undergraduate major, minor, and graduate certificate in gender, women, and sexuality studies, and an undergraduate minor in queer studies.

Programs

• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies B.A./B.S.

• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Minor
• Queer Studies Minor

Courses

• GWSS 105 - Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 275 - Gender and Sex in Science Fiction
• GWSS 300 - Selected Studies of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 305 - Advanced Fundamentals of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 325 - Queer Studies: Concepts, History, and Politics
• GWSS 335 - Transgender Studies
• GWSS 350 - Gender in American Film
• GWSS 380 - Women and Global Social Change
• GWSS 405 - Resistance and Movements for Social Change
• GWSS 410 - Feminist Thought
• GWSS 435 - Race/Sex/Science
• GWSS 450 - The Stories of a Young Girl
• GWSS 460 - Coming Out and Sexual Identity
• GWSS 480 - Seminar in Gender, Environment and Justice
• GWSS 499 - Honors Project
• GWSS 500 - Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 505 - Independent Study in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 510 - Research Methods in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 550 - Women and Popular Culture
• GWSS 560 - Intersections of Violence & Resistance
• GWSS 605 - Social Change: Field-Experience
• GWSS 610 - Capstone Seminar in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 700 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 784 - Internship in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• GWSS 799 - Independent Study for Graduate Students or Advanced Undergraduate Students