Academic Courses Related to Gender
Wake Forest University continually updates its course offerings and new classes arrive every semester. While this page offers an extensive list of classes per department covering topics of gender and sexuality, use this resource as reference point. Please use the links below to explore the websites of each department to check out the most recent course catalog and let us know if you have any questions.
AES 310 Race, Class, and Gender in a Color-blind Society.
Check out more offerings on the American Ethnic Studies departmental home page!
ANT 332 Anthropology of Gender
ANT 333 Language of Gender
Check out more offerings on the Anthropology departmental home page!
ART 109 Architecture of Race, Gender, & Biopolitics
ART 351 Topics in Gender and Art
BIB 642 Women and Slaves in the New Testament
BIB 669 Gender and Family in Early Christianity
CLA 252 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Antiquity
Check out more offerings on the Classics departmental home page!
CNS 767 Human Sexuality
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EAL 241 Gender in Japanese Literature
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EDU 310 Race, Class, and Gender in a Color-blind Society
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ENG 326 Telling Women’s Lives: Writing about Entrepreneurs, Activists, and Community Leaders
ENG 338A Girls Gone Wild: A Century of Misbehavior
ENG 338/339/638/639/640 Studies in Gender and Literature
ENG 778 Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture
Check out more offerings on the English departmental home page!
GES 390 German Women Writers
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HIS 691 Women and Christianity
HST 114 Gender and Sexuality in World History
HST 336 Gender and Power in African History
HST 337/637 Women and Gender in Early America
HST 338/638 Sexuality, Race, and Class in the United States since 1850
HST 358 Race, Gender and the Courts
HST 359/659 Prostitutes, Machos, and Travestis: Sex and Gender in Latin American History
HST 388/688 Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Middle East
HST 636 Gender in African History
Check out more offerings on the History departmental home page!
HMN 292 Environmentalism, the Humanities, and Gender
HMN 385A Space, Place, and Gender
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ITA 329 Love, Gender, and Diversity in Italian Epic
ITA 336 Italian Women and the City
LAW 647 Gender and the Law
LAW 651 Sexual Identity and the Law
LIN 333 Language and Gender
Check out more offerings on the Linguistics departmental home page!
MIN 642 Gender and Leadership
MIN 657 Women & Preaching Life
MUS 208 Women and Music
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POL 229/629 Women, Gender, and Politics
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PSY 265 Human Sexuality
PSY 359/PSY 659 Psychology of Gender
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REL 318/618 Feminist and Contemporary Interpretation of the New Testament
REL 388/888 South Asian Women: Religion, Culture, and Politics
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SOC 305 Gender in Society
SOC 309 Sexuality and Society
SOC 330 Gender, Social Relationships, and Well-Being
SOC 354 Women in Poverty in the U.S.
SOC 611 Women in Professions
Check out more offerings on the Sociology departmental home page!
SPA 649/653 Contemporary Women Novelists and their Female Characters
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SPI 673 Spirituality and Gender
THE 373 Women Playwrights
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THS 625 Sexuality, Religion, and the Law
WGS 101 Window on Women’s, Gender and Sexual Studies
WGS 105 Film Lab in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 123 The Feminist Book Society
WGS 125 PREPARE
WGS 150 Perspectives in Gender and Sexuality
WGS 221/622 Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 230 Studies in Gender and Literature
WGS 234 Sexual Revolution! Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1950-1980
WGS 265 Multicultural Women and the Politics of Resistance in the U.S.
WGS 299 Theory and Practice of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 310 Gender, Power, and Violence
WGS 326/626 Telling Women’s Lives: Writing about Entrepreneurs, Activists, and Community Leaders.
WGS 329/629 Politics of Gender and Sexuality: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
WGS 330/630 Gender and the Politics of Health
WGS 333/633 Sexual Politics in the United States
WGS 345A Girls Gone Wild: A Century of Misbehavior
WGS 358 Mothers and Daughters
WGS 373/619 Women Playwrights
WGS 380/680 Sexuality, Law, and Power
WGS 381/681 Gender and the Law
WGS 383/683 Race, Gender and the Courts
WGS 388/688 South Asian Women: Religion, Culture, and Politics
WGS 397/ 697 Public Engagement in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 399 Research Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 399A/699AG Re-thinking Space, Place, and Gender
WGS 602 Studies in Gender and Literature
WGS 610 Gender, Power, and Violence
WGS 650 Biocultural Perspectives on Women and Aging
Check out more offerings on the Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies departmental home page!