# 2014-2015 Pre-Approved Courses The following FAS courses were pre-approved for WGS concentration credit in the 2014-2015 academic year.If you would like to petition to count a course that does not appear on this list, please submit a copy of the syllabus to the director of undergraduate studies along with a completed [petition form](/files/petition_form.pdf), which is available on the website or in the front office. ### Fall 2014 [African and African American Studies 108x](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/23117): Exploring Race and Community in the Digital World (Martin) [African and African American Studies 111](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/22792): Spectral Fictions, Savage Phantasms: Race and Gender in Anti-Racist South African and African American Drama, Fiction and Film (Jeyifo) [African and African American Studies 117x](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/10829): Of Mean Streets and Jungle Fevers: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee (Jeyifo) [African and African American Studies 178](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/39051): Health, Society, and Subjectivity in the American Context (Ralph) [Anthropology 1606](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/58559): Being Asian American: Representations and Realities (Yano) [Anthropology 1988](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/17287): Kinship, Citizenship, and Belonging: Seminar (Meiu) [Economics 980x](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/13231): Economics of Work and Family (Goldin) [English 145a](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/25412): Jane Austen’s Fiction and Fans (Lynch) [French 180](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/4566): "The Words to Say It": Women Writing in French from Colette to Satrapi (Jardine) [Freshman Seminar 22l](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/10823): Justice in Health: Ethics of Public Health in the Contemporary World (Bayoumi) [Freshman Seminar 35w](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/54211): Sex, Gender, Shakespeare (Graham) [Freshman Seminar 48e](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/96979): Health and Mental Health in Everyday Life (Ruggie) [History 2426](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/53894): Topics in the History of Gender and Sexuality: Research Seminar (Cott) [History 2474](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/71302): Law and Social Reform in 20th Century U.S. History: Seminar (Brown-Nagin) [History and Literature 90bc](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/55761): We the Readers: Reading Communities in Early America (Brady) [History of Science 108](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/81052): Bodies, Sexualities, and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East (Ragab) [History of Science 130](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/17927): Heredity and Reproduction (Richardson) [Japanese Literature 271](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/76892): Topics in Gender and Culture in Japan: Seminar (Yoda) [Religion 1060](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/3293): Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (Clooney) [Religion 1554](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/6508): The Religious History of American Women: Seminar (Braude) [Religion 1842](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/4518): Religion, Gender, Identity: Readings in Arab and Muslim Autobiography: Seminar (Ahmed) [Religion 2488](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/69539): Queer Theology, Queer Religions (Jordan) [Religion 46](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/8015): The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World (Nasrallah) [Sociology 158](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/98211): Sex, Gender, Sexuality (Meadow) [Sociology 165](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/8272): Inequalities in Health Care (Ruggie) [Sociology 22](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/7997): Men, Women, and Work (Brinton) ### Spring 2015 [Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 52](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/13153): Repression and Expression: Sexuality, Gender, and Language in Fin-de-siecle Literature and Art (Burgard) [Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 61](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/8181): The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit (Schlossberg) [African and African American Studies 109](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/41141): Using Film for Social Change (Lipper) [African and African American Studies 153x](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/71008):[ ](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/71008)Hiphop America: Hiphop Feminism From "Ladies First" to "Ride or Die" (Morgan)[ ](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/71008) [Classical Studies 152](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/78541)[: The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece (Weiss)](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/96803) [Culture and Belief 61](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/61168): Gender and Science: From Marie Curie to Gamergate (Richardson) [English 154](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/5928): Literature and Sexuality (Burt) [Folklore and Mythology 154](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/67054): Folklore and Gender (Lowthorp) [Folklore and Mythology 172](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/33788): Quilts and Quiltmaking (Lufkin) [German 105](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/77012): Women's Voices in German Medieval Literature (Kirakosian) [Government 94oa](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/2053): Inequality and American Democracy (Skocpol) [Harvard Divinity School 2021](http://div.hds.harvard.edu/academics/courses/course-detail.cfm?CrsNumber=2021§ion=01&term=Spring&year=2015): Motherhood in Jewish, Culture, Law, and Historical Experience (Greenblatt) [History 1014](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/66383): Gender, Empire and the Politics of Appearance (Clutario) [History 1462](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/83347): History of Sexuality in the Modern West (Cott) *(During the 2014-15 academic year, WGS concentrators may take this in place of the history foundation course, WGS 1200.)* [History and Literature 90bg](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/96219): Colonialism, Globalization, and Culture in Asian Diaspora(s) (Clutario) [History of Science 146v](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/20134): Bodies in Flux: Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East (Bayoumi) [Human Evolutionary Biology 1310](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/2265)[: Hormones and Behavior (Hooven)](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/29007) [Japanese Literature 162](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/27841): Girl Culture, Media, and Japan (Yoda) [Psychology 1503](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/32801): Psychology of Close Relationships (Parker) [Religion 1009](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/9774): Religion, Gender, and Politics in Transnational Perspective (Braude, Ahmed) [Religion 1019](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/63761): Women, Gender and Religion in Colonial North America and the United States (Brekus) [Religion 1447](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/11685): From Saint to Witch: Female Spirituality in the European Middle Ages (Kirakosian) [Religion 3005](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/8016): Doctoral Colloquium in Religion, Gender, and Culture (tba) [Social Studies 98kb](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/2276): Gender in Developing Nations (Healy-Clancy) [Sociology 149](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/53684): Masculinities: Global Perspectives (Moon) [Sociology 27](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/67106): Introduction to Social Movements (Viterna)