#  2015-2016 Pre-Approved Courses 

 



The following FAS courses were pre-approved for WGS concentration credit in the 2015-2016 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 2015

[AFRAMER 111](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-126698/2015/Fall) Spectral Fictions, Savage Phantasms: Race and Gender in Anti-Racist South African & African America (Jeyifo)

[AFRAMER 134X](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-110293/2015/Fall) How Sweet is it to be Loved By You: Black Love and the Emotional Politics of Respect (Morgan, Kincaid)

[ECON 980X](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108892/2015/Fall) Economics of Work and Family (Goldin)

[FRSEMR 48E](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-128123/2015/Fall) Health and Mental Health in Everyday Life (Ruggie)

[GOV 940F](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-128009/2015/Fall) Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies (Liviatan)

[HDS 3017](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/hds-160507/2015/Fall) Women's Material Practices in Chinese Buddhism (Li)

[HIST 2424](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-159681/2015/Fall) Readings in the History of Gender and Sexuality in the West: Proseminar (Cott)

[HIST-LIT 90BC](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156004/2015/Spring) We the Readers: Reading Communities in Early America (Brady)

[HISTSCI 146V](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156290/2015/Fall) Bodies in Flux: Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East (Bayoumi)

[HISTSCI 179V](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109859/2015/Fall) The Freudian Century (Lunbeck)

[HISTSCI 192/HDS 2195](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-160191/2015/Fall) The Empire Strikes Back: Science Fiction, Religion, and Society (Ragab, Roosth)

[ISLAMCIV 217/HDS 3486](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156319/2015/Fall) The Construction of Gendered Spheres in Islamic Law: Ritual, Family, Kinship, Court Procedures (Johansen)

[JAPNHIST 203](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-160510/2015/Fall) Women, Court, and the Japanese Monarchy: 600-1400 (Kawai)

[REL 58](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-159758/2015/Fall/14894) The Body in Christian Thought (Rivera)

[REL 111](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-160969/2015/Fall/18387) Cultures of Health and Healing: Religion, Medicine, and Global Health (Block)

[REL 1572/HDS 2692](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/hds-129297) Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Hollywood) *(During the 2015-16 academic year, WGS concentrators may take this in place of the theory foundation course, WGS 1210.)*

[REL 1844](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/hds-105172/2015/Fall) Religion, Gender, Identity in 21st Century Diasporic Muslim Fiction (Ahmed)

[SOCIOL 165](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-122318/2015/Fall) Inequalities in Health Care (Ruggie)

### Spring 2016

[AFRAMER 186x](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108168) Childhood in African America (Bernstein)

[ANTHRO 2614](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156677) Sexuality and Political Economy (Meiu)

[CHNSLIT 115](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-124530) Gender and Power in Chinese Literature: Seminar (Li)

[CLS-STDY 152](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156310/2015/Spring) The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece (Weiss)

[ENGLISH 181A](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156061) Asian American Literature (Kim)

[ENGLISH 190GN](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-161199) The Graphic Novel (Chute)

[FOLKMYTH 172](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-127859) Quilts and Quiltmaking (Lufkin)

[FRENCH 157](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-1338) The Hermaphroditic Imagination (Beizer)

[HDS 1505](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/hds-103748) / RELIGION 1410 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Ancient Christianity (King)

[HDS 3112](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/hds-160509/2016/Spring) Women and Shamanism (Nono)

[HDS 3593](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/hds-160429/2016/Spring) Islam, Gender, Sexualities and Empire (Ahmed)

[HIST 13F](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-160424) Women and Work in the United States (More)

[HIST 1014](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156553) Gender & Empire (Clutario)

[HIST 2474](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109429) Law and Social Reform in 20th Century U.S. History: Seminar (Brown-Nagin)

[HIST 2805](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109429) Gender & Sexuality: Comparative Studies of Islamic Mid. East, N. Africa, & S. Asia: Proseminar (Najmabadi)

[HISTSCI 142V](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-160519) Masculinities and Health: History and Politics of Men's Health and Illness (O’Donnell)

[JAPNHIST 121](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-160511) Comparative History of Women and Gender In East Asia up to WWII (Kawai)

[JAPNLIT 162](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-125615) Girl Culture, Media, and Japan (Yoda)

[JAPNLIT 271](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-126924) Topics in Gender and Culture in Japan: Seminar (Yoda)

[PSY 1009](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-110216) Psychology of Women (Noll)

[PSY 1503](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-107602) Psychology of Close Relationships (Parker)

[RELIGION 54](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-159572) Women, Religion and Redemption (Frederick)

[SOCIOL 27](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109656) Introduction to Social Movements (Viterna)

[SOCIOL 112](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-141657) Men, Women, and Work (Brinton)

[SOCIOL 253](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-159900) Sexualities (Meadow)

[WGH 220](https://new-sis-app-proxy.sph.harvard.edu:9010/prod/bwckschd.p_disp_detail_sched?term_in=201530&crn_in=11291) Sexuality and Public Health (Austin)