#  2016-2017 Pre-Approved Courses 

 



 The following courses were pre-approved for WGS concentration credit. 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.

 **Spring 2017**

 [ECON 2330](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-124933) History and Human Capital (Goldin, Katz)

 [ENGLISH 297QT](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203259) LGBTQ&C Literature and Ideas (Burt)

 [FOLKMYTH 158](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203878) The Eco-Feminist and the Folk (Goldstein)

 [FOLKMYTH 172](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-127859/) Quilts and Quiltmaking (Lufkin)

 [FRENCH 136](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108716) À la Française: French Feminisms Today (Jardine)

 [FRSEMR 48E](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-128123) Health and Mental Health in Everyday Life (Ruggie)

 [GHP 231](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-190395/) Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Global Perspective (Langer)

 [GOV 94IP](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203521/) Identity, Politics, and Policy (Weeks)

 [GOV 94OA](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-125211) Inequality and American Democracy (Skocpol)

 [HDS 2689](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-129296) Feminist Theory and The\*logy (Schussler Fiorenza)

 [HDS 2693](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-129298) Sex, Gender, and Sexuality II (Hollywood)

 [HDS 3008](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-203857) Women and Contemporary Buddhism (Wang)

 [HDS 3342](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-203747) Confined: Hospitals in the History of Medicine and Religion (Ragab)

 [HDS 3343](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-203748/) Magic, Miracles, and Prophetics: Medicine and Religion in the Medieval Islamic World (Ragab)

 [HDS 3582](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-129446/2017/spring/10091) Race and Gender in the History of Islam in the U.S. and Europe (Ahmed)

 [HEB 1310](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-112219/) Hormones and Behavior (Hooven)

 [HIST 13I](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203039/) Intimate Frontiers: Gender, Sexuality and the Settlement of Australia (Russell)

 [HISTSCI 142V](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/10179) Masculinities and Health: History and Politics of Men's Health and Illness (O’Donnell)

 [HISTSCI 146v](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/25115) Bodies in Flux: Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East (Bayoumi)

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

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

 [KORLIT 105](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203443) Gender in Korean Literature and Film (Lee)

 [PHIL 17](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203261) Feminist Political Philosophy (Schouten)

 [PSY 1009](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-110216) Psychology of Women (Noll)

 [REL 1461](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203213/) Gender, Religion, and Scripture (Schussler Fiorenza)

 [ROM-STD 113](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203896) Visceral Iberia: Gender, Affect and Embodiment in Modern and Contemporary Culture (Ceia)

 [SBS 246](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-191128/) Issues in Maternal and Child Health Programs and Policies (McCormick)

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

 [SPANSH 117](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203900) Kingmakers, Dangerous Grandmothers and Inconsolable Prostitutes: Women in Conquest Narratives (Olmedo)

 [WGH 207](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-191277/) Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Health (Austin, Katz-Wise)

 [WGH 220](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-191280/) Sexuality and Public Health (Austin)

 [WGH 250](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-191281) Embodying Gender: Public Health, Biology and the Body Politic (Krieger)

 **Fall 2016**

 [AESTHINT 47](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-127928) Forbidden Romance in Modern China (Wang)

 [ANTHRO 1988](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156380) Kinship, Citizenship, and Belonging (Meiu)

 [ECON 980X](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108892) Economics of Work and Family (Goldin)

 [ENGLISH 195X](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-121024) Contemporary African American Literature (Carpio)

 [FRENCH 227](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-126038) "The Words to Say It": Women Writing in French from Colette to Satrapi (Jardine)

 [FRSEMR 60C](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203001) Comics and Graphic Novels (Burt)

 [FRSEMR 70M](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203406) Creating Cultures of Sexual Respect on Campus (Rosenfeld)

 [GOV 94OF](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-128009) Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies (Liviatan)

 [GOV 1141](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203374) Comparative Politics of Gender Inequality (Weeks)

 [HDS 1505](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-103748) Contesting Sex and Gender, Making Early Christianity (King)

 [HDS 2118](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-203854) The Queer Bible (Kessler)

 [HDS 2119](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-203855) Gender, Sexuality, and Mormonism (Petrey)

 [HDS 2692](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-129297/) Sex, Gender, and Sexuality I (Hollywood)

 [HDS 3223 / RELIGION 1009](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156112) Religion, Gender, and Politics in Transnational Perspective (Ahmed, Braude)

 [HDS 3587](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-129448) Science, Religion and Sex: Bodies, Sexualities and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East (Ragab)

 [HDS 3616 / RELIGION 1842](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/18707) Religion, Gender, Identity: Readings in 20th Century 'Arab' Memoirs - Muslim, Christian, and Jewish (Ahmed)

 [HEB 1312](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-122589) Human Sexuality (Flynn)

 [HIST 1462](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-126552/2016/fall/23180) History of Sexuality in the Modern West (Cott) - **Note: HIST 1462 counts for WGS's 1200-level foundational history requirement**

 [HIST-LIT 90BC](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156004) We the Readers: Reading Communities in Early America (Brady)

 [HIST-LIT 90BG](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-156607/) Colonialism, Globalization, and Culture in Asian Diaspora(s) (Clutario)

 [HIST-LIT 90CK](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203464) Beauty and Power: Race and Gender in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Clutario)

 [HIST-LIT 90CM](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203588/) Asian American Cultural Studies (Park)

 [HISTSCI 108](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-127093/) Bodies, Sexualities, and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East (Ragab)

 [HISTSCI 279](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109860/) Freud and His Legacies: Readings in the History of Psychoanalysis (Lunbeck)

 [JAPNLIT 124](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-123007) The Tale of Genji in Word and Image (McCormick)

 [RELIGION 46](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109528) The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World (Nasrallah)

 [SAS 176](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-203891) Gender and the Making of Modern South Asia (Warner)

 [SBS 506](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/18566) An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. & Health Inequities (Krieger)

 [SOCIOL 296A](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-112352/) Proseminar on Inequality & Social Policy I (Pager, Hochschild)

 [SOC-STD 98JL](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-123874) Global Social Movements (Jones)

 [WGH 210](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-191278) Women, Gender and Health: Critical Issues in Mental Health (Gottlieb)

 [WGH 211](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hsph-191279) Gender and Health: Introductory Perspectives (Missmer)