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WGSS S2204 (CRN: 30223) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Andrea Aldrich
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This course explores theoretical and empirical work in political science to study the relationship between gender and politics in the United States and around the world. In doing so, we will examine women’s access to power over time, women’s descriptive and substantive representation in political institutions, the causes and consequences of women’s underrepresentation, the way gender shapes both policy making, and how government policy impacts the lives of women. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
WGSS S2254 (CRN: 30172) | Learn More
Instructors: Minh Vu
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. In-person Course. This seminar examines Asian American history and culture through the lens of affect. Whether the political demands of revolutionaries and rebels in the 1970s, the broken English of stereotyped Asian immigrants on TV, or the melancholic musings of “cut fruit” diaspora poets, affect—in other words: emotion, or etymologically, the capacity to “move” or be “moved”—generates social constructs around Asian American race, gender, and sexuality. Historically, affect has worked with and through the economic, the political, and the cultural to generate categories including (but not limited to) the orient, the indebted refugee, and the model minority. By studying a range of contemporary cultural representations—across poetry, literature, film, and music—students will consider how Asian Americans reproduce and/or trouble these reductive tropes by exhibiting and embodying their own dis/affective poetics and politics. Example texts and themes include but are not limited to: Yoko Ono, Ocean Vuong, Crazy Rich Asians, Beef, Kim’s Convenience, nerds, rave culture, “sad girl music,” and YouTube personalities (nigahiga, Lilly Singh, and Wong Fu Productions). 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
WGSS S2255 (CRN: 30169) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Eda Pepi
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar plunges into the unruly life of power: how it inhabits laws and states, moves through gendered and racialized bodies, and conceals itself in the seeming neutrality of words. What makes a rule feel legitimate? Political & Legal Anthropology asks what it means to live under rules we did not write and what happens when people decide to rewrite them. What does it mean to be governed, to obey, to resist, to persuade, to endure? When does order become coercion, or violence pass as justice? Ethnographies of political emergency, prisons, war, counterterrorism, bureaucracy, and secrecy reveal what “law” names when it lives in gesture, silence, confession, or refusal. Across worlds—colonial and postcolonial, democratic and authoritarian, across the Global South and North—societies create and contest authority as law and politics spill beyond the state, where taboos, norms, and desires unsettle the old faiths in freedom and civility. Reading canonical and contemporary works side by side, we explore how legality becomes aesthetic, how emotions become rights, how evidence becomes story, and how dissent takes shape as both art and argument. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
