RELATED COURSE LISTINGS

There are a number of significant areas of studies in which Williams offers many relevant courses, yet no formal program. To alert students to the opportunity for integrating courses from diverse disciplines into a focus area and to encourage them to do so, the courses in this section are organized as lists of topic-related courses. For their full descriptions, see the respective departmental sections.

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies focuses on the social construction of sexuality, past and present. Although, at present, Williams does not have a formal concentration in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies, the College offers a number of courses which examine how social, cultural, and political institutions shape sexualities, as well as the responses and resistances thereto, through a variety of texts and contexts. The following courses include significant components on gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies (at least two weeks out of the semester).

CLAS/HIST 222 Greek History

CLAS 239/HIST 332 Women in Greece and Rome

ENGL/WGST 341 American Genders, American Sexualities

CLGR 403 Poetry and Revolution in Archaic Greece

HIST 335 Class, Gender, and Race in Post-1945 Britain

HIST 378/Women's and Gender Studies 344 History of Sexuality in America

HIST 394 Comparative Masculinities: Britain and the United States Since 1800

HIST/WGST 489T History and the Body

REL 232/HIST 309 Women and Islam

THEA 101 Introduction to Theatre

WGST 101 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

WGST 402 The Personal and the Political: Confessional Narrative and Feminist Politics