Spring 2023 registration is now open! Make sure to check out our exciting, upper-division electives in African American and African Diaspora Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies. 

Our undergraduate degree majors and minors provide students with the skills they need to address real-world issues and succeed professionally in an increasingly diverse world. For more information, please email iges@unlv.edu. 

 

 

AAS 375-1001: Black Cultural Studies
TuTh 11:30 am -12:45 pm
Dr. Javon Johnson
Students will analyze blackness in media and culture, and become versed in Black cultural criticism. Special attention will be paid to the cultural products and processes performed by, for, or about Black Americans from the post-civil rights generation in order to discuss commodified blackness under late capitalism and new racism.
 

 

 

AAS 432-1001: African American History
Web-Live
Dr. Kendra Gage
This course traces the history of the modern struggle for African American civil rights from the
Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s to the current Black Lives Matter Movement.
Students will examine the continued activism of African-Americans since the passage of the
Civil Rights Acts and will explore issues of systemic and institutional racism. Special attention
will be given to issues of re-segregation, voter suppression, mass incarceration, police brutality,
and educational and health disparities. We will focus on the role that ideological, strategic, and
cultural factors played in the success or failure of the range of African American movements and
how that has impacted the current revolution.

 

 

 

AAS 433-1001: Contemporary Issues in African American Studies
TuTh 2:30 pm - 3:45pm
Dr. Javon Johnson
Examination of current issues in African American Studies, focusing on recent scholarship and events. Topics may include, but are not limited to, affirmative action, Afrocentricity, mainstream consumption of African American culture, relation of African Americans to Africa, and the problem of continued African American success in the fields of sports and entertainment.

 

 

 

AAS 440-1001: Selected Topics in African American Studies 
Anti-Blackness in the World
MW 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Dr. Tyler Parry
This course introduces students to the complicated and convoluted histories of race, racism, and racialization in both the Americas and various other regions of the world. Beginning in the Ancient world, this course follows the development of racialization and the categorization of cultural (and physical) differences by ancient peoples, and the categorization of certain groups as the “Other.” As the United States becomes increasingly transnational through social media and the global economy of the twenty-first century, this course equips students with an understanding that anti-Black racism and racial oppression is far from just a North American problem, but one that needs to be confronted globally.

 

 

 

AIS 400: Filipinx American Experience
TuTh 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Dr. Constancio Arnaldo 
Interdisciplinary approaches to examine the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Filipino/a/x  experiences in the United States and globally from 1965 to the contemporary period. Emphasis will be placed on issues of post-colonial identities, the Philippine diaspora, globalization, transnationalism, patterns of labor, resistance to oppression, and cultural practices.

 

 

 

WMST 412/612:  Gender, Sexuality and Religion
TuTh 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm 
Dr. Danielle Roth-Johnson
An exploration of attitudes surrounding gender and sexuality in contemporary religious traditions.  Topics include sex roles and categories of gender within diverse religions; the role of sexuality in religious traditions; feminist and queer critiques, reforms and creations of religious institutions; sexual practices and gender; religious and secular views about sexuality and sexual education; abortion and reproductive rights; same-sex desire and marriage equality.

 

 

 

WMST 427B-1001:  LGBTQ Literature
TuTh 10:00 am - 11:15 am
Dr. Beth Rosenberg
The vocabulary used to talk about gender and sexuality is no longer as simple as traditional heterosexual binaries of man/woman and masculine/feminine. What does it mean to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or nonbinary? We will investigate historical representations of queer identity and sexuality by reading novels from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The course starts with Virginia Woolf’s Orlando—where a Renaissance prince wakes up one day to find himself a woman—and follow it with another from the early twentieth century, Radcliffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, a novel about gender identity that was banned when it was published. Other intersectional models introduced are that of race, gender, and sexuality with the reading of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Carmen Machado’s In the Dream House. The course ends with a newly published novel, Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, that explicitly addresses the difficulties experienced by a transgender protagonist. By the end of the semester, we will have a more nuanced and detailed sense of what we mean when we use the acronym, LGBTQ+.

 

 

 

WMST 453-1001 Gender and Society
Th 5:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Dr. Cheryl Radeloff
Examines the micro-social and political aspects of gender, including socialization into gender roles, same-sex, and cross-sex communications, interactions, and long-term relationships.

 

 

 

WMST 490/690 - 1001: Queer Futures
W 2:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Dr. Sreshtha Sen
To write towards queerness is to write towards the future. In Cruising Utopia, Jose Esteban Muñoz describes queerness as “the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.” For this class, we’ll be using Muñoz’s definition as a framework to study and label models of queer utopia within theory, literature, media, and pop culture, and to develop an understanding of why ideas of redemption, world-building, and rewriting are popular and integral to queer and feminist studies. Texts will include Cruising Utopia, Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead, Carmen Maria Machado’s In the DreamHouse, Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure, the Wachowski siblings’ Sense8 and The Matrix, among others.

 

 

AIIS 260-1001: Introduction to Native American History
MW 11:30AM - 12:45PM 
Mary Ludwig
An examination of significant events and trends in Native American history. The course will focus on the contributions made by American Indians to the development of North American history and contemporary society.

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