Feb 06, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

WST 4313 - Black Feminisms–Past and Present


Credit(s): 3
Black Feminisms is an interdisciplinary course in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies that introduces students to Black feminist theory and the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. In addition to understanding how black women are defined in a variety of cultural and social contexts, students will examine how the above identities intersect and collide in different cultures of the African Diaspora. This course will utilize a variety of texts (e.g. fiction, critical texts, films, first-person narratives, etc.) to define and analyze Black feminisms.

Course Attribute(s): UGR - Undergraduate Research

Prerequisite(s): WST 3015  (min grade C-) OR AFA 2000  (min grade C-) 
Restriction(s):
  • Junior Standing
  • Senior Standing
  • Sophomore Standing