Yale University Sociology of Heterosexuality — This course begins with the assumption that heterosexuality is socially produced and reproduced. Examination of heterosexuality as it is produced through a binary gender system; through structures such as law, religion, and psychiatry; through texts such as television, fiction, magazines, and movies; and through rituals such as weddings.

UC-Santa Barbara Feminist Theories of Science and Feminist Scientists — Exploration of feminist analyses and critiques of science in social, historical, and political contexts. How does science construct gender? How and why are women excluded from scientific discourses and practices? How have women transformed science, and what is "feminist science?"

UCLA Cultural History of Rap — Introduction to development of rap music and allied forms, with emphasis on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture.

Duke University Girl Culture — Black-belted heroines, Powerpuff Girls, goddesses, teenage fairies, and witches dominate popular culture. All-female bands storm the charts and underground music scene. Riot grrls, FaT GiRLs, and Cybergrrls "don’t wanna assimilate," and their alternative zine cultures may be changing the world for real. This is a course about the exploding dimensions of girls’ cultures. About girliness from the 19th century to now in the United States. About good girls and bad girls and how these labels relate to race, ethnicity, sexuality, and economic class. About femininity and power and whether we can have both. About dolls, dress-up, slumber parties, and makeovers and whether they always restrict girls and their bodies to predetermined gender roles or if they can provide spaces of freedom and experimentation. About girlhood as a possible utopian site for imagining altogether otherworlds and as a powerful political and cultural site for taking over this one. We will study theories of the female body as a place where definitions of femininity are established and questioned. We will read about body image, adolescent sexuality, advertising, and schools. And we will use feminist theory, philosophy, cultural studies, history, sociology, and psychology to study: fiction and non-fiction written by girls and for girls, zines, websites, visual art, mainstream and independent films, television series, and cartoons.

University of Michigan How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation — Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn’t mean that you don’t have to learn how to become one. … This course will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay identity. We will approach it from three angles: (1) as a sub-cultural practice—subtle, complex, and difficult to theorize—which a small but significant body of work in queer studies has begun to explore; (2) as a theme in gay male writing; (3) as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand.

Antioch College Cuba: An Experiment in Human Equality — In January 1959, a revolutionary government came to power in Cuba. Launched by Fidel Castro, this revolution overthrew a three-decade tyrannical government. Since that time, Cuba has been a target, an icon, a set of images in the popular mind in the U.S. The experiment in human equality undertaken by Castro and generations of followers and the international response to this experiment form the basis for this introductory level course.

UC-Santa Cruz Music of the Grateful Dead — In-depth exploration of the music of the Grateful Dead. Contextual study of the sociology and history of the late 1960s psychedelic movement supplies background for study of the music as the band evolved through time.

Middlebury College Reading Fairy Tales Today — This class will take a closer look at the genre of the fairy tale and will examine the special fascination that fairy tales have exerted over a variety of cultures. A broad variety of approaches to reading texts (ranging from socio-historical approaches to feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism and structuralism) will help us identify the "magic" elements in fairy tales. We will map the "landscape of fairy tales" beyond the rather restricted, traditional understanding evoked by the Brother Grimms’ collection.

Vassar College Women and the Culture of Nature: Feminist Environmentalism — This course is an introduction to feminist environmentalism as a political movement and an emerging critical field. We explore the ways women have shaped the meaning of nature as naturalists, gardeners, tourists, artists, scholars and activists. We also explore a range of feminist theoretical approaches to the environment and to environmental crisis, such as critical ecofeminism, feminist movements to end environmental racism, and Marxist-feminist critiques of capitalist development.

Oberlin College Education in the Black Community — The philosophy of a Ghetto Scholar is the sole focus of this course. This highly creative and very original philosophy centers on a Ghetto Scholar’s use of education to pursue the concept of GGG (the greatest good, for the greatest number, for the greatest period). Students are required to think imaginatively, analytically, and independently as they examine critical issues facing black and other oppressed peoples. Education is essential to the attainment of a world that is liberated, peaceful, and humane.

Cornell University Democratizing Society: Participation, Action, and Research — This course poses an alternative to distanced, "objectivist" social science by reviewing some of the many numerous approaches to socially engaged research. Among the approaches discussed are those centering on the pedagogy of liberation, feminism, the industrial democracy movement, and "Southern" participatory action research, action science, and participatory evaluation.

University of Pennsylvania Feminist Critique of Christianity — An overview of the past decade of feminist scholarship about Christian theology and institutions. Biblical analysis, historical interpretation and alternative theologies will be considered, and the "post Christian" view presented. Authors read include Rosemary Radford Ruether, Phyliss Trible, and Mary Daly.