Courses

Below you will find the current course offerings listed by semester and then alphabetically by department. Students and Faculty should log in to workday.simmons.edu and view the live course listings for the current semester. The current semester listings below are updated weekly. If you have any questions about these courses, please contact the Registrar's Office at or 617-521-2111.

Fall 2025 Course Schedule

Last Updated: 07/03/2025 09:10AM

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGSS 101 - Identity and Power

This interdisciplinary course introduces key questions of critical race, gender, and cultural studies. The subjects of power and identity are consistent themes. Central to our inquiry is intersectionality: many of our readings will explore this concept, and its transformative impact on conventional understandings of power and identity.  

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/18
Tuesday, Thursday
11:00AM - 12:20PM
Tatiana M.F. Cruz
4
Main Campus

WGSS 125 - Gender, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Work

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/08 - 2025/12/08
Monday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Suzanne Leonard
4
Main Campus

WGSS 233 - Feminism and Capitalism

This course explores the connections between feminism and capitalism. In what ways do feminist politics perpetuate capitalism, and how do they offer possibilities for critical resistance to it? Together we will consider how liberal feminism in particular accommodates capitalism, as well as what a radical, feminist critique of capitalism entails.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/09
Tuesday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Lena Zuckerwise
4
TBD

WGSS 239 - History of Sexuality and the Family

Traces the transformation of a pre-modern family centered system equating sexuality with reproduction into the 20th-century concept of sexuality as a form of identity and self expression. Explores the connections between changes in sexuality and historically specific events and trends. Considers the roles gender, race, and class have played in changing definitions of what constitutes a "family."

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
3:30PM - 4:50PM
Cait Parker
4
Main Campus

WGSS 350 - Independent Study

Consent of instructor required.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 TBD TBD
Tatiana M.F. Cruz
8
TBD

WGSS 355 - Thesis

A formal thesis proposal should be submitted in the semester prior to commencing thesis research.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 TBD TBD
Tatiana M.F. Cruz
4
TBD

WGSS 380 - Gender and Queer Theory

Considers the central themes and problems of contemporary gender and queer theory.Readings include works by foundational thinkers in the field such as Foucault, Rubin, and Butler. Specific topics of inquiry may include critical assessments or theoretical explorations of the following: identity politics, sexual orientation science studies, gay marriage, transgender theory, and intersexuality studies.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/16
Tuesday
6:00PM - 8:50PM
Suzanne Leonard
4
Main Campus

WGSS 580 - Gender and Queer Theory

Considers the central themes and problems of contemporary gender and queer theory. Readings include works by foundational thinkers in the field such as Foucault, Rubin, and Butler. Specific topics of inquiry may include critical assessments or theoretical explorations of the following: identity politics, sexual orientation science studies, gay marriage, transgender theory, and intersexuality studies.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/16
Tuesday
6:00PM - 8:50PM
Suzanne Leonard
4
Main Campus

Writing Boston

WRI 101 - Writing Boston

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/09/03 - 2025/12/12
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
12:00PM - 12:50PM
Shreya Bhattacharyya
4
Main Campus
02 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Masato Aoki
4
Main Campus
03 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Cristina DeOliveira
4
Main Campus
04 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Brendan Halpin
4
Main Campus
05 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Cathryn Mercier
4
Main Campus
06 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
TBD
4
Main Campus
07 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
3:30PM - 4:50PM
TBD
4
Main Campus
08 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
6:00PM - 7:20PM
TBD
4
Main Campus
09 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
3:30PM - 4:50PM
JoJo Jacobson
4
Main Campus
11 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/18
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Christina Ramey
4
Main Campus
12 2025/09/02 - 2025/12/11
Tuesday, Thursday
9:30AM - 10:50AM
TBD
4
Main Campus
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