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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Various topics in gender studies. Includes issues of gender, culture, race and class, including issues of sexualities and social justice. Prerequisites: satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement plus one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. ( VII)
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4.00 Credits
Designed to provide students with an opportunity to do advanced work in women's studies. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly Humanities 155.
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3.00 Credits
156A Race and Gender (4). Examines the roles and intersections of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in U.S. culture and society. Through history and literature, explores the process of immigration, colonization (of identity, language, and the body), and cultural interaction. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. (VII) 156B Gender, Race, and the Built Environment (4). Examination of the ways in which houses, buildings, streets, cities, and indeed all social spaces reveal cultural conceptualizations of gender and sexuality in relation to other social relations and processes. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. ( VII)
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3.00 Credits
157A Topics in Lesbian and Gay Studies (4). Explores issues in lesbian and gay studies from one or more of the following perspectives: theoretical, historical, legal, economic, political, sociological, and representation in the arts. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly Women's Studies 161. (VII) 157B Queer Lives and Knowledges (4). Explores the emergence and historical elaboration of non-normative sexual identities, practices, and communities; focuses on medical, legal, literary, aesthetic, scientific, and religious notions about homosexuality and appropriations and subversions of these notions by queer people. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C.
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3.00 Credits
158A Gender and the Politics of Information (4). Investigates from feminist perspectives the challenges in the "information age" and its embeddedgender and political dimensions. Examines the increasingly complex identification, evaluation, application, and transmission of information. Formerly Women's Studies 160. (VII) 158B Defining Women of Color (4). Examination of women of color as a historical movement emerging as a result to anti-racist struggle in the late twentieth century; who counts as a woman of color, who is included and excluded, the advantages and limitations of this approach to racism. ( VII)
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3.00 Credits
165A Gender, Biology, and Environmental Ethics (4). What is "nature" andhow do we know and represent it Introduces students to the history of "nature"produced within scientific knowledge, as well as historical developments. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. 165B HIV/AIDS (4). Explores HIV/AIDS from a feminist perspective focusing on cultural and political-economic analysis and representations of the disease both within the U.S. and globally. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. (VIII) 165C New Reproductive Technologies (4). Examination of representation, implication, and bioethics of new reproductive technologies in different cultures; effects of new reproductive technologies on identities and bodies. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. 165D Gender and Science in Colonial India (4). Examination of British colonial policies and politics of science and gender in India; comparison of British India with other colonial contexts; importance of science for colonial rule and history of colonial science and technology. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. (VIII) 165E Gender and Cyberspace (4). How has gender and sexuality been produced in the cyberspace frontier during its brief but volatile history Takes an interdisciplinary approach to this question that engages with debates in urban studies, history of science, anthropology, and political ecology. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. 165F Gender and Technology (4). Using a variety of disciplinary methods, examines how various technological processes and products produce culturally complex meanings associated with gender and technology. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C.
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3.00 Credits
166A Contemporary Issues in Gender and Islam (4). Exploration of lives of Muslim women in different cultural contexts; critical examination of various Islamic constructions and interpretations of gender, sexuality, and human nature. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. ( VIII)
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3.00 Credits
167A Militarism and Gender (4). Feminist approach to militarism, war, and political violence drawing on representations of women as both victims of and participants in military violence; effects of militarism on formations of gender; effects of military industrial complex on nationalism and identity. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. ( VIII) 167B Sexual Traffic (4). Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the concept of "sexual traffic" as it impacts the formation of sexualized bodiesand sexual subjects within and across national boundaries. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. (VIII)
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3.00 Credits
168A Music and Audio Cultures (4). Examination of the significance of gender, power, and identity in music and audio cultures; changing technologies and connections to gender; political economy of music and audio cultures; representation of women in popular music; performance and reception across different cultures. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C. ( VII) 168B The Politics of Style (4). Examination of the emergence of style and lifestyle in relation to gender and sexuality; analysis of subcultures, politics, and representation of style in relation to formation of social identities. Prerequisite: one course from Women's Studies 20, 50A, 50B, 50C, 60A, 60B, or 60C.
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4.00 Credits
Topics cover issues in language and literature which relate to women or gender, or which are taught from a feminist methodological perspective. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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