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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 53.) (See modules under Women's Studies 53G-J.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) (Students who have received credit for the four-unit parent course, Social Science 15, Political Science 15, or Women's Studies 15, may not also receive credit for any of the modules). Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Science 15 and Political Science 15. Student may enroll in only one department, for credit.) Four hours lecture. (The courses are not repeatable, and students may receive a maximum of four units of credit for any combination of Social Science 15, 53G-J, Political Science 15, 53G-J, and Women's Studies 15, 53G-J.) Applied and theoretical study for students of social justice, this course will examine race, culture and contradictions in the ideal of the American Dream through a comparative analysis of American experiences of migration. Particular emphasis will be on the historical experiences of European immigrants, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. The course will also discuss the contemporary social and cultural implications of the migration process. Using a multidisciplinary social science approach, attention will be given to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, as well as the role of the state (policy) to the process of immigration.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 54.) (See modules under Women's Studies 54G-J.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) (Students who have received credit for the four-unit parent course, Social Science 16, Political Science 16, or Women's Studies 16, may not also receive credit for any of the modules). Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Science 16 and Political Science 16. Student may enroll in only one department for credit.) Four hours lecture. (The courses are not repeatable, and students may receive a maximum of four units of credit for any combination of Social Science 16, 54G-J, Political Science 16, 54G-J, and Women's Studies 16, 54G-J.) Applied and theoretical learning for students of social justice, this course is a comparative survey of protest movements since the 1960's. An introductory, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of Mexican American, African American, Asian American, and white working class social and political struggles from 1960 to the present. The course traces the development of protest movements in response to racial, class, gender, and political inequality in the context of U.S. politics and history. The course critically examines the internal and external factors contributing to the rise and fall of social and political movements with special attention to the conjuncture of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, class, and sexual preference in contemporary U.S. politics.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 52.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Science 17. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. (See modules under Social Science/Women's Studies 52G-J.) (Students who receive credit for the parent course, Social Science/Women's Studies 17, may not also receive credit for the modular courses, Social Science/ Women's Studies 52G, 52H, 52I, or 52J.) Applied and theoretical learning for students of social justice, this course is a multidisciplinary exploration of social change and popular democratic action with a focus on the meaning and development of political power in modern democracies. Topics to be explored include: institutional and mass forums for civic engagement, leadership development, mass recruitment and mobilization, consciousness development, democratic ethics, and strategic and tactical action.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as English Literature 21. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Intensive study of representative literary works by or about women including an analysis of different historical, cultural, and critical perspectives.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 63.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as English Literature 23. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Intensive study of representative literary works that highlight the role of men as writers, characters, subjects and readers, with attention to the relevant historical and cultural contexts of diverse masculinities.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Sociology 28. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Application of sociological perspectives to an understanding of gender. Focuses on how we come to think and act as men and women on gender as an organizing principle of social life. Includes investigation of masculinities and femininities, gender socialization, gender inequality, how gender is shaped by race, class, nation and sexuality, and the family, media, education, economics, politics and religion as gender institutions, from a cross-cultural and global perspective.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 62.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Arts 3TC. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture, one additional hour to be arranged. A history of women in relation to society and the visual arts from prehistory to the present. Social perceptions and obstacles relevant to women artists will be discussed, and students will engage in cross-cultural comparison of works produced in western and nonwestern cultures made by women, and in which women serve as subject matter.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 55.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Philosophy 49. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Examination of feminist theory and philosophy produced by a diverse range of women and investigation of the ways that understandings of the relations between the sexes have influenced the work of philosophers from different cultures.
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2.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 52A.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Sciences 52G. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Two hours lecture. (Students who receive credit for the parent course, Social Science/Women's Studies 17, may not also receive credit for Social Science/Women's Studies 52G. Additionally, students may only receive a maximum of four units credit for any combination of Social Science/Women's Studies 52G, 52H, 52I, and 52J. None of the modular courses are repeatable for credit.) Explores the literature and practice of community, issue and electoral organizing as it has developed in the United States. Particular emphasis will be placed on theories and techniques of leadership development, mass mobilization, and strategic and tactical action arising out of such popular social movements as the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the gay rights movement, the peace movement, the environmental movement, the right-to-life and Christian evangelical movements, the anti-tax movement, and the student movement.
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1.00 Credits
(Formerly Women's Studies 52B.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Sciences 52H. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) One hour lecture. (Students who receive credit for the parent course, Social Science/Women's Studies 17, may not also receive credit for Social Science/Women's Studies 52H. Additionally, students may only receive a maximum of four units credit for any combination of Social Science/Women's Studies 52G, 52H, 52I, and 52J. None of the modular courses are repeatable for credit.) Examines the theories and methods of the development of a critical consciousness of civic participation and social protest as core elements of the practice of democracy in contemporary society. Particular emphasis will be placed on theories and techniques of consciousness raising developed in popular social movements dealing with labor rights, civil rights, women's liberation, gay rights, peace, the environment, abortion and reproductive choice, evangelical Christianity, taxes and student rights.
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