100AC. Women in American Culture. (3)
Three hours of lecture per week.
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work
with faculty investigating the topic Women in American Culture.
This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.
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101. Doing Feminist Research.
(4) Three hours of lecture/discussion
per week. Prerequisites: 10 and 20. Serves
as prerequisite for GWS 195. In this
course, students will learn to do feminist
research using techniques from the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The teaching of interdisciplinary research
skills will focus on practices of gender
in a particular domain such as labor, love,
science, aesthetics, film, religion, politics,
or kinship. Topics will vary depending on
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102. Transnational Feminisms. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
An overview of transnational feminist theories and practices, which
address the workings of power that shape our world, and women's
practices of resistance within and beyond the U.S. The course engages
with genealogies of transnational feminist theories, including analyses
of women, gender, sexuality, "race," racism, ethnicity, class, nation;
postcoloniality; international relations; post-"development";
globalization; area studies; and cultural studies.
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103. Identities Across Difference. (4)
Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 10.
The course studies identity as a product of articulation and
investigation of self and other, rather than an inherited marking.
Emphasis, for example, may be placed on the complexities of the lived
experiences of women of color in the United States and in diverse parts
of the world.
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104. Feminist Theory. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 10 and 20.
Feminist theory examines the basic categories that structure social
life and that condition dominant modes of thought. Feminist theory
engages with many currents of thought such as liberalism, Marxism,
psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and transnational feminist theory.
In this course, students will gain a working knowledge of the range and
uses of feminist theory.
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125. Women and Film. (4)
Three hours of lecture and two hours of screening per week.
Prerequisites: 10 and 20.
Formerly 100.
This course explores the role of women both in front of and behind the
camera. It examines the socially constructed nature of gender
representations in film and analizes the position of women as related
to the production and reception of films. Emphasis is on feminist
aproaches that challenge and expose the underlying working of
patriarchy in cinema.
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126. Film, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde. (4)
Three hours of lecture per week.
Focusing on the creative process while engaging in critical debates on
politics, ethics, and aesthetics, the course explores the site where
feminist film-making practice meets with and challenges the avant-garde
tradition. It emphasizes works that question conventional notions of
subjectivity, audience, and interpretation in relation to film making,
film viewing, and the cinematic apparatus.
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129. Bodies and Boundaries. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Examines gender and embodiment in interdisciplinary transnational
perspective. The human body as both a source of pleasure and as a site
of coercion, which expresses individuality and reflects social worlds.
Looks at bodies as gendered, raced, disabled/able-bodied, young or old,
rich or poor, fat or thin, commodity or inalienable. Considers
masculinity, women's bodies, sexuality, sports, clothing, bodies
constrained, in leisure, at work, in nation-building, at war, and as
feminist theory.
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130. Gender and Health. (4)
Three hours of lecture per week.
The role of gender in health care status, definitions and experiences
of health, and in practices of medicine. Feminist perspectives on
health care disparities, the medicalization of society, and
transnational processes relating to health. Gender will be considered
in dynamic interaction with race, ethnicity, sexuality, immigration
status, religion, nation, age, and disability, and in both urban and
rural settings.
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131. Gender and Science. (3)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
What role has science as a social institution played in the sexual
division of intellectual and emotional labor underlying our cultural
history? What consequences has the division of labor had for scientific
practice? In what ways has the historical exclusion of traditionally
female interests affected the development of the natural sciences? What
differences if any would the full and equal participation of women
make?
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134. Gender and the Politics of Childhood. (4) Three
hours of lecture per week.
Explores gender and age as interrelated dimensions of social structure,
meaning, identity, and embodiment. Emphasis on the gendered politics of
childhood--for example, in the social regulation of reproduction;
child-rearing, motherhood, fatherhood, care, and rights; the changing
global political economy of childhoods and varied constructions of "the
child"; child laborers, soldiers, street children; consumption by and
for children; growing up in schools, neighborhoods, and families.
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139. Women and Work. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
This course uses gender as a lens to examine the nature, meaning, and
organization of women's work. Students learn varied conceptual
approaches with which to probe such issues as gender divisions of
labor, the economic significance of caring and other forms of unpaid
labor, earnings disparities between men and women, race and class
differences in women's work, transnational labor immigration, and
worker resistance and organizing.
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140. Feminist Cultural Studies. (4)
Three hours of lecture per week.
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of
feminist cultural studies. Drawing upon contemporary theories of
representational politics, the specific focus of the course will vary,
but the emphasis will remain on the intersections of gender, race,
nation, sexuality, and class in particular cultural and critical
practices.
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141. Interrogating Global Economic "Development". (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
An introduction to women and gender in "development." Addresses
theories of "development" (modernization, demographic transition,
dependency, world systems, post-development, postcolonial, and
transnational feminist): productions and representations of
"underdevelopment"; national and international "development"
apparatuses; "development" practices about labor, population,
resources, environment, literacy, technologies, media; and women's
resistance and alternatives.
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142. Women in the Muslim and Arab Worlds. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Examines differences and similarities in women's lives in the Muslim/Arab worlds, including diasporas in Europe and North America. Analysis of issues of gender in relation to "race," ethnicity, nation, religion, and culture.
144. Alternate Sexualities in a Transnational World. (4)
Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture/discussion
per week.
This course engages with contemporary narrations produced by and about
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual postcolonial subjects through
genres such as autobiography, fiction, academic writing, film,
journalism, and poetry. Each semester the focus is geopolitically
limited to no more than two countries to allow students to consider the
conditions out of which the narrations are produced. Sites and subjects
may vary from semester to semester.
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C146. Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Visual Culture. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Formerly 146.
This course examines modern visual cultures that construct ways of
seeing diverse sexualities. Considering Western conventions of
representation during the modern period, we will investigate film,
television, and video. How and when do "normative" and "queer"
sexualities become visually defined. Also listed as LGBT C146.
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C153A. Images of African American Women in Literature: Slavery to the 20th Century. (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Reading and composition requirement.
Analysis of the cultural, literary and social assumptions that
contribute to the various images of African American women in Western
literature and African American writing. Course explores the literature
of 19th-century African American women, an exploding field in American
literary discourse. Also listed as African American Studies C153A.
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C153B. Contemporary Images of African American Women in Literature. (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Reading and composition requirement.
Analysis of the cultural and social assumptions and dynamics that shape
the image of the African American woman in contemporary Western African
American writing. Also listed as African American Studies C153B.
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155. Gender and Transnational Migration. (4)
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.
What economic, social, and cultural forces impel women to migrate and
shape their experiences as immigrants? How does gender, together with
race/ethnicity and class, affect processes of settlement, community
building, and incorporation into labor markets? This course examines
gender structures and relations as they are reconfigured and maintained
through immigration. It emphasizes the agency of immigrant women as
they cope with change and claim their rights as citizens.
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170. Selected Topics in Feminist Theory. (4)
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of department. Three hours of lecture per week.
Intensive study of one topic, problem, or intellectual movement in feminist theory. Topic will vary with instructor.
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195. Senior Seminar. (4)
Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites:
GWS 101; Gender & Women's Studies majors.
This seminar is required for all seniors
majoring in Gender & Women's Studies
and is open only to them. The goal of the
course is for students to produce a research
paper of 25-30 pages that reflects feminist
methods, interpretations, or analysis. (F)
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H195. Gender & Women's Studies Senior Honors Thesis. (4)
Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: 15 upper division units in Gender & Women's
Studies; 3.3 GPA in all University work and 3.3 GPA in courses in the
major.
Entails writing a bachelor's honors thesis pertaining to the student's
major in Gender & Women's Studies. Each student will work under the
guidance of a faculty adviser who will read and grade the thesis.
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C196W. Special Field Research. (10.5)
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units. 240-300 hours work
per semester plus regular meetings with the faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Formerly 196W.Students to work in selected internship programs
approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written
contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and
the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports
for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as
well as produce a final paper for the course consisting of no fewer
than 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser. Also
listed as History of Art C196W, Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
C196W, Mass Communications C196W, Political Science C196W, History
C196W, Political Economy of Industrial Soc C196W, and Sociology C196W.
197. Internship. (2-4)
Course may be repeated for credit. Individual conferences and 10 hours of internship required per week.
Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.Internship Program: Field
work in an organization concerned with women's issues plus individual
conferences with faculty. Students must present a written scope of work
to the supervising faculty members before enrolling. Credit earned
depends on the amount of written work completed by students that
interprets the experience through diaries, historical reports, and
creative work done for the organization. Faculty supervisor and student
must agree on assignments.
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198. Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates. (1-4)
Course may be repeated for credit.
Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis.
Prerequisites: Gender & Women's Studies major.
Seminars for group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year.
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199. Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates. (1-4)
Course may be repeated for credit.
Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis.
Prerequisites: Gender & Women's Studies major.
Reading and conference with the instructor in a field that shall not
coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough
to enable the student to write an essay based upon the student's study.
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