Gender and Women's Studies

Terms offered: Summer 2008 8 Week Session, Summer 2007 8 Week Session, Summer 2006 10 Week Session
Training and instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. The readings and assignments will focus on themes and issues in women's studies.
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Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session
Training and instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. The readings and assignments will focus on themes and issues in gender and women's studies. This course satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session
Introduction to questions and concepts in gender and women's studies. Critical study of the formation of gender and its intersections with other relations of power, such as sexuality, racialization, class, religion, and age. Questions will be addressed within the context of a transnational world. Emphasis of the course will change depending on the instructor.
Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The production of gender, sexuality, and processes of racialization in contemporary global political issues. Topics and geographical foci may vary. Examples: the post-9-11 situation in the U.S. and U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Hindu-Muslim conflict in India; the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; the Israel/Palestine situation; global right-wing movements; state and social movement terrorisms and transnational "security" measures.
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Global Political Issues: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Why study theory? How, and from where, does the desire to theorize gender emerge? What does theory do? What forms does theory take? What is the relationship between theory and social movements? This course will introduce students to one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of contemporary inquiry.
Introduction to Feminist Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020
The Freshman and Sophomore Seminars program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen.
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Terms offered: Fall 2020
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
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Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2016, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
The findings of feminist scholarship as they apply to a particular problem, field, or existing discipline. Designed primarily for lower division students and non-majors. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the Women's Studies announcement of courses for specific semester topics.
Special Topics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
A multi-disciplinary course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work with faculty investigating the topic gender in American culture.
Gender in American Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
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Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
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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Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Seminars for the group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year.
Directed Group Study for Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020
Individual research by lower division students only.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work with faculty investigating the topic women in American culture.
Women in American Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
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 the instructor.
Doing Feminist Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
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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Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015
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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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
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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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work closely with Gender and Women's Studies faculty, investigating a topic of mutual interest in great depth. Emphasis in on student discussion and collaboration. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Number of units will vary depending on specific course, format, and requirements.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025
This course will situate the politics of restricting abortion rights in the US within larger issues of politics, economy, society, and culture. The syllabus is constructed to interrogate how and why reproduction became a politicized issue. What the Reproductive Justice Movement is and how it is connected with a range of other social movements. How the history of slavery, settler colonialism, racism, eugenics, and pronatalism have influenced the fights over control of fertility in the US and what people are doing in other parts of the world to claim and protect reproductive autonomy.
Reproductive Justice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
This class provides students the opportunity to do supervised community service with an organization that relates to women and gender. Students will be placed in an organization and complete an internship throughout the course of the semester. Students will also spend time reflecting on their internship experiences, connecting their service with concepts learned in gender and women's studies classes, and meeting as a group to evaluate and assess issues such as volunteer/unpaid labor, activism and the academy, and the political economy of gender and women's services.
Engaged Scholarship in Women and Gender: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2011
This class will examine various forms of activist practices and create possibilities for students to participate in community projects that allow them to explore their own definitions of activism, community engagement, and social transformation. As a class, we will consider different types of interventions -- art, law, advocacy, and direct action -- and examine the limits and possibilities of these different forms of social engagement.
Queer Theories: Activist Practices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2011, Fall 2009
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from approximately 1890 to the present, a century of dramatic and fundamental change in the meaning of gender difference. We will examine such topics as work, the family, sexuality, and politics and be attentive to variations in the structure and experience of gender based on race, ethnicity, and class.
The History of American Women: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2012
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.
Women and Film: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Spring 2018
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.
Film, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
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.
Bodies and Boundaries: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Fall 2023
Examines the role of gender in health care status, in 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.
Gender, Race, Nation, and Health: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2017, Spring 2014
Examines historical and contemporary scientific studies of gender, sexuality, class, nation, and race from late 18th century racial and gender classifications through the heyday of eugenics to today's genomics. Explores the embedding of the scientific study of gender and sexuality and race in different political, economic, and social contexts. Considers different theories for the historical underrepresentation of women and minorities in science, as well as potential solutions. Introduces students to feminist science studies, and discusses technologies of production, reproduction, and destruction that draw on as well as remake gender locally and globally.
Gender and Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2015
Focusing on the interconnected ways that race, gender, and sexuality are constructed through the law, this course will examine a wide range of historical texts, legal documents, literature, and critical theory. Throughout our course readings, we will be focusing on how these categories of difference inform legal constructions of nation, citizenship, immigration, masculinity, femininity, childhood, the public sphere, and everyday life. Throughout the course, we will be making connections between historical events and the contemporary moment through a consideration of interpretation and implications of legal arguments.
Gender, Race, and Law: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2018
Explores various ways that human groups and interests, particularly in the United States, have both attached and divorced themselves from other animals, with particular focus on gender, race, ability, and sexuality as the definitional foils for human engagements with animality.
Women, Men, and Other Animals: Human Animality in American Cultures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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.
Gender and the Politics of Childhood: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2020
The 21st century has seen powerful critiques of both growing economic inequality and the troubling persistence of domination based on gender, race and other categorical differences. Gender has a distinctive role here for many reasons: the centrality of gender to social reproduction; the historical coproduction of male domination and capitalism; and the way gender operates in the constitution of selves. Insofar as capitalism is organized and distributes power and profits through gendered structures, and gendered meanings and identities are shaped by their emergence within capitalist logics, it behooves us to think gender and capitalism in tandem. Figuring out how to do that, and sorting out the consequences, is our project in this class.
Gender and Capitalism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
This course uses gender as a lens to examine the nature, meaning, and organization of work. Students learn varied conceptual approaches with which to probe such issues as gender and race 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.
Why Work? Gender and Labor Under Capitalism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
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.
Feminist Cultural Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
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.
Interrogating Global Economic "Development": Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2017, Spring 2016
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.
Women in the Muslim and Arab Worlds: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009
This course examines new patterns of inequality as they relate to the feminization of poverty in a global and transnational context. It will give students the opportunity to enhance their critical knowledge of new forms of globalization and their impact on the least-privileged group of women locally and globally. It also provides an opportunity for students to work with a local or global non-governmental or community organization with a focus on gender and poverty, and to engage in a systematic analysis of the strategies and practices of these organizations.
Women, Proverty, and Globalization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016
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.
Alternate Sexualities in a Transnational World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2018
Cultural Representations of Sexuality: Queer Literary Culture explores a variety of twentieth-century literary texts (poetry, fiction, drama) produced at key moments in the “queer past.” Using sound recordings, visual art, and documentary film to enhance our encounter with literary texts, this course seeks to amplify the aesthetic dimensions of queer politics, sociality, culture and counter-culture, through sound and moving image. Over the course of the semester, students will learn to situate literary and text-based modes of expression and circulation within a broader field of cultural production.
Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Literary Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
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?
Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Visual Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2011
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.
Gender and Transnational Migration: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
Gender, sex, and power shape and influence our cultural and social world in obvious and in hidden ways. Bay Area artists and activists focus on illuminating, shifting, redefining, and making use of the juncture of gender, sex, and power to bring about new opportunities and new futures. We will first explore the terrain of academic definitions of gender, sex, power and the connections among them, emphasizing how gender/sex/power is interlinked with racism, classism, colonialism, and dis/ablism. Topics addressed will include: labor, migration and belonging; food, shelter, and land; health and health care; sexuality and love; and politics and political action.
Gender, Sex and Power: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2020, Spring 2017
This course introduces students to the long history of the prison in the American experience, and does so by engaging ideas, movements, and practices to craft worlds of care and mutuality beyond the harms that the prison produces and legitimates. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the course engages with the full range of “carceral geographies” in which social life is penetrated with the state’s power to surveil, arrest, judge, and punish its citizens; as well as the “abolition geographies” that, in Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s terms, combine resources, creativity, and commitment to create freedom as a place where all life/lives are precious.
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Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020
This course is designed to provide students with an introductory exploration of issues of sexuality and gender through community-centered praxis,
democratic education, and dialogue. In a culturally and socially diverse society, discussion of differences is needed to facilitate understanding and
build relationships among people, as well as to bring awareness to and address social inequities. Through this course, students will explore their
own and others’ narratives in various social and institutional contexts, while learning from each other’s perspectives in community. Students will also
explore ways of taking action to engage in social justice work and create social change at the interpersonal, community, and institutional levels.
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Terms offered: Spring 2021
This course is designed to provide students with an introductory exploration of queer theory and
its intersections with leadership development. Students will engage in a multifaceted approach
of learning through discussions in the academic seminar integrated with contextual education
taking place in the community. By integrating knowledge of and experiences with issues
affecting queer and trans communities, students will explore the importance of challenging
dominant leadership paradigms as they develop their own identities as leaders. Students will
also explore ways to turn social justice knowledge and conversation into tangible actions and
work to create social change at the interpersonal, community, and institutional levels.
UNITY THEME PROGRAM SEMINAR: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This seminar is required of all seniors majoring in gender and women’s studies, with the exception of seniors enrolled in GWS H195. Students will engage in intensive seminar-style study of a topic determined by the faculty leader.
Gender and Women's Studies Senior Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2018
Entails writing a bachelor's honors thesis pertaining to the student's major in gender and women's studies. Each student will work under the guidance of a faculty adviser who will read and grade the thesis.
Gender and Women's Studies Senior Honors Thesis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023
This seminar is required of seniors in majoring in gender and women’s studies who have qualified for and elected to pursue honors in the major. Entails writing a bachelor's honors thesis pertaining to the student's major in gender and women's studies. Each student will work under the guidance of a faculty adviser who will read and grade the work. In the first semester, students
will be expected to establish a research plan and undertake original research on a focused topic. In the second semester, students will be expected to complete the writing of the honors thesis.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
This seminar is required of seniors in majoring in gender and women’s studies who have qualified for and elected to pursue honors in the major. Entails writing a bachelor's honors thesis pertaining to the student's major in gender and women's studies. Each student will work under the guidance of a faculty adviser who will read and grade the work. In the first semester (GWS H195A), students will be expected to establish a research plan and undertake original research on a focused topic. In the second semester (GWS H195B), students will be expected to complete the writing of the honors thesis.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
This course is the UCDC letter-graded core seminar for 4 units that complements the P/NP credited internship course UGIS C196B. Core seminars are designed to enhance the experience of and provide an intellectual framework for the student's internship. UCDC core seminars are taught in sections that cover various tracks such as the Congress, media, bureaucratic organizations and the Executive Branch, international relations, public policy and general un-themed original research.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
This course provides a credited internship for all students enrolled in the UCDC and Cal in the Capital Programs. It must be taken in conjunction with the required academic core course C196A. C196B requires that students work 3-4 days per week as interns in settings selected to provide them with exposure to and experienc in government, public policy, international affairs, media, the arts or other areas or relevance to their major fields of study.
UCDC Internship: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
Students 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 a final paper for the course consisting of at least 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser.
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Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2017
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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Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Seminars for group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
Reading and conference with the instructor in a field that does not coincide with that of any regular course and is specific enough to enable students to write an essay based upon their studies.
Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
An introduction to varied dimensions of alternative sexual identities in the contemporary United States, with a focus ranging from individuals to communities. This course will use historical, sociological, ethnographic, political-scientific, psychological, psychoanalytical, legal, medical, literary, and filmic materials to chart trends and movements from the turn of the century to the present.
Sexual Politics and Queer Organzing in the US: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
Seminars for group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work closely with LGBT faculty, investigating a topic of mutual interest in great depth. Emphasis in on student discussion and collaboration. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Number of units will vary depending on specific course, format, and requirements.
Special Topics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
This course examines interpretive issues in studying the history of sexuality and the formation of sexual identities and communities. Considering primary documents, secondary literature, and theoretical essays, we investigate specific historiographical concerns and raise questions about historical methodology and practice.
Interpreting the Queer Past: Methods and Problems in the History of Sexuality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This course will draw upon a wide range of critical theory, film, music, literature, popular culture, ethnography, theater, and visual art to explore the relationship between cultural forms of representation and individual and collective forms of expression. Central questions for mutual consideration will include: Who/what constitutes the subject of queer cultural production? How are queer theories relevant (or irrelevant) to queer cultural and political practices?
Cultural Representations of Sexuality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2018
Cultural Representations of Sexuality: Queer Literary Culture explores a variety of twentieth-century literary texts (poetry, fiction, drama) produced at key moments in the “queer past.” Using sound recordings, visual art, and documentary film to enhance our encounter with literary texts, this course seeks to amplify the aesthetic dimensions of queer politics, sociality, culture and counter-culture, through sound and moving image. Over the course of the semester, students will learn to situate literary and text-based modes of expression and circulation within a broader field of cultural production.
Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Literary Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
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?
Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Visual Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
An introduction to social theory and ethnographic methodology in the cross-cultural study of sexuality, particularly sexual orientation and gender identity. The course will stress the relationships between culture, international and local political economy, and the representation and experience of what we will provisionally call homosexual and transgendered desires or identities.
Sexuality, Culture, and Colonialism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2011
Course focuses on the production of sexualities, sexual identification, and gender differentiation across multiple discourses and locations.
Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
Seminars for group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year.
Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]