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Jacqueline Bobo, Ph.D., University of Oregon, Professor (film/television, cultural studies, Black feminist cultural theory)
Eileen Boris, Ph.D., Brown University, Hull Professor of Women's Studies (gender, race, and class; labor studies; social politics; women, work, and welfare; women and gender history)
Ellie Hernandez, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor (twentieth-century American literature and cultural studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o literature and cultural production, gay/lesbian studies and queer theory, comparative sexualities, U.S. Pan-Latina/o formations, Marxist theory in global and transnational humanities)
Laury Oaks, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor (reproductive politics; anthropology of health, medicine, and science)
Leila J. Rupp, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, Professor (women's movements, sexuality, gay/lesbian history, women's history)
Juliet Williams, Ph.D., Cornell University, Assistant Professor (public law, political theory and feminist jurisprudence)
Ursula R. Mahlendorf, Ph.D., Brown University, Professor Emerita (expressionism, contemporary German literature, feminist theory and inquiry)
Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Ph.D. (Chicano Studies)
Ann Bermingham, Ph.D. (History of Art and Architecture)
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Maurizia Boscagli, Ph.D. (English)
Julie Carlson, Ph.D. (English)
Sarah Cline, Ph.D. (History)
Patricia Cline Cohen, Ph.D. (History)
Catherine Cole, Ph.D. (Dramatic Art and Dance)
Sharon A. Farmer, Ph.D. (History)
Sarah Fenstermaker, Ph.D. (Sociology)
L. Aranye O. Fradenburg, Ph.D. (English)
Nancy E. Gallagher, Ph.D. (History)
Avery Gordon, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Mary Hancock, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Susan Koshy, Ph.D. (Asian American Studies)
Claudine Michel, Ph.D. (Black Studies)
Stephan Miescher, Ph.D. (History)
Catherine Nesci, Ph.D. (French and Italian)
Christopher Newfield, Ph.D. (English)
Lisa Parks, Ph.D. (Film Studies)
Constance Penley, Ph.D. (Film Studies)
Ann Plane, Ph.D. (History)
Erika Rappaport, Ph.D. (History)
Chela Sandoval, Ph.D. (Chicano Studies)
Beth Schneider, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Denise Segura, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ph.D. (History of Art and Architecture)
Ines Talamantez, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Janet Walker, Ph.D. (Film Studies)
Mayfair Yang, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Xiaojian Zhao, Ph.D. (Asian American Studies)
Women's Studies Advisory Committee
The Women's Studies Advisory Committee is composed of core faculty and elected representatiives from the affiliated faculty.
studies is an interdisciplinary program and major in which the varied experiences of women and the systematic study of gender may be explored. The women's studies major is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to discover the variety and richness of women's historical, cultural, and social contributions, as well as to obtain a clear understanding of the dynamics of gender, race, and class inequality as it has been experience and struggled against by the world's women. The student seeking a B.A. in women's studies will organize a coherent program of study around either a humanities or social science emphasis. The women's studies curriculum is composed of its own core courses as well as a variety of courses elected from disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
The women's studies curriculum is designed to complement and elaborate the aims students pursue in traditional departments. The major can form the core of an excellent liberal arts education. It can also be used as preparation for careers in management, law, social service, the arts, publishing, and teaching, and as preparation for graduate study in the social sciences, humanities, and women's studies.
Students with a bachelor's degree in women's studies who are interested in pursuing a California Teaching Credential should contact the credential advisor in the Graduate School of Education as soon as possible.
Incoming students and prospective majors are invited to consult the women's studies faculty and staff advisors. Further descriptions of the women's studies curriculum and of major requirements are available in the program office. A list of courses offered is available each quarter, prior to registration.
Women's Studies has an honors program which will allow motivated undergraduates to undertake advanced research with a Women's Studies faculty member. The honors program requirements involve two quarters of independent study and a final presentation of research at a symposium in the spring. Upon successful completion of the program, students will graduate with "Distinction in the Major."
All courses to be applied to the major and the minor must be completed on a letter-grade basis, including courses offered in women's studies and those offered by other departments and applied to the major/minor.
Preparation for the major. Twelve units in lower-division courses are required. Students select 12 units from course offerings in areas A, B, and C.
Area A: Concepts in Women's Studies. One course required, selected from Women's Studies 10 and 20.
Area B: U.S. Feminisms. One course required, selected from Women's Studies 40 and 60.
Area C: Women, Nationalism and Transnationalism. One course required, selected from Women's Studies 30 and 70.
Upper-division major. Forty-four upper-division units are required, distributed as follows.
Required courses: Women's Studies 180, 181, and 182.
Elective courses: Thirty-two units (eight courses) of upper-division electives selected from the following courses: Anthropology 102A-B, 111, 116, 125, 126, 138A, 138B, 142B, 170, 172, 177; Art History 125B, 143B-C-D; Asian American Studies 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136; Black Studies 107, 121, 122, 127, 133, 136; Chicano Studies 112, 114, 147, 149, 151, 154AF, 154F, 155R, 155W, 167, 184A; Communication 124, 126; Dance 145W; English 114AA-ZZ, 122RB, 134NW, 165WL; Film Studies 138, 150PG, 163, 192B; French 106X, 130X, 131X, 132X, 136X, 168, 171X, 185A-B; German 163, 164G; Global Studies 180A-B, History 117C, 117D, 124Q, 124WP, 146PW, 146W, 147G, 147Q, 151W, 9B-C, 159P, 163A-B-P, 175D, 188A-B; Interdisciplinary Studies 110, 183H; Italian 142X, 143X, 144AX-ZX; Law and Society 140, 194LI; Linguistics 132, 133; Music 168E; Portuguese 183W; Religious Studies 102, 114D, 192; Slavic 162; Sociology 118G, 130CC, 130CS, 134, 134R, 140, 144, 144S, 151, 153, 154A-B, 154F, 155A-B, 155AG, 155M, 155R, 155T, 155W, 156A-B, 159LG, 159S, 176A, 185G, 185K; Spanish 194; Women's Studies 117C, 120, 124A-B, 130, 131, 135, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147Q, 150, 153, 154A, 155A-B, 159B-C, 156A-B, 159LG, 161, 163A-B, 171A-B, 171CN, 186AA-ZZ, 190, 196, 198, 199. (Women's Studies 186AA-ZZ, 190, 196, 198, and 199 may be repeated for credit. See individual course listings for limitations.)
Non-Women's Studies Special Topics or Selected Topics courses, and/or courses for which the instructor varies, may fulfill Area B, depending on course content and contingent upon Women's Studes Program approval.
Women's studies majors are strongly urged to fulfill the second part of the Area A General Education requirement by taking Writing 109WS. Transfer students are urged to take Writing 109WS, even if they have already fulfilled the Writing 50 requirement. Those majors who are unable to take Writing 109WS are urged to take Writing 109SS, Writing for the Social Sciences.
All courses to be applied to the minor must be completed on a letter-grade basis, including both courses offered in women's studies and those offered by other departments and applied to the minor.
Preparation for the minor. Twelve units in lower-division courses are required. Students select 12 units from course offerings in areas A, B, and C.
Area A: Concepts in Women's Studies. One course required, selected from Women's Studies 10 and 20.
Area B: U.S. Feminisms. One course required, selected from Women's Studies 40 and 60.
Area C: Women, Nationalism and Transnationalism. One course required, selected from Women's Studies 30 and 70.
Upper-division minor. Twenty upper-division units, distributed as follows.
Required courses: Select one (4 units) from the following courses: Women's Studies 180, 181, and 182.
Elective courses: Sixteen units (four courses) of upper-division electives from the following courses: Anthropology 102A-B, 111, 116, 125, 126, 138A, 138B, 142B, 170, 172, 177; Art History 125B, 143B-C-D; Asian American Studies 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136; Black Studies 107, 121, 122, 127, 133, 136; Chicano Studies 112, 114, 147, 149, 151, 154AF, 154F, 155R, 155W, 167, 184A; Communication 124, 126; Dance 145W; English 114AA-ZZ, 122RB, 134NW, 165WL; Film Studies 138, 150PG, 163, 192B; French 106X, 130X, 131X, 132X, 136X, 168, 171X, 185A-B; German 163, 164G; Global Studies 180A-B; History 117C, 117D, 124Q, 124WP, 146PW, 146W, 147G, 147Q, 151W, 9B-C, 159P, 163A-B-P, 175D, 188A-B; Interdisciplinary Studies 110, 183H; Italian 142X, 143X, 144AX-ZX; Law and Society 140, 194LI; Linguistics 132, 133; Music 168E; Portuguese 183W; Religious Studies 102, 114D, 192; Slavic 162; Sociology 118G, 130CC, 130CS, 134, 134R, 140, 144, 144S, 151, 153, 154A-B, 154F, 155A-B, 155AG, 155M, 155R, 155T, 155W, 156A-B, 159LG, 159S, 176A, 185G, 185K; Spanish 194; Women's Studies 117C, 120, 124A-B, 130, 131, 135, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147Q, 150, 153, 154A, 155A-B, 159B-C, 159LG, 161, 163A-B, 171A-B, 171CN, 186AA-ZZ, 190, 196, 198, 199. (Women's Studies 186AA-ZZ, 190, 196, 198, and 199 may be repeated for credit. See individual course listings for limitations.) Note: A combined maximum of 8 units of independent studies, Women's Studies 190, 198, and 199 may be applied to the minor.
Note: Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval by the chair of the department. Please see Academic Minors for special conditions governing minors in the College of Letters and Science.
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In addition to program requirements, candidates for graduate degrees must meet the university degree requirements described in the section "Graduate Education at UCSB."
The Women's Studies Program, with over 30 core and affiliated faculty members in over eleven disciplines, serves as a mode of interdisciplinary work and scholarly collaboration at UCSB. Women's studies doctoral emphasis students are required to complete successfully four seminars that will enhance their understanding of feminist pedagogy, feminist theory, and topics relevant to the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality. Using an interdepartmental set of conversations and intellectual questions, women's studies support a multifaceted undergraduate curriculum at UCSB. Graduate emphasis students are encouraged to apply to teach women's studies courses as teaching assistants and associates as part of their women's studies training.
Applicants must first be admitted to, or currently enrolled in, a UCSB Ph.D. program participating in the women's studies graduate emphasis: anthropology; English; French and Italian; Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies; history; history of art and architecture; religious studies; or sociology. Candidates complete four graduate courses and select a member of the women's studies faculty or affiliated faculty to serve on their Ph.D. exam and dissertation committees. Applications to the women's studies doctoral emphasis may be submitted at any stage of Ph.D. work and will be considered throughout the academic year.
Students pursuing the emphasis in women's studies will successfully complete four graduate courses. Only one may be taken in the student's home department. The courses are the following:
Women's Studies 270. Issues in Feminist Epistemology and Pedagogy: A one-quarter seminar that offers an interdisciplinary exploration of feminist theories of knowledge production and teaching practices. Readings present past and present critical debates and provide theoretical approaches through which to analyze interdisciplinary epistemological and pedagogical issues.
Women's Studies 280. Research Seminar: A cross-disciplinary seminar in which fundamental questions in contemporary feminist research practice are considered in light of the students' own graduate projects.
Feminist Theories. A one-quarter seminar in feminist theory offered by any department, including women's studies.
Topical Seminar. A one-quarter graduate seminar, outside the student's home department, that addresses topics relevant to the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality.
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A list of women's studies courses with descriptions will be available before the beginning of each quarter, as close to the start of registration as possible. Students are urged to consult this list before registering.
10. Women, Society, and Representation
(4) Boris
An examination of the theoretical and personal meanings of the social construction
of gender in selected western and non-western societies. With attention to class,
ethnicity, and sexual orientation specificity, how does "gender" structure
and get represented in/through institutions and relationships?
20. Women in Western Societies
(4) Rupp
Introduction to basic concepts and approaches of women's studies within the
social sciences. An extensive range of topics and analytic frameworks will be
explored to understand the status of women in western societies.
30. Women's Struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
(4) Staff
An exploration of the impact of colonialism and underdevelopment on women's
lives in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. Primary focus is
on the economic division of labor, women and development, and women's role in
liberation struggles.
40. Issues in the Humanities
(4) Staff
This class will introduce students to central feminist questions raised in a
variety of fields in the humanities, including literature, language, art and
religion. Readings will explore the representation of women in American society
and the diversity of women's experience.
60. Women of Color in the United States: Struggle and Resistance
(4) Hernandez
Examination of the interlocking dynamics and politics of gender, race, sexuality,
class, and culture in the experience of U.S. women of color. Readings focus
on oppositional consciousness and resistance to oppression in the scholarship
and literature by women of color.
70. Women and Development
(4) Hernandez
Examination of theories and practices of development primarily in the Third
World through the lens of gender and the lives of women. Topics include colonization,
the state, education, political participation, environment, population, health,
and alternatives to development.
80. Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
(4) Staff
Examines LGBTQ studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Along with historical,
social, cultural, political, artistic, and literary rise to prominence of sexual
minorities, the goal of the course is to integrate a discussion of the continuum
of LGBTQ identities within their respective social contexts and communities.
99. Independent Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: Women's Studies 10 or 20 or 40; consent of instructor and
department.
Students must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade-point average. May be repeated
for credit to a maximum of 8 units. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter
and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199DC/199RA course combined. No unit
credit allowed toward the major.
Research under the direction of a faculty member. Students are offered an opportunity
to conduct independent or collaborative research or to act as interns for faculty-directed
research projects.
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117C. Women, the Family, and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
(4) Farmer
Prerequisite: History 4B or upper-division standing.
Same course as History 117C. Not open for credit to students who have completed
History 117.
Family structure; perceptions and ideals of intimate and familial relations;
status, perceptions, and experiences of women in western Europe circa 400-1400
A.D. Special attention on social, political, and religious contexts.
120. Women's Labors
(4) Boris
Letter grade required for majors and minors. Not open for credit to students
who have completed Women's Studies 186EB.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior course in women's
studies.
What is women's work? How has it changed over time? How is it valued? Explores
wage-earning, caregiving, sex work, housework, double days, glass ceilings,
and strategies of survival and resistance among America women from various demographic,
racial, and ethnic groups.
124A. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe, 1750-1914
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Same course as History 124A.
The roles of women, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth century
Europe. Exploration of the nature of women and revolution: religious, legal,
scientific, and popular conceptions of gender and sexuality; industrialization
and family life, the rise of organized feminism.
124B. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe, 1914-Present
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Same course as History 124B.
The relationship between war, revolution, fascism, socialism, feminism, and
consumerism and the history of the family, gender, and sexual identities in
the twentieth century.
130. Perspectives on Women's Health
(4) Oaks
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
Investigation of the power that medicine has in shaping health experts' and
lay individuals' understandings of health and health practices. Particular attention
is paid to how women's health issues come to be seen as "social problems,"
past and present.
131. The Politics of Women's Choices: Reproduction and Reproductive Technologies
(4) Oaks
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
Exploration of theoretical, popular, and political debates over reproductive
technologies in terms of women's power and choices. Investigation of how cultural
and historical changes in reproductive practices influence ideas about nature,
society, and progress. Examination of case studies on current controversies.
135. Feminist Theories of Science and Feminist Scientists
(4) Oaks
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
Exploration of feminist analyses and critiques of science in social, historical,
an political contexts. How does science construct gender? How and why are women
excluded from scientific discourses and practices? How have women transformed
science, and what is "feminist science?"
140. Asian American Women's Writing
(4) Staff
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
A survey of the writings of Asian American women. It situates second generation
and contemporary Asian American women writers in their particular ethnic cultures
to better understand their contributions to U.S. traditions of representations.
142. Black Women Filmmakers
(4) Bobo
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women's Studies 186JB.
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
An opportunity to view films (animation, documentary, experimental and narrative),
examine the specifics of media production, compare the various works produced
by black women, and acquire the skills necessary for media criticism.
143. Women's Film Narratives
(4) Bobo
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women's Studies 186JC.
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
Examination of the dynamics of family, race, sexuality, resistance, and cultural
transformation through women's novels and film adaptations and other films which
have had a significant impact on the national consciousness.
144. Representation and Activism
(4) Bobo
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women's Studies 186JD.
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
Exploration of the strategies by which social groups resist systems of oppression
through readings and works from independent filmmakers.
145. Media Adaptations of Black Women's Literature
(4) Bobo
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women's Studies 186JE.
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior women's studies
course.
Investigation of the visual translation of works which have had a profound effect
on American culture. Examination of the ways in which the media versions may
have altered, in critical ways, the works' social and ideological meanings.
147Q. Readings on African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 147A or 147B.
Same course as History 147Q. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
A discussion and reading seminar on selected topics in African history.
150. Modern Sex and Modern Love
(4) Staff
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units may
be applied toward the major. Same course as Film Studies 162.
Examination of how the media reflect and shape ideas of and about contemporary
feminism. In an effort to be topical, subjects covered consist of contemporary
feminist issues featured in the media during the quarter.
153. Women and Work
(4) Fenstermaker, Segura
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as Sociology 153.
The course will begin with readings and discussion of the sociological features
of work in society. The role of women in the labor market will be explored,
as well as their lives as unpaid workers in their own homes. Finally, more global
issues of sexual inequality and social change will be discussed.
154A. Sociology of the Family
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as Sociology 154A.
A lecture course on family and household organization, past and present. Attention
to contemporary issues in the family focusing on gender, class, and cultural
variation.
155A. Women in American Society
(4) Fenstermaker
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as Sociology 155A.
The roles and life styles of women in various American subcultures and the ideologies
developing around them.
155B. Sociological Perspectives on Women
(4) Fenstermaker, Schneider
Same course as Sociology 155B. May be repeated once providing topics are
different.
Recommended preparation: Sociology 155A.
Advanced study in the sociology of women. Course format (seminar or lecture)
and topics vary from year to year. Topics may include: the analysis of the status
of women in the labor force, women's class position, theoretical and practical
aspects of patriarchy.
159B. Women in American History
(4) Cohen, Dehart
Prerequisites: two quarters from History 17A-B-C or upper-division standing.
Same course as History 159B.
Social history of women in America from 1800 to 1900. Changing marriage, reproduction
and work patterns, and cultural values about the female role. Attention to racial,
class, and ethnic differences. Analysis of feminist thought and the several
women's movements.
159C. Women in Twentieth-Century American History
(4) DeHart, cohen
Same course as History 159C.
A continuation of Women's Studies 159A-B from 1900 to the present.
159LG. Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Communities
(4) Schneider
Prerequisite: upper-division standin.
Same course as Sociology 159LG. Not open for credit to students who have completed
Sociology 146.
Origins and transformation of lesbian and gay communities and social movements,
with special attention to ideological development, major social problems, cultural
production, race, ethnic and gender differences, organization formation, and
political conflict.
161. The Social Construction of Sexuality
(4) Staff
Letter grade reqired for majors and minors.
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or a prior course in women's
studies.
This course explores how sexuality is shaped, controlled and defined by social
and cultural forces in England and the U.S. By using historical and literary
sources we will examine the variable understanding of human sexuality in the
last two centuries.
162. Critical (LGBTQ) Studies
(4) Hernandez
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units can
be applied to the major.
Examines the dynamics of the juridical, social, political, cultural representations
of LGBTQ identities. Examines legal cases, policy issues, social matters as
well as representations therein in literary and cultural expression in order
to study the LGBTQ people in active resistance against dominant power structure.
163A. Women and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
(4) DeHart
Prerequisite: History 159A or 159B or 159C or a prior course in women's studies.
Same course as History 163A.
How gender-based cultural attitudes and social roles, collective action, and
economic and social change interacted to shape law and public policy with respect
to work, family, and legal and reproductive rights. From 1900 through approximately
1945.
163B. Women and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
(4) Dehart
Prerequisite: History 159A or 159B or 159C or a prior course in women's studies.
Same course as History 163B.
How gender-based cultural attitudes and social roles, collective action, and
economic and social change interacted to shape law and public policy with respect
to work, family and legal and reproductive rights. From World War II to the
present.
171A-B. Feminist Praxis: Internship Seminar
(4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Letter grade required for majors and minors. A two-quarter in-progress sequence
course with grades for both quarters issued upon completion of the final quarter.
Recommended preparation: a women's studies major or minor or 2 prior women's
studies courses.
This two quarter course integrates fieldwork experience with an academic seminar
focusing on the historical, sociological, and political issues surrounding community
services for women. Each student will be placed as an intern in a community
agency for both quarters.
171CN. Citoyennes! Women and Politics in Modern France
(4) Nesci
Same course as French 171X.
Focuses on women's fights for the rights of equality and liberty, their exclusion
from the public sphere, and their access to citizenship (1789-2001). Women's
evolving personal and collective aspirations, and the creation of a republican
womanhood in modern culture. In English.
180. Feminist Critiques of Inquiry
(4) Williams
Prerequisite: upper-division standing; open to majors and minors only.
Letter grade required for majors.
Assessment of key methods and assumptions of discipline-based knowledge production,
and readings of feminist critiques of such methodologies and epistemology.
181. Key Issues in Feminist Theory
(4) Boris
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; a major or minor in women's studies.
Letter grade required for majors.
Readings in feminist theories since de Beauvoir, to frame and interpret selected
contemporary social, cultural, and political movements and the roles of women
within U.S. domestic and/or transnational territories.
182. Feminist Research and Practice
(4) Oaks
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; a major in women's studies.
Open to minors with consent of instructor. Letter grade required for majors
and minors.
Intended to be the culminating experience for Women's Studies majors. A seminar
focusing on participants' individual research on selected social and cultural
topics, with faculty mentors or through internships in women-identified organizations.
186AA-ZZ. Gender and Culture
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations
are different. Letter grade required for majors.
Lectures in special areas of interest in contemporary women's studies. Consult
the program office regarding proposed course topics.
190. Women's Community Organization
(2-4) Staff
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; open to women's studies majors only.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 6 units, but only 4 units may be
applied toward the major.
Combines independent service in an organization serving the women's community
with reflection and analysis under the supervision of a faculty member. Students
will conduct observations and write a term paper. Readings relevant to the internship
experience are required.
196. Senior Seminar
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Women's Studies 180 and 181; open to women's studies majors
only.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
A senior seminar intended for majors in their senior year that permits some
analytic synthesis across themes in women's studies. Topics will vary with instructor.
198. Readings in Women's Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division
courses in women's studies.
Students must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three
quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199DC/199RA
courses combined. Students may apply a maximum of 4 units of Women's Studies
198/199 courses combined to the major. Women's Studies 198 may be repeated for
credit to a maximum of 12 units, but only 4 units may be applied toward the
major.
Directed readings in women's studies under the guidance of a faculty member
in the program. Students wishing to enroll should prepare a short written plan
of study.
199. Independent Studies in Women's Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division
courses in women's studies.
Students must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three
quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199DC/199RA
courses combined. Students may apply a maximum of 4 units of Women's Studies
198/199 courses combined to the major. Women's Studies 199 may be repeated for
credit to a maximum of 12 units, but only 4 units may be applied toward the
major.
Independent research and writing under the guidance of a faculty member in the
program. Students wishing to enroll should prepare a short written plan of study.
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270. Feminist Epistemologies and Pedagogy
(4) Oaks
Acquaints students with the scope and range of feminist epistemological critiques
across disciplines and pursues issues relevant to problematizing of knowledge
seeking, such as theories of agency rooted in gender, race, class, and sexuality.
280. Research Practicum
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 270.
A cross-disciplinary seminar in which fundamental questions in contemporary
feminist research practice are considered in light of students own graduate
projects. As students read and critique each others' work, issues specific to
women's studies research and teaching will be discussed.
501. Apprentice Teaching in Women's Studies
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: teaching assistant.
May be repeated for credit.
Students will receive faculty supervision as they lead discussion sections,
assist in the preparation and evaluation of exams, and advise on written assignments.
Attention will be given to the challenges posed by multidisciplinary materials
and perspectives. Weekly meetings with instructor required.
594AA-ZZ. Special Topics in Women's Studies
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: consent of instructor; current graduate enrollment.
May be repeated for credit with approval of program chair.
Special seminar on research topics of current interest.
596AA-ZZ. Directed Readings and Research
(2-8) Staff
Prerequisites: consent of instructor, current graduate enrollment.
May be repeated for credit with approval of program chair.
Individual tutorial relevant to M.A. or Ph.D. projects. Plan of study must be
approved by program chair.
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