Women’s Studies Program
Division of Social Sciences
South Hall 4631
Telephone: (805) 893-4330
E-mail: wmst@womst.ucsb.edu
Website: www.womst.ucsb.edu (will
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Program Chair: Leila Rupp
Contents:
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)
Grace Chang, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor (women of color, immigrant women; globalization studies, social justice movements for immigrant and welfare rights)
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)
Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D., New York University, Assistant Professor (black feminist theory, black sexual politics, the racialized political economy of sex work, and American film and visual cultures)
Laury Oaks, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Associate 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)
Barbara Tomlinson, Ph.D., UC Riverside, Associate Professor (feminist theory, rhetoric and feminist politics, cultural studies)
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)
Paul Amar, Ph.D., (Law and Society)
Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Ph.D. (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Aaron Belkin, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Ann Bermingham, Ph.D. (Art History)
Silvia Bermúdez, Ph.D. (Spanish and Portuguese)
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Maurizia Boscagli, Ph.D. (English)
Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D. (Linguistics)
Julie Carlson, Ph.D. (English)
Sarah Cline, Ph.D. (History)
Patricia Cline Cohen, Ph.D. (History)
Catherine Cole, Ph.D. (Dramatic Art)
Sharon A. Farmer, Ph.D. (History)
Sarah Fenstermaker, Ph.D. (Sociology)
L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, Ph.D. (English)
Nancy E. Gallagher, Ph.D. (History)
Avery Gordon, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Mary Hancock, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Tania Israel, Ph.D. (Education)
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)
Horacio Roque Ramirez, Ph.D. (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Erika Rappaport, Ph.D. (History)
Chela Sandoval, Ph.D. (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Beth Schneider, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Denise Segura, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Celine Shimizu, Ph.D., (Asian American Studies)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ph.D. (Art History)
Inés Talamantez, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Verta Taylor, Ph.D. (Sociology)
France Winddance Twine, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Janet Walker, Ph.D. (Film Studies)
Mayfair Yang, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Xiaojian Zhao, Ph.D. (Asian American Studies)
Women’s 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 experienced 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 Gevirtz 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. Qualifying requirements include an overall grade-point average of at least 3.0, with a 3.5 in the women’s studies major.The honors program requirements also involve two to three quarters of independent study, culminating in 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.”
Candidates must submit to the undergraduate advisor a proposal for an undergraduate thesis project to be completed during the junior or senior year. Students will receive 4 to 8 units of academic credit in the Women’s Studies 195H series. The project must be approved by a member of the faculty who will work closely with the student as project supervisor. Distinction in the Major will be awarded at the time of graduation to those students whose projects are declared acceptable.
Undergraduate Program
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.
Bachelor of Arts - Women's Studies
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: Introduction to Women’s Studies. One course required, selected from Women’s Studies 20 and 40.
Area B: Intersectionalities. One course required, selected from Women’s Studies 60 and 80.
Area C: Global Feminism. One course required, selected from Women’s Studies 30 and 50.
Upper-division major. Forty-four upper-division units are required, distributed as follows.
Required courses: Women’s Studies 180, 181, 182, and 183A or 183B.
Elective courses: Twenty-eight units (seven courses, three must be from Women’s Studies) of upper-division electives selected from the following courses: Anthropology 102A-B, 111, 116, 125, 142B, 172, 176; Art History 111E, 143B-C; Asian American Studies 112, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 138, 146; Black Studies 107, 121, 122, 127, 133, 136; Chicana/o Studies 112, 114, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154F, 155W, 167, 184A; Classics 110, 115; Communication 124, 126; Comparative Literature 104, Dance 145W; English 114AA-ZZ; Environmental Studies 184; Film Studies 150PG, 163; French 106X, 130X, 131X, 132X, 136X, 168, 171X, 185A-B; German 164G; Global Studies 180A-B, History 117C, 117D, 117Q, 146PW, 146W, 147G, 147Q, 159B-C, 163A-B-P, 175D, 188A-B; Interdisciplinary Studies 100WS; Italian 142X, 143X, 144AX-ZX; Japanese 162; Law and Society 140; Linguistics 132, 133; Political Science 159; Religious Studies 103B, 114D, 192; Slavic 164C; Sociology 134, 140, 144, 144S, 151, 153, 154A, 154F, 155A-B, 155M, 155T, 155W, 156A-B, 159LG, 159S, 176A, 185G; Spanish 194; Theater 180G; Women’s Studies 115, 117C, 120, 124A, 130, 131, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147G, 147Q, 150, 153, 154A, 155A-B, 159B-C, 159LG, 160, 162, 163A, 167, 171CN, 185AA-ZZ, 186AA-ZZ, 190, 195HC, 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 Studies 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:Introduction to Women’s Studies. One course required, selected from Women’s Studies 20 and 40.
Area B: Intersectionalities. One course required, selected from Women’s Studies 60 and 80.
Area C: Global Feminism. One course required, selected from Women’s Studies 30 and 50.
Upper-division minor. Twenty upper-division units, distributed as follows.
Required courses: Women’s Studies 180 and 181.
Elective courses: Twelve units (three courses) of upper-division electives from the following courses (one must be from Women’s Studies): Anthropology 102A-B, 111, 116, 125, 172, 176; Art History, 111E, 143B-C; Asian American Studies 112, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 138, 146; Black Studies 107, 121, 122, 127, 133, 136; Chicana/o Studies 112, 114, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154F, 155W, 167, 184A; Classics 110, 115; Communication 124, 126; Comparative Literature 104, Dance 145W; English 114AA-ZZ; Environmental Studies 184; Film Studies 150PG, 163; French 106X, 130X, 131X, 132X, 136X, 168, 171X, 185A-B; German 164G; Global Studies 180A-B; History 117C-D, 117Q, 146PW, 146W, 147G, 147Q, 159B-C, 163A-B-P, 175D, 188A-B; Interdisciplinary Studies 100WS; Italian 142X, 143X, 144AX-ZX; Japanese 162; Law and Society 140; Linguistics 132, 133; Political Science 159; Religious Studies 103B, 114D, 192; Slavic 164C; Sociology 134, 140, 144, 144S, 151, 153, 154A, 154F, 155A-B, 155AG, 155M, 155T, 155W, 156A-B, 159LG, 159S, 176A, 185G; Spanish 194; Theater 180G; Women’s Studies 115, 117C, 120, 124A, 130, 131, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147G, 147Q, 150, 153, 154A, 155A-B, 159B-C, 159LG, 160, 162, 163A, 167, 171CN, 185AA-ZZ, 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.
Minor - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
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. Women’s Studies 80.
Upper-division minor. Twenty-four upper-division units, distributed as follows:
Area A: Women’s Studies 162.
Area B: Twelve units (three courses) from the following: Asian American Studies 135; Chicana/o Studies 151, 153; English 134LG; History 101G; Political Science 159; Sociology 159LG, 176A; Women’s Studies 159LG, 160.
Area C: Eight units (two courses) from Anthropology 176; Asian American Studies 112, 138; Chicana/o Studies 149; History 124A, 188S; Japanese 162; Sociology 144S, 159S; Women’s Studies 124A, 150; or additional courses from Area B listed above (Asian American Studies 135; Chicana/o Studies 151, 153; English 129, 134LG; History 101G; Political Science 159; Sociology 159LG, 176A; Women’s Studies 159LG,160).
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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Graduate Program
In addition to program requirements, candidates for graduate degrees must meet the university degree requirements described in the section "Graduate Education at UCSB."
Optional Ph.D. Emphasis in Women's Studies
The Women’s Studies Program, with over 50 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; Comparative Literature; Dramatic Art and Dance; English; French and Italian; Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies; History; History of Art and Architecture; Religious Studies; Sociology; or Spanish and Portuguese. 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 applications deadlines are November 1, 2007 and May 1, 2008.
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.
1. Issues in Feminist Epistemology and Pedagogy (Women’s Studies 270). A one-quarter seminar that considers women’s studies as a distinct field. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of feminist theories of knowledge production and teaching practices. Readings cover past and present critical debates and provide theoretical approaches through which to analyze interdisciplinary epistemological and pedagogical issues.
2. Special Topics in Women’s Studies (594 AA-ZZ). A one-quarter seminar offered by a women’s studies faculty member on topics of central concern to the field of women’s studies.
Or
Research Practicum (Women’s Studies 280). A cross-disciplinary seminar in which fundamental questions in contemporary feminist research practice are considered in light of students’ own graduate projects. Students may fulfill the Area 2 requirement by taking either a Special Topics Seminar or the Research Practicum.
3. Feminist Theories. A one-quarter graduate seminar in feminist theory offered by any department, including women’s studies.
4. 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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Women's Studies Courses
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.
Lower Division
20. Women, Society, and Culture
(4) Boris, Oaks, Rupp, Williams
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 20H.
Introduction to central concepts and issues in women’s studies from the perspective of the social sciences. Explores the construction of gender and sexuality and the lives of diverse groups of women in the contemporary U.S. within a global context.
20H. Women, Society, and Culture Honors
(5) Boris, Oaks, Rupp, Williams
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 20.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 20, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
30. Women, Develoment and Globalization
(4) Chang, Hernandez
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 30H.
Examines the impact of development, policy, and globalization on women’s lives. Emphasis is placed on women’s activism and feminist critiques of neo-liberal measures intended to rid the third world of poverty.
30H. Women, Develoment and Globalization Honors
(5) Chang, Hernandez
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 30.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 30, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
40. Women, Representation, and Cultural Production
(4) Bobo, Hernandez, Oaks
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 40H.
This introductory course examines cultural representations of diverse women’s lives from a humanities perspective. The focus is on women as cultural producers, subjects, and critics in literature, film, the visual arts, and music.
40H. Women, Representation, and Cultural Production Honors
(5) Bobo, Hernandez, Oaks
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 40.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 40, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
50. Global Feminisms and Social Justice
(4) Boris, Chang, Oaks, Rupp
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 50H.
Historical and contemporary examination of women’s activism around the globe in a variety of struggles, including self-named feminist movements and other movements for social justice.
50H. Global Feminisms and Social Justice Honors
(5) Boris, Chang, Oaks, Rupp
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 50.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 50, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
60. Women of Color: Race, Class, and Ethnicity
(4) Chang
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 60H.
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.
60H. Women of Color: Race, Class, and Ethnicity Honors
(5) Chang
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 60.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 60, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
80. Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
(4) Hernandez
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 80H.
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.
80H. Introduction to LGBTQ Studies Honors
(5) Hernandez
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 80.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 80, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ 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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Upper Division
115. Marriage in the Ancient World
(4) Staff
Same course as Classics 115 and Religious Studies 103B.
Examines marriage customs and rituals in Archaic and Classical Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, and in the Roman Republic and Imperial Periods within the context of social history, literary, historical, and epigraphic sources.
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.
130. Perspectives on Women’s Health
(4) Oaks
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
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
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
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 one prior course in women’s studies.
Exploration of feminists analyses and critiques of science in social, historical, and 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?”
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
Letter grade required for majors and minors. Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 186JC.
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 significant impact on the national consciousness.
144. Representation and Activism
(4) Bobo
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 186JB. Letter grade required for majors and minors.
Exploration of the strategies by which social groups resist systems of oppression through readings and works from independent filmmakers.
146. Women of Color Resisting Violence
(4) Chang
Recommended preparation: upper-division standing or one prior course in women’s studies. Letter grade required for majors and minors.
This is a study of women of color and other marginalized women’s experiences of psychological, sexual, physical, social, economic and legal violence, and our personal and collective resistance to these forms of violence in intimate relationships and in broader society.
147G. Gender and Power in Modern African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 49B or 147A or 147B or 147Q or Women’s Studies 147Q or upper-division standing.
Same course as History 147G.
Examination of gender, power, and authority among and between men and women in response to socioeconomic transformations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa. Themes include interpretations of gender, organization of labor, the missionary project, the state and colonial rule.
147Q. Readings on African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 49B or 147A or 147B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units. Same course as History 147Q.
A discussion and reading seminar on selected topics in African history.
150. Sex, Love, and Romance
(4) Rupp
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 150H.
An examination from historical and global perspectives of sex, love, desire, and intimate relationships in diverse cultures in the contemporary U.S.
150H. Sex, Love, and Romance Honors
(5) Rupp
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Not open for credit to students who have completed Women’s Studies 150.
Lecture is concurrent with Women’s Studies 150, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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.
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 standing.
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.
160. Sapphistries
(4) Rupp
A global exploration of female same-sex sexuality, from the historical Sappho through sapphists, roaring girls, romantic friends, and female husbands, to contemporary lesbians. Considers diverse lives and representations of women who desire and love other women.
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.
180. Feminist Critiques of Inquiry
(4) Hernandez, 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, Tomlinson
Prerequisites: Women’s Studies 180; upper-division standing; open to women’s studies majors and minors only.
Letter grade required for majors and minors.
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) Staff
Prerequisites: Women’s Studies 180 or 181; upper-division standing; women’s studies majors only.
Open to women’s studies 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.
183A. Senior Research Seminar
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Women’s Studies 180, 181 and 182.
Develops advanced tools of feminist research, theory, and argument. Offers participants the opportunity to complete a project of textual, theoretical, or empirical research. Women’s Studies 183A allows students to extend or re-envision the project originating in Women’s Studies 182.
183B. Senior Topics Seminar
(4) Staff
Recommended preparation: Women’s Studies 180, 181 and 182.
Develops advanced tools of feminist research, theory, and argument. Offers participants the opportunity to complete a project of textual, theoretical, or empirical research. Focuses on different topics each year to allow students to develop a related research project.
185AA-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 and minors.
Seminar on selected topics in women’s studies, with a humanities emphasis.
186AA-ZZ. Gender and Society
(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 and minors.
Seminar on selected topics in women’s studies, with a social studies emphasis.
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 8 units, but only 4 units may be applied toward the major.
Combines independent service in a community organization involved with issues relevant to women’s studies with reflection and analysis under the supervision of a faculty member.
195HA. Senior Honors Project
(2-4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Students must have a minimum 3.0 university GPA and a minimum 3.5 departmental GPA; 4 to 8 units required in honors sequence; minimum of 2 units per quarter.
Students design, research, write, and present original work on a topic of choice under supervision of a women’s studies faculty mentor. Emphasis is placed on project design and initial research.
195HB. Senior Honors Project
(2-4) Staff
Prerequisites: Women’s Studies 195HA; upper-division standing.
Students must have a minimum 3.0 university GPA and a minimum 3.5 departmental GPA; 4 to 8 units required in honors sequence; minimum of 2 units per quarter.
Students design, research, write, and present original work on a topic of choice under supervision of a women’s studies faculty mentor. Emphasis is on data gathering and organization.
195HC. Senior Honors Project
(2-4) Staff
Prerequisites: Women’s Studies 195HA or 195HB; upper-division standing.
Students must have a minimum 3.0 university GPA and a minimum 3.5 departmental GPA; 4 to 8 units required in honors sequence; minimum of 2 units per quarter.
Students design, research, write, and present original work on a topic of choice under supervision of a women’s studies faculty mentor. Emphasis on writing thesis and preparation for presenting results to an audience of women’s studies peers and faculty members.
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 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ 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 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ 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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Graduate Courses
210. Labors
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
May be repeated with different instructor and topic.
An intensive reading course on diverse forms of labor, both productive and reproductive, in different times and places with a focus on the intersections among gender, race, class, ethnicity, life cycle, abilities, and social and political actions.
220. Genders and Sexualities
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
May be repeated with different instructor and topic.
An intensive reading course on diverse sexualitites and genders in different times and places with a focus on the interconnections among race, ethnicity, class, gender identities, and sexual desires and acts.
230. Race and Nation
(4) Chang
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
May be repeated with different instructor and topic.
An intensive readings course on the experiences of women of color, both within the US and globally, with interlocking systems of racism, classism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, albeism, and colonialism.
240. Transnational Feminisms
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
An intensive reading course on diverse manifestations of feminism and women’s movements around the globe.
270. Feminist Epistemologies and Pedagogy
(4) Boris
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
A cross-disciplinary seminar in which fundamental questions in contemporary feminist research practice are considered in light of students own graduate projects.
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
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.
