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department Women and Gender Studies (X) |
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course specified for the Women’s Studies major. Interdisciplinary investigation of how specific cultures represent gender difference. Examine a variety of cultural forms and phenomena including film, television, literature, music, popular movements, and institutions. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; film viewing—3 hours. The role gender plays in film history/culture in various geographical contexts and in aspects of contemporary globalization. Films from nations such as China, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Korea, New Zealand, and the U.S. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II. (II.) Kuhn
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Interdisciplinary introduction surveys and integrates anthropological, artistic, cultural studies, historical, legal, literary, philosophical, psychological, scientific, and sociological perspectives on the study of gender and its relationship to race, sexuality, class, and other aspects of social experience. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I, II, III. Gopinath, Ho, Kuhn, Mena, Nettles
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. A critical introduction to major traditions of social thinking in the West from a feminist perspective. Not offered every year. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Key issues in the social construction, organization, and reproduction of sexualities such as the intersection of sexual identity with gender, race, ethnicity, and class, and the relation between movements for sexual liberation and the regulation of the body. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div.—(I.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. In-depth examination of a women’s studies topic related to the research interest of the instructor. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Limited enrollment.—Gopinath, Ho, Joseph, Kaiser, Kuhn, Mena, Nettles, Swain
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Seminar—2 hours. Examination of a special topic in Women’s Studies through shared readings, discussions, and written assignments. Offered in alternate years.—Gopinath, Ho, Joseph, Kaiser, Kaplan, Kuhn, Mena, Nettles, Swain
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)—Gopinath, Ho, Joseph, Kaiser, Kaplan, Kuhn, Mena, Nettles, Swain
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)—Gopinath, Ho, Joseph, Kaiser, Kaplan, Kuhn, Mena, Nettles, Swain
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course specified for Women’s Studies major. Explores key dimensions of women’s relationship to colonialism and nationalism in one or more societies. GE credit: SocSci, Div.—I. Mena, Swain
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course specified for the Women’s Studies major. Introduction to the emergence of feminist theory and to key concepts in feminist theorizing. Examination of past and current debates over sexuality, race, identity politics, and the social construction of women’s experience.—I. (I.) Gopinath Kuhn, Mena, Nettles
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course specified for the Women’s Studies major. Feminist applications and transformations of traditional disciplinary practices; current issues and methodologies in feminist interdisciplinary work.—II. (II.) Mena, Nettles
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: any Women’s Studies course or Sociology 131 or 132. An examination of contemporary conflicts over family values and the changing family from a feminist perspective. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div.—(II.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper Construction of gender through production and consumption of goods and services. Transnational movement of peoples and products. Topics may include fashion, film, food, and technology. May be repeated for credit. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, SocSci, Wri.—Gopinath, Ho, Kaiser, Kuhn, Nettles
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women’s Studies, or consent of instructor. Introduction to deciphering, demystifying, and interpreting poststructuralist, postmodern, and postcolonial thought from a feminist perspective: applications to gender, race, sexuality, and class. Not offered every year. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women’s Studies or Textiles and Clothing 7, 107, or 174. Dress and fashion as cultural communication, aesthetic expression, capitalist commodity. History, sociology, semiotics of fashion. Fashion as means of gender oppression and liberation. Use of dress in identity construction across cultures. Clothing workers on the global assembly line. Not offered every year. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.—Kaiser
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women’s Studies or American Studies. The histories, theories, and practices of feminist traditions within Cultural Studies. (Same as course American Studies 139.) GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—(II.)
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women’s Studies. Exploration of women’s legal rights in historical and contemporary context, discussing a variety of legal issues and applicable feminist theories. Topics include constitutional equal protection, discrimination in employment and education, sexual orientation discrimination, and the regulation of abortion. GE credit: SocSci, Div.—(III.) West
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course specified for the Women’s Studies major. A multicultural study of contemporary trends in masculinity and the economic, social and political forces that have shaped them. Topics may include men’s movements, ethnic nationalist masculinities, and images of masculinity in popular culture. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div.—III. Newton, Ho
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; film viewing—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 20 or another film course. The representations of women of color in commercial and independent films from a feminist perspective. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—(III.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; film-viewing—3 hours. Prerequisite: one course from the Women’s Studies major and Humanities 10 or consent of instructor. Historical overview of and contemporary issues in feminist film theory, including representation, spectatorship, and cultural production. Film stars, women filmmakers, and the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class in films and their audiences. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—III. Constable
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; film-viewing—3 hours. Prerequisite: one course from the Women’s Studies major and Humanities 10 or consent of instructor. Examination of a specific topic within the broad rubric of gender and cinema. Possible topics include Latinas in Hollywood; gender, nation, cinema; and gender and film genre. Topics vary. May be repeated twice for credit when topic differs. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—Gopinath, Kuhn
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; fieldwork—6 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women and Gender Studies or consent of instructor. Basic media production and community service. Video, audio and photography instruction; feminist community documentary; video ethnography; video journals; alternative representations of fashion and women’s bodies. Fundamentals of camera and microphone operation, interviewing techniques, and editing. May be repeated two times for credit if topic differs. Not offered every year. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, SocSci.
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 20, or 50, or 70, or consent of instructor. Study of queer sexualities, identities, theories, practices. Alternative sexualities as historical, social, and cultural constructions in intersections with race, gender, class, nationality. Interdisciplinary exploration of sexual liberation and the regulation of sexuality through history, theory and expressive cultural forms. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt. Not offered every year.—Gopinath, Rodriguez
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women’s Studies, or consent of instructor. Writings by women of color in a transnational framework, understood in their cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts. The interrelation among gender, writing, nationalism, and transnationalism, with focus on women’s writing in specific geographic/national locations and their diasporas: (A) The Arab World; (B) Asia; (C) The Caribbean; (D) Africa; (E) Diasporic Women Writers in Europe; (F) Topics on Women Writers of Color. Not offered every year. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—Gopinath, Ho, Joseph, Kuhn, Mena, Nettles
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