Feminist Studies Course Descriptions
2011-12 General Catalog
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Lower-Division Courses
1. Feminist Studies: An Introduction. W
Introduces the core concepts underlying the interdisciplinary field-formation of feminist studies within multiple geopolitical contexts. Explores how feminist inquiry rethinks disciplinary assumptions and categories, and animates our engagement with culture, history, and society. Topics include: the social construction of gender; the gendered division of labor, production, and reproduction; intersections of gender, race, class, and ethnicity; and histories of sexuality. (Formerly Introduction to Feminisms.) (General Education Code(s): CC, IH.) A. Arondekar
80A. Feminism and Social Justice. F
Examines, and critically analyzes, select post-World War II movements for social justice in the United States from feminist perspectives. Considers how those movements and their participants responded to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. A feminist, transnational, analytic framework is also developed to consider how those movements may have embraced, enhanced, or debilitated feminist formations in other parts of the world. (General Education Code(s): ER, T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.) B. Aptheker
80B. Sexuality and Globalization. *
Examines the relationship between sexuality and the contemporary term "globalization" as a dense entanglement of processes that emerges from a history of U.S. empire. Sexuality cannot be separated from power struggles over the classification of bodies, territories, and questions of temporality. Examines how sexualized contact zones produce new knowledge, commerce, inequalities, possibilities, and identities. (General Education Code(s): CC, T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
80F. Feminisms of/and the Global South. S
Explores feminist theories from domestic U.S. and global contexts in order to ask how interventions of women of color in the U.S. and of radical feminist movements in non-U.S. locations radically re-imagine feminist politics. Rather than focusing on feminist movements that represent different regions of the world, course examines feminist theory through multiple histories of colonialism, post-colonialism, and globalization. (General Education Code(s): CC, T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.) A. Arondekar
80K. Feminism and Science. *
Considers the nature of scientific practice, the culture of science, and criteria for the responsible practice of science. Particular attention is given to feminist commitments to strengthening objectivity, increasing scientific literacy, and including ethical considerations in the practice of science. Enrollment limited to 80. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences.) K. Barad
80M. Trans Gender Bodies. S
Draws from representations of transgender/transsexual people in popular, biomedical, and political contexts. Examines the impact of transgender lives on concepts of gender, identity, and technology. Engages with biological and sexological frameworks of sex/gender, trans experience, and social movements and theories. Enrollment limited to 80. M. Ochoa
80P. War in Film and Culture. *
Explores how war films, media, and political discourses about war and violence shape and transform ideas about national identity. Focuses on how ideas about gender, sexuality, race, and class have particularly affected representations of military conflicts. (General Education Code(s): IM, T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, E.) N. Atanasoski
80S. Women in Music. *
An exploration of the sociological position of women as composers and performers in Western and non-Western musics, with a focus on both ethnographic and historical sources. (Also offered as Music 80S. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Offered in alternate academic years. (General Education Code(s): CC, T4-Humanities and Arts, A.) T. Merchant
80T. Religion in American Politics and Culture. W
Introduces dominant discourses about Christianity and Islam in the American public sphere, with particular attention paid to race, gender, sexuality, and class in thinking about religion. Visual and textual media, political commentary, and popular ethnographies are analyzed. (Also offered as Anthropology 80R. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) N. Atanasoski, M. Fernando
Upper-Division Courses
100. Feminist Theories. S
Core course for feminist studies. Serves as an introduction to thinking theoretically about issues of feminism within multiple contexts and intellectual traditions. Sustained discussion of gender and its critical connections to productions of race, class, and sexuality. Focus will change each year. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. G. Dent
102. Feminist Critical Race Studies. *
Working from the perspective that race is a cultural invention and racism is a political, economic, and social relation, investigates how "race" is produced as a meaningful and powerful social category, examines the effects of racism as a social relation, and argues for the necessity of combining feminist and critical race studies. By considering different historical periods and places, aims to equip students with the tools necessary to critically examine the production and reproduction of race and racism in the U.S. Prerequisite(s): one course from feminist studies. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.) The Staff
112. Women and the Law. W
Interdisciplinary approach to study of law in its relation to category "women" and production of gender. Considers various materials including critical race theory, domestic case law and international instruments, representations of law, and writings by and on behalf of women living under different forms of legal control. Examines how law structures rights, offers protections, produces hierarchies, and sexualizes power relations in both public and intimate life. (Also offered as Politics 112. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to feminist studies, politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during priority enrollment only. G. Dent
115. Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas. *
Examines migration as a mode of inquiry into transnational practices across geographic locales and temporal zones. Analyzes migration in relation to the transnational formation of gender, race, and sexuality as well as processes of neocolonialism, the state, and globalization. Prerequisite(s): course 1, 100, or 145. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (General Education Code(s): ER, E.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
116. Feminist Ethnographies. *
Examines ethnographic methods and writing in anthropology from a feminist perspective; focuses on questions of representation and representativeness, power, and knowledge production; traces theories of exchange in 20th-century anthropology including outsourcing, financialization, and microcredit. (Formerly Ethnographies of Transnational Feminisms.) Prerequisite(s): course 1. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior feminist studies majors or by permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. The Staff
120. Transnational Feminisms. *
Explores the emergence of transnational feminism through U.S. women of color and postcolonial feminism. Underscores the role of globalization, nationalism, and state formation in relation to feminist theorizing, activism, and labor across the Global South. In an attempt to understand the salience of inequalities, the course interrogates the continuation of feminst critique that is attentive to the war on terror, neocolonialism, and empire. Prerequisite(s): course 1. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 40. (General Education Code(s): CC, E.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
123. Feminism and Cultural Production. *
Explores relationship between feminism and culture. Topics will vary and include different forms of cultural production such as film and literature. Regional/national focus will also vary. Prerequisite(s): course 1. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) The Staff
124. Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas. F
Examines new ways of understanding the body and race through the intersection of technology and science. Addresses how broader structures of power and the rise of new technological and scientific discoveries mediate power relations and alter how race, national boundaries, the body, and citizenship are normalized and contested from colonialism to the present. Course content may vary; themes may include: U.S. eugenics, I.Q. tests, patenting debates, sterilization, assisted reproduction, biometrics, and genetics across the Americas. (Formerly Technologies and Latinidad: Cyberspace and Beyond.) Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): PE-T, E.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
126. Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis. *
Introduces the analysis of visual images and text with particular emphasis on feminist critical methodologies. Using case studies from photography, film, TV, advertising, and new media, students learn how to read and analyze culture. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IM.) N. Atanasoski
132. Gender and Postcoloniality. *
Postcolonial feminist studies. Explores how discourses of gender and sexuality shaped the policies and ideologies of the historical processes of colonialism, the civilizing mission, and anticolonial nationalism. Considers orientalism as a gendered discourse as well as colonial understandings of gender and sexuality in decolonialization. Explores Western media representations, literature, the law, and the place of gender in the current debate between cultural relativism and universalism. Provides an understanding of some key terms in postcolonial studies and an in-depth examination of the place of gender in these processes. Prerequisite(s): courses 80F and 100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.) A. Arondekar
133. Science and the Body. *
Contemporary technoscientific practices, such as nano-, info-, and biotechnologies, are rapidly reworking what it means to be human. Course examines how both our understanding of the human and the very nature of the human are constituted through technoscientific practices. Prerequisite(s): courses 1 and 100. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. K. Barad
135. Topics in Science and Sexuality. W
Introduces the multiple debates animating the linkages between science, race, and sexuality. Interrogates the interrelated, epistemological frameworks of science and sexuality/queer studies across a range of interdisciplinary and geopolitical locations. Prerequisite(s): course 100 or 145. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 25. A. Arondekar
139. African American Women's History. S
Considers African American women as central to understanding of U.S. history, focusing on everyday survival, resistance, and movements for social change. Discussion of critical theories for historical research, gender, and race. Emphasis on biography, cultural history, and documentary and archival research. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (General Education Code(s): ER, E.) B. Aptheker
145. Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S. F
Introduces the defining issues surrounding racial and gender formations in the U.S. through an understanding of the term "women of color" as an emergent, dynamic, and socio-political phenomenon. Interrogates organizing practices around women of color across multiple sites: film and media, globalization, representation, sexuality, historiography, and war, to name a select few. (General Education Code(s): ER, E.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
148. Gender and Development. W
Uses the critical tools of feminist theory and cultural anthropology to look at how global development discourses and institutions mobilize, reinforce, and challenge systems of gender-based inequality. Topics include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), development practice, microcredit, and technocrat cultures. (Also offered as Anthropology 148. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) The Staff
150. Mediating Desire. F
From a foundation in semiotics, considers the ways race and gender are constructed, understood, performed, embraced, commodified, and exploited through representations. Uses representations of, by, and for the margins to engage theories of communication, identity, and representation. Creative final projects encouraged. (Formerly Community Studies 152) (Also offered as American Studies 150. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors or by permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 100. (General Education Code(s): ER, E.) M. Ochoa
151A. Chicana Feminism. *
Students are introduced to the writings of Chicana feminists to identify the gender issues that produce conflict and cooperation in their communities. The course also makes linkages to gender issues in other U.S. communities of color and Latin America. (Also offered as Psychology 157. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): course 1 or Psychology 3 or 100. (General Education Code(s): E.) A. Hurtado
151B. Advanced Topics in Chicana Feminism. *
Course is a continuation of course 151A which introduces students to the writings of Chicana feminists to identify the gender issues that cause conflict and cooperation in their communities. The seminar format allows students an opportunity for extensive discussion. (Also offered as Psychology 159K. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): courses 1, 100, or 151A or Psychology 1, 40, or 157A, or consent of instructor. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 30. A. Hurtado
168. Topics in Feminist Philosophy. *
Topics in feminist philosophy, which may include: the nature of feminist philosophy, feminist approaches to philosophical issues, social and political philosophy, theories of knowledge, ethics, aesthetics, and science, technology, and medicine studies. Presupposes some familiarity with philosophy or feminist scholarship. (Also offered as Philosophy 147. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): Philosophy 100A or 100B or 100C. J. Hoy
175. Gender and Sexuality in Latin America. S
Advanced topics in gender and sexuality in Latin America and Latina/o studies. Analyzes role of power, race, coloniality, national and transnational processes in the production and analysis of genders and sexualities. Materials include memoir, fiction, ethnography, social documentary and history. (Also offered as Community Studies 185. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment. (General Education Code(s): CC, E.) M. Ochoa
185. Psychoanalysis and Feminism. *
Introduction to Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexuality and the construction of the self as well as to feminist critiques and rewritings of those theories. An attempt is made to place psychoanalytic theory in socioeconomic, racial, and colonialist contexts. Appropriate prior work in theory is recommended as preparation. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 25. H. Moglen
189. Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory. *
Focus on a particular problem in feminist theory. Problems vary each year but might include theorizing the gendered subject, racializing gender, the meeting points of psychoanalysis and social-political analysis in theorizing gender, the relationship between queer theory and feminist theory, postcolonial feminist theory. Prerequisite(s): course 100. Enrollment restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Enrollment limited to 20. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
193. Field Study. F,W,S
Individual field study in the vicinity of the campus under the direct supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
193F. Field Study (2 credits). F,W,S
Individual field study in the vicinity of the campus under the direct supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
194. Senior Seminar.
Discussion classes providing a broad overview of some general "area of concentration." Discussion of assigned readings, focus on oral presentations, and a final 20- to 25-page paper. Satisfies the senior comprehensive requirement in feminist studies. Enrollment limited to 20. The Staff
194A. Feminist Jurisprudence. S
Approaches legal reasoning from a feminist and intersectional perspective with attention to structures and jurisdiction, case materials, and emerging international frameworks for gender justice. Designed to facilitate completion of a substantial research essay based in feminist legal philosophy. Instructor permission required to enroll. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 112 or Politics 112. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. G. Dent
194D. Feminist Science Studies. *
Examines different feminist approaches to understanding the nature of scientific practices. Particular attention paid to notions of evidence, methods, cultural and material constraints, and the heterogeneous nature of laboratory practices. Considers the ways in which gender, race, and sexuality are constructed by science and how they influence both scientific practices and conceptions of science. Also examines the feminist commitment to taking social factors into account without forfeiting the notion of objectivity. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; and courses 1 and 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. K. Barad
194E. History of Sexuality. *
Explores one of the central texts of dialogue and contestation in sexuality studies today: Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality. Considers the epistemic challenges outlined in Foucault's early work and engages its instantiations in the proliferating scholarship on gender, sexuality, and critical race studies. Readings challenge the marginalization of empire in Foucault's work and demonstrate that a history of 19th-century European sexuality must also be a history of race. Interview with instructor required. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. A. Arondekar
194F. Chicana/Latina Cultural Production. W
Traces the intersection between Chicana studies and Latin American studies through transnational forms of cultural production, imaginaries, and empowerment. Analysis of theories of cultural production and discussion of the political salience of culture as a site for resistance, critique, and creativity. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist study majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
194G. Images of Africa. *
Explores questions of colonialism, empire, race, gender, and geopolitics in the proliferating images–filmic, televisual, and media–of Africa in the United States. Facilitates the completion of a substantial research essay based on the study of popular culture. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 100; enrollment restricted to seniors. Enrollment by permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. G. Dent
194I. Feminist Oral History and Memoir. S
Designed to train students in oral history and memoir writing. Emphasizes the specialness of transgressive voices; race, class, and sexuality, women's silence, erasure, censorship, and marginalization are addressed. The politics of memory, narratives, storytelling, and editorial judgment are considered. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; courses 1 and 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): W.) B. Aptheker
194J. Advanced Feminist Philosophy. *
Focuses on issues in epistemology and ontology: the construction of knowledge and objectivity, rationality and emotions, subjectivity and personal identity, and the body and sexuality. (Also offered as Philosophy 190T. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 168 or 100; and two from Philosophy 100A, 100B, and 100C. Enrollment limited to 22. J. Hoy
194M. Empire and Sexuality. *
Explores the production of sexualities, sexual identification, and gender differentiation within multiple contexts of colonialism, decolonization, and emerging neo-colonial global formations. (Formerly course 118.) Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 100 or 145. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.) A. Arondekar
194N. Gender, Class, and Sex in Shanghai. *
Focusing on Shanghai, course examines issues of gender, class, and sex in modern urban Chinese history. Given Shanghai's history as a treaty port, particular attention paid to ways in which its semi-colonial status inflected the articulation of gender identities, class formations and issues of sexuality (particularly sexual labor). Also looks at Shanghai during the Maoist period and in the context of more contemporary economic reforms. (Also offered as History 194A. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; and History 40B, 140C, 140D, or 140E, or permission of instructor. Restricted to junior and senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): W.) The Staff
194O. The Politics of Gender and Human Rights. F
Examines human rights projects and discourses with a focus on the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and rights in the international sphere. Reading important human rights documents and theoretical writings, and addressing particular case studies, emphasizes the tensions between the ideals of the universal and the particular inherent in human rights law, activism, and humanitarianism. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; courses 1 and 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. N. Atanasoski
194P. Religion, Gender, and Politics. *
Addresses the relationship between religious identities and movements, gender and sexuality, and feminism. Analyzes how media discourses, popular culture, and scholarly writing represent the role of religion and gender in shaping contemporary geopolitics. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; courses 1 and 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. N. Atanasoski
195. Senior Thesis or Project. F,W,S
The senior thesis/project which satisfies the major requirement. Course is for independent research and writing. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): W.) The Staff
198. Independent Field Study. F,W,S
Provides for individual study program off campus for which faculty supervision is not in person. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
198F. Independent Field Study (2 credits). F,W,S
Provides for individual study program off campus for which faculty supervision is not in person. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
199. Tutorial. F,W,S
Individual directed study for upper-division undergraduates. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
199F. Tutorial (2 credits). F,W,S
Individual directed study for upper-division undergraduates. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
Graduate Courses
201. Topics in Feminist Methodologies. S
Explores feminist theorizing across disciplinary and cultural contexts for both methodology (theories about the research process) and epistemology (theories of knowledge). Goal is to orient students toward changes in organization of knowledge and provide them with different feminist methodologies in their pursuit of both an "object" of study and an epistemology. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. May be repeated for credit. A. Arondekar
203. Feminist Pedagogies. *
Examines feminist pedagogies as projects in transgressing traditional disciplinary boundaries. Examines historical examples of alternative pedagogies and contemporary models for creating communities dedicated to social justice. Designed to assist graduate students develop teaching strategies in multiple fields. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. B. Aptheker
205. Feminism, Nationalism, and Sexuality in the Third World. *
Focus on the historical construction and articulation of feminism in the Third World. Explores the relationship of feminist and nationalist movements, considering such questions as whether Third World women's political movements are necessarily "feminist," how these political movements define feminism, and the tensions between nationalisms and feminisms. Particular attention to issues of sexuality, the effects of colonial institutions and policies on sexual identities in Third World countries, the notions of womanhood and female sexualities articulated within nationalist ideologies and movements, the consequences of such constructions for women, and the formulation of sexual issues among feminists. Offered every two or three years. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. E. Honig
206. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. *
After studying essays by Freud, Lacan, and Melanie Klein which have been central to the construction of feminist theory, considers the writings of such feminist theorists as Jessica Benjamin, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Juliet Mitchell, Jaqueline Rose, Carolyn Steedman, and Maria Torok. Enrollment restricted to graduate students or seniors with permission of instructor, based on narrative evaluations and sample essays. Enrollment limited to 15. H. Moglen
207. Topics in Queer/Race Studies. *
Explores the interrelated epistemological frameworks of critical race studies and queer studies. Through the study of a range of philosophical, scientific, literary, and cinematic texts, course historicizes and theorizes discourses of race and sexuality. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Arondekar
211. Sexuality, Race, and Migration in the Americas. W
Analyzes the ways transnational processes intersect with changing notions of gender, sexuality, and race. Examines processes such as tourism, the Internet, capitalism, and labor spanning Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
212. Feminist Theory and the Law. *
Interrogation of the relationship between law and its instantiating gendered categories, supported by feminist, queer, Marxist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Topics include hypostasization of legal categories, the contest between domestic and international human rights frameworks, overlapping civil and communal codes, cultural explanations in the law, the law as text and archive, testimony and legal subjectivity. (Also offered as History of Consciousness 212. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. G. Dent
214. Topics in Feminist Science Studies. *
Graduate seminar on feminist science studies. Topics will vary and may include: the joint consideration of science studies and poststructuralist theory; the relationship between discursive practices and material phenomena; and the relationship between ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. K. Barad
215. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Neoliberalism. W
Addresses the intersection of the postcolonial and the postsocialist as theoretical ground. Considers how (neo)liberal ideologies about race, class, gender, secularism, and democracy are shaped by the intersection between postsocialist geopolitics and imperial legacies. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. N. Atanasoski
225A. Theories of Slavery. S
Explores philosophical, legal, and socio-historical analyses of slavery. Focus on Atlantic slavery and the production of race and gender formations, complemented by discussion on contemporary forms of slavery. Impact of historical slavery on prevailing discourses and institutions. (Also offered as History of Consciousness 205A. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Davis
225B. Theories of Slavery. *
Writing-intensive course based on readings in History of Consciousness 205A and Feminist Studies 225A . (Also offered as History of Consciousness 205B. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): course 225A or History of Consciousness 205A. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Davis
232. Topics in Postcolonial Studies. *
Variable topics that could include postcolonial approaches to questions of epistemology and knowledge production, theories of nationalism and nation-state formation, subaltern historiography, analyses of modernization and developmental theory, postcolonial approaches to globalization, and transnationalism. Significant component of feminist contributions to these literatures. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Arondekar
240. Culture and Politics of Human Rights. *
Examines cultural, philosophical, and political foundations for human rights and provides students with critical grounding in the major theoretical debates over conceptualizations of human rights in the Americas. Addresses the role of feminist activism and jurisprudence in the expansion of human rights since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Addresses challenges of accommodating gender rights, collective rights, and social and economic rights within international human rights framework. (Also offered as Latin American and Latino Studies 240. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. R. Fregoso
251. Feminist Theory and Social Psychology. *
Course bridges feminist theory and social psychological research to explore connections between theory covered and empirical studies on various topics in social psychology. Seminar format allows students opportunity for extensive discussion. (Also offered as Psychology 251. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. A. Hurtado
260. Black Feminist Reconstruction. F
Re-visions and extends Reconstruction from 1865-1920 from a black feminist standpoint. Topics include: redefining democracy; labor; literacy and education; suffrage; re-visioning sexuality; childbirth; parenting, etc. Analyzes traditional historiography and the methodological implications of the boundaries between history and fiction, and archival and oral traditions. Enrollment restricted to graduate students Enrollment limited to 15. B. Aptheker
264. The Idea of Africa. *
Examines the position of Africa in cultural studies and the simultaneous processes of over- and under-representation of the continent that mark enunciations of the global and the local. Themes include defining diaspora, the West as philosophy, and Africa in the global economy. (Also offered as History of Consciousness 264. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. G. Dent
268A. Science and Justice: Experiments in Collaboration. *
Considers the practical and epistemological necessity of collaborative research in the development of new sciences and technologies that are attentive to questions of ethics and justice. Enrollment by permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. (Also offered as Biomolecular Engineering 268A and Sociology 268A. Students cannot receive credit for three courses.) Enrollment limited to 15. J. Reardon, K. Barad
268B. Science and Justice Research Seminar. F
Provides in-depth instruction in conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research. Students produce a final research project that explores how this training might generate research that is more responsive to the links between questions of knowledge and questions of justice. Prerequisite(s): course 268A. Enrollment by permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. (Also offered as Biomolecular Engineering 268B and Sociology 268A. Students cannot receive credit for three courses.) Enrollment limited to 15. J. Reardon
297. Independent Study. F,W,S
Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
297F. Independent Study (2 credits). F,W,S
Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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