Feminist Studies
2018-19 General Catalog
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Lower-Division Courses
1. Feminist Studies: An Introduction. F
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.) M. Ochoa
10. Feminisms of/and the Global South. *
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. (Formerly course 80F.) (General Education Code(s): CC.) The Staff
14. Popular Culture in South Asia. *
Popular culture enables people to make sense of their modern selves and their place in the world. Focusing on South Asia, this course explores the region's rich and variegated popular culture forms, including film, music, television, the painted and printed image, and sport. It also investigates how the popular articulates with nation and global conjunctures and how it constructs hierarchies of class, gender, caste, and sexuality. (General Education Code(s): IM.) M. Murty
16. Media Histories--News and New Media. S
The news is a set of narratives that produce, maintain, repair, and transform reality. Using three events that brought together "old" and "new" media, this course traces how the interaction of new media with news has changed how we make sense of the world around us and our place in it. (General Education Code(s): IM.) M. Murty
20. Feminism and Social Justice. W
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. (Formerly course 80A.) (General Education Code(s): ER.) N. Mitchell
21. Religion in American Politics and Culture. *
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. (Formerly course 80T.) (General Education Code(s): IM.) M. Fernando, N. Atanasoski
30. Feminism and Science. S
Explores questions of science and justice. Examines the nature of scientific practice, the culture of science, and the possibilities for the responsible practice of science. Rather than focusing on feminist critiques of science, the course examines how science and technology are changing our world and the workings of power. (Formerly course 80K.) Enrollment limited to 80. (General Education Code(s): PE-T.) K. Barad
40. Sexuality and Globalization. F
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. (Formerly course 80B.) (General Education Code(s): CC.) C. Cemali
41. Trans Gender Bodies. W
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. (Formerly course 80M.) M. Ochoa
75. Feminist Methodologies. F
Recommended for transfer students. Focuses on particular debates about feminist methodology. Specific methodological debates vary each year but might include feminist theorizing of experience, epistemology, situated knowledges, notions of truth and the real. Feminist methods may include transnational approaches, as well as queer, decolonial, postcolonial, and critical race methodologies. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. T. Wondergem
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.) (General Education Code(s): CC.) T. Merchant
Upper-Division Courses
100. Feminist Theories. W
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 is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. K. Barad
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 is restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. The Staff
110Q. Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture. F
From Janet Mock to Young M.A., queerness has become hypervisible in Black popular culture--but at what cost? Using music, television, and social media as central texts, students investigate the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race in public life. (Also offered as Critical Race & Ethnic Studies 110Q. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) (General Education Code(s): IM.) S. Shange-Binion
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 is restricted to feminist studies, politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during first and second pass enrollment. 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 is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (General Education Code(s): ER.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
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 feminist critique that is attentive to the war on terror, neocolonialism, and empire. Prerequisite(s): course 1. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 40. (General Education Code(s): CC.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
123. Feminism and Cultural Production. W
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 is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. B. Aptheker
124. Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas. *
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. Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): PE-T.) F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
125. Race, Sex, and Technology. S
Explores theories and case studies tied to race, gender, and technology. Covers the history of feminist and critical race analyses of technology as well as contemporary debates. The Staff
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 is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IM.) N. Atanasoski
131. The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics. *
Considers how "things"--what we may think of as objects, matter, nature, technology, bodies--are constitutive elements of social and political life. What happens to the political as a category if we take this matter seriously? Prerequisite(s): course 1. K. Lyons
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. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. The Staff
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 is restricted to juniors and seniors. (General Education Code(s): PE-T.) K. Barad
135. Topics in Science and Sexuality. *
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 is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 25. May be repeated for credit. A. Arondekar
139. African American Women's History. *
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 is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (General Education Code(s): ER.) B. Aptheker
145. Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S. S
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.) The Staff
148. Gender and Global Development. *
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. (Formerly Gender and Development.) (Also offered as Anthropology 148. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) M. Moodie
150. Mediating Desire. *
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) Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors or by permission of instructor. (General Education Code(s): ER.) M. Ochoa
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 Sexualities in Latina/o America. *
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. (Formerly, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.) Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors or by permission of instructor. (General Education Code(s): CC.) M. Ochoa
188. Topics in Feminist Studies. F,S
Focuses on a particular topic in feminist theory. Topics vary each offering but might include theorizing the gendered subject, racializing gender, politics and feminism, the relationship between queer theory and feminism, transgender studies, women of color feminisms, postcolonial and decolonial feminisms, feminist science studies. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. May be repeated for credit. R. Amen, The Staff
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 is 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. *
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 is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. G. Dent
194B. Queer/Feminist Historiography. *
Providing for a critical examination of canonical formations in history and archives, this course proposes new ways of thinking about history from the point of view of those who have been marginalized or excluded by race, class, gender, or sexuality. Prerequisite(s): course 100; and at least two upper-division feminist study couses; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment limited to 18. B. Aptheker
194C. Gender and Iconicity. S
Examines icons and the processes through which an iconicity is constructed and circulated in its complexity. Icons and iconicities often link or articulate various ideologies, affects, and systems of thought into a potent symbol or a mythology. Icons constitute norms, but also disrupt them; icons could articulate new technologies, aesthetics and their representations of the self with purportedly older modes of being in the world, such as a transcendent belief in a god, a faith, etc. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist study majors. Enrollment limited to 18. M. Murty
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 is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. K. Barad
194F. Chicana/Latina Cultural Production. *
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 is restricted to senior feminist study majors. Enrollment limited to 20. 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 is restricted to seniors. Enrollment by permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. G. Dent
194H. Michel Foucault: An Introduction. *
French philosopher Michel Foucault's writings on modern forms of knowledge, power, and subjectivity provide a serious challenge to how we negotiate social oppression. Engages some of Foucault's most cited works, and grapples specifically with his primary claim that modern societies are marked less by freedom and autonomy than by discipline and docility. Prerequisite(s): courses 1 and 100; and satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. A. Arondekar
194I. Feminist Oral History and Memoir. *
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; course 100. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. B. Aptheker
194K. Black Diaspora. *
Seminar focuses on the historical and subjective processes that produce the concept of an African or Black Diaspora. In narrative, film, and cultural studies, themes of slavery, exile, home, identity, alienation, colonialism, politics, and reinvention are explored. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 100. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 15. G. Dent
194L. Decoloniality, Feminism, and Science Studies. *
Introduces decolonial perspectives and considers how science studies might be radically transformed through an engagement with decolonial, indigenous, and black feminist perspectives, and scholars from the global South. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; courses 1 and 100. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 20. K. Lyons
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 is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 18. 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. E. Honig
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 is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. N. Atanasoski
194Q. Queer Diasporas. *
Queer diaspora emerged from Third World/queer-of-color critique of queer theory and provides a framework for analyzing racializations, genders, and sexualities in colonial, developmental, and modernizing contexts. Readings from anthropology, history, literature, and feminist and cultural studies. Prerequisite(s): course 100 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment limited to 20. M. Ochoa
194T. Transgender Studies. *
Explores literature from the natural sciences, anthropology, history, cultural studies, and sociology. Provides theoretical approaches to complex questions in queer studies and geopolitics, and a framework for understanding embodiment, medical regulation, gender formation, the human/animal divide, etc. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. M. Ochoa
194V. Marxism and Feminism. *
Explores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements, course 100, and at least two upper-division Feminist Studies courses. Enrollment limited to 18. N. Mitchell
194W. Politics of Space, Time, and Matter. W
Senior seminar focusing on questions of the politics of space, time, and matter. Readings informed by fields, such as indigenous studies, queer studies, afrofuturism, borderland studies, critical race studies, decolonial studies, disability studies, feminist science studies, and new materialisms. Prerequisite(s): courses 1 and 100, and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors. Enrollment limited to 18. K. Barad
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. 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
200. Feminist Theories. F
Introductory required course for feminist studies graduate students. Covers major theorists, debates, and current questions as well as foundational texts through which feminist critiques have been grounded. Content changes with instructor. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. N. Mitchell
201. Topics in Feminist Methodologies. W
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 is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. May be repeated for credit. N. Atanasoski
202. Disciplining Knowledge/Graduate Research. S
Prepares students to develop research skills and initiate their research projects. Students consider what is meant by feminist research and undertake designing and performing feminist research. Prerequisite(s): course 200 and course 201. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. F. Schaeffer-Grabiel
203. Feminist Pedagogies. F
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 is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. The Staff
204. Ethnographic Writing and Social Documentation. F
Graduate-level advanced seminar explores ways that seeing, hearing, and knowing are influenced by culture, power, race, and other factors. Readings emphasize how documentary subjects are constituted and known, addressing questions of epistemology, social constructivism, objectivity, and method. (Formerly Ways of Seeing and Hearing.) (Also offered as Social Documentation 204. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. M. Ochoa
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 is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Arondekar
211. Sexuality, Race, and Migration in the Americas. *
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 is 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 is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. G. Dent
214. Topics in Feminist Science Studies. S
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 is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. K. Barad
215. Postcolonial and Postsocialist Transactional Analytics. *
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. (Formerly Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Neoliberalism.) Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. N. Atanasoski
216. Archives/Genders/Histories: An Introduction. *
Explores the entanglements of archives, genders, and histories across a number of intellectual and imperial contexts. Approaches the concept of the archive to reflect on who counts as a historical and/or gendered subject and what are the ethics of representation that guide such archival formations. Draws on literature from philosophy, gender/sexuality studies, anthropology, history, and literary criticism. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Arondekar
222. Religion, Feminism, and Sexual Politics. *
Focuses on the increasing importance of religion as a category of analysis in feminist theory. Addresses the relationship of religion, feminist politics, and activism in connection with nationalism, the family, sexuality, and geopolitics. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. N. Atanasoski
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 is 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&Latino Studies 240. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. R. Fregoso
243. Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge. *
Course takes as its central topic the institutional politics of feminist and critical race knowledges in the post-1960s United States university. Considers these fields' complex and contradictory relation to disciplinarity, the university's primary or default mode of arranging and legitimizing knowledge formations. (Also offered as Critical Race & Ethnic Studies 243. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. N. Mitchell
245. Race and Representation. *
Explores how human subjects come to be visually defined and marked by "race" discourse. Covers diverse theoretical literatures on the topic, primarily in visual studies, but also in cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and psychoanalysis. (Also offered as History of Consciousness 245. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. J. Gonzalez
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 is restricted to graduate students. The Staff
260. Black Feminist Reconstruction. *
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 is restricted to graduate students Enrollment limited to 15. B. Aptheker
264. The Idea of Africa. F
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 is 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 is by permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. (Also offered as Anthropology 267A. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment limited to 15. J. Reardon, K. Barad
268B. Science and Justice Research Seminar. *
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): Sociology 268A, Biomolecular Engineering 268A, Feminist Studies 268A, or Anthropology 267A. Enrollment is by permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. (Also offered as Anthropology 267B. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment limited to 15. J. Reardon, K. Barad
270. Anthropology at Its Interfaces with Feminist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial STS. *
Focuses on generative interfaces within and at the edge of the anthropological discipline, in particular, the way ethnographies and "fields" are being reconfigured by feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives and methodologies in science and technology studies (STS). Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 18. K. Lyons
290. First-Year Advising (2 credits). F,W,S
First-year graduate students meet with graduate director for bi-quarterly meetings covering basic expectations. Also includes department colloquia and workshops for graduate students. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
291. Advising (2 credits). F,W,S
Independent study formalizing the advisee-adviser relationship. Regular meetings to plan, assess, and monitor academic progress, and to evaluate coursework as necessary. May be used to develop general bibliography of background reading trajectory of study in preparation for the qualifying examination. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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 is restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
299. Thesis Research. F,W,S
Enrollment restricted to students who have advanced to candidacy. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. The Staff
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