COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Winter Quarter 2006

Note: This list is compiled quarterly by the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Center.
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AMST 109B: Science Fiction in Multicultural America
43839 Ramirez, C.S. TuTh 2-3:45PM
Science fiction by authors and artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, contextualized within the political and economic conditions of the U.S.

CMMU 100X: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
43949 Ochoa, M. MW 5-6:45PM, Th 6-7:45PM
How do people produce and politicize sex, gender, and sexuality on their bodies? How are these represented and disciplined? Topics include transgender, sex work, feminist and queer realities. Materials include testimonials, films, ethnography, social theory, and clinical texts. Admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment restricted to sophomores and juniors.

FILM 165A: Film, Video & Gender
37075 Gustafson, I. TTh 7-9:40PM
A study of texts, theories, and issues of gender in film and/or video. Changing focus on one or more topics, including production and authorship, representation, reception, theories of identification, sexual preference, and related issues.

FILM 168-01: National Cinema & Culture
44295 Limbrick, P.E. MW 3:30-6:30PM
This course is an in-depth study of some particular aspects of film and culture in both Australia and New Zealand. We will consider how the representation of space and place has been central to the work of cinema in each country especially across two main sites: the space of landscape and the space of the city and its suburbs. More specifically, we will consider how these spatial zones map various relations of empire and postcolonialism, globalization, and the subsequent formation of identities based on various intersections of nationality, gender, race, class and sexuality.

FILM 194E: International Cinema: Globalizing Sex and Gender in Film and Media
42911 Limbrick, P.E. MW 10AM-12PM
This course will explore questions of gender and sexuality in film, video, and digital media through a global framework. We will look at films, videos, tv, websites, and new media forms with a view to how ideas and practices of gender, sex, and sexuality are mediated transnationally.

FMST 1B: Feminisms in the Global South
42169 Arondekar, A.R. TuTh 2-3:45PM
Introduces feminisms by focusing on the Third World instead of beginning with the development of feminism in North America and "looking out" to the Third World. The meanings of feminism are created in very specific historical and local contexts. By centering women's experience, feminism forces society to reconceptualize such basic concepts as power, politics, and work.

LGST 113: Gay Rights/ The Law
44009 Marr, M. TuTh 10-11:45AM
Examines relevant court cases as well as local, state, and federal laws that define boundaries for legal recognition of sexual orientation and personal sexuality. Explores legal assumptions behind current and historical cases defining personal sexuality and sexual orientation and considers the social and political impetus in each era that drove the courts and legislatures to make such decisions.

LTMO-190N: Topics in Modern Literature (Cross-Cultural Film Theory)
44655 Jackson, E. T 7PM-10PM
TuTh 10AM-11:45AM
Selected authors or issues in modern literary or cultural studies.

LTPR 133: Monsters, Witches & Sex Changes
44117 Frangos, M. MW 5-6:45PM
Examines discourses of monstrosity and metamorphosis in literature and culture of England, France, and Italy in the medieval and early modern periods. Course materials include medieval stories and chronicles. Renaissance epic and romance, plays, and travel narratives.

THEA 80T: Queer Theater
44464 Holsclaw, D.E. TTh 12-1:45PM
The course examines the history of the queer perspective in dramatic literature from the Greeks to Marlowe and Shakespeare through the calcification of homosexuality in the era of Freud; it then traces theater stewardship by gay and lesbian artists from within the closet and without.

THEA 161Q: Queer Theatricks
44467 Holsclaw, D.E. TTh 12-1:45PM
Search for a queer sensibility through four decades of diverse performances. Provides survey of representations of queers in theater from perspectives of historical context, literary significance, personal expression, social construct, and theatrical forms. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 80T.

WRIT 1-36: Voices in Fiction and Film
42284 Gorsky, S. MW 7-8:45PM

WRIT 2-36: Voices in Fiction and Film
44643 Gorsky, S. MW 7-8:45PM
Some characters in fiction cannot speak, at least not in the usual ways, and some cannot “speak their minds” because what is in their minds is too dangerous or too repressed. Others who speak are not heard. In addition to considering why characters don’t or can’t speak and the effects of their silence, we will also explore how filmmakers can translate their “voices” into movies. Students will have the chance to develop their own voices (in speaking and writing) and their ability to hear and interpret others’ voices (in texts, discussion, and group work). Note: Writ 1 is for students who entered before Fall 2005; Writ 2 is for students who entered in Fall 2005.