COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Spring Quarter 2006

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Anthropology

126: Sexuality & Society. Shaw T/Th 2 pm
The meaning and social processes associated with sexuality in selected societies. Examination of variations in sexual expressions and control of sexuality, and in economic and political organizations, highlights the interrelationship of sex and society. Prerequisite: ANTH 2

Biology

80A-01: Female Physiology. Zavanelli T/Th 4 pm
Biochemical, medical, social, and clinical aspects of the female body. Emphasis will be on biological-chemical interactions in the female organs. Topics include female anatomy, cell physiology, endocrine functions, sexuality and intimacy, sexually transmitted diseases, puberty, pregnancy, menopause, birth control, abortion, immunity, cancer.

Community Studies

42J. Student-Directed Seminar: Feminist Perspectives in Health. TTh 4 pm
Develops and applies a feminist critique to the current health care situation in the U.S., as well as considers its implications internationally. Topics include constructions of knowledge and power, reproduction, environmental health, gender differences in health, and consumer medi­cne. Enrollment limited to 20.

42K. Student-Directed Seminar: Youth and Sexual Politics. TTh 2 pm
Exploration of the legal, political, and social forces that affect the sexuality of youth. Topics include sexuality edu­cation, reproductive rights, pregnancy and parenting, sex laws, and sexual abuse. Discussion-intensive course with social change focus. Enrollment limited to 20

160. Communities, Problems, and Interventions. Ochoa TTh 10 am
Prepares students to develop and design responses to problems affecting communities. Informed by the history of community interventions in Chicana/o, feminist, labor, civil rights, HIV/AIDS, and GLBT/queer movements, students research, design, and propose a community-level intervention. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): W.)

Education

135-01: Gender & Education. Brandt T/Th 10 am
Addresses the changing but continuing patterns of unequal expectations, opportunities, and treatment throughout the educational system for all students, female and male, who do not match a standard model of gender performance. Fieldwork required. 

Feminist Studies

194E History of Sexuality. Arondekar W 2 pm  
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. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

42K. Student-Directed Seminar: Gender and the Prison System.            MW 5 pm
Examines the prison system, from its conception to historical formation of punishment and rehabilitation. Focus on intersectional identities and systematic violence against prisoners, their families, and communities; analysis of and possible solutions to the epidemic of incarceration utilizing prisoners’ narratives. Focus on perspectives of prisoners, historians, scholars, activists, and volunteers, grouped with documentation and guest speakers. Enroll­ment restricted to first-year students and sophomores.

124. Technologies and Latinidad: Cyberspace and Beyond. Schaeffer-Grabiel MWF 9 am
Introduction to analyzing technology as it is produced through gender, race, class, and sexualized differences. Examines film and the Internet through the genealogy of these technologies in relation to U.S. nationalism, development, and empire, creating social communi­ties and new identities, and the global production of labor. Examines interdisciplinary methods (ethnography, media analysis, cultural studies, and literary analysis) to broaden understanding of Latina/o subjectivity as historical construct mediated through various modes of visual production. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during prior­ity enrollment only. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): E.)

132 Gender and Postcoloniality. Mongia TTh 12 pm
Postcolonial feminist studies.  Explores how discourses of gender and sexuality shaped the politics and ideologies of the historical process of colonialism, the civilizing mission, and anticolonial nationalism.  Considers orientalism as a gendered discourse as well as colonial understandings of gender and sexuality in decolonization.  Explores Western media representations, literature, the law, and the place of gender in the current debate between cultural relativism and universalism.  Provides and understanding of some key terms in postcolonial studies and an in-depth examination of the place of gender in these processes.  Prerequisite(s):  courses 1B and 100 or permission of instructor.  Enrollment restricted to junior and seniors.  Enrollment limited to 20.  (General Educations Code: E)

145 Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S. Arondekar TTh 2 pm
Provides an introduction to the defining issues surrounding “women of color” in the U.S.  Explores the term “women of color” as a conditional term that brings together forms of knowledge surrounding our understanding of African American, Chicana, Native American, and Asian American women, with simultaneous focus on our acts of interpretation and critique in looking at “women of color” as an emergent and subjective socio-political phenomenon.  (General Education Code: E)

Film & Digital Media

136A Experimental Film/Video. Crane MW 5 pm
A survey of various experimental styles and practices in film and video, addressing the historical developments of these media formats. The course situates experimental film and video work within the larger contexts of artistic traditions as well as networks of production and reception.

Literature

123-01: Comedy/Sex On Stage. Gamel, M.  T/Th  2 pm   W 7 pm
Surveys the theory and practice of comedy in several contexts and media including stage, film, and television, with special attention to questions of gender and sexuality. Texts include Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Moliere, Orton, Chaplin, Seinfeld, Freud, Bakhtin. Satisfies the Literature and Film and Pre- and Early Modern Studies Literature concentrations; also satisfies the Pre- and Early Modern distribution requirement.

Latin America and Latino Studies  

80S Sexualities/Genders. Campos TTh 8 pm
Introduction to issues and themes surrounding sexualities and genders within Latin American and Latina/o studies. Background in the basic theoretical and historical frameworks of gender and its relationship to sexuality. In addition to cross border perspectives course also examines how gender and sexuality are structured and experienced through other social categories.

Psychology

140Q-01: Soc Psychology/Sex & Gender. Yost, M.R. T/Th 2 pm
Considers ways people's gender-stereotyped expectations bias their perceptions and self-fulfilling prophecies. Also examines power and status inequalities between women and men and institutional forms of discrimination.

Sociology

149: Sex and Gender. McNeill, T.M. M/W 7 pm
Modern analyses of sexuality and gender show personal life closely linked to large-scale social structures: power relations, economic processes, structures of emotion. Explores these links, examining questions of bodily difference, femininity and masculinity, structures of inequality, the state in sexual politics, and the global re-making of gender in modern history. Recommended as background: any lower-division sociology course.