COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Spring Quarter 2005

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CMMU-147: New Queer Cinema
64240 Rich, B.R. TuTh 12-1:45PM
Documents/interprets the phenomenon "New Queer Cinema." Seeks to understand
its precedents, preconditions (social, political, medical) leading to its
explosive growth, and forces (economic, aesthetic, medical) spelling the end
of the artistic movement, though its influence seemed simultaneously to
spill into every televisual medium. See schedule of classes for associated
discussion sections.

EDUC-92C: Diversity & Educ
56371 Achinstein, B. MWF 2-3:10PM
Examines the impact on schools and students of social/ethnic status, social
class, and gender, with attention to historical, cultural, and psychological
variables. An introduction to the theory, research, and reform movements in
education in response to our state's and our nation's increasing diversity.
See schedule of classes for associated discussion sections.

EDUC-135: Gender & Education
56387 Ash, D.B. TuTh 12-1:45PM
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. See schedule of classes for associated
discussion sections.

FILM 168: National Cinema and Culture: Australian and New Zealand
57481 Limbrick, P.E. MW 3:30-6:30PM
Study of a specific cinematic or other media tradition of a region, nation,
language, diasporic collectivity or other unifying cultural entity.
Students are billed for a course fee. Prerequisite(s): course 130, 132A, or
132B. Although this course is not specifically queer-themed, it does
address queer theories in relation to national identities in films from
Australia And New Zealand.

HAVC-190Y: Image and Gender
64443 Berger, M.A. TuTh 4-5:45PM
This course examines what visual representations reveal of gender - both
femininity and masculinity in nineteenth and twentieth-century
European and American culture. We will consider not only how images reflect
norms of gender, but also how we as viewing subjects are conditioned to read
images in gendered terms. In exploring how femininity and masculinity were
conceived during particular historical periods, the course will suggest how
gender ideals changed in response to social, political, and economic
pressures. Students will be encouraged to consider both the fluid nature of
twenty-first century notions of "ideal" femininity and masculinity as well
as possible alternatives.

LALS-176: Feminism in Cinema
63533 Campos, D. TuTh 6-7:45PM
Explores the project of women of color in feminist film theories, film, and
video. Examines the politics of representation in films/videos by women of
color, with special attention to topics of transnationalism, collectivity,
sexuality, racialized gender and class formations, and social
transformation. Applies concepts developed in film studies and feminist film
theory to the study of women of color and cinema. See schedule of classes
for associated discussion section.

LTPR-190P: Pre/Early Studies
63695 Freccero, C.A. TTh 6-7:45PM
Examination of individual authors or critical problems in ancient, medieval,
or early modern/Renaissance literature. Topic for Spring 2005: Early Modern
Travel Narratives. Prerequisite: Lit 101. Enrollment restricted to senior
literature majors.

PRTR-32A: Queering The Arts
61603 Evans, K.M. W 12-2PM
Exploration of the arts as a way to understand and experience how queerness
has been expressed, repressed, denigrated, and celebrated in visual arts,
music, film, poetry, and dance.

THEA-80T: Queer Theater
62900 Holsclaw, D.E. TTh 2-3:45PM
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
62917 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.

WMST-140: Women and War
64267 Baum, D. Tu 6-9:30PM
Examines gender and sexuality in wartime and in militarized societies,
women's positioning and organizing in different "war zones" as mothers, and
warriors and traitors. Focuses on dilemmas of feminist peace politics,
queer coalitions and transnational anti-war organizing, primarily in the
Middle East, with particular emphasis on Palestine/Israel. Enrollment
restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

WMST-145: Race/Gender Formation
64051 Arondekar, A.R. TuTh 2-3:45PM
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.

WMST 150: Women's Culture
64052 Aptheker, B.F. W 2-5PM
Philosophical, historical, and aesthetic implications of women's
consciousness of social reality. Both the sexual division of labor and the
subordination of women in society give rise to distinctive categories of
thought. Course objectives: locate and consider these categories of thought
as they are presented in women's expressive culture; redefine culture,
beauty, and artistry from a feminist perspective; and propose a praxis for
creating and transmitting culture. Prerequisite: WMST 1A or 1B. Recommended
for upper-division students with a background in women's studies, cultural,
and/or ethnic studies.

WRIT 1-23: Women's Ways of Writing
63183 Parmeter, S. TTh 8-9:45AM

WRIT 1-24: Women's Ways of Writing
63184 Parmeter, S. TTh 10-11:45AM
Students in this course will read a range of pieces by women writers,
including Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Sandra Cisneros's The House
on Mango Street, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper, Gloria
Anzaldua's Borderlands/LaFrontera, and a range of poems and essays,
focusing on the rhetorical strategies each writer uses to develop her views
and engage her readers. Writing assignments in this course will be varied
and frequent. Students will write essays employing the rhetorical
strategies modeled by these writers, as well as argumentative and
reflective pieces of their own design. They will write weekly letters to
correspondents of their choice, and will write biweekly reading journal
pieces that will be used to shape class discussions.