COURSES
AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Winter Quarter 2005
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ANTH
126: Sexuality & Society
43594 Rosenthal, M.M. W 2-5PM
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
ANTH 194O: Sexuality
43606 Shaw, C.M. W 7-10PM
Provides an anthropological approach that focuses on
the way representations of sexuality are connected with
a broad array of cultural and historical contexts including
colonialism, kinship, the formation of policies, nationalism,
rituals of exchange, and cultural borderlands. Students
cannot take this course after completing another senior
seminar. Prerequisite: satisfaction of the Subject A and
Composition requirements; courses 1, 2, and 3. Enrollment
restricted to senior anthropology majors.
CMMU 100Q: Theory& Practice of Feminist Organizing/Global
Realities
43775 Stoller, N.E. Th 6-7:45PM,
TuTh 10-11:45AM
Examines sexuality and gender as political forces, in
dominant social orders and oppositional movements. Focus
on U.S. locates sexual politics in global race/class relations.
Emphasize grassroots organizing on: sexual violence, abortion,
arts censorship, sex work/public sex, HIV/AIDS, LGBT/queer
civil rights. (Formerly Theory and Practice of Sexual Politics.)
Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting.
Enrollment restricted to sophomores and juniors.
FILM-165A-01: Film, Video & Gender
37560 Gustafson, I. TuTh 6-8:40PM
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. Students are billed for a course fee. Usually offered
in alternate academic years. Prerequisite: Film 20A or 20B
LIT 101: Theory and Interpretation-Authorship
38873 Greene, J. TuTh 8-9:45AM
Contemporary approaches to literary and cultural theory,
with emphasis on how theoretical perspectives advance and
broaden the reading of literary texts. Introduction to important
new theoretical developments and their antecedents. Literature
majors should complete this course as early as possible.
Theme for Winter 2005: Authorship
LTPR 115: The Heroic Epic
39343 Walsh, T.R. MWF 2-3:10PM
A survey and analysis of "primary" epic: Gilgamesh,
the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Exodus. Satisfies the Pre- and
Early Modern Literature concentration; also satisfies the
Poetry and Pre- and Early Modern distribution requirements.
LTPR 136: Representations of Gender in Medieval Lit
43664 Leicester, H.M. MWF 9:30-10:40AM
Examination of the portrayal of gender roles and interactions.
Particular stress on erotic experience and the courtly tradition:
Ovid, Andreas Capellanus, Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes,
The Romance of the Rose, Dante, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan.
SOCY 137: Deviance & Conformity: Embodied Deviance and
Conforming Bodies-
Constructing Freaks, Lunatics, and Tramps
42560 Guerra, F. TuTh 10-11:45AM
This course examines cultural, historical, political,
and sociological constructions and visual representations
of embodied deviance in Europe and the United States by
focusing on traditionally marginalized groups (e.g., freaks,
lunatics, and tramps). Within this broad interdisciplinary
framework we will investigate pseudo-scientific beliefs
as well as scientific and sociological theories that have
attempted to explain how and why certain bodies (by race,
gender, class, sexuality, disability) were/are seen as threatening
to society and look at corresponding strategies and technologies
of social control including; banishment, containment, eugenics
practices, exhibitions, exploitation, regulation, segregation,
stigmatization, and surveillance. We also review individual
experiences, responses, and resistance to such classifications
as we question contemporary body modification, prosthetics,
genetic engineering, and assisted reproductive technologies.
SOCY 149: Sex and Gender
43925 Martyna,W. TuTh 6-7:45PM
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.
THEA 80E: Stand-Up Comedy
43962 Holsclaw, D.E. TuTh 12-1:45PM
American comedy from Mark Twain to present, including
popular humor, history, and politics, using comedy from
the '20s through the women's gay and civil rights movements.
Discussions are based on readings and videos of a wide variety
of artists. Students present performances weekly.
WMST 1B: 3rd World Feminism
43187 Honig, E. TuTh 12-1:45PM
Core course for women's studies. 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.
WMST 100: Feminist Theories
43991 Arondekar, A.R. TuTh
10-11:45AM
Core course for women's studies. Explores core questions
in theory and practice of feminist politics. Is there a
common ground for a general theory of the oppression of
women? How do feminist questions change from the standpoints
of race, gender, class, and sexuality?
WRIT 1-30 Composition and Rhetoric
43310 Yost, Megan MWF 02:00-03:10PM
People often define themselves in terms of multiple
identities -- we are students, men, women, sisters, athletes,
dancers, vegetarians, etc. In this course, we will explore
the topic of personal identity through readings that address
various influences on identity, including social class,
gender and sexuality, and ethnicity. While considering the
topic of identity, we will work to develop the skills required
for academic research and essay writing. Our goal will be
to build up tools and strategies for writing confident,
fluent prose. Through in-class activities, writing assignments,
and at-home journaling, we will work on both formal academic
prose and more informal styles. We will primarily read essays,
and will also examine research articles exploring identity
from different academic disciplines such as Psychology and
Women's Studies. By the end of this course, perhaps "writer"
will have made its way onto each of our lists of personal
identities.
