COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Winter Quarter 2008

Note: This list is compiled quarterly by the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Center.
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Undergraduate Courses

Anthropology

ANTH-126-01: Sexuality & Society
43708 Shaw, C.M. MWF 12:30PM-1:40PM
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.

Biology

BIOL-80J-01: Biology of Aids
30745 Zavanelli, M.I. TuTh 4:00PM-5:45PM
An overview of the biology of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the social and legal issues that surround it are explored in a series of lectures by biology faculty and experts in the field.

Community Studies

CMMU-100X-01: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
43978 Ochoa, M. MW 5:00PM-6:45PM or TuTh 6:00PM-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. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment limited to sophomores and juniors.

Education

EDUC-135-01: Gender & Education
44541 Mai, T.T. MWF 12:30PM-1:40PM
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.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): course 92C. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors.

Film

FILM-165C-01: Lesbian, Gay, Queer
44246 Gustafson, I. TuTh 4:00PM-6:45PM
An overview of homosexuality in American film. Explores a baseline Hollywood homophobia and the formal and historical attempts to change it. Recent independent queer film and video discussed. Topics include authorship, spectatorship, genre and genre reappropriation, historical gender constructs, the "art" film, mainstream vs. independent production, the relationship of film to popular music. Students are billed a course fee. Usually offered in alternate catalog years.

Feminist Studies

FMST-132-01: Gender/Postcolonial
44597 Erai, M.F. MWF 12:30PM-1:40PM
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 anti-colonial 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.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): courses 80C or 80F and course 100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to juniors and seniors.

Oaks College

OAKS-150-01: Gays/Lesbians in US
44565 Simonton, K.R. TuTh 10:00AM-11:45AM
Examines the diverse social and cultural contexts in which gay and lesbian identities are constructed and expressed. Provides an overview of current themes in gay and lesbian history: the sex-gender system, sexuality and sexual identity, the coming-out experience, gay and lesbian subcultures, sexual roles, politics, legal recognition of relationships, religion, mental and physical health in the gay/lesbian community, and gay activism.
Prerequisites
Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Oakes College members.

Psychology

PSYC-80B-01: Human Sexuality
39842 Tonay, V.K. TuTh 2:00PM-3:45PM
A study of human sexuality emphasizing its psychological aspects. Sexual development, sexual orientations, biological influences, sexual attitudes and behavior, gender and gender roles, sex therapy, sexual coercion and abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and the development of sexual relationships.

 

Graduate Courses

Feminists Studies

FMST-211-01: Sexuality/Race/Migration
44260 Schaeffer-Grabiel, F. M 2:00PM-5:00PM
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.

HIS-244-01: Gender/Japan History
44347 Aso, N. M 12:30PM-3:30PM
Examines—through primary and secondary sources—constructions of gender (masculine, feminine, and transgender) in Japanese society over the past several centuries, focusing on the modern era.