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Lower Division Courses

R1B.  Reading and Composition. (4)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Formerly 1B. Training and instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. The readings and assignments will focus on themes and issues in women's studies. This course satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. (SP) Staff

10.  Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies. (4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Introduction to questions and concepts in gender and women's studies. Critical study of the formation of gender and its intersections with other relations of power, such as sexuality, racialization, class, religion, and age. Questions will be addressed within the context of a transnational world. Emphasis of the course will change depending on the instructor. (F,SP) Staff

14.  Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Global Political Issues. (4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. The production of gender, sexuality, and processes of racialization in contemporary global political issues. Topics and geographical foci may vary. Examples: the post-9-11 situation in the U.S. and U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Hindu-Muslim conflict in India; the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; the Israel/Palestine situation; global right-wing movements; state and social movement terrorisms and transnational "security" measures. (F,SP) Staff

C15.  Geographies of Race and Gender. (4)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of mandatory discussion per week. What can geography contribute to our understanding of gender inequality and racial discrimination in a globalizing world? The course examines (a) how supposedly "natural" differences are actually produced through everyday practices in particular spatial contexts; (b) historical and cultural geographies of race and gender in the U.S. in relation to those in other parts of the world, including South Africa; and (c) how these concepts and comparative historical geographies can help us think critically and constructively about questions of social change in the face of globalization. Also listed as African American Studies C15 and Geography C15.

20.  Introduction to Feminist Theory. (4)  Four hours of lecture/discussion per week. Why study theory? How, and from where, does the desire to theorize gender emerge? What does theory do? What forms does theory take? What is the relationship between theory and social movements? This course will introduce students to one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of contemporary inquiry. (F,SP) Staff

R20W.  Writing Intensive Workshop--Feminist Theory. (5)   Three hours of seminar and two hours of discussion per week. Prerequisites: English 1A or equivalent. Formerly 20W. This course is only open to students who have not completed the second half of the reading and composition requirement. This course is identical to WS 20 above with two additional one-hour section meetings per week devoted to writing instruction, with additional writing assignments. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. (F) Staff

C23AC.  Foundations of American Cyber-Culture. (4)   Six hours of lecture/studio per week. This course will enable students to think critically about, and engage in practical experiments in, the complex interactions between new media and perceptions and performances of embodiment, agency, citizenship, collective action, individual identity, time, and spatiality. We will pay particular attention to the categories of personhood that make up the UC Berkeley American cultures rubric (race and ethnicity), as well as to gender, nation, and disability. The argument threading through the course will be the ways in which new media both reinforce preexisting social hierarchies and yet offer possibilities for the transcendence of those very categories. The new media--and we will leave the precise definition of the new media as something to be argued about over the course of the semester--can be yet another means for dividing and disenfranchising, and can be the conduit of violence and transnational dominance. Also listed as Art Practice C23AC. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. (F,SP) Staff

24.  Freshman Seminars. (1)   Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. One hour of seminar per week. Sections 1-2 to be graded on a letter-grade basis. Sections 3-4 to be graded on a passed/not passed basis. The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. (F,SP)

39.  Freshman Sophomore Seminar.   Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. One hour of lecture per week per unit. Sections 1-2 to be graded on a letter-grade basis. Sections 3-4 to be graded on a passed/not passed basis. Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25. (F,SP) Staff

40.  Special Topics. (3)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. The findings of feminist scholarship as they apply to a particular problem, field, or existing discipline. Designed primarily for lower division students and non-majors. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the Women's Studies announcement of courses for specific semester topics. (F,SP) Staff

50.  Gender and Popular Culture. (3)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. A multi-disciplinary course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work with faculty investigating the topic gender and popular culture. (F,SP) Staff

50AC.  Gender in American Culture. (3)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. A multi-disciplinary course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work with faculty investigating the topic gender in American Culture. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. (F,SP)

84.  Sophomore Seminar. (1,2)   Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. One hour of seminar per week per unit for fifteen weeks. One and one half hours of seminar per week per unit for 10 weeks. Two hours of seminar per week per unit for eight weeks. Three hours of seminar per week per unit for five weeks. Sections 1-2 to be graded on a passed/not passed basis. Sections 3-4 to be graded on a letter-grade basis. Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor. Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores. (F,SP)

98.  Directed Group Study for Undergraduates. (1-4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Seminars for the group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year. (F,SP) Staff

99.  Supervised Independent Study and Research. (1-4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three to twelve hours of tutorial or fieldwork per week. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Prerequisites: Freshmen or sophomores only. Individual research by lower division students only. (F,SP) Staff

Upper Division Courses

100AC.  Women in American Culture. (3)   Three hours of lecture per week. This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work with faculty investigating the topic Women in American Culture. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. (F,SP) Staff

101.  Doing Feminist Research. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 10 and 20. Serves as prerequisite for GWS 195. In this course, students will learn to do feminist research using techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The teaching of interdisciplinary research skills will focus on practices of gender in a particular domain such as labor, love, science, aesthetics, film, religion, politics, or kinship. Topics will vary depending on the instructor. (F,SP) Staff

102.  Transnational Feminisms. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. An overview of transnational feminist theories and practices, which address the workings of power that shape our world, and women's practices of resistance within and beyond the U.S. The course engages with genealogies of transnational feminist theories, including analyses of women, gender, sexuality, "race," racism, ethnicity, class, nation; postcoloniality; international relations; post-"development"; globalization; area studies; and cultural studies. (F,SP) Staff

103.  Identities Across Difference. (4)   Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 10. The course studies identity as a product of articulation and investigation of self and other, rather than an inherited marking. Emphasis, for example, may be placed on the complexities of the lived experiences of women of color in the United States and in diverse parts of the world. (F) Staff

104.  Feminist Theory. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: 10 and 20. Feminist theory examines the basic categories that structure social life and that condition dominant modes of thought. Feminist theory engages with many currents of thought such as liberalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and transnational feminist theory. In this course, students will gain a working knowledge of the range and uses of feminist theory. (F,SP) Staff

111.  Special Topics.  This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work closely with Gender and Women's Studies faculty, investigating a topic of mutual interest in great depth. Emphasis in on student discussion and collaboration. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Number of units will vary depending on specific course, format, and requirements.

115.  Engaged Scholarship in Women and Gender. (4)  This class provides students the opportunity to do supervised community service with an organization that relates to women and gender. Students select a non governmental organization and complete an internship throughout the course of the semester. Students also spend time reflecting on their internship experiences, connecting their service with concepts learned in gender and women's studies classes, and meet as a group to evaluate and assess issues such as volunteer/unpaid labor, activism and the academy, and the political economy of gender and women's services.

120.  The History of American Women. (4)   This course will survey the history of women in the United States from approximately 1890 to the present, a century of dramatic and fundamental change in the meaning of gender difference. We will examine such topics as work, the family, sexuality, and politics and be attentive to variations in the structure and experience of gender based on race, ethnicity, and class. (F,SP) Staff

125.  Women and Film. (4)   Three hours of lecture and two hours of screening per week. Prerequisites: 10 and 20. Formerly 100. This course explores the role of women both in front of and behind the camera. It examines the socially constructed nature of gender representations in film and analizes the position of women as related to the production and reception of films. Emphasis is on feminist aproaches that challenge and expose the underlying working of patriarchy in cinema. (F,SP) Staff

126.   Film, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde. (4)   Three hours of lecture per week. Focusing on the creative process while engaging in critical debates on politics, ethics, and aesthetics, the course explores the site where feminist film-making practice meets with and challenges the avant-garde tradition. It emphasizes works that question conventional notions of subjectivity, audience, and interpretation in relation to film making, film viewing, and the cinematic apparatus. (F,SP)

129.  Bodies and Boundaries. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Examines gender and embodiment in interdisciplinary transnational perspective. The human body as both a source of pleasure and as a site of coercion, which expresses individuality and reflects social worlds. Looks at bodies as gendered, raced, disabled/able-bodied, young or old, rich or poor, fat or thin, commodity or inalienable. Considers masculinity, women's bodies, sexuality, sports, clothing, bodies constrained, in leisure, at work, in nation-building, at war, and as feminist theory. (F,SP) Staff

130AC.  Gender, Race, Nation and Health. (4)   Three hours of lecture per week. The role of gender in health care status, definitions and experiences of health, and in practices of medicine. Feminist perspectives on health care disparities, the medicalization of society, and transnational processes relating to health. Gender will be considered in dynamic interaction with race, ethnicity, sexuality, immigration status, religion, nation, age, and disability, and in both urban and rural settings. (F,SP) Staff

131.  Gender and Science. (3)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Examines historical and contemporary scientific studies of gender, sexuality, class, nation, and race from late 18th century racial and gender classifications through the heyday of eugenics to today's genomics. Explores the embedding of the scientific study of gender and sexuality and race in different political, economic, and social contexts. Considers different theories for the historical underrepresentation of women and minorities in science, as well as potential solutions. Introduces students to feminist science studies, and discusses technologies of production, reproduction, and destruction that draw on as well as remake gender locally and globally. Staff

133AC.  Women, Men, and Other Animals: Human Animality in American Cultures. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Explores various ways that human groups and interests, particularly in the United States, have both attached and divorced themselves from other animals, with particular focus on gender, race, ability, and sexuality as the definitional foils for human engagements with animality. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. (F,SP)

134.  Gender and the Politics of Childhood. (4)  Three hours of lecture per week. Explores gender and age as interrelated dimensions of social structure, meaning, identity, and embodiment. Emphasis on the gendered politics of childhood--for example, in the social regulation of reproduction; child-rearing, motherhood, fatherhood, care, and rights; the changing global political economy of childhoods and varied constructions of "the child"; child laborers, soldiers, street children; consumption by and for children; growing up in schools, neighborhoods, and families. (F,SP) Staff

139.  Women and Work. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. This course uses gender as a lens to examine the nature, meaning, and organization of women's work. Students learn varied conceptual approaches with which to probe such issues as gender divisions of labor, the economic significance of caring and other forms of unpaid labor, earnings disparities between men and women, race and class differences in women's work, transnational labor immigration, and worker resistance and organizing. (F,SP) Staff

140.  Feminist Cultural Studies. (4)   Three hours of lecture per week. This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of feminist cultural studies. Drawing upon contemporary theories of representational politics, the specific focus of the course will vary, but the emphasis will remain on the intersections of gender, race, nation, sexuality, and class in particular cultural and critical practices. (F,SP) Staff

141.  Interrogating Global Economic "Development". (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. An introduction to women and gender in "development." Addresses theories of "development" (modernization, demographic transition, dependency, world systems, post-development, postcolonial, and transnational feminist): productions and representations of "underdevelopment"; national and international "development" apparatuses; "development" practices about labor, population, resources, environment, literacy, technologies, media; and women's resistance and alternatives. (F,SP) Staff

142.  Women in the Muslim and Arab Worlds. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Examines differences and similarities in women's lives in the Muslim/Arab worlds, including diasporas in Europe and North America. Analysis of issues of gender in relation to "race," ethnicity, nation, religion, and culture.

143.  Women, Proverty, and Globalization. (4)  Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. This course examines new patterns of inequality as they relate to the feminization of poverty in a global and transnational context. It will give students the opportunity to enhance their critical knowledge of new forms of globalization and their impact on the least-privileged group of women locally and globally. It also provides an opportunity for students to work with a local or global non-governmental or community organization with a focus on gender and poverty, and to engage in a systematic analysis of the strategies and practices of these organizations. (F,SP)

144.  Alternate Sexualities in a Transnational World. (4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. This course engages with contemporary narrations produced by and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual postcolonial subjects through genres such as autobiography, fiction, academic writing, film, journalism, and poetry. Each semester the focus is geopolitically limited to no more than two countries to allow students to consider the conditions out of which the narrations are produced. Sites and subjects may vary from semester to semester. (F,SP)

C146.  Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Visual Culture. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Formerly 146. This course examines modern visual cultures that construct ways of seeing diverse sexualities. Considering Western conventions of representation during the modern period, we will investigate film, television, and video. How and when do "normative" and "queer" sexualities become visually defined. Also listed as LGBT C146. (F,SP) Staff

C146A.  Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Literary Culture. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Formerly Women's Studies C146A. This course examines modern literary cultures that construct ways of seeing diverse sexualities. Considering Western conventions of representation during the modern period, we will investigate the social forces and institutions that would be necessary to sustain a newly imagined or re-imagined sexual identity across time. Also listed as Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender St C146A. (F,SP) Staff

C153A.  Images of African American Women in Literature: Slavery to the 20th Century. (3)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Reading and composition requirement. Analysis of the cultural, literary and social assumptions that contribute to the various images of African American women in Western literature and African American writing. Course explores the literature of 19th-century African American women, an exploding field in American literary discourse. Also listed as African American Studies C153A. (F)

C153B.  Contemporary Images of African American Women in Literature. (3)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Reading and composition requirement. Analysis of the cultural and social assumptions and dynamics that shape the image of the African American woman in contemporary Western African American writing. Also listed as African American Studies C153B. (SP)

155.  Gender and Transnational Migration. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. What economic, social, and cultural forces impel women to migrate and shape their experiences as immigrants? How does gender, together with race/ethnicity and class, affect processes of settlement, community building, and incorporation into labor markets? This course examines gender structures and relations as they are reconfigured and maintained through immigration. It emphasizes the agency of immigrant women as they cope with change and claim their rights as citizens. (F,SP) Staff

170.  Selected Topics in Feminist Theory. (4)   Course may be repeated for credit with consent of department. Three hours of lecture per week. Intensive study of one topic, problem, or intellectual movement in feminist theory. Topic will vary with instructor. (F,SP) Staff

195.  Senior Seminar. (4)   Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: GWS 101; Gender & Women's Studies majors. This seminar is required for all seniors majoring in Gender & Women's Studies and is open only to them. The goal of the course is for students to produce a research paper of 25-30 pages that reflects feminist methods, interpretations, or analysis. (F) Staff

H195.  Gender & Women's Studies Senior Honors Thesis. (4)   Individual conferences. Prerequisites: 15 upper division units in Gender & Women's Studies; 3.3 GPA in all University work and 3.3 GPA in courses in the major. Entails writing a bachelor's honors thesis pertaining to the student's major in Gender & Women's Studies. Each student will work under the guidance of a faculty adviser who will read and grade the thesis. (F,SP) Staff

C196W.  Special Field Research. (10.5)   Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units. 240-300 hours work per semester plus regular meetings with the faculty supervisor. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Formerly 196W.Students to work in selected internship programs approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as well as produce a final paper for the course consisting of no fewer than 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser. Also listed as History of Art C196W, Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies C196W, Mass Communications C196W, Political Science C196W, History C196W, Political Economy of Industrial Soc C196W, and Sociology C196W.

197.  Internship. (2-4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Individual conferences and 10 hours of internship required per week. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.Internship Program: Field work in an organization concerned with women's issues plus individual conferences with faculty. Students must present a written scope of work to the supervising faculty members before enrolling. Credit earned depends on the amount of written work completed by students that interprets the experience through diaries, historical reports, and creative work done for the organization. Faculty supervisor and student must agree on assignments. (F,SP) Staff

198.  Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates. (1-4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Prerequisites: Gender & Women's Studies major. Seminars for group study of selected topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Topics will vary from year to year. (F,SP) Staff

199.  Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates. (1-4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Prerequisites: Gender & Women's Studies major. Reading and conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable the student to write an essay based upon the student's study. (F,SP) Staff

Graduate Courses

200.  Theory and Critical Resea. (4)   Two to three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, 104, or the equivalent. This course will provide an opportunity for the examination of diverse feminist theories produced in different disciplines and across disciplines. The course will ground contemporary philosophical and theoretical developments in the study of gender to specific histories of class, race, ethnicity, nation, and sexuality. Participants in the class will be urged to draw upon their own disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds and interests to produce multifaceted analyses of how feminist theory has acted to delimit the study of women in some instances as well as how it may be used critically and imaginatively to open the field in complex and dynamic ways. Graduate students research and write a substantial (25-50 page) paper for the course. They will also participate in organizing and leading class discussion on a rotating basis. (F,SP) Staff

210.  Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies. (4)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of seminar per week. Prerequisites: 104 or equivalent and consent of instructor. A cross-disciplinary examination of specific problems in the study of gender, women, and sexuality. Topics will vary; for example, representations of motherhood, women in the public sphere, work and gender, globalization of gender, and the history of sexuality. (F,SP) Staff

220.  Research Seminar. (4)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Open to graduate students advanced to Ph.D. candidacy. Members of the seminar will present their ongoing dissertation research and mutually explore the interdisciplinary dimensions and implications of their work. (F,SP) Staff

230. Transnational Feminist Theories. (4)   Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. The aim of this course is to provide graduate students with an understanding of transnational feminist theories so that they may more effectively engage with this area of scholarship, but moreover so that they may critically and creatively contribute to it through their own writing.

231. Proseminar in Transnational Gender and Women's Studies. (1)  Designed to encourage dialogue around themes related to transnational gender and women's studies, this proseminar is organized around colloquia, panels, and conferences sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Beatrice Bain Research Group, the Center for Race and Gender, the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, and (as relevant) other campus units.

232. Transnational Feminist Approaches to Knowledge Production. (4)  This course focuses on incorporating the analytic power of transnational feminist studies in academic reserch projects and practices. It examines the ways in which interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to gender and wormen replicate, challenge, reconfigure, and transform the emergence of new knowledge frames, analytics, and research practices. Students in this course will explore these and other questions in the context of their own research projects.

236.  Diaspora, Border, and Transnational Identities. (4)  This course will study debates around the notions of home, location, migrancy, mobility, and dislocation by focusing on issues of gender and sexuality. We will examine the ways in which various cultural flows have fundamentally challenged and changed the nature of global economy by expanding mobility of capital, labor, and systems of representations in a transnational context. We will also look at the impact of new technologies in production, distribution, communication, and circulation of cultural meanings and social identites by linking nationalism, immigration, diaspora, and globalization to the process of subject formation in a postcolonial context.

237. Transnational Science, Technology, and New Media. (4)   Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. This is a core class of the new Ph.D in Transnational Gender and Women's Studies. It will expose students to critical thinking about science, technology, and new media. The class explores intersections of gender and women's studies with science, technology, engineering, medicine, and new media around the world; including women in science; transnational feminist science and technology studies; technologies of reproduction, production and destruction; divisions of scientific and technical labor; embodiment and subjectivity; digital divides, digital consumption, embodiment, and circulation; modernist projects of categorization; and the making and breaking of gendered bodies. It mixes secondary sources with primary sources, and among the primary sources, mixes scientific and technical documents with new media and the arts. (F,SP) Staff

238.  Feminist Bio-Politics. (4)  This course is divided into three sections, Theorists and Methods, The Sciences of Life, and Bio-and-Necro-politics, and within each section there are further thematic headings. The course serves both to introduce graduate students to science and technology studies and to introduce new works and directions in the field. The syllabus foregrounds the life and biomedical sciences, and thematizes space and trans-place, time and genealogy, disciplines and inter-disciplines, method and/as theory, identity and governance, ethics and objectivity, knowledge and stratification, security and transparency.

239.  Women and Work. (4)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of seminar per week. This course explores women's experiences of paid and unpaid labor in the household and the market. Historical, anthropological, economic, and sociological perspectives are brought to bear on such issues as historical changes in the content and location of women's work; wage inequities and occupational segregation; sexual harassment; individual resistance strategies and collective organizing; class and race differences in women's work; state and social policy affecting work and family life. Graduate students will research and write a 25-50 page paper for the course. They will also participate in organizing and leading class discussions on a rotating basis. (F,SP) Staff

240. Feminist Cultural Studies. (4)   Three hours of lecture and one hour of seminar per week. Formerly Women's Studies 240. This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of feminist cultural studies. Drawing upon contemporary theories of representational politics, the specific focus of the course will vary, but the emphasis will remain on the intersections of gender, race, nation, sexuality, and class in particular cultural and critical practices. Graduate students research and write a substantial (25-50 page) paper for the course. They also participate in organizing and leading class discussions on a rotating basis.

250. Queer Translation. (4)   Three hours of seminar per week. This seminar aims for both a familiarization and a potential reworking of selected contemporary debates in queer theory: those concerning migration, race, globalization, and movements of theory. How do queer theories, queer theories-as-practice, queer practices travel? Furthermore, do critiques of stability found in queer theory invite presumptions of mobility? We will interrogate the shadow of "mobility" in queer theory by considering queer tourism, gender identity, sub-class labor migration, and the outer zones of citizenship.

291. Genes, Embryos, and Shifting Maps of Persons and Parenthood. (4 units)   Two and one-half hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Graduate student standing. Formerly Women's Studies 291B. Students will investigate a broad range of reproductive issues in which emerging technologies force people to articulate and map new meanings of personhood, parenthood, rights, and responsibilities. Sponsoring departments: Rhetoric, Gender and Women's Studies, and the program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Staff

299.  Individual Study and Research. (1-9)   Course may be repeated for credit. Regular meetings to be arranged with instructor. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. For students engaged in individual research and study. May not be substituted for available graduate lecture courses. (F,SP) Staff

300. This seminar prepares graduate students to teach effectively in the interdisciplinary field of transnational Gender Studies. Over the semester, graduate students will discuss pedagogy, perform teaching tasks, and build a teaching portfolio that will serve them as GSIs, on the job market, and into their own teaching careers.

DeCal Courses

98/198.  SHAPE. (2)  

Other DeCals offered. See course schedule.