COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Fall Quarter 2002

Note: This list is compiled quarterly by the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Center.
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AMERICAN STUDIES
92360 Gender And U.S. Society TH 6-9pm
AMST-102A-01
Introduction to the gendered analysis of U.S. society and culture from theoretical and historical perspectives. Particular attention given to the ways in which gender intersects with racial, ethnic, and class differences, focusing on the themes of work, politics, and sexuality. Course 1 is recommended prior to taking this course.

PSYCHOLOGY
96478 Soc Psy/Sex & Gender TTH 12-1:45pm
PSYC-140Q-01
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
97920 Sex and Gender MWF 11-12:10pm
SOCY-149-01
Modern analyses of sexuality and gender show personal life closely linked to large-scale social structures: power relations, economic processes, and 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.

WOMEN STUDIES
96950 Intro to Feminisms TTH 2-3:45pm
WMST-001A-01
Core course for women's studies. Placing women's experiences at the center of our interpretation, introduces philosophical, historical, political, cultural, and sexual issues from feminist perspectives. Emphasis on diversity of women's lives across class, racial, and ethnic experiences and sexual identities, and on the potential for our unity and empowerment as women. Practical emphasis given to ways of implementing a feminist process and a politic for useful social change. Several short essays and one longer paper required.

97834 Chicana Feminism TTH 4-5:45pm
WMST-151A-01
Students are introduced to the writings of Chicana feminists to identify the gender issues that produce conflict and cooperation in their communities; also makes linkages to gender issues in other U.S. communities of color and Latin America.