COURSES
AND CURRICULA WITH
QUEER CONTENT
Fall Quarter 2003
Note:
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AMERICAN STUDIES
92532 Gender And U.S. Society TTH 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.
FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA
98098 Lesbian, Gay, Queer TTH 6-8:40pm
FILM-165C-01
An overview of homosexuality in American film. Employs Vito
Russo's The Celluloid Closet as main text. 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 for a course
fee. Usually offered in alternate catalog years
LITERATURE
95364 Feminist/Queer Theory TR 8:00-9:45am
LIT 101-01
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.
Topics for Fall 2003: feminist and queer theories and criticism.
HISTORY
98632 Gender/State China M 12:30-3:30pm
HIS -194W-01
Explores gender, family, and state power in China from 1600
to present, examining gendered norms, education, political
movements, revolutionary practice, sexuality and sex work,
and state interventions in contemporary families. Responses
to reading and a research paper required.
HISTORY OF CONCIOUSNESS
98104 Feminist Theory M 1-4pm
HISC-217A-01
Studies in the theory and history of feminist consciousness;
analysis of the main areas of a specifically feminist interest;
determination of the theoretical bases for a distinctively
feminist perspective on the principal problems of the life
and human sciences; examination
SOCIOLOGY
97744 Sociology of Sex TTH 6-7:45pm
SOCY-126 –01
Explores social and cultural aspects of human sexuality
and reproduction, including how and why meanings and behaviors
are contested. Analyzes sexuality and reproduction as forms
of social and political control as well as cultural expression
and self-determination.
SOCIOLOGY
96956 Sex and Gender M 7-10:00pm
SOCY-149 –01
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.
WOMEN STUDIES
97198 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.
WOMEN STUDIES
98698 Adv. Topics Feminism TTH 4-5:45pm
WMST-189 –01
Focus on a particular problem in feminist theory. Problems
vary each year but might include theorizing the gendered
subject, racializing gender, the meeting points of psychoanalysis
and social-political analysis in theorizing gender, the
relationship between queer theory and feminist theory, postcolonial
feminist theory.
