COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Fall Quarter 2006

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AMST 125H: Black Feminism
23949 Staff T-Th 12-1:45PM
Explores elements of African American feminist thought and its articulation in writings, music, literature, and practice/activism in 20th-century U.S. Sexuality and reproduction is a primary theme—especially motherhood, politics of reproduction, and sexual narratives.

CMMU 100X: Sex, Gender and Sexuality
23463 Ochoa, M. Th 6-7:45pm, T-Th 12-1:45PM
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. (Formerly Theory and Practice of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.)

CMMU 152: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
23975 Ochoa, M. T-Th 4-5:45PM
Advanced topics in gender and sexuality in Latin America and Latina/o studies.  Analyzes role of power, race, coloniality, national and transnational processes in the production and analysis of genders and sexualities.  Materials include memoir, fiction, ethnography, social documentary and history. 

*FILM 161: Documentary Film and Video
22436 Gustafson, I. M-W 7-9:40PM
Explores the category of nonfiction through a historical and theoretical study of documentary in film and video. Addresses ethnographic film, Soviet and Griersonian documentary, cinema verite and/or other selected documentary texts and the issues of representation they raise. Students are billed for a course fee.

HIS 204A: History of Gender Research Seminar
23821 Westerkamp, M.J. M 12:30-3:30PM
Introduction to theories and methods employed in gendered historical research.  Readings are drawn from a range of chronological, national and thematic fields and explore the intersection of gender analysis with questions of the body and sexuality, modernity, colonialism, race and ethnicity, construed space, and production/consumption.  (Formerly course 222)

HISC 801: Global Human Rights
23920 Staff T-Th 2-3:45PM
Examines how "human rights" travel transnationally through laws, images, and institutions, and critically interrogates the role of "rights" in such issues as development, immigration, nationality, racial and sexual discrimination, and definitions of "torture" in the current "war on terror."

LGST 113: Gay Rights and the Law
24059 Staff T-Th 4-5:45PM
Examines relevant court cases as well as local, state, and federal laws that define boundaries for legal recognition of sexual orientation and personal sexuality.  Explores legal assumptions behind current and historical cases defining personal sexuality and sexual orientation and considers the social and political impetus in each era that drove the courts and legislatures to make such decisions.

PSYC 140P: Psychology of Sexual Aggression
23622 Zurbriggen, E.L. T-Th 12-1:45PM
An overview of psychological theory and research related to sexual aggression, focusing on both perpetration and victimization. Includes a discussion of the social construction of masculinity and femininity, media representations of sexual violence, and alternative (non-aggressive) visions of sexuality. Satisfies seminar requirement. Satisfies senior comprehensive requirement.

*THEA 80E: Stand-Up Comedy
22564 Staff T-Th 12-1:45PM
24361 Staff T-Th 2-3:45PM
American comedy from Mark Twain to present, including popular humor, history, and politics, using comedy from the 20s through the womens gay and civil rights movements. Discussions are based on readings and videos of a wide variety of artists. Students present performances weekly.

*FMST 1: Introduction to Feminisms
21167 Aptheker, B.F. T-Th 2-3:45PM
Core course for womens studies. Placing womens experiences at the center of our interpretation, introduces philosophical, historical, political, cultural, and sexual issues from feminist perspectives. Emphasis on diversity of womens 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. Mandatory sections assigned during first week of class.

*FMST 112: Women and the Law
21564 Dent, G. T-Th 12-1:45PM
Interdisciplinary approach to the study of law in its relation to category women and production of gender. Considers various materials including critical race theory, domestic case law and international instruments, representations of law, and writings by and on behalf of women living under different forms of legal control. Examines how law structures rights, offers protections, produces hierarchies, and sexualizes power relations in both public and intimate life. Also offered as Politics 112. Mandatory sections assigned during first week of class.