COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Spring Quarter 2003

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AMERICAN STUDIES

62800 Sds: Queer Gay Cltr
T/TH 6-7:45pm Stanley, E.A.
Is “homonormativity” erasing queer culture? Students problematize such culturally perceived stable identities as “straight,” “gay,” and “lesbian” in order to examine the relationship between race, class, gender, and “sexual identity” in contemporary U.S. society.

ANTHROPOLOGY

61642 Sexuality & Society
T/TH 2-3:45pm Shaw, C.M.
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

57970 Female Physiology
T/TH 4-5:45pm Zavanelli, M.I.
Biochemical, medical, social, and clinical aspects of the female body. Emphasis will be on biological-chemical interactions in the female organs. Topics include female anatomy, cell physiology, endocrine functions, sexuality and intimacy, sexually transmitted diseases, puberty, pregnancy, menopause, birth control, abortion, immunity, cancer.

COLLEGE TEN

62918 Communicating Gender
F 3:30-5:30pm Leaper, C.
Examines how gender is defined and maintained through verbal and nonverbal communication in the family, peer group, schools, and the media.

COMMUNITY STUDIES

62828 Sds: Pol Sex Work
MW 5-6:45pm Marsala, A
Explores a plethora of issues impacting the lives of male, female, and transgendered sex industry workers on a regional, national, and international level. Topics discussed include past, present, and future organizing; human rights; trafficking; legislation; and sexual health.

58466 Change Sexualty/Gender
T/TH 12-1:45pm Stoller, N.E.
Historical and ethnographic examination of lesbian/gay subcultures, institutions, and politics in contemporary U.S. Topics include growth of urban gay communities, lesbian/gay people of color, family, youth, sex/gender theory, the law, and repression and resistance. General introduction to "queer studies."

61836 Communty Hiv Prevnt
M 3:30-5:30pm Engelken, L.C.
Presents fundamental tools of HIV prevention, outreach, and support. Provides students with information and techniques necessary to do effective community work. Topics include harm reduction, youth outreach, communication, and global community issues.

Sci & Human Values
MWF 3:30-4:50pm Andrews, F.C.
Study of the impact of the natural sciences and science-based technology on the values of individuals and social groups, and on the quality of human life. A writing-intensive lecture course with weekly section meetings.

HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

62422 Film Fantasies
T/TH 6-9pm Conner, D.
A focused study of cinema as a social technology for the production of public and private fantasies: how films contribute to ping the image a culture has of itself and how film viewing may influence individual fantasies, values, and identities.

POLITICS

60762 Politic of Pleasure
T/TH 6-7:45pm Zeigler, N.
Explores topics such as ethical and psychological hedonism and their critics, sexuality, consumerism, the work ethic and the nature of modern jobs, utopian socialism, racial politics, and social welfare retrenchment through readings drawn from classic texts in political theory and essays about recent political struggles over criminalization of particular types of pleasures, the manipulation of pleasure for the sake of corporate profit, the absence of pleasure in our working lives, and the regulation of personal lives of welfare recipients.

60790 Recent Pol Theory
TTH 10-11:45am Quill, L.R.
Studies in 19th- and 20th-century theory, centering on the themes of revolution, equality, community, liberty, and authority. Authors studied include J. S. Mill, Tocqueville, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber.

62566 Women and the Law
T/TH 12-1:45pm
Using case law, examines how the law structures and changes women's rights, gendered hierarchies, and sexualized power relations in both public and intimate life. Considers constitutional citizenship; sex, gender, and family rights; welfare rights; and the law's response to sex- and gender-based discrimination and violence.

60830 Global Movements
T/TH 8-9:45am Zugman, K.A.
Provides an overview of global social movements through an analysis of specific movements such as environmental justice, new labor, anti-sweatshop, and indigenous autonomy. The goal is to connect study of these movements with new forms of exclusion and subjectivity created through economic globalization.

PSYCHOLOGY

62860 Pers/Relatn/Emotion
T/TH 6-7:45pm Robinson, B.H.
Explores the nature, composition, and origins of human personality; the expression of emotions; and the individual as seen in context of relationships with others.

SOCIOLOGY

62660 Sociology of Men
T/TH 12-1:45pm Males, M.A.
Examines conflicting views on the development and state of modern masculinity as adaptation, transitional phase, or pathology. Did men lose the "gender war"? Do boys need rescuing? What are common and divergent social experiences of men within race, class, gender, culture, era? An introductory sociology course recommended.

STEVENSON COLLEGE

Self and Society STAFF
Students learn relationship between "self" and "society" through introduction to various cultural and social heritages by study of great books. Readings range from ancient texts to the present and are representative of such thinkers as Plato, Shakespeare, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Sor Juana, Woolf, Marx, and Freud and such works as the Bible and Koran. When all three quarters are passed, satisfies the following general education requirements: E, T3-Social Sciences, T4-Humanities and Arts, and C for designated sections.

61350 Self&Soc: Transfers
MWF 12:30-1:40pm Osborn, M.T.
A historical introduction to great ideas centering on the theme of the relationship between individual and society in a variety of cultural settings. Texts drawn from the three quarters of course 80A-B-C.

THEATER ARTS

61410 Queer Theater
T/TH 2-3:45pm Holsclaw, D.E.
The course examines the history of the queer perspective in dramatic literature from the Greeks to Marlowe and Shakespeare through the calcification of homosexuality in the era of Freud; it then traces theater stewardship by gay and lesbian artists from within the closet and without.

WOMEN’S STUDIES

62880 Sds:Transgender Iss
MWF 11-12:10pm Specht, P.J.
Examines a variety of aspects in communicating transgendered issues by looking at how transgendered identities have been marginalized by a gender binary. Will also deconstruct hegemonic institutions which have created a system not allowing fluidity among genders.

61460 Race/Gender Formatn
T/TH 10-11:45am Arondekar, A.R.
Provides an introduction to the defining issues surrounding "women of color" in the U.S. Explores the term "women of color" as a conditional term that brings together forms of knowledge surrounding our understanding of African American, Chicana, Native American, and Asian American women, with simultaneous focus on our acts of interpretation and critique in looking at "women of color" as an emergent and subjective socio-political phenomenon.

61476 Queer Globalization
W 2-5pm Arondekar, A.R.
Explores the interrelated epistemological frameworks of critical race studies and queer studies. Through a study of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, we will historicize and theorize 19th- and 20th-century discourses of race and sexuality.

WORLD LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES

61984 the 1960s
T/TH 2-3:45pm Connery, C.L.
An interdisciplinary study of the cultural and social movements of the 1960s. Satisfies the Modern and World Literature concentrations; also satisfies the Global distribution requirement.