COURSES AND CURRICULA WITH QUEER CONTENT
Spring Quarter 2004

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COLLEGE 10

63898 Art for Social Justice
M 5:00-6:45 PM.
CLTE-089 -01 TBA

Art techniques and exercises are presented as vehicles to explore social justice issues. In-class art projects, readings and discussion will address the social construction of identity, social issues and concerns, and the role of art in activism. Space limited.
For more information and to register, contact Wendy Baxter at 459-3142 or wbaxter@ucsc.edu.


COMMUNITY STUDIES

63548 Queer Arts&Activism
TR 12:00-01:45PM
CMMU-115 -01 Kresge Acad 194

Historical exploration of both activist and artistic lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities in the twentieth century. Some cultures, including 1950's butch-femme, inspired artistic representations and liberations movements. Other communities, such as ACT UP, intentionally synthesized art and activism. Focuses on literary and film arts and on local activism.

62694 Youth Cltr Identity
TR 12:00-01:45PM
CMMU-134 -01 Merrill Acad 102

What is "youth culture?" What does it have to do with race, class, and gender politics? Combining sociology of race with cultural studies, the course addresses these questions and examines the potential of youth cultures to affect social change.

EDUCATION

62794 Gender & Education
TR 12:00-01:45PM
EDUC-135 -01 Eight Acad 252

Addresses the changing but continuing patterns of unequal expectations, opportunities, and treatment throughout the educational system for all students, female and male, who do not match a standard model of gender performance. Fieldwork required.

FILM AND Digital Media

62904 Gender Globl Cinema
TR 04:00-05:45PM
FILM-132C-01 T 06:00-09:00PM
Earth&Marine B206

Offers students historical and critical tools to investigate global film through the framework of gender. Focused in particular on contemporary film (from 1960 to present), the class is structured both chronologically and via national industries. Students cannot receive credit for this course and Latin American and Latino Studies 80I.

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

62304 Gndr & Globl Cinema
TR 04:00-05:45PM
LALS-080I-01 Earth&Marine B206

Examines relationship between globalization, gender, and cultural representation in cinema. Academic topics include aesthetics of world cinema, gender and work, sexploitation, gender in family systems/relationships, gender and violence, gender and colonization, and gender and migration. Students cannot receive credit for this course and Film and Digital Media 132C.

LEGAL STUDIES

62334 Gay Rights/the Law
TR 08:00-09:45AM
LGST-113 -01 Soc Sci 1 110

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.

PORTER COLLEGE

62906 Queering the Arts
W 12:00-02:00PM
PRTR-032A-01 Porter Din 002

Exploration of the arts as a way to understand and experience how queerness has been expressed, repressed, denigrated, and celebrated in visual arts, music, film, poetry, and dance.

SOCIOLOGY

63138 Inequal & Identity
M 02:00-05:00PM
SOCY-240 -01 Eight Acad 226

Explores recent theoretical and empirical studies of race, class, gender, and sexuality with an emphasis on the production of identities and their relationship to processes and structures of power in a postcolonial context.

THEATER ARTS

61956 Queer Theater
TR 02:0003:45PM
THEA-080T-01 Ta 2nd Stage

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.

61992 Queer Theatricks
TR 02:00-03:45PM
THEA-161Q-01 Ta 2nd Stage

Search for a queer sensibility through four decades of diverse performances. Provides survey of representations of queers in theater from perspectives of historical context, literary significance, personal expression, social construct, and theatrical forms. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 80T.

WOMEN'S STUDIES

63182 Feminist Theories
TR 12:00-01:45PM
WMST-100 -01 Krsg Town Hall 466

Core course for women's studies. Explores core questions in theory and practice of feminist politics. Is there a common ground for a general theory of the oppression of women? How do feminist questions change from the standpoints of race, gender, class, and sexuality? Focus will change each year.

62000 Writing Wmns Lives
MW 05:00-06:45PM
WMST-103 -01 Oakes Acad 106

Examines various ways of representing women's lives, including autobiography, oral history, community studies, fiction, etc. Particular attention to intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, to the ways in which individuals are situated in communities, and to the relationship between author and subject.

63196 Women: Phil Issues
TR 10:00-11:45AM
WMST-168 -01 Cowell Com 134

Study of philosophical issues regarding women, including women's roles and women's rights. Such notions as oppression, liberation, sexuality, equality, and autonomy are explored, along with questions concerning the relationship between biological and social facts and moral values.