critical/gender/studies
Quarterly List of Classes Fall 2009
CGS Courses Applicable to CGS Majors and Minors:
***SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
Critical Gender Studies 192
Detecting the Invisible: Does the Workplace Treat Women or Parents Unfairly?
(1-unit Senior Seminar)
Mary Blair-Loy, Department of Sociology
Section ID # 665988
Meeting Dates & Times:
Seminar will meet the first 4 Tuesdays of the Quarter from 2:00-3:50 pm
Seminar will meet in SSB 414
What does social scientific research say about how fairly women and men are treated in the workplace today? Parents compared to non-parents of the same gender? This research illuminates what is often invisible as we embark on our own careers.
Critical Gender Studies 2A
Introduction to Critical Gender Studies: Social Movements
Pamela Radcliff, Department of History
LECTURE:
TuTh 11:00am - 12:20pm PETER 104
SECTIONS:
657447 W2:00 – 2:50pm U413
657449 W3:00 – 3:50pm U413
The course will introduce the concept of gender as a category of analysis for understanding relationships of power. It will focus on how
different groups have mobilized around claims about gender roles and identities. Case studies of movements contesting rights and representation will
be drawn from comparative global contexts: possible subjects are civil rights, men's movements, antiracist feminism, non-feminist women's movements, AIDS activism, transgenderism, immigrant rights, non-western feminism and the labor movement.
Critical Gender Studies 100
Theories and Methods
Sara Kaplan, CGS & Ethnic Studies
#657442 MWF9:00-9:50am HSS 1305
If, as feminist scholars have argued for decades, gender is not a ‘natural’ category, but a social construct, then how, precisely, is it constructed? This course offers a survey of how different scholars, writers, artists, and activists have sought to answer that question. Drawing upon historical and contemporary readings, film, and new media viewings, and current political and cultural events, we will explore both the key theoretical frameworks and various methodological approaches used in critical gender studies. We will challenge ourselves to complicate our understandings of seemingly natural concepts such as ‘male/female,’ ‘man/woman,’ and ‘homosexual/heterosexual’ as we experience them in our own daily lives and perceive them in the world around us. Our work will be carried out with a primary goal in mind: developing our own interdisciplinary critical apparatus through which we can better understand not only the conditions under which ‘gender’ is lived, but the terms through which the very concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality are produced, negotiated, and transformed.
Critical Gender Studies 107
Gender and Reproductive Rights
M.E. Stephens, Esq., Lecturer
657452 Tu 5:30-9:20 Peterson 104
Explores the legal treatment of gender, reproductive rights, andthe family, particularly in the context of evolving laws that arguably have created conflicting rights, roles, andresponsibilities. Topics will include abortion, fetal rights, surrogacy, marriage, child custody and other family issues.
Critial Gender Studies 109B
Gender and Information Technology
Kelly Gates, Department of Communication
657454 TuTh 3:30p - 4:50p WLH 2205
According the philosopher Langdon Winner, “to invent a new technology requires that (in some way or another) society also invents the kinds of people who will use it.” This course explores the gendered dimensions of this relationship between technological invention and the reinvention of people, focusing on information technologies. We will examine the roles that men and women (from specific race, ethnic and class backgrounds) have played in the development of computers, as well as the role that computers and other information technologies have played in transforming the meaning and experience of gender since the middle of the twentieth century. Students will use their own skills and experiences as the basis for projects that identify the ways that new information technologies can variously support and challenge ideas and expectations about the enduring categories of masculine and feminine.
Critical Gender Studies 190
Honors Seminar
Lisa Yoneyama, CGS Director
#657443 M 11:00am – 1:50pm HSS 2025
Interdisciplinary readings in feminist theory and research methodology to prepare students for writing an honors thesis. Open to Critical Gender Studies majors who have been admitted to Critical Gender Studies Honors Program. Prerequisites: admission to Critical Gender Studies Honors Program and department approval required.
Critical Gender Studies 196A
Honors Research
Lisa Yoneyama, CGS Director
#599435 TBA
A program of independent study providing candidates for Critical Gender Studies Honors to
develop, in consultation with an adviser, a preliminary proposal for the honors thesis. An “IP”
grade will be awarded at the end of Fall quarter. Upon completion of Critical Gender Studies 196B in Winter 2008, a final grade for both quarters will be given. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and department approval required.
Departmental Courses
Applicable/Petitionable to the CGS Major and Minor:
# Course is eligible for major/minor credit but must be petitioned by second week of the quarter and approved by CGS faculty. Please see the CGS advisor for assistance with petition.
Arts & Humanities
HIUS 173: Topics/American Women’s History (1, 4)
#LTEN 140: Early Nineteenth Century British Novel: Jane Austen (1, 4)
#LTEN 155: Interactions Between American Literature and the Visual Arts:
Visual Culture and (Post)Racial Discourse (1)
#LTEN 186: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (1, 4)
Social Sciences
ETHN 183: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class (1, 4)
SOCB 118: Sociology of Gender (1, 4)
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