Graduate Course Information
Fall 2009
Winter 2009
Women's Studies Required Core Courses
WS 201 Feminist Knowledge Production: Early/Modern (4 units)Course examines early and modernist feminists theories and epistemologies in the context of global flows of people, ideas and goods and in diverse socioeconomic settings. Includes an examination of varied forms of feminist knowledge production and multicultural critiques of theories of modernity.
WS 202 Multicultural Feminist Knowledge Production: Contemporary (4 units)
Course examines contemporary multicultural and transnational feminist knowledge production within the contexts of globalization, neo-colonialism, diaspora, exile, and dislocation. Concentration on feminist debates on modernism, postmoderisn, cultural and critical race studies, postcolonial theories, sexuality and queer studies.
WS 210 Topics in Women and Public Policy (4 units)
Introduction to background, decision-making processes, and current debates over public policy directly affecting women in one or more major spheres of public life (e.g., work, family, political system, health care, legal regulation). Topics may focus on public health, political science, medicine, workplace studies, and social welfare. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. Letter grading. Lecture.
WS 204 Feminist Research Seminar (1 unit/quarter, 4 quarters total)
This course involves participation in the seminars and lectures sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW). To receive one-unit of credit for the quarter, students must attend at least three sessions. Students may choose among all of the programs listed on the CSW calendar of events published every quarter. Those entitled "Feminist Research Seminars" are particularly recommended.
WS 203 Research Methods in Studies of Women and Gender
(4 units)
[or 4 units of critical theory - Humanities]
Topics include advanced critique of sexist research methods, models of inclusion of women in research and theory, nonsexist research methods from conception through interpretation, what constitutes "feminist" research, inclusiveness and attention to diversity issues, appropriate frameworks in comparative research. Supplements disciplinary offerings on research methods. Letter grading. Lecture/discussion.
Approved Elective Courses
Three types of courses meet the Program requirements:- Courses sponsored by WS
- Courses multi-listed with WS and another departments
- Selected departmental courses
WS 205 Gender and the Politics of Information (4 units)
Designed for graduate students. Examination of gendered dimensions embedded in information technologies. Critical
feminist assessment of information as resource and commodity; impact of Internet and information technologies on
women and men and gendered distinctions between who builds and who "owns" information technology resources; race,
class, gender relations in cyberspace and electronic communications. Letter grading. Seminar.
WS 220 Cultural Studies in Gender, Race and Sexuality (4 units)
Designed for graduate students. In-depth study of representations of gender and sexuality in literature and
performance culture, with special attention to race. Topics include flow of artistic cultural production
across national borders, theorizing femiqueer as diasporic or multicultural formation. Letter grading. Seminar.
The
General Catalog section on Women's Studies includes full course
descriptions for WS-sponsored or multi-listed courses, and a listing of
regularly offered departmental courses (see those departmental listings
for those course descriptions).
The Schedule of
Classes lists those courses being offered for each quarter; it will
include courses described in the General Catalog and courses which are
offered just for that quarter (special topics, new courses, advanced
seminars, etc.).