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CURRICULUM
Courses offered in academic year 2008-2009

FALL 2008

 

ENGL 362 - Rhetorical Traditions

Instructor: Licona

 

Adolescence

Instructor: Russell

 

INDV 101- Mind, Self, and Language

The Politics of Differences

Instructor: Peterson

 

INDV 102 - Social Interactions and Relations Sex, Health, and Aids

Instructor: Carvajal

 

INDV 102 - Lesbian & Gay Studies

Instructor: TBA

 

MAS 365 - Latinos and Latinas: Emerging Contemporary Issues

Instructor: O'Leary

 

MED 891G - AIDS Clinic, HIV Service

Instructor: Culp

 

MED 821: Lifestyle Block: Session: Sexual Health Sexually Transmitted Infections, Health Care for LGB People, Caring for Transgender people. Domestic Violence, Adolescent Sexual & Gender Identities, Sexual History Taking, Social Justice and Medicine

Instructor: Vanderleest

 

Sociology 324: Sociology of Sexuality (Correspondence Course)

Instructor: Wright, M.

 

Sociology 448: Sociology of the body

Instructor: Wright, M.

 

W S 358 - U.S. Third World Feminism

Instructor: Soto

 

W S 309 Queer Theories

Instructor: Geary

 

W S 498 - Senior Capstone

Instructor: Kennedy

 

W S 696J - Sexuality and Aesthetics

Instructor: Flinn

 

W S 500 - Special Topics in Women's Studies

Instructor: Joseph

 

WS 240- History of Eugenics

Instructor: Briggs

 

WS 307- Chicana Feminist History

Instructor: Soto

 

SOC 487 - Interpretation of Women's Health

Instructor: TBA

 

SOC 222 - Gender Identity, Interactions and Relationships

Instructor: Strand

 

PSYC 364 - Human Sexuality

Instructor: Attig

 

WINTER INTERSESSION 2008

 

HIST 202: History of Modern Sexualities

Correspondence Course

 

PSYC 364 : Human Sexuality

Units: 3

Instructor: Law

 

SOC 324 : Sociology of Sexuality

Units: 3

Instructor: Crockett/Ulrich

 

SPRING 2009

 

INDV 102: Introduction to LGBT Studies

Units: 3

Instructor: Geary

 

IRLS 588-010: Group Information Rights

College of Medicine

Instructor: Mathies

 

MAS 587: Chicana Gender Perspectives

Units: 3

Instructor: Romero

 

POL/WS 335: The Politics of Differences

Units: 3

Instructor: Peterson

 

SOC 222 : Gender Identities, Interactions and Relationships

Units: 3

Instructor: Strand

 

WS 305: Feminist Theories

Units: 3

Instructor: Soto

 

W S 307: Chicana Feminisms: History, Theory and Practice

Units: 3

Instructor: Guidotti-Hernan

 

WS 496T/596T: Queer--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender--Histories of North America

Units: 3

Instructor: Kennedy

 

WS500: Special Topics: Sex, Race & Psyche: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory

Units: 3

Instructor: Geary

 

WS 539B: Feminist Theories II

Units: 3

Instructor: Flinn

 

W S 586 : Transnational Feminisms

Units: 3

Instructor: Briggs

 

WS 696 A: Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies

Units: 3

Instructor: Soto

 

 

SUMMER PRESESSION 2009

 

Trad 102-31 Sex & War: From the Bible to the Bard

Instructor: Headley

9:00-11:50am

See flyer (PDF)

 

ENGR/WS 317 Science Fiction Studies
LEC 31 0900AM-1150AM MTWRF

Science fiction is studied as a genre of film and print fiction in which we can imagine future societies and future science and technology in utopian and dystopian forms paying particular attention to race/class/gender and depictions of identity and otherness, as well as social power in imagined societies. The course is a fun and exciting overview of critical Sci-Fi movies and fictional texts, with a special attentiveness to questions of technology, empire, gender, race and sexuality.

 

Visual media:

  • Alien
  • Blade Runner
  • Dune
  • The Matrix
  • Men In Black
  • Planet of the Apes (1967)
  • Robot Stories
  • Star Wars Trilogy
  • Star Trek
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation

 

Texts:

  • Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia Butler
  • Wildseed, Octavia Butler
  • Studies in Science Fiction, Adam Roberts