Graduate

FMST 200 Feminist Theories

Introductory required course for feminist studies graduate students. Covers major theorists, debates, and current questions as well as foundational texts through which feminist critiques have been grounded. Content changes with instructor.

Credits

5

Instructor

Madhavi Murty

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

FMST 201 Topics in Feminist Methodologies

Explores feminist theorizing across disciplinary and cultural contexts for both methodology (theories about the research process) and epistemology (theories of knowledge). Goal is to orient students toward changes in organization of knowledge and provide them with different feminist methodologies in their pursuit of both an object of study and an epistemology.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neel Ahuja

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

FMST 202 Disciplining Knowledge/Graduate Research

Prepares students to develop research skills and initiate their research projects. Students consider what is meant by feminist research and undertake designing and performing feminist research.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 200 and FMST 201. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

FMST 203 Feminist Pedagogies

Examines feminist pedagogies as projects in transgressing traditional disciplinary boundaries. Examines historical examples of alternative pedagogies and contemporary models for creating communities dedicated to social justice. Designed to assist graduate students develop teaching strategies in multiple fields.

Credits

5

Instructor

Bettina Aptheker

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 207 Topics in Queer/Race Studies

Explores the interrelated epistemological frameworks of critical race studies and queer studies. Through the study of a range of philosophical, scientific, literary, and cinematic texts, course historicizes and theorizes discourses of race and sexuality.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Spring

FMST 211 Sexuality, Race, and Migration in the Americas

Analyzes the ways transnational processes intersect with changing notions of gender, sexuality, and race. Examines processes such as tourism, the Internet, capitalism, and labor spanning Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.

Credits

5

Instructor

Felici Schaeffer-Grabiel

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 212 Feminist Theory and the Law

Interrogation of the relationship between law and its instantiating gendered categories, supported by feminist, queer, Marxist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Topics include hypostasization of legal categories, the contest between domestic and international human rights frameworks, overlapping civil and communal codes, cultural explanations in the law, the law as text and archive, testimony and legal subjectivity.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

HISC 212

Instructor

Gina Dent

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 214 Topics in Feminist Science Studies

Graduate seminar on feminist science studies. Topics will vary and may include: the joint consideration of science studies and poststructuralist theory; the relationship between discursive practices and material phenomena; and the relationship between ontology, epistemology, and ethics.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 215 Postcolonial and Postsocialist Transactional Analytics

Addresses the intersection of the postcolonial and the postsocialist as theoretical ground. Considers how (neo)liberal ideologies about race, class, gender, secularism, and democracy are shaped by the intersection between postsocialist geopolitics and imperial legacies. (Formerly Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Neoliberalism.)

Credits

5

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 216 Archives/Genders/Histories: An Introduction

Explores the entanglements of archives, genders, and histories across a number of intellectual and imperial contexts. Approaches the concept of the archive to reflect on who counts as a historical and/or gendered subject and what are the ethics of representation that guide such archival formations. Draws on literature from philosophy, gender/sexuality studies, anthropology, history, and literary criticism.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 218 Militarism and Tourism

Positioning tourism and militarism as central sites of inquiry for feminist and ethnic studies, course draws from literature on colonialism and empire to illuminate how tourism functions and how tourists move, in sites of past and present warfare.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 218

Instructor

Jennifer Lynn Kelly

FMST 222 Religion, Feminism, and Sexual Politics

Focuses on the increasing importance of religion as a category of analysis in feminist theory. Addresses the relationship of religion, feminist politics, and activism in connection with nationalism, the family, sexuality, and geopolitics.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 232 Topics in Postcolonial Studies

Variable topics that could include postcolonial approaches to questions of epistemology and knowledge production, theories of nationalism and nation-state formation, subaltern historiography, analyses of modernization and developmental theory, postcolonial approaches to globalization, and transnationalism. Significant component of feminist contributions to these literatures.

Credits

5

Instructor

Madhavi Murthy

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

FMST 243 Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge

Course takes as its central topic the institutional politics of feminist and critical race knowledges in the post-1960s United States university. Considers these fields' complex and contradictory relation to disciplinarity, the university's primary or default mode of arranging and legitimizing knowledge formations.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 243

Instructor

Nicholas Mitchell

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 260 Black Feminist Reconstruction

Re-visions and extends Reconstruction from 1865-1920 from a black feminist standpoint. Topics include: redefining democracy; labor; literacy and education; suffrage; re-visioning sexuality; childbirth; parenting, etc. Analyzes traditional historiography and the methodological implications of the boundaries between history and fiction, and archival and oral traditions.

Credits

5

Instructor

Bettina Aptheker

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students

FMST 270 Anthropology at Its Interfaces with Feminist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial STS

Focuses on generative interfaces within and at the edge of the anthropological discipline, in particular, the way ethnographies and fields are being reconfigured by feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives and methodologies in science and technology studies (STS).

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FMST 290 Pedagogical Training

First-year graduate students meet with the teaching assistant trainer for bi-weekly meetings covering pedagogical approaches. Also includes class visits and shadowing. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. (Formerly offered as First-Year Advising.)

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 291 Advising

Independent study formalizing the advisee-adviser relationship. Regular meetings to plan, assess, and monitor academic progress, and to evaluate coursework as necessary. May be used to develop general bibliography of background reading trajectory of study in preparation for the qualifying examination. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 297A Independent Study

Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 297B Independent Study

Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 297F Independent Study

Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 299A Thesis Research

Prerequisite(s): advancement to candidacy. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 299B Thesis Research

Prerequisite(s): advancement to candidacy. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring