Upper-Division

FMST 100 Feminist Theories

Core course for feminist studies. Serves as an introduction to thinking theoretically about issues of feminism within multiple contexts and intellectual traditions. Sustained discussion of gender and its critical connections to productions of race, class, and sexuality. Focus will change each year.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Quarter offered

Winter

FMST 102 Feminist Critical Race Studies

Working from the perspective that race is a cultural invention and racism is a political, economic, and social relation, investigates how race is produced as a meaningful and powerful social category, examines the effects of racism as a social relation, and argues for the necessity of combining feminist and critical race studies. By considering different historical periods and places, aims to equip students with the tools necessary to critically examine the production and reproduction of race and racism in the U.S.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): one course from feminist studies. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors.

FMST 105 Feminist Methodologies

Recommended for transfer students. Focuses on particular debates about feminist methodology. Specific methodological debates vary each year but might include feminist theorizing of experience, epistemology, situated knowledges, notions of truth and the real. Feminist methods may include transnational approaches, as well as queer, decolonial, postcolonial, and critical race methodologies. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. (Formerly FMST 75.)

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

FMST 112 Women and the Law

Interdisciplinary approach to study of law in its relation to category women and production of gender. Considers various materials including critical race theory, domestic case law and international instruments, representations of law, and writings by and on behalf of women living under different forms of legal control. Examines how law structures rights, offers protections, produces hierarchies, and sexualizes power relations in both public and intimate life.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

POLI 112

Instructor

Gina Dent

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to feminist studies, politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during first and second pass enrollment.

Quarter offered

Spring

FMST 115 Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas

Examines migration as a mode of inquiry into transnational practices across geographic locales and temporal zones. Analyzes migration in relation to the transnational formation of gender, race, and sexuality as well as processes of neocolonialism, the state, and globalization.

Credits

5

Instructor

Ceylan Cemali

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1, FMST 100, or FMST 145. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall

FMST 120 Transnational Feminisms

Explores the emergence of transnational feminism through U.S. women of color and postcolonial feminism. Underscores the role of globalization, nationalism, and state formation in relation to feminist theorizing, activism, and labor across the Global South. In an attempt to understand the salience of inequalities, the course interrogates the continuation of feminist critique that is attentive to the war on terror, neocolonialism, and empire.

Credits

5

Instructor

Felici Schaeffer-Grabiel

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

General Education Code

CC

FMST 123 Feminism and Cultural Production

Explores relationship between feminism and culture. Topics will vary and include different forms of cultural production such as film and literature. Regional/national focus will also vary.

Credits

5

Instructor

Bettina Aptheker

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

FMST 124 Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas

Examines new ways of understanding the body and race through the intersection of technology and science. Addresses how broader structures of power and the rise of new technological and scientific discoveries mediate power relations and alter how race, national boundaries, the body, and citizenship are normalized and contested from colonialism to the present. Course content may vary; themes may include: U.S. eugenics, I.Q. tests, patenting debates, sterilization, assisted reproduction, biometrics, and genetics across the Americas.

Credits

5

Instructor

Felici Schaeffer-Grabiel

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only.

General Education Code

PE-T

FMST 125 Race, Sex, and Technology

Explores theories and case studies tied to race, gender, and technology. Covers the history of feminist and critical race analyses of technology as well as contemporary debates.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

FMST 126 Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis

Introduces the analysis of visual images and text with particular emphasis on feminist critical methodologies. Using case studies from photography, film, TV, advertising, and new media, students learn how to read and analyze culture.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors during priority enrollment only.

General Education Code

IM

FMST 131 The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics

Considers how things--what we may think of as objects, matter, nature, technology, bodies--are constitutive elements of social and political life. What happens to the political as a category if we take this matter seriously?

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1.

FMST 132 Gender and Postcoloniality

Postcolonial feminist studies. Explores how discourses of gender and sexuality shaped the policies and ideologies of the historical processes of colonialism, the civilizing mission, and anticolonial nationalism. Considers orientalism as a gendered discourse as well as colonial understandings of gender and sexuality in decolonialization. Explores Western media representations, literature, the law, and the place of gender in the current debate between cultural relativism and universalism. Provides an understanding of some key terms in postcolonial studies and an in-depth examination of the place of gender in these processes.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors.

FMST 133 Science and the Body

Contemporary technoscientific practices, such as nano-, info-, and biotechnologies, are rapidly reworking what it means to be human. Course examines how both our understanding of the human and the very nature of the human are constituted through technoscientific practices.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors.

General Education Code

PE-T

FMST 135 Topics in Science and Sexuality

Introduces the multiple debates animating the linkages between science, race, and sexuality. Interrogates the interrelated, epistemological frameworks of science and sexuality/queer studies across a range of interdisciplinary and geopolitical locations.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 100 or FMST 145. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

FMST 139 African American Women's History

Considers African American women as central to understanding of U.S. history, focusing on everyday survival, resistance, and movements for social change. Discussion of critical theories for historical research, gender, and race. Emphasis on biography, cultural history, and documentary and archival research.

Credits

5

Instructor

Bettina Aptheker

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

General Education Code

ER

FMST 145 Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S

Introduces the defining issues surrounding racial and gender formations in the U.S. through an understanding of the term women of color as an emergent, dynamic, and socio-political phenomenon. Interrogates organizing practices around women of color across multiple sites: film and media, globalization, representation, sexuality, historiography, and war, to name a select few.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jenny Kelly

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall

FMST 150 Mediating Desire

From a foundation in semiotics, considers the ways race and gender are constructed, understood, performed, embraced, commodified, and exploited through representations. Uses representations of, by, and for the margins to engage theories of communication, identity, and representation. Creative final projects encouraged.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marcia Ochoa

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors or by permission of instructor.

General Education Code

ER

FMST 175 Gender and Sexualities in Latina/o America

Advanced topics in gender and sexuality in Latin America and Latina/o studies. Analyzes role of power, race, coloniality, national and transnational processes in the production and analysis of genders and sexualities. Materials include memoir, fiction, ethnography, social documentary and history.

 

Credits

5

Instructor

Marcia Ochoa

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior feminist studies majors or by permission of instructor.

General Education Code

CC

FMST 188 Topics in Feminist Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in feminist theory. Topics vary each offering but might include theorizing the gendered subject, racializing gender, politics and feminism, the relationship between queer theory and feminism, transgender studies, women of color feminisms, postcolonial and decolonial feminisms, feminist science studies.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff, Richetta Amen

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 189 Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory

Focus on a particular problem in feminist theory. Problems vary each year but might include theorizing the gendered subject, racializing gender, the meeting points of psychoanalysis and social-political analysis in theorizing gender, the relationship between queer theory and feminist theory, postcolonial feminist theory.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 100. Enrollment is restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

FMST 193 Field Study

Individual field study in the vicinity of the campus under the direct supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 193F Field Study

Individual field study in the vicinity of the campus under the direct supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 194A Feminist Jurisprudence

Approaches legal reasoning from a feminist and intersectional perspective with attention to structures and jurisdiction, case materials, and emerging international frameworks for gender justice. Designed to facilitate completion of a substantial research essay based in feminist legal philosophy.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gina Dent

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

Quarter offered

Spring

FMST 194B Queer/Feminist Historiography

Providing for a critical examination of canonical formations in history and archives, this course proposes new ways of thinking about history from the point of view of those who have been marginalized or excluded by race, class, gender, or sexuality.

Credits

5

Instructor

Bettina Aptheker

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194C Gender and Iconicity

Examines icons and the processes through which an iconicity is constructed and circulated in its complexity. Icons and iconicities often link or articulate various ideologies, affects, and systems of thought into a potent symbol or a mythology. Icons constitute norms, but also disrupt them; icons could articulate new technologies, aesthetics and their representations of the self with purportedly older modes of being in the world, such as a transcendent belief in a god, a faith, etc.

Credits

5

Instructor

Madhavi Murty

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements, and FMST 1 and FMST 100. Enrollment restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

Quarter offered

Fall

FMST 194D Feminist Science Studies

Examines different feminist approaches to understanding the nature of scientific practices. Particular attention paid to notions of evidence, methods, cultural and material constraints, and the heterogeneous nature of laboratory practices. Considers the ways in which gender, race, and sexuality are constructed by science and how they influence both scientific practices and conceptions of science. Also examines the feminist commitment to taking social factors into account without forfeiting the notion of objectivity.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194F Chicana/Latina Cultural Production

Traces the intersection between Chicana studies and Latin American studies through transnational forms of cultural production, imaginaries, and empowerment. Analysis of theories of cultural production and discussion of the political salience of culture as a site for resistance, critique, and creativity.

Credits

5

Instructor

Felici Schaeffer-Grabiel

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194G Images of Africa

Explores questions of colonialism, empire, race, gender, and geopolitics in the proliferating images--filmic, televisual, and media--of Africa in the United States. Facilitates the completion of a substantial research essay based on the study of popular culture.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gina Dent

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194H Michel Foucault: An Introduction

French philosopher Michel Foucault's writings on modern forms of knowledge, power, and subjectivity provide a serious challenge to how we negotiate social oppression. Engages some of Foucault's most cited works, and grapples specifically with his primary claim that modern societies are marked less by freedom and autonomy than by discipline and docility.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194I Feminist Oral History and Memoir

Designed to train students in oral history and memoir writing. Emphasizes the specialness of transgressive voices; race, class, and sexuality, women's silence, erasure, censorship, and marginalization are addressed. The politics of memory, narratives, storytelling, and editorial judgment are considered.

Credits

5

Instructor

Bettina Aptheker

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194K Black Diaspora

Seminar focuses on the historical and subjective processes that produce the concept of an African or Black Diaspora. In narrative, film, and cultural studies, themes of slavery, exile, home, identity, alienation, colonialism, politics, and reinvention are explored.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190K

Instructor

Gina Dent

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194L Comparative Settler Colonial Studies

Discusses the characteristics of settler colonialism and the politics of comparison in the study of global settler colonialism. Looks at settler colonial state practice across multiple different sites, including Santa Cruz, as students craft their own research projects. (Formerly offered as Decoloniality, Feminism, and Science Studies.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190L

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194M Empire and Sexuality

Explores the production of sexualities, sexual identification, and gender differentiation within multiple contexts of colonialism, decolonization, and emerging neo-colonial global formations.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190M

Instructor

Anjali Arondekar

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

Quarter offered

Winter

FMST 194O The Politics of Gender and Human Rights

Examines human rights projects and discourses with a focus on the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and rights in the international sphere. Reading important human rights documents and theoretical writings, and addressing particular case studies, emphasizes the tensions between the ideals of the universal and the particular inherent in human rights law, activism, and humanitarianism.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190O

Instructor

Neda Atanasoski

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194Q Queer Diasporas

Queer diaspora emerged from Third World/queer-of-color critique of queer theory and provides a framework for analyzing racializations, genders, and sexualities in colonial, developmental, and modernizing contexts. Readings from anthropology, history, literature, and feminist and cultural studies.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100. Enrollment restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190Q

Instructor

Marcia Ochoa

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194T Transgender Studies

Explores literature from the natural sciences, anthropology, history, cultural studies, and sociology. Provides theoretical approaches to complex questions in queer studies and geopolitics, and a framework for understanding embodiment, medical regulation, gender formation, the human/animal divide, etc.

Credits

5

Instructor

Marcia Ochoa

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194U Touring War and Empire

Senior seminar focusing on tourism, colonialism, and militarism. Considers case studies on tourism in colonial contexts and sites of U.S. empire across multiple geographies as students craft their projects, participate in writing workshops, and present research.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190U

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194V Marxism and Feminism

Explores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

CRES 190V

Instructor

Nick Mitchell

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 194W Politics of Space, Time, and Matter

Senior seminar focusing on questions of the politics of space, time, and matter. Readings informed by fields, such as indigenous studies, queer studies, afrofuturism, borderland studies, critical race studies, decolonial studies, disability studies, feminist science studies, and new materialisms.

Credits

5

Instructor

Karen Barad

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): FMST 1 and FMST 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior feminist studies majors.

FMST 195 Senior Thesis or Project

The senior thesis/project which satisfies the major requirement. Course is for independent research and writing. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 198 Independent Field Study

Provides for individual study program off campus for which faculty supervision is not in person. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 198F Independent Field Study

Provides for individual study program off campus for which faculty supervision is not in person. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 199 Tutorial

Individual directed study for upper-division undergraduates. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FMST 199F Tutorial

Individual directed study for upper-division undergraduates. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring