Gender Studies
 

Graduate

Course Descriptions

SWMS 504 Theories of Race, Class, and Gender (4) (Enroll in ENGL 504)

SWMS 505 Seminar in Feminist Theory and Art History (4, max 8) (Enroll in AHIS 505)

SWMS 507 Gender and International Relations (4, Irregular) (Enroll in IR 507)

SWMS 508 Ethics of Liberation Theology (4) (Enroll in REL 508)

SWMS 509 Culture, Gender, and Global Society (4) (Enroll in IR 509)

SWMS 516 Seminar: Feminist Theory and Communication (4, 2 years, Sp) (Enroll in COMM 516)

SWMS 548 Fertility Control Policies (4) (Enroll in SOCI 548)

SWMS 550 Gender and Education in the Third World (3) (Enroll in EDPA 550)

SWMS 551 Studies in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality (4, max 8) (Enroll in HIST 550)

SWMS 552 Sex and Gender in Society (4) (Enroll in SOCI 552)

SWMS 554 Women in Global Perspective (4) Women and immigration, employment, and household and family relations in the context of the global economy; women's social and political movements in diverse cultural contexts.

SWMS 556 Seminar on Women and the Family in China (4) (Enroll in EALC 556)

SWMS 560 Feminist Theory (4, FaSpSm) History of feminist theory and major perspectives of current feminist theory: liberal feminism, socialist/Marxist feminism, radical feminism, psychological feminism, spiritual feminism, and ecological feminism.

SWMS 562 Women as Writers in World Literature (4) (Enroll in COLT 562)

SWMS 575 The Ethics of Women's Liberation (3) (Enroll in REL 575)

SWMS 577 Therapy, Gender, and Ethnicity (3) (Enroll in SOCI 577)

SWMS 588 Seminar in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies (4) Interdisciplinary cross-cultural, historical, psychological, sociological, and contemporary political perspectives on female and male homosexual eroticism, and the emergence of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities.

SWMS 590 Directed Research (1-12, FaSpSm) Research leading to the master's degree in cognate fields. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

SWMS 599 Special Topics (2-4, max 8) Seminar in selected topics relating to gender and feminism.

SWMS 621 Gender Discrimination (1-4, FaSp) (Enroll in LAW 621)

SWMS 623 Family Law (3 or 4) (Enroll in LAW 623)

SWMS 630 Studies in Gender (4, max 12) (Enroll in ENGL 630)

SWMS 635 Race, Space and Place (4, Fa) (Enroll in GEOG 635)

SWMS 640 Legal Conceptions of Maternity and Paternity (1-4) (Enroll in LAW 640)

SWMS 650 Seminar on Women's and Family History (4, max 8, Sp) (Enroll in HIST 650)