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)