UCSD Critical Gender Studies
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LOWER-DIVISION COURSES
CGS 2A. Introduction to Critical Gender Studies: Social Movements
This course will examine the role of social movements in contesting rights and representation in comparative and historical contexts. Historical examples may include: civil rights, men’s movements, anti-racist feminism, women’s movements, AIDS activism, transgenderism, immigrant rights, and the labor movement.
CGS 2B. Introduction to Critical Gender Studies: Gender and Institutions
This course examines how gender organizes and is organized by institutions. Domains of inquiry may include family, education, medicine, technology, law, media, the workplace, immigration, and citizenship.
CGS 87. Freshman Seminar (One unit; not for major or minor credit)
The Freshman Seminar Program is designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments and undergraduate colleges, and topics vary from quarter to quarter. Enrollment is limited to 15-20 students, with preference given to entering freshmen.
UPPER-DIVISION COURSES
CGS 100. Conceptualizing Gender: Theories and Methods
This course will compare the uses of gender as a category of analysis across academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences with particular attention to research methodologies.
CGS 101. Gender, Modernity, and Globalization
An interdisciplinary course that considers how men and women in societies around the globe are impacted differently by modernity, modernization, and globalization. Possible topics include: gender and colonialism; the construction of sexuality and gender in the context of global movements and migrations of people, capital, and culture; the international division of labor; and gender and revolution.
CGS 102. Selected Topics in Critical Gender Studies
An interdisciplinary course focusing on one of a variety of topics in gender studies, such as gender and science, the body, reproductive technologies, public policy. May be taken for credit three times when topics vary. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
CGS 103. Feminist Theory
An interdisciplinary course in feminist theory. Topics may range from a general survey of feminist theory in a variety of disciplines to a more focused interdisciplinary theoretical topic such as postmodernism and feminism. May be taken for credit three times when topics vary. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
CGS 104. Advanced Topics in Comparative Perspectives
Focuses on the relationship between gender and culture from a multiplicity of perspectives. Possible topics could include gender and ethnicity, gender across class, and other topics to be examined in a cross-cultural framework. May be taken for credit two times when topics vary. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
CGS 105. Queer Theory
Examines the different methodologies and disciplinary histories that together constitute the interdisciplinary project called queer studies. Of particular interest will be how these different methodologies and histories construe and construct the relations between sexuality, gender, race, class, and nation.
CGS 106. Gender Equality and the Law
Explores the legal treatment of discrimination on the basis of gender, including equal protection doctrine and some statutory law such as Title VII. Topics include the meaning of gender equality in such areas as single sex education, military service, sexual harassment, discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, and other current issues.
CGS 107. Gender and Reproductive Rights
Legal treatment of gender, reproductive rights, and the family, particularly as evolving law, primarily in the U.S., has created conflicting rights, roles, and responsibilities. Topics include abortion, fetal rights, surrogacy, marriage, and child custody issues. Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent of instructor.
CGS 109A. Gender, Science, Technology
Examines impact of gender and racialized gender on the production and uses of science and technology. Issues include (but are not limited to): racism and biotechnology, biological determinism, eugenics, plagiarism and invisible work, information technologies and access, and the politics of museums.
CGS 111. Gender and the Body
Various approaches to the study of gendered bodies. Possible topics to include masculinities/feminities; lifecycles; biology, culture and identity; medical discourses and health issues. May be taken for credit three times when topics vary.
CGS 112. Sexuality and Nation (Crosslisted with Ethnic Studies 127)
This course explores the nexus of sex, race, ethnicity, gender and nation and considers their influence on identity, sexuality, migration, movement and borders, and other social, cultural, and political issues which these constructs affect. Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent of instructor.
CGS 113. Geder & Sexuality in the Arts
Examines gender and sexuality in artistic practices: music, theater, dance, performance, visual arts, and new media. Topics may include study of specific artists, historical moments, genres, cross-cultural analyses, and multiculturalism. May be taken for credit three times when content varies.
CGS 192. Senior Seminar (One unit; not for major or minor credit)
CGS 190. Honors Seminar
Interdisciplinary readings in feminist theory and research methodology to prepare students for writing an honors thesis. Open to Critical Gender Studies majors who have been admitted to the Critical Gender Studies Honors Program. (May be applied toward primary cluster in the Critical Gender Studies major.)
CGS 196A. Honors Research
A program of independent study providing candidates for Critical Gender Studies honors to develop, in consultation with an advisor, a preliminary proposal for the honors thesis. An IP grade will be given at the end of the quarter; a final grade for both quarters will be given upon the completion of Critical Gender Studies 196B.
CGS 196B. Honors Thesis
Honors thesis research and writing for students who have completed CGS 190 and 196A. A letter grade for both CGS 196A and 196B will be given at the completion of the quarter.
CGS 198. Group Study
Directed group study on a topic not generally included in the Critical Gender Studies curriculum. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and director of Critical Gender Studies Program. Department stamp required.
CGS 199. Independent Study
Tutorial; independent study on a topic not generally included in the Critical Gender Studies curriculum. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and director of Critical Gender Studies Program. Department stamp required.
