CGS Grad Seminars

IMPORTANT NOTE: As a part of the specialization application, students are to identify a CGS core or affiliate faculty member as an advisor for the progam.

By the end of CGS 200, graduate students within the specialization will need to inform the CGS 200 instructor AND the CGS program coordinator who their faculty advisor is by emailing cgs@ucsd.edu. Graduate students should plan to start making appointments with their advisor as soon as possible.

Course Number	Course Title & Description
CGS 200	Advanced Studies in Critical Gender Studies This course, the first in the graduate specialization in CGS, is designed to give students a broad but advanced survey of historical and current research in studies of gender and sexuality in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
CGS 208	Gender Variance This seminar critically examines gender variance by contrasting local and global contexts. We will interrogate Western analytical frameworks of sex, gender, and sexuality including the idea of transgenderism as a crossing from one gender to an opposite one, the distinction between gender identity and sexuality, and the assumed relationship between sex and gender in relation to other social formations and processes.
CGS 280	Special Topics in Critical Gender Studies Specialized study in Critical Gender Studies, with topics to be determined by the instructor for any given quarter.
CGS 299	Advanced Practicum in Critical Gender Studies This course, the capstone in the graduate specialization in CGS, is designed for students in their final year of dissertation writing. Members of the practicum will present their dissertation research and mutually explore the interdisciplinary dimensions and implications of their work.