LGBTQIA+ Course List

This course list will be updated every quarter in order to provide students with a comprehensive list of courses about or related to LGBTQIA+ topics. 

Below is a list of courses being offered during UCSC's Fall 2020 quarter. 

If there are courses that you think should be added to this list, feel free to e-mail us (queer@ucsc.edu).

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Anthropology

• ANTH 110Q - 01: Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture

  From Janet Mock to Young M.A., queerness has become hypervisible in Black popular culture--but at what cost? Using music, television, and social media as central texts, students investigate the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race in public life. 

  Also offered as CRES 110Q and FMST 110Q.

  ANTH 130L - 01: Ethnographies of Latin America 

  A broad introduction to issues and areas of cultural production and transformation in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America. Colonial, neocolonial, class, ethnic, gender, religious, ecological, and political relations intersect as represented in ethnographies and film. 

  ANTH 158 - 01: Feminist Ethnographies 

  Considers the relationship between anthropology and feminism. Provides historical perspective on gender inequalities in the discipline as well as the emergence of feminist anthropology. Students read and engage with examples of feminist ethnography form a variety of regions and subfields. 

  ANTH 196G - 01: Queer Worlds: Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Ethnography 

  How do we read, write, and recognize the queer body? How is it marked in politics, in intimate spaces, and in the ethnographic text? Drawing on ethnic studies and black queer studies, this seminar engages contemporary anthropological approaches to sexuality.

  Also offered as CRES 190G.

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Community Studies

• CMMU 10 - 01: Introduction to Community Activism 

  Surveys different strategies of community activism including charity, volunteering, labor and community organizing, and recently emerging global activism with goal of demonstrating how certain strategies challenge existing social relations and arrangements while others typically (and often by design) reproduce them. 

  CMMU 163 - 01: Health Care Inequalities 

  Examines system and non-system that is American health care with special attention to inequalities in access, financing, and quality of care. Covers concepts such as equality, fairness, and need as well as community organizing and community building for health. 

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Critical Race & Ethnic Studies

• CRES 190P - 01: Trans of Color Movements in Media, Art and Performance 

  Trans of color poetics are emerging in media art and performance, the voice of movements for liberation from colonial systems of racialized gender, and the structures which uphold them, including the prison-industrial complex. Trans people of color, and people who exist in resistance to colonial gender constructs are responding to the ways that both popular media and academic fields such as transgender studies have focused on white, wealthy, normative transgender subjects. Seminar considers the social movements and the embodied movement of trans people of color and gender non-conforming people in media, art and performance. 

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Education

• EDUC 135 - 01: Gender and Education 

  Addresses the changing but continuing patterns of unequal expectations, opportunities, and treatment throughout the educational system for all students, female and male, who do not match a standard model of gender performance.

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Feminist Studies

• FMST 15 - 01: 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. Taught in conjunction with FMST 115. 

  FMST 115 - 01: 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. 

  FMST 145 - 01: 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. 

  FMST 188 - 02: 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. May be repeated for credit.  

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Latin American & Latinx Studies

• LALS 80S - 01: Sexualities and Genders in Latin American and Latina/o Studies 

  Introduction to issues and themes surrounding sexualities and genders within Latin American and Latina/o studies. Provides background in the basic theoretical and historical frameworks of gender and its relationship to sexuality. In addition to cross-border perspectives, course also examines how gender and sexuality are structured and experienced through other social categories. 

  LALS 178 - 01: Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization 

  Focuses on the impact of globalization and transnationalism on gender relations in the Americas. Examines gender and power in the context of neoliberalism, modernity, the nation, social movements, and activism. Explores local and transnational constructions of gender, and the intersection of gender with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. 

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Sociology

• SOCY 152 - 01: Body and Society 

  Critically examines the place of the human body in contemporary society. Focuses on the social and cultural construction of bodies, including how they are gendered, racialized, sexualized, politicized, represented, colonized, contained, controlled, and inscribed. Discusses relationship between embodiment, lived experiences, and social action. Focuses on body politics in Western society and culture, especially the United States.