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2021/2022 University Catalog 
    
2021/2022 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


General Education Courses  

Courses offered at the SDSU Imperial Valley campus.  

Detailed information about course offerings can be found on the Class Schedule website.

 

Women’s Studies

  
  • WMNST 597 - Research Project


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Six upper division units in women’s studies and consent of adviser.

    Individual research project.

  
  • WMNST 598 - Women’s Studies Internship


    Units: 3

    Grading Method: Cr/NC

    Prerequisite(s): Three upper division units in women’s studies and consent of instructor.

    Application of women’s studies theories and scholarship to community service and activism. Internship includes 120 hours of work in local public and private agencies serving women and girls. Maximum Credits: six units.

  
  • WMNST 601 - Foundations of Feminist Scholarship


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Theories, issues, and major paradigms underlying feminist scholarship. Development of women’s studies as a discipline. Emphasis on multicultural approaches and perspectives.

  
  • WMNST 602 - Seminar: Methods of Inquiry in Women’s Studies


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Examination and critique of traditional research methods; methods of critical feminist investigation; designs of research proposals.

  
  • WMNST 603 - Seminar: Advanced Feminist Theory


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Analysis of categories of contemporary feminist theory including concepts of identity and difference; theories of subjectivity; feminist discourses, strategies, and practices.

  
  • WMNST 604 - Seminar: Gender, Culture, and Representation


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Representations of women, gender, and femininity in literature, art, music, and other cultural productions. Interconnection between representations of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexualities. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: six units.

    Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.

  
  • WMNST 605 - Seminar: Women and Social Policy


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Laws and social policies impacting women and their families in historical and political context. Theoretical and practical implications to include workplace issues, economic justice, health, reproductive justice, violence, and regulation of sexuality and relationships.

  
  • WMNST 606 - Seminar: Narrating Women’s Lives


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Exploration of women’s biographies and autobiographies. Theories of narration, identity construction, and oral and written life histories. Interconnection between self-presentation and social, historical, and multicultural institutions and discourses.

  
  • WMNST 607 - Seminar: Privilege and Oppression


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    How gender, culture, ethnicity, class, religion, sexualities, and physical challenges define interplay of privilege and oppression. Theoretical and practical implications discussed.

  
  • WMNST 608 - Seminar: Body Politics


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Historical exploration illuminates contemporary and past constructions of female, male, and transgendered sexualities. Facilitates ability to critique “innate” vs. culturally constructed behaviors and identities. Key institutions that control and define the body explored: labor, race, economics, law, and medicine.

  
  • WMNST 609 - Seminar: Transnational Issues and Gender


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Globalization of economy, culture, and politics with a focus on women’s lives. Case studies of effect of transnational processes on women and role of gender in shaping these processes.

  
  • WMNST 610 - Seminar in Sexuality


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Sexuality and gender identity in diverse individual, social, political, and cultural contexts.

  
  • WMNST 611 - Seminar: Gender and Diaspora


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Historical and interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered impact of forcible migration (African, Asian, Jewish). Scholarly debates concerning influence of men’s and women’s experiences of diaspora on modern political identities, social movements, and cultural production. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: six units.

    Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.

  
  • WMNST 612 - Seminar: Feminist Pedagogies


    Units: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Feminist and interrelated critical pedagogies and their application in the classroom. Teaching from social justice, intersectional, and transnational approaches. Role of identity, difference, power, and embodiment in teaching and learning. Practical teaching skills and wholistic classroom strategies.

  
  • WMNST 692 - Writing Workshop


    Units: 1

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Argument, norms, and styles in academic writing. Maximum Credits: three units.

  
  • WMNST 696 - Selected Topics in Women’s Studies


    Units: 3-6

    Prerequisite(s): Classified graduate standing.

    Intensive study in specific areas of women’s studies, with emphasis on theoretical and methodological issues. May be repeated with new content.

    Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Credit for 596 and 696 applicable to a master’s degree with approval of the graduate adviser.

  
  • WMNST 797 - Research


    Units: 1-3

    Grading Method: Cr/NC/RP

    Prerequisite(s): Advancement to candidacy and written approval of department graduate adviser.

    Independent research in a specialized subject in women’s studies.

  
  • WMNST 798 - Special Study


    Units: 1-3

    Grading Method: Cr/NC/RP

    Prerequisite(s): Consent of staff; to be arranged with department chair and instructor.

    Independent study. Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree.

  
  • WMNST 799A - Thesis


    Units: 3

    Grading Method: Cr/NC/RP

    Prerequisite(s): An officially appointed thesis committee and advancement to candidacy.

    Preparation of a project or thesis for the master’s degree.

  
  • WMNST 799B - Thesis Extension


    Units: 0

    Grading Method: Cr/NC

    Prerequisite(s): Prior registration in Thesis 799A with an assigned grade symbol of RP.

    Registration required in any semester or term following assignment of RP in Course 799A in which the student expects to use the facilities and resources of the university; also student must be registered in the course when the completed thesis is granted final approval.

  
  • WMNST 799C - Comprehensive Examination Extension


    Units: 0

    Grading Method: Cr/NC

    Prerequisite(s): Completion or concurrent enrollment in degree program courses.

    Registration required of students whose only requirement is completion of the comprehensive examination for the master’s degree.

    Note: Registration in 799C limited to two semesters.

 

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