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2022-2023 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Theatre Arts |
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THAR 374 - Theatre of the World
Unit(s): 4
This course is an exploration of theatre traditions from around the world. Theatre is examined as the expression of specific cultures. Students learn how theatre practice influences theatre-making in both Western and Eastern Cultures. This course is required for General Theatre Degree majors.
GE Category: Also satisfies upper-division GE Area C3.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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THAR 375 - Race, Gender, and Performance
Unit(s): 3
This course explores how contemporary theater artists construct cultural identity, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Students engage in both written analysis and performance work. Topics covered include culturally specific modes of ritual, belief, and performance; representation of mixed-race identities; and oppressive and resistant strategies in casting and production.
Crosslisted: WGS 360
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 376 - Playwriting I
Unit(s): 3
An introduction to the art and craft of writing for the stage, for writers of diverse levels of experience. Focuses in particular on the development of character, and explores the virtues of both imaginative freedom (the first draft) and structure (the rewrite). Includes in-class writing and performance improvisations, as well as study of plays by contemporary writers. Students create original short plays (ten-minute or one-act) and have selections of their work performed for an audience at the end of the term.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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THAR 377 - Playwriting II
Unit(s): 3
Stage writing for more experienced playwrights. Students will experiment with lengthier forms and new methods for first drafts. Work is performed in an end-of term festival.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 376 or permission or instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 379 - Dramaturgy and Research
Unit(s): 4
This course provides an introduction to the discipline of dramaturgy, focusing primarily on research and text analysis. It teaches professional research methodology and dramatic text analysis as a means to artistry in the creation of dance and theatre, with applications to performance, design, criticism and history. Research avenues include creative and biographical material on key artists, historical and cultural context, locating imagery (print, digital, multimedia), sound/music sourcing, and materials specific to unique production needs. The course addresses best practices in information competence and focuses on research as an art as much as a pragmatic skill. The course also provides an introduction to the specific profession of dramaturgy and its applications in the theater and beyond.
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 392 - Performing Arts for Children
Unit(s): 2
Dance, music, and theatre are essential components of elementary education. Through hands-on studio work and lesson planning assignments, this course familiarizes undergraduates who intend to pursue a multiple subject teaching credential with the content knowledge necessary to prepare them to lead instruction in these subject areas.
Crosslisted: LIBS 392
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 400 - Theatre of Today
Unit(s): 1
A career preparation course in topics vital to the emerging artist such as career preparation guidance, resume writing, graduate school application, professional internships, and community theatre options. Professional guest speakers augment the regular faculty.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 401 - Senior Project Ensemble Workshop
Unit(s): 3
An upper-division Theatre Arts student may petition the Theatre Arts faculty for permission to do a Senior Project. Such a project is the culmination of the student’s work, and may be an original work, a performance project, a research paper, a teaching project, or take some other form which represents and reflects the student’s interests and accomplishments. The privilege of doing a Senior Project is awarded only to a student deemed exceptional by the department faculty. Students who participate in another student’s Senior Project may enroll in Dance or Drama Ensemble to receive credit.
Prerequisite(s): Class open to Theatre Arts Seniors only, with departmental consent.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 420A - Approaches to Anti-Realism
Unit(s): 2
Actors explore Expressionism, Absurdism, Surrealism, Dada, writers such as Brecht, Beckett whose theatre is beyond the boundaries of psychological realism.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 125, THAR 144S, THAR 145B, THAR 220A, and THAR 220B, or Acting Program Director consent.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 420B - Comedy of Manners
Unit(s): 2
Comedy of Manners reflects and satirizes the ideals and manners of upper class society. Actors learn to acquire and maintain a mask of artifice while revealing the true character behind it.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 125, THAR 145A, THAR 145B, THAR 220A, and THAR 220B, and THAR 320A
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 420C - Chekhov Workshop
Unit(s): 2
Psychological realism explored through the plays of Chekhov will be the focus for this course. Scenes are explored and presented for discussion and deeper examination.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 125, THAR 145A, THAR 145B, THAR 220A, and THAR 220B or consent of Acting Programs advisors.
Typically Offered Spring Odd Years
May Be Repeated May be taken once for UD Acting Concentration credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 420D - Devised Project Workshop
Unit(s): 2
Students will create a new piece of theatre for public presentation guided by a guest artist or resident acting faculty. Material will be developed based on class cohort consensus.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 320A or THAR 420A. or Acting Program Director consent.
Typically Offered Spring Odd Years
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 421 - Design Projects
Unit(s): 1
Technical concentration students participate in the foundations, script analysis, and design projects.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 143A and THAR 143B, THAR 144A and THAR 144B, THAR 244, THAR 321A, THAR 321B, and/or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated Yes How many times? 2 Maximum units for credit
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Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 421A - Advanced Technical Block/Foundations
Unit(s): 2
Technical concentration students participate in the foundations, script analysis, and design projects.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 143 and THAR 144C, THAR 144S and THAR 144L, THAR 244, THAR 321A, THAR 321B, and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 421B - Advanced Technical Block/Foundations
Unit(s): 2
Technical concentration students participate in the foundations, script analysis, and design projects.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 143 and THAR 144C, THAR 144S and THAR 144L, THAR 244, THAR 321A and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 430 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1-3
Special topics in theatre arts selected to introduce students to recent theory, research, and practice in the discipline. Consult Schedule of Classes for topic to be studied and current unit offering.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face & Hybrid Grading: Graded
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THAR 444 - History of Ornament
Unit(s): 2
Form and function of props, furniture, and architectural structures produced by humankind through the ages. Examination of ways in which decorations, style, and uses of these objects have evolved under political, cultural, and socioeconomic influences. May include research and construction of properties for Performing Arts productions.
Prerequisite(s): THAR 143 and THAR 144C, THAR 144S and THAR 144L
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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THAR 460 - Drama for Children
Unit(s): 2
Developing skills and resources for working with children, including creative dramatics, mime, storytelling, and scripted drama. Practical experience in working with children will be gained through master teacher observation and student teaching.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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THAR 470 - Dance for Children
Unit(s): 2
Developing resources and skills for working with children in creative movement. Class includes participation in rhythmic activities and movement exploration, with observation and student teaching of children’s dance classes.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
May Be Repeated May be taken 3 times for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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THAR 480 - Coordinated Projects
Unit(s): 1-3
Involvement in on- and off-campus dance or drama projects with student directors, actors, designers, and/or technicians, and under faculty supervision.
Prerequisite(s): consent of faculty supervisor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated Yes How many times? 3 Maximum units for credit
9
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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THAR 485 - Teaching Assistant in Theatre Arts
Unit(s): 1-4
Teaching assistantship in Theatre Arts. Open only to upper-division students with knowledge of theatre with special interest in teaching and pedagogy. Intended to give students classroom experience by assisting an instructor in a Theatre Arts and Dance department course, or under the supervision of a faculty member, experience in tutoring students. Prior arrangements with faculty required.
Prerequisite(s): Class open to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students only.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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THAR 490 - Theatre Practicum
Unit(s): 1-3
The use and development of a theatre skill such as acting, dancing, design, lighting, or set or costume construction, in a commercial environment where the evaluation of the work is under professional rather than faculty supervision.
Prerequisite(s): consent of faculty advisor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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THAR 495 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Individualized studies in topics beyond the scope of the regular curriculum. Contract with an instructor, specifying course expectations, work to be completed, regular schedule of contact hours, and assessment criteria.
Prerequisite(s): consent of faculty advisor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit up to 8 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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University Courses |
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UNIV 100 - Summer Bridge
Unit(s): 1
The reading and writing component of Summer Bridge focuses on the significance of language, literacy, and written expression in developing our identities and our relationship to the various contexts in which we live. Central themes include considering the meaning of education, and identity in relationship to education. The quantitative reasoning component of Summer Bridge focuses on the role that mathematics and statistics play in understanding ourselves and the world around us. We will develop skills in data collection, visualization, and analysis, all within an interactive and collaborative classroom environment.
Typically Offered Summer Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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UNIV 100A - Reading & Writing Summer Bridge
Unit(s): 2
The reading and writing component of Summer Bridge focuses on the significance of language, literacy, and written expression in developing our identities and our relationship to the various contexts in which we live. Central themes include considering the meaning of education, and identity in relationship to education. You will practice close reading, develop comparative analysis, and craft a compelling thesis statement. Our goal is to empower and inspire you by helping you gain familiarity with college level reading and writing practices, identifying academic campus resources, and developing your voice!
Co-requisite(s): UNIV 100B
Typically Offered Summer Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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UNIV 100B - Quantitative Reasoning Summer Bridge
Unit(s): 1
University 100B: Quantitative Reasoning focuses on the role that mathematics and statistics play in understanding ourselves and the world around us. We will develop skills in estimation, conversion, data collection, visualization, modeling, and analysis, all within an interactive and collaborative classroom environment. In the process of investigating questions that students in our class generate, we hope to strengthen our comfort and confidence in reasoning mathematically.
Co-requisite(s): UNIV 100A
Typically Offered Summer Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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UNIV 102 - First Year Experience
Unit(s): 1-3
Designed to foster a supportive learning community, provide mentoring, and enhance academic/personal skills, and knowledge about campus resources to facilitate successful transition from high school to college. Other aspects covered are major/career exploration, health/social issues, and diversity.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated May be repeated once for a total of up to 3 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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UNIV 103S - Learning Strategies: Supplemental Instruction
Unit(s): 1
Discipline-specific study skills taught in the context of a designated GE course. Consent of instructor required.
Co-requisite(s): enrollment in designated GE course.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be taken three times.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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UNIV 150A - Freshman Year Experience: Identity and Global Challenges
Unit(s): 4
Designed specifically for first-year students at Sonoma State University, provides an interdisciplinary examination of social, political, scientific, and personal aspects of identity (fall semester) and our global connections and responsibilities (spring semester). Through writing, research, and creative assignments, students develop analysis, research, and communication skills vital to success in college.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to students of Freshman Year Experience student group.
GE Category: To satisfy GE Areas A3 and C3, students must take UNIV 150B the following semester. C- or better required in the second semester for A3 credit.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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UNIV 150B - Freshman Year Experience: Identity and Global Challenges
Unit(s): 4
Designed specifically for first-year students at Sonoma State University, provides an interdisciplinary examination of social, political, scientific, and personal aspects of identity (fall semester) and our global connections and responsibilities (spring semester). Through writing, research, and creative assignments, students develop analysis, research, and communication skills vital to success in college.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite of UNIV 150A required.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Areas A3 and C3 when taken immediately after UNIV 150A. C- or better required in the second semester for A3 credit.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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UNIV 200 - Fostering Academic Success
Unit(s): 1
This course builds on the lived experience and academic abilities a student has and addresses the concrete tools, information, academic skill development, and personal growth necessary for succeeding academically at Sonoma State University. Enrollment into this credit/no credit course by permission code only and cannot be repeated.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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UNIV 237 - Career-Life Planning
Unit(s): 1-2
Offers students an opportunity to clarify their interests, values, skills, and lifestyle preferences to provide a foundation for effective career planning. Students use assessment inventories, interactive exercises, and occupational research to expand their understanding of options and plan their education and career paths, and learn job search strategies. Most appropriate for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to Undeclared majors only.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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UNIV 238 - Foundations of Leadership
Unit(s): 3
This course takes students through an exploration of leadership and students’ roles and responsibilities as active citizens. It achieves this goal through an extensive examination of self, working with and understanding others, and ultimately, creating positive change in one’s community. The course provides the critical elements of analytical and intellectual thought and careful examination and reflection of core issues in the practice of leadership. These objectives will be achieved through open discussion, self-assessment, experimental exercises, and analytical observation of real-life leadership practice.
Prerequisite(s): Leadership 238 is a required course for students looking to hold student leader positions on campus (e.g. Resident Advisor, Peer Mentor, Summer Bridge Leader, Summer Orientation Leader, etc.). All SSU students are eligible to take the course regardless of campus leadership opportunities.
GE Category: E - Life Long learning & Self Development
Breadth Area: Developmental, Social/Personality Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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UNIV 239 - Peer Advising and Mentoring Seminar
Unit(s): 1-2
Seminar and practicum for students holding peer advising and mentoring positions. Students will gain training and experience providing peer-to-peer advising and mentoring in various student support areas, including academic/career advising, academic/college preparedness, campus services/resources, interpersonal communication, leadership/identity development, and student engagement. Enrollment in 1 or 2 units is dependent upon practicum hours required of student leadership position.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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UNIV 295 - Community Involvement Program
Unit(s): 1-4
CIP provides undeclared students the opportunity to explore career possibilities while providing much needed community service. Students may earn credit for volunteer service in a variety of organizational settings that may help them clarify their career goals and declare a major appropriate for them. Requirements are 30 hours of community service per unit, a minimum of 2 meetings with advisor or faculty sponsor, and a final paper. A maximum of 6 units of CIP may be used toward graduation.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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UNIV 339 - Advanced Peer Advising and Mentoring Seminar
Unit(s): 2
Advanced practicum for students holding peer advising and mentoring positions. Students will be active members in training and sharing experience providing mentoring to first-year Peer Mentors in various areas, including academic/career advising, college preparedness, campus resources, communication, leadership/identity development, and student engagement.
Prerequisite(s): Must have completed UNIV 239
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 150 - Current Conversations: Gender, Race and Sexuality
Unit(s): 3
Introduction to oral communication on the topics of gender, race, and sexuality from intersectional, feminist, queer, and critical race perspectives. Students will develop their verbal and non-verbal skills as well as their active listening and critical thinking capacities through research and oral presentations.
GE Category: A1 - Oral Communication
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 200 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Unit(s): 3
Explores social, political, and cultural dimensions of gender in society and culture. This course foregrounds intersectional feminist analyses: how gender is co-constituted with race, sexuality, nation, ability, economy, and other forms of social power. Students learn about the field of WGS, feminist analysis, interdisciplinary methods, and social justice.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area E (Life Long Learning/Self Development)
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 201 - Feminist Lecture Series
Unit(s): 1-4
A weekly lecture series featuring local activists, scholars, and community organizers sharing presentations on current issues from feminist and intersectional perspectives. Fall only. The lectures are open to the community.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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WGS 202 - Queer Studies Lecture Series
Unit(s): 3
This 3-unit hybrid course pairs presentations by queer studies scholars, artists, and activists with related scholarship, literature, documentaries, short films, and feature films as well as online discussions.
GE Category: C2 - Humanities
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 255 - Introduction to Queer Studies
Unit(s): 3
This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to the field of Queer Studies by analyzing the role of race, gender, sexuality, and nationalism in the social construction of modern gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) identities. Students also learn of queer theoretical approaches to politics, culture, and society.
GE Category: C1 - Arts
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 285 - Men and Masculinity
Unit(s): 3
This course examines construction of masculinity across axes of race, sexuality, class, nation, and ability. Utilizing a multidisciplinary perspective, this course addresses various theories of masculinity and masculinity’s impact on peoples lives in areas such as relationships, media representation, work, culture, development, and health.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area E (Life Long Learning/Self Development)
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Student Option
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WGS 300 - Gender, Race and Representation
Unit(s): 3
This course uses feminist cultural studies, arts, and media studies methods to explore how intersections of gender and race structure contemporary society. Tracing the production of difference through culture, we foreground the study of race, gender, and representation as a method through which to understand and transform the social world.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Are C1 & Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 305 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer U.S. History See for changes
Unit(s): 3
Historical development of institutions, ideals, social and cultural transformations, and economic and political processes in the U.S. since colonization with a focus on the evolution of sexual and gender diversity.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of lower division D coursework and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division D
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 311 - Special Topics in Women and Gender Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
A variable-topics seminar focusing upon intensive study of issues related to WGS in society.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated Yes
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Student Option
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WGS 325 - Youth: Gender Perspectives
Unit(s): 3-4
This course examines youth, focusing on the complex
interconnections of gender, race/ethnicity, social class, sexuality, and other factors in understanding the experiences and social conditions of youth in the U.S. The class may focus on literary, historical, and/or activist topics.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 335 - Reproductive Justice
Unit(s): 4
Interdisciplinary examination of theoretical, historical, political, and popular discourse about reproduction and sexuality. Focuses on how feminist movements, cultural representations, public policies, and laws regarding reproduction have shaped gender norms and racial knowledge. Highlights the role of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people in shaping reproductive and sexual justice.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 351 - Latino Cultural Studies
Unit(s): 4
This course focuses on the theoretical debates that have shaped the field of Chicano and Latino studies. We will explore the relationship between dominant racial formations and cultural production.
Crosslisted: CALS 350
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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WGS 360 - Race, Gender, and Performance
Unit(s): 3
This course originates in the Theater Department.
Crosslisted: THAR 375 - Race, Gender, and Performance
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 365 - Women’s History and Women’s Activism
Unit(s): 3-4
This course will take an activist-historical perspective on the history of American women. We will study historical figures, events, and movements central to the history of feminist activism for equality and social justice. The class will address the politics of writing women into history and documenting the diversity of women’s activism.
Crosslisted: HIST 345
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 370 - Gender in Asian America
Unit(s): 3-4
This interdisciplinary course examines gender, race, class, and sexuality in Asian America. We consider how Asian American women and men fit into debates about sexism and racism in the United States - historically and contemporarily. Topics include Asian American participation in women’s/civil right movements as well as popular culture representations.
Crosslisted: AMCS 370
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Student Option
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WGS 375 - Gender, Power and Freedom in U.S. History See for changes
Unit(s): 3
Centering diverse gendered lives this class examines the history of American social, political, cultural, and economic institutions. Students in this class will learn gender studies and intersectional analytic approaches to U.S. history since pre-European colonization to the present.
GE Category: Upper Division D
Ethical/Critical Race Studies
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 385 - Transnational Feminisms
Unit(s): 3-4
Through feminist analytical lenses, examines transnational movement of goods, bodies, practices, ideologies, and culture. Explores connections between lives and cultures of people in diverse places with those in the U.S. Topics may include labor, migration, cultural production, diasporic literature and art, activism, and state violence.
Prerequisite(s): Any WGS class.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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WGS 390 - Gender and Work
Unit(s): 4
This course explores intersections of gender, race, class, immigration, and nation within the U.S. labor market. We examine situations facing workers across economic sectors ranging from professionals to service sector labor. Topics may include: juggling work and family, discrimination/harassment, welfare reform, globalization, and activism/resistance to workplace challenges.
Prerequisite(s): Any WGS class or instructor consent.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 395 - Community Involvement Program
Unit(s): 1-4
The purpose of CIP is to encourage student involvement in the community. Units may be earned for work related to WGS.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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WGS 398 - Careers in Women’s and Gender Studies
Unit(s): 1
Learn about many WGS career paths, strategize about maximizing coursework, service, and internship experience to prepare for careers, and grapple with some of the gendered challenges and opportunities of the world of work. WGS majors should take alongside internship units.
Prerequisite(s): WGS 200 Co-requisite(s): WGS 200.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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WGS 399 - Student-Instructed Course
Unit(s): 1-4
An introductory or advanced course designed by a senior or graduate student and taught under the supervision of faculty sponsor(s).
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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WGS 405 - Psychology of Gender See Addendum for changes
Unit(s): 4
Explores gender through a social psychological perspective. Topics include gender socialization, the structural function of gender stereotypes, masculinity, and gender discrimination.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to WGS Majors and Minors. Crosslisted: Course originates in the Psychology Department and is cross-listed as PSY 405.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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WGS 414 - Gender and Society in Early Modern Europe
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the role of gender in early modern Europe from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Topics include religion, law, labor, social and family relations. The course also considers the impact of major historical developments such as the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, industrialization, and the rise of the modern state on gender relations.
Crosslisted: HIST 414
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 420 - Gender and Ethnicity
Unit(s): 4
A historical overview of racism and sexism as they affect women of color, focusing on issues in which racism and sexism intersect, e.g. affirmative action, abortion, sterilization, violence against women, and other issues.
Crosslisted: AMCS 420
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 425 - Feminist Research Methodology
Unit(s): 3-4
A feminist critique of traditional methods of constructing knowledge and research practices and a discussion of gender-inclusive research strategies. Students will be given instruction in library and electronic information retrieval.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to WGS Majors, WGS Minors, Queer Studies Minors, or with instructor consent.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 430 - Women and Crime
Unit(s): 4
An in-depth analysis of women/girls and crime in the field of criminology and criminal justice. The class examines the significance of gender in pathways to crime as well as the nature and extent of female offending, victimization, and incarceration. The course focuses on feminist theory and methodology.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to WGS Majors and Minors. Crosslisted: Course originates in CCJS, and is cross-listed as CCJS 430.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 440 - Sociology of Reproduction
Unit(s): 4
An exploration of sociological perspectives on human reproduction. Topics include reproduction and gender identity, the social implications of reproductive technologies, historical and contemporary perspectives on normal pregnancy and childbirth, the cultural context for breastfeeding, and the politics of reproductive rights and choices in the United States.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to WGS Majors and Minors. Crosslisted: SOCI 440
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 446 - Women in American History
Unit(s): 4
Crosslisted: HIST 446 - Women in American History
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 449 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Unit(s): 4
This course examines changing definitions, institutions, and behaviors related to gender, sexuality, and the family in Latin America from indigenous civilizations to contemporary societies. Topics include the transition from European colonies to nation-states, and the social, economic, and political changes in Latin America.
Crosslisted: Course originates in History Department and is cross-listed as HIST 449.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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WGS 450 - Woman of Color Feminisms
Unit(s): 3-4
Taking an interdisciplinary approach centering theory, writing, and literature by women of color, we examine intersections of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality and other categories of power for U.S. women of color. Key themes include: politics of representation, stigmatization, state and interpersonal violence, economic justice, reproductive justice, queerness/sexuality, and strategies of empowerment and resistance.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Student Option
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WGS 451 - Feminist Perspectives in Literature
Unit(s): 4
Feminist Perspectives is an advanced course in reading, writing, and research that will engage feminist perspectives in literature. This course is interdisciplinary in approach and is conducted in a seminar format.
Crosslisted: ENGL 451
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeatable once for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 455 - Queer & Trans Theory & Lives
Unit(s): 4
This advanced interdisciplinary course explores historical and contemporary queer and transgender theory to better engage with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture, lives, and politics. Particular focus is given to intersecting analyses of race, class, ability, nation, and other forms of social power.
Prerequisite(s): Any WGS class or instructor consent
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 474 - Foundations of Feminist Thought
Unit(s): 4
Exploration of concepts and authors in diverse feminist theory and praxis from the past three centuries. Building a base of the foundational strands and tensions, students will develop an engagement in key feminist analytical concepts, terms, and thinkers. WGS majors/minors must take either WGS 474 or WGS 475.
Prerequisite(s): WGS 200, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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WGS 475 - Contemporary Feminist Theory
Unit(s): 4
Examines contemporary trends in feminist theory, with a focus on one or more major themes. Students examine how feminist theory addresses the complex relationship between gender, the production of knowledge, implementation of theory and practice, and social change/activism. WGS majors/minors must take WGS 474 or 475.
Prerequisite(s): WGS 200, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 485 - Senior Seminar
Unit(s): 4
This course provides WGS students an opportunity for advanced study on a special topic each semester (determined by instructor). The seminar format allows students an intensive experience and heightened responsibility for course content. The course should be taken during the student’s senior year.
Prerequisite(s): Completion or concurrent enrollment of WGS 475 or WGS 474. WGS Majors and Minors only.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 492 - Syllabus Design
Unit(s): 1
Students work on an individual basis with a faculty member to develop reading materials, lecture and discussion topics, and assignments appropriate to the teaching of a specific student-taught course in women’s and gender studies. Student-taught courses must be approved by the coordinator, and students must follow established procedural guidelines for teaching in the women’s and gender studies program. Most student teachers are required to take WGS 492 before teaching, and WGS 493 while teaching.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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WGS 493 - Teaching Supervision
Unit(s): 1
Students acting as teaching assistants or student-teachers enroll in this to gain professional skills development with a faculty member.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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WGS 495 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Upper-division students may elect to do an independent research or action project under the direction of a women’s and gender studies faculty member.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit up to 8 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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WGS 499 - Internship
Unit(s): 1-4
Supervised training and experience for advanced students in community agencies concerned with gender. Student teaching of a student-taught University course is another form of internship. At present we offer credit (and not a grade) for student teaching and off-campus projects. Internships may be paid. WGS majors and minors only.
Prerequisite(s): WGS majors and minors only.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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WGS 500 - Seminar in Feminist Theory and Research in Social Sciences
Unit(s): 3
A survey of feminist critiques of social science theory and research in various disciplines (depending on student interest) – anthropology, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. A survey of feminist attempts to reformulate and transform social science theory and methods, including debates and disagreements among feminist scholars. Requirements will include an individual research project and analysis.
Prerequisite(s): At least one course in a social science and at least one course that focuses on women or gender (course may be at graduate or undergraduate level).
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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SSCI 220 - Social Justice Organizing
Unit(s): 2-3
Students will learn how local social justice issues are embedded in societal social structures of inequality, and learn theories and practices of social change from experts in the field. Students apply these theories and this knowledge to planning, organizing, and presenting SSU’s annual Social Justice Week conference. Students learn about all aspects of conference organization and proceedings. Students will participate in event production, presentation solicitation and selection, publicity, and budgeting for a specific campus research conference. They will also gain valuable website editing, layout, and publication skills.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated Yes How many times? 3 Maximum units for credit
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Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Student Option
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