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2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course Numbering System
The first digit in each course designation is intended to indicate the level of the course. In addition, the first digit also roughly indexes the student’s year of study at the University.
Courses numbered 001 to 099 are non-baccalaureate developmental courses.
Courses numbered 100 to 299 are lower-division.
Courses numbered 300 to 499 are upper-division.
Courses numbered 500 to 599 are graduate level, and may be taken by advanced upper-division, post-baccalaureate, or graduate students for undergraduate or graduate credit.
Courses numbered 600 to 699 are graduate level. These courses may be taken by undergraduate students only on an individual basis, and only with prior, case-by-case approval of the program director of the program offering the course (or his/her designee).
Courses numbered 700 to 799 are doctoral level.
Courses numbered 1000 and above not listed in this catalog because these are professional-level courses carrying University credit, which do not typically apply to credentials or degrees offered by the University. These courses are recorded on student transcripts.
Students should consult relevant sections of this catalog, as well as college and program advising staff, in order to determine which courses are appropriate for their level of study, and which courses satisfy degree requirements for various programs of study.
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
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WGSS 347 - Reproductive Rights Units: 3
Explores the history of reproductive rights for women in the United States and globally, including the emergence of family planning practices, the design and availability of contraception, access to abortion, and assistive technologies. Emphasizes intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, abilities, and geography, as context to this exploration. Course materials will focus on legal and policy developments, religious/political/cultural contexts, women’s activism, and feminist theoretical perspectives of reproductive rights and wrongs. May not be taken for credit by students who have received credit for WMST 300-13 or WMST 347.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 350 - Chicana and Latina Feminist Thought Units: 3
Introduction to the foundational writings in Chicana and Latina feminist theory with close attention to how race, class, gender, and sexuality affect Chicana and Latina lives. Includes triple oppressions theory, identity politics, mestiza consciousness, Chicana subjectivity (agency), lesbian identities, and media analysis. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 350.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 351 - Black Feminist Thought and Activism Units: 3
Explores Black Feminist consciousness and activism along with its impact, historically and theoretically. Focuses on the principles and practices associated with its evolution through struggle over time in the U.S. and the Diaspora, the relationship of Black Feminist theorizing with other feminisms, and resistance and applications for social change. Explores key scholarly debates about self and community, the “multiplicity of oppressions,” and the intersection of race with gender, class, sexuality, and nation. May not be taken for credit by students who have received credit for WMST 300-2 or WMST 351.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 370 - Transnational Feminisms Units: 3
Focuses on non-Western feminisms—their histories, practices, politics, theories, and the connections with Western feminisms that helped shape the transnational dynamics of feminist movements. Highlights relations among local, national, and regional feminisms and women’s movements; explores competing theories of gender relations and women’s rights and powers; and examines critically key debates about transnational activism, including how women differ, what interests and problems they share, the nature of agency, and the role of international institutions. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 370.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 375 - Feminist Activism Units: 3
Explores women’s international movement, giving attention to the relationship between U.S. women’s movements for social change and global feminist struggles. Interdisciplinary readings, including fiction and feminist theory, focus on women’s activism in various countries and regions of the world. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 375.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 380 - Gender and Social Movements in the United States Units: 3
Analysis of the intersections of gender and social movements in the United States. Explores the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in relation to these social movements. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 380.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 398 - Independent Study Units: 3
Directed readings and research under the guidance of an instructor. Semester project, paper, or performance required. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 398. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
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WGSS 401 - Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Units: 3
Topic announced each semester prior to registration. Explores readings in feminist theory and scholarship. Includes a cross-cultural or cross-national perspective. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units as topics change. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 401.
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WGSS 407 - The Politics of Sexualities Units: 3
Examines the social and political construction of categories of sexual and gender identities (such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, heterosexual), the resulting social coercion of behavior, and the role coercion plays in dividing and disempowering people cross-culturally. Subject matter includes the history of romantic and sexual relationships between people in relation to culture and social institutions, the development of gender and sexual identities in social contexts, related political movement, and the power of heteronormativity in society. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 407.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 416 - Sex Work Units: 3
Examines a variety of issues related to sex work, such as prostitution, trafficking in women and children, pornography, sex tourism, and erotic shows. Material will draw from communications, economic, feminist, health, socio-political, and other perspectives, with an emphasis on the global nature of the sex industry. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 416.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 424 - Women and Health Units: 3
An exploration of women and health. Analysis of women’s health maintenance and disease prevention, gender bias in medical treatment, medicalization of “natural” processes, women and the health system, medical-legal system, and bio-medical research. Subject matter may include, but is not limited to: eating disorders, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, fertility from pregnancy to birthing, stress and mental illness, menopause, breast cancer, and alternative and traditional healing systems. Issues of social class, nationality, race, culture, and sexual preference are emphasized throughout. Cross-listed: WGSS 424 and SOC 424 are cross-listed. Students may not receive credit for both. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 424. Recommended Preparation: Previous coursework in the area of health and illness.
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WGSS 445 - Gender and Development Units: 3
Gender analysis remains in the peripheries of development theory and practice despite evidence which suggests that “modernization” results in disparate outcomes for similarly situated women and men. To bridge this analytical gap in development studies, the course explores the gender dimensions of the dramatic structural changes taking place in the world economy. Cross-listed: WGSS 445, ECON 445 , and PSCI 445 are cross-listed. Students may receive credit for only one of the courses. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 445.
Satisfies GE area: DD
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WGSS 450 - Cinema and Gender Units: 3
Investigates the power of film and the film industry in representing and shaping gendered positions in a variety of cultural settings. Explores dominant and alternative practices of gendering cinematic characters and viewers. May employ particular thematic frameworks (e.g., mothers and daughters, gender and European cinema, women in the silents, or gender and documentary film). May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 450.
Satisfies GE area: CC
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WGSS 490 - Senior Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Units: 3
Examines major schools of feminist theory and feminist approaches to research on women, gender, and sexuality across an array of academic disciplines. The application of feminist perspectives and reassessments of social theory in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences may be included. Research projects may include bibliographies, archival research, ethnographic, survey, literary analysis, or other formats. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 490.
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WGSS 495A - Internship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 1
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate social justice or women’s advocacy organization, public, private, or nonprofit. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units in any combination of units from WGSS 495A-WGSS 495F. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 495A-F.
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WGSS 495B - Internship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 2
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate social justice or women’s advocacy organization, public, private, or nonprofit. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units in any combination of units from WGSS 495A-WGSS 495F. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 495A-F.
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WGSS 495C - Internship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 3
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate social justice or women’s advocacy organization, public, private, or nonprofit. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units in any combination of units from WGSS 495A -WGSS 495F. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 495A-F.
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WGSS 495D - Internship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 4
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate social justice or women’s advocacy organization, public, private, or nonprofit. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units in any combination of units from WGSS 495A-WGSS 495F. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 495A-F.
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WGSS 495E - Internship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 5
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate social justice or women’s advocacy organization, public, private, or nonprofit. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units in any combination of units from WGSS 495A-WGSS 495F. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 495A-F.
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WGSS 495F - Internship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Units: 6
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate social justice or women’s advocacy organization, public, private, or nonprofit. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units in any combination of units from WGSS 495A -F. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 495A-F.
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WGSS 499 - Independent Research in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Units: 3
In consultation with a faculty advisor, students develop an extended research project using primary and/or secondary sources. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for WMST 499. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
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Water Management |
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WTRM 401 - Survey of Water Management Fundamentals and Practice in California Units: 2
Introduction to the water management industry in California. Covers key concepts and terms of water planning and efficient use of resource development. Covers subjects such as: the California water system and its demand for energy, differences between water resource administration versus management, sources of future supply, conjunctive use of surface and ground water, program assessment, integrated watershed planning, and policy making and implementation in a fragmented governmental system with multiple stakeholders and interest groups. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for MGMT MGMT 482 -4.
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WTRM 411 - Leadership for Water Managers Units: 2
Application of fundamental leadership principles to leadership in the community of water organizations. Examines the impact of the organizational forms and roles of water organizations on leadership behavior.
Prerequisite(s): WTRM WTRM 401 or MGMT 482 -4.
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WTRM 421 - Environmental Issues, Policies, and Regulations for Water Managers Units: 3
Examines federal, state, regional, local, and special district governance with respect to environmental water issues and policies that have been enacted and implemented with emphasis on the American West. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of Department Chair.
Prerequisite(s): WTRM 401 or MGMT 482 -4.
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WTRM 423 - Finance and Professional Relations for Water Managers Units: 3
Introduction to finance management, human resource management, and administration of water agencies in California. Covers subjects such as budgeting, rates, revenues, financing, financial planning, capital projects, accounting, organizational structure and development, employment law, labor negotiations, investigation and discipline, and policy development. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of Department Chair.
Prerequisite(s): WTRM 401 or MGMT 482 -4.
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WTRM 425 - Core Concepts of Water Science, Engineering, and Technology for Water Managers Units: 2
Introduces concepts and terminology relevant to management of water supply and quality. Examines fundamental hydrologic, geohydrologic, and engineering concepts and methods associated with decisions for efficient water management.
Prerequisite(s): WTRM 401 or MGMT 482 -4.
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