printer friendly pageHUMBIO 129: Critical Issues in International Women's Health (FEMST 129)
Women's lives, from childhood through adolescence, reproductive years, and aging. Economic, social, and human rights factors, and the importance of women's capacities to have good health and manage their lives in the face of societal pressures and obstacles. Emphasis is on life or death issues of women's health that depend on their capacity to negotiate or feel empowered, including maternal mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and sex trafficking. Organizations addressing these issues. A requirement of this class is participation in public blogs. Prerequisites: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Murray, A. (PI)
HUMBIO 143: Adolescent Sexuality
Developmental perspective. Issues related to scientific, historical, and cultural perceptions; social influences on sexual development; sexual risk; and the limitations and future directions of research. Sexual identity and behavior, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, pregnancy, abortion, gay and lesbian youth, sex education and condom availability in schools, mass media, exploitative sexual activity, and difficulties and limitations in studying adolescent sexuality. Legal and policy issues, gender differences, and international and historical trends. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Medoff, L. (PI)
HUMBIO 144: Boys' Psychosocial Development
From early childhood through adolescence. Emphasis is on how boys' lives and experiences are embedded within their interpersonal relationships and social and cultural contexts. Interdisciplinary approach including perspectives from fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, family studies, and education. Prerequisite: Human Biology core, or Developmental Psychology , or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Chu, J. (PI)
HUMBIO 177C: Culture, Narrative, and Medicine (ANTHRO 178A)
This course examines the ways in which medicine is practiced in diverse cultural contexts with narrative skills of recognizing, interpreting and being moved by the stories of illness. It is an examination of the human experience of illness and healing through narratives as presented in literature, film, and storytelling. We explore how cultural resources enable and empower healing and how narrative medicine can guide the practice of culturally competent medical care.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-CE, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI)
ICA 250: Bollywood and Beyond: An Introduction to Indian Film (COMPLIT 247, FILMSTUD 250B)
A broad engagement with Indian cinema: its relationship with Indian politics, history, and economics; its key thematic concerns and forms; and its adaptation of and response to global cinematic themes, genres, and audiences. Locating the films within key critical and theoretical debates and scholarship on Indian and world cinemas. Goal is to open up what is often seen as a dauntingly complex region, especially for those who are interested in but unfamiliar with its histories and cultural forms.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Mediratta, S. (PI)
ILAC 136: Modern Iberian Literatures
Survey on modern Iberian literatures (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese) through major canonical authors. Community building, tolerance, the ethics of memory, the value of human purpose as a tool for survival are some of the issues explores in key works by Eca de Queiros, Miguel de Unamuno, García Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Machado, Mercé Rodoreda, Maria Angels Anglada, Ramón Sainzarbitoria and Manuel Rivas. SPANLANG 13 or equivalent,
SPANLANG 102 Recommended
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Resina, J. (PI)
ILAC 161: Modern Latin American Literature
From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of thennation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include: Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Darío, Martí, Agustini, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, Guillon, Rulfo, Ramos, García Marquez, Lispector, and Bolaño. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
ILAC 210: Queer Almodovar (FEMST 210)
Focus on the representation of non-normative sexualities and genders in films by Pedro Almodóvar, one of the most recognizable auteur directors in Europe today. Analysis of his hybrid and eclectic visual style complemented by critical and theoretical readings in queer studies. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
ILAC 278A: Senior Seminar: Latin American Fiction and Theory
20th Century Latin American novels, short stories, and Literary theories. Authors may include: J-L Borges, J.J.Saer, Machado de Assis, Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, Lispector. Literary criticism by Gonzales Echevarria, Antonio Candido, H.Campos, M. Lienhard. Readings and class discussions in Spanish. Assignments in Spanish, English or Portuguese.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI)
ILAC 280: Latin@ Literature (CHILATST 200, CSRE 200, ILAC 382)
Examines a diverse set of narratives by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Dominican heritage through the lens of latinidad. All share the historical experience of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism, yet their im/migration patterns differ, affecting social, cultural, and political trajectories in the US and relationships to "home" and "homeland," nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs genders as well as sexualities. Emphasis on textual analysis. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
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