Instructors: If you are teaching a course in fall 2023 or spring 2024 that touches on the themes of Crip Camp, let us know!
Spring 2024 Courses
AMERSTD H110: Honors Seminar: Special Topics in American Studies: Remains: The Making and Unmaking of the American Body
Sarah Gold McBride
Class#: 31259
What does it mean to have an American body, and whose bodies count as American? Since the country’s founding in the late eighteenth century, the body has been the site of both metaphorical and physical contestations over American identity. Human bodies and body parts—from skin to skulls to bellies to hair—have marked the boundaries and constitutive components of American political and cultural citizenship. Americans have both policed and regulated each other’s bodies and used their own bodies to claim or proclaim their place in the body politic; as poet Lucille Clifton wrote in 1980, “these hips / are free hips. / they don’t like to be held back. / these hips have never been enslaved, / they go where they want to go / they do what they want to do.”
In this course, we will use the body as a lens through which to examine the many ways that people in the United States have defined, imagined, and contested the contours of American identity. We will consider human bodies in both literal, physical form—and the lived experience of having a body in America—as well as artistic and symbolic representations of the body found in literature, memoir, poetry, popular media, film, photography, and scientific research. Students will read, write, and think together, drawing on both scholarly and primary texts as we explore how the idealized American body has changed over time. Our seminar will consider many different kinds of bodies: racialized bodies, gendered bodies, disabled bodies, diseased bodies, fat bodies, queer bodies, sexualized bodies, reproductive bodies, dead bodies. Students will also have the opportunity to select texts for—and lead discussions about—body stories relevant to their areas of concentration and research interests.
ART 118: Advanced Drawing: Remixing The Figure
Indira Martina Morre
Class#: 17205
This studio course investigates representations of the human body across different periods and locations to explore what it means to depict the body in the 21st Century. How do dominant signifiers and various intersections of race, gender, class, religion, sexuality, and disability influence the rendering and image reception of human bodies? The studio component of the course will work from live models as well as creating full body self-portraits that challenge the parameters of the canon and conventional expectations. We will explore drawing across all mediums through art history lectures, student-led discussions, in-class prompts, field trips, and visiting artists.
Prerequisites: ART 12 or by permission of instructor.
CHICANO 176: Chicanos and Health Care
Class#: 20398
Relationship of the health care delivery system in the U.S. to the Chicano community. To include an examination and understanding of the concept of mental health as defined by Chicanos. Analysis of program alternatives and the Chicano response to health care problems and issues.
CYPLAN 117AC: Urban & Community Health
Jason Corburn
Class#: 14865
This course will focus on the history, research methods and practices aimed at promoting community and urban health. The course will offer students frameworks for understanding and addressing inequities in community health experienced by racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The course will take a historical and comparative perspective for understanding the multiple contributors to health and disease in communities and how residents, scientists and professionals are working to improve community health.
COLWRIT R4A 002: Reading and Composition: Environmental and Health Justice
Angela Hume
Class#: 19887
In this section, you will practice reading and writing every week. You will take your essay assignments through multiple revisions. In your essays, you will analyze the formal, rhetorical, and thematic aspects of texts; develop original interpretations; and build compelling arguments. We will focus on the theme of “Environmental and Health Justice.” Environmental and health justice (EJ) draws on Indigenous knowledges, women of color feminisms, the natural and social sciences, disability and queer activism, and more. We will read texts that helped establish EJ, along with recent writings that expand and extend its principles.
COLWRIT R4A 11: Reading and Composition: Environmental and Health Justice
Angela Hume
Class#: 19887
In this section, you will practice reading and writing every week. You will take your essay assignments through multiple revisions. In your essays, you will analyze the formal, rhetorical, and thematic aspects of texts; develop original interpretations; and build compelling arguments. We will focus on the theme of “Environmental and Health Justice.” Environmental and health justice (EJ) draws on Indigenous knowledges, women of color feminisms, the natural and social sciences, disability and queer activism, and more. We will read texts that helped establish EJ, along with recent writings that expand and extend its principles.
ECON 157: Health Economics
Ryan D Edwards
Class#: 21087
An economic analysis of policies and institutions in the U.S. health care sector. Topics covered include the supply and demand for health services, conceptual and policy issues relating to the provision of health insurance, and economic analysis of efficient regulatory policies toward the health care sector.
EDUC 188F: Language, Race, and Power in Education
Patricia Baquedano Lopez
Class#: 16705
This course is designed to critically examine the intersection of language, race, and power in education. Through dialogue, readings, research, and critical analysis the course aims to foster awareness of the ways in which seemingly neutral education processes are inherently embedded in power dynamics around language use. Participants will discuss the purposes of education, the ways schooling and education are related to other societal structures, and the potential of education to productively address inequalities, especially as they impact students of historically racialized group (e.g, Latino/a, African-American, Native American, and Asian).
ESPM 149: Bodies, Difference, and the Environment
Sunaura Taylor
Class#: 15466
This course centers the body as a key analytic to understanding the more-than-human world. The sick, injured, and disabled body is a central and reoccurring theme within environmental scholarship, as is its opposite, the healthy, robust, and fit body. In this class we will explore the sociopolitical and ethical relationships between altered bodily capacity, vulnerability, dependency, and systems of violence to nature and people, while attending to the sometimes troubling ways conversations around ecological health and fitness are informed by social inequality.
ESPM C254: Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status
Class#: 30479
Focus on ethnic and cultural diversity in health behavior as a basis for public health programs. Consideration of U.S. ethnic minority groups and cultural groups in non-Western societies. Health status and behavior examined in context of relevant social and anthropological theory (social class, acculturation, political economy). Influence of socio-cultural background on concepts of health, illness, and health-seeking behavior. Implications for planning public health programs and policies.
GWS 100AC: Women in American Culture
Barbara A Barnes
Class#: 20100
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work with faculty investigating the topic women in American culture.
LDARCH 140: Social and Psychological Factors in Open Space Design
Anna Livia Brand
Class#: 14926
User-oriented approach to design. Post-occupancy evaluation as a tool for understanding use of designed open spaces. Design as a communication process. Environmental needs of vulnerable populations–children, elderly, disabled, low-income families. Personal and societal environmental values.
LINGUIS 1B 001: American Sign Language II
Sherry L Hicks
Class#: 17966
Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of American Sign Language: comprehension skills, grammatical structures, practice in the production aspects of the language, and exposure to Deaf culture.
LINGUIS 1B 002: American Sign Language II
Sherry L Hicks
Class#: 17967
Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of American Sign Language: comprehension skills, grammatical structures, practice in the production aspects of the language, and exposure to Deaf culture.
PB HLTH 116: Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
Darlene D Francis
Class#: 16903
This course offers an introduction to issues and perspectives related to health and medicine. Guest lecturers speak about the week’s topic, which can include a variety of topics such as public health, violence, chronic illnesses, environmental health, and health care economics. Speakers share their first-hand experiences in their fields, discuss current issues, debate ethical dilemmas, and pose and answer questions. During the weekly discussion sections, students delve deeper into the issues, not only exploring and perhaps questioning their own thoughts and beliefs, but also learning from the experiences and perspectives of their fellow students.
PB HLTH 126: Health Economics and Public Policy
Brent Fulton
Class#: 17012
This course focuses on a selected set of the major health policy issues and uses economics to uncover and better understand the issues. The course examines the scope for government intervention in health markets.
PB HLTH 130: Advanced Health Policy
Robin L Flagg
Class#: 16926
This class will give you the opportunity to build upon your learnings over the past 2+ years as Public Health majors. Whether your primary interest in public health is focused on environmental health, maternal health, nutritional health, mental health, healthcare or another area of focus, this class will provide you with tools to move your policy choices into and through the political realm to adoption. In this course you will become engaged health policy analysts, applying policy making tools (e.g., policy memos/briefs, legislative analysis, regulatory comments, media advocacy, public testimony) to actual health issues and problems. Through individual and group work, you will draw upon both verbal and written communication skills to learn how to effectuate health policy change.
PB HLTH 150E: Introduction to Community Health and Human Development
Jason Corburn
Class#: 16906
This course will consist of a survey of the major social, cultural, and bio-behavioral patterns of health and well-being among individuals, families, neighborhoods, and communities. The course also will address the design, implementation, and evaluation of leading social and behavioral interventions and social policies designed to improve community and population health. This course will satisfy one of the core requirements for the undergraduate major in public health.
PBHLTH C160 / ESPM C167: Environmental Health and Development
Kurt Spreyer
Class#: 16894 / 15062
The health effects of environmental alterations caused by development programs and other human activities in both developing and developed areas. Case studies will contextualize methodological information and incorporate a global perspective on environmentally mediated diseases in diverse populations. Topics include water management; population change; toxics; energy development; air pollution; climate change; chemical use, etc.
PSYCH 131: Developmental Psychopathology
Stephen P Hinshaw
Class#: 31169
This course will discuss linkages between developmental processes and child psychopathology. Included will be discussion of cognitive impairments in children, including learning disabilities and mental retardation; internalizing disorders, such as anxiety, withdrawal, and depression; externalizing disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder; and child abuse and neglect. Psychobiological, familial, legal, and societal factors will be emphasized.
SOC WEL 210C: Aging Processes
Laurent Reyes
Class#: 27424
Sociological, psychological, physiological, and cultural factors relevant to understanding the complexity of the aging process. Normative and maladaptive aspects of the aging process are examined in terms of their implications for personal and societal adaptation.
SOCIOL 113: Sociology of Education
Peter Hurtubise
Class#: 22350
The role of formal education in modern societies. Educational systems in relation to the religious, cultural, economic, and political forces shaping their character.
SOCIOL C115: Sociology of Health and Medicine
Jennifer Templeton Dunn
Class#: 22224
This course will introduce students to the sub-discipline of medical sociology through the following theoretical frameworks: social determinants of health, fundamental cause theory, medicalization, and biopower. Course readings will draw from multiple perspectives and fields, including sociology, anthropology, history, law, medicine, nursing, and public health.
We will begin the course by reading about the U.S. health care system and how our health system compares to health systems in other nations. Next, we will study the dominant theories and concepts used by medical sociologists. We will apply these frameworks to issues and problems in the contemporary social world, such as abortion, pregnancy and maternal health, HIV/AIDS, medical school training, and clinical research. We will also borrow tools and frameworks from political sociology and political economy to critically examine contemporary health policies and practices and how racism, sexism, and other forms of systemic oppression became historically embedded within the American health care system. We will conclude the semester with an introduction to the sociology of global health.
More information on the instructor can be found at www.jennifertempletondunn.com
UGIS 112: Women and Disability
Anne S Finger
Class#: 19198
This course will explore the intersection of women’s experience and disability issues, emphasizing the social and personal impact of disability and chronic illness on relationships, identity, employment, health, body image, sexuality, reproduction, motherhood, and aging. Through real stories of women’s lives which reached the media in the last decade and before, students will move toward a dynamic understanding of the impact of a range of physical, emotional, and mental disabilities in the context of current social forces and public policy. We will explore historic perspectives as well as current trends in medicine, independent living, care-giving, insurance, public benefits, law, and community activism as they affect and are affected by disabled women and girls and their families. We will discuss controversial ethical issues such as prenatal screening, wrongful birth law suits, and physician-assisted suicide. Course readings will draw on the rich literature of disabled women’s anthologies, biography and autobiograhpy, scholarly and popular literature of disability, feminist analyses, creative writing, women’s art, film, and theatre.
Fall 2023 Courses
L&S 10: The On The Same Page Course
Aileen Liu
Class#: 23251
L&S 10 is a course for new students (first-year admits or transfers) who would like to engage with the On the Same Page book or theme for their year in a more in-depth way than the average student might. They will take full advantage of the On the Same Page events and programming planned for the fall of each year, and will enjoy opportunities to discuss the book or theme with faculty and fellow students.
“I was hoping that the course would offer new perspective and food for thought—and it absolutely did! I really loved the experience of this class start to finish, from reading this awesome book, to our in-class discussions, to the thought-provoking events hosted throughout the semester. Amazing class!”
“I signed up for the course because I thought it would be a good way to meet other people at Berkeley since I am a freshman. My hope was realized, I got to meet some new people and I even recommended the class to some friends that I met at the beginning of the semester.“
“As a transfer student, I was highly interested in the book chosen, the activities assigned to the course, and the chance to engage with the local community through the course. I thought it was a perfect gateway to both UC Berkeley and Berkeley. I was right! It’s been my favorite course this semester.”
ANTHRO 189: Disability Ethnography And Design
Karen Nakamura
Class#: 30802
Various topics covering current research theory, method; issues of social and cultural concern; culture change, conflict, and adaptation. May combine more than one subdiscipline of Anthropology.
ANTHRO 115: Introduction To Medical Anthropology
Corinne P Hayden
Class#: 30737
Cultural, psychological, and biological aspects of the definitions, causes, symptoms, and treatment of illness. Comparative study of medical systems, practitioners, and patients.
ART 118: Advanced Drawing: Remixing The Figure
Indira Martina Morre
Class#: 23128
This studio course investigates representations of the human body across different periods and locations to explore what it means to depict the body in the 21st Century. How do dominant signifiers and various intersections of race, gender, class, religion, sexuality, and disability influence the rendering and image reception of human bodies? The studio component of the course will work from live models as well as creating full body self-portraits that challenge the parameters of the canon and conventional expectations. We will explore drawing across all mediums through art history lectures, student-led discussions, in-class prompts, field trips, and visiting artists.
Prerequisites: ART 12 or by permission of instructor.
COLWRIT R4A 006: Reading and Composition– Living on the Edge of Life and Death
Michelle Baptiste
Class#: 26556
ENROLLMENT IS RESTRICTED TO STUDENTS WHOSE FIRST OR PRIMARY LANGUAGE IS NOT ENGLISH. We’ll delve into a new course theme – “Living on the Edge of Life & Death” as we learn about people pushed to the brink and how they have responded across the past 100 years–from members of the Osage Nation in the 1920s facing murder to disability rights advocates in the 1970s fighting for their own civil rights legislation. You’ll view films and read books–and write about both. We’ll view UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page documentary film: Newnham & LeBrecht’s 2020 Crip Camp during the Thursday, September 14th campus-wide screening and conversation with the filmmakers from 4-7pm. Then, after reading Grann’s 2017 history-laden true crime book by the same name, we’ll go as a class to a movie theater to view the Hollywood debut of Martin Scorseses’ 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Rose Marie Cardinal, & Robert De Niro. You’ll analyze other indigenous-focused films (Frozen River, Smoke Signals, and 100 Years) and diverse written texts (Anzaldua, Gardner, Hogan, Jordan, Zinn, and more) as you work toward creating and publishing your own multimodal capstone project.
COLWRIT R4A 008: Reading and Composition – Living on the Edge of Life and Death
Michelle Baptiste
Class#: 26558
We’ll delve into a new course theme – “Living on the Edge of Life & Death” as we learn about people pushed to the brink and how they have responded across the past 100 years–from members of the Osage Nation in the 1920s facing murder to disability rights advocates in the 1970s fighting for their own civil rights legislation. You’ll view films and read books–and write about both. We’ll view UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page documentary film: Newnham & LeBrecht’s 2020 Crip Camp during the Thursday, September 14th campus-wide screening and conversation with the filmmakers from 4-7pm. Then, after reading Grann’s 2017 history-laden true crime book by the same name, we’ll go as a class to a movie theater to view the Hollywood debut of Martin Scorseses’ 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Rose Marie Cardinal, & Robert De Niro. You’ll analyze other indigenous-focused films (Frozen River, Smoke Signals, and 100 Years) and diverse written texts (Anzaldua, Gardner, Hogan, Jordan, Zinn, and more) as you work toward creating and publishing your own multimodal capstone project.
XENGLIS R1A 009: Reading and Composition – Voices from the Margins
Cathleen Small
Class#: 30380
FPF Thread: Social Justice. In this course, we’ll explore the importance of hearing from voices that have historically been silenced. For years, we have read about marginalized groups through the voices of authors who do not share the background they’re writing about. While analyzing works from authors who themselves are part of the community they write about, we’ll explore themes of racism, ableism, poverty, mental health, and gender and sexual identity.
XENGLIS R1A 010: Reading and Composition – Voices from the Margins
Cathleen Small
Class#: 30381
FPF Thread: Social Justice. In this course, we’ll explore the importance of hearing from voices that have historically been silenced. For years, we have read about marginalized groups through the voices of authors who do not share the background they’re writing about. While analyzing works from authors who themselves are part of the community they write about, we’ll explore themes of racism, ableism, poverty, mental health, and gender and sexual identity.
EDUC 39D: Neurodiversity: Scholarship, Politics And Culture
Laura Sterponi
Class#: 32211
This seminar examines the emerging concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence—terms originally developed by autistic activists and self-advocates seeking to depathologize autism and other forms of neurological, mental, and cognitive difference. Lectures and readings will incorporate perspectives from a wide range of research programs, including neuroscience, disability studies, anthropology, rhetoric, and critical theory. Weekly dialogues with guest speakers will add liveliness to ideas and offer directions for advocacy and activism.
ENGLISH 100: Memoir And Memory
Elizabeth Abel
Class#: 25332
How do memoir and memory construct one another? What distinguishes a genre that bleeds easily into autobiography on one side and fiction on the other? What strategies enable a first-person account to enlist the curiosity of strangers? Why and how do formal experiments disrupt a linear narrative sequence? These are some of the questions we will ask as we investigate both the evolution of a genre that begins with Saint Augustine and its diversification through the multiplying cultural filters of the present.
Our readings will range across a spectrum of subgenres: the confessional memoir, the prison memoir, the queer memoir, the disability memoir, the immigrant memoir, the trauma memoir, and the graphic memoir. Our syllabus will include texts by St. Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Primo Levi, Eldridge Cleaver, Lucy Grealy, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, and Ruth Kluger. There will also be a course reader of essays about the neurophysiology of memory and the history and craft of a genre that has become pre-eminent in our times. Written assignments will include several critical essays and a first-hand exploration of the challenges of memoir writing through a brief creative undertaking.
ENGLISH 174: Literature And History: The Seventies
Scott Andrew Saul
Class#: 26003
As one writer quipped, it was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. “The Seventies” routinely come in for mockery as an era of bad taste — an era when enormous sideburns, leisure suits, extra-wide bell bottoms, pet rocks, and “diet” mackerel pudding made sense to all too many Americans. Even at the time, the 1970s were known as the decade when “it seemed like nothing happened.”
Yet we can see now that the ’70s was a time of great cultural renaissance and political ferment. It gave us the New Hollywood of Scorcese, Coppola and others; the “New Journalism” of Michael Herr, Joan Didion, and others; the music of funk, disco, punk and New Wave; the postmodern comedy of Saturday Night Live and the postmodern drama of Off-Off-Broadway; and a great range of literary fiction written by women authors from Ursula LeGuin and Margaret Atwood to Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Rather than simply being a transitional period between the “liberal” 1960s and “conservative” 1980s, the ’70s were in fact a period of intense political realignment, with the United States roiled by the oil crisis, the fall of Nixon and the fall of Saigon; by the advent of women’s liberation, gay liberation, and environmentalism as mass grassroots movements; and by the rise of the Sunbelt and the dawning of the conservative revolution. One might even say that the ’70s were the most interesting decade of the post-WWII era — the period when the freedom dreams of the ‘60s were most intensely fulfilled even as a resurgent conservative movement challenged their underlying vision.
Lastly, the ’70s may be the decade closest to our own contemporary moment. We will consider how the roots of our current predicament lie in the earlier decade — with its backlash against movements for racial justice and gender equality, its gun culture, its corruption of the political process, its suspicion of the state, its transition to a postindustrial economy, its widening inequality, its fetish for self-fulfillment, and its fascination with the appeal of instant celebrity. We will, in turn, reflect on how Americans in the ’70s struggled with many of the dilemmas that we face now.
GWS 129: Bodies And Boundaries
Barbara A Barnes
Class#: 23770
Examines gender and embodiment in interdisciplinary transnational perspective. The human body as both a source of pleasure and as a site of coercion, which expresses individuality and reflects social worlds. Looks at bodies as gendered, raced, disabled/able-bodied, young or old, rich or poor, fat or thin, commodity or inalienable. Considers masculinity, women’s bodies, sexuality, sports, clothing, bodies constrained, in leisure, at work, in nation-building, at war, and as feminist theory.
GWS 130AC: Gender, Race, Nation, And Health
Brooke Lober
Class#: 30982
Examines the role of gender in health care status, in definitions and experiences of health, and in practices of medicine. Feminist perspectives on health care disparities, the medicalization of society, and transnational processes relating to health. Gender will be considered in dynamic interaction with race, ethnicity, sexuality, immigration status, religion, nation, age, and disability, and in both urban and rural settings.
LEGALST 137: Comparative Equality Law
Lindsay Elizabeth Harris
Class#: 25359
Comparative Equality Law uses a problem-based approach to examine how the law protects equality rights in different jurisdictions. The course will comparatively examine US, European, and other national, regional and international legal systems (including those of India, Brazil, Colombia, Canada and South Africa) and provide a global overview of legal protection from and legal responses to inequalities. The course covers 5 topic modules: Theories and sources of equality law; Employment discrimination law (race, sex, age, disability, LGBTQ+); Secularism, human rights and the legal rights of religious minorities; Sexual harassment/Violence; Affirmative action (race, caste, origin), and gender parity.
LEGALST 159: Law & Sexuality
Sonia Katyal
Class#: 25989
This course focuses on the legal regulation of sexuality, and the social and historical norms and frameworks that affect its intersection with sex, gender, race, disability, and class. We will critically examine how the law shapes sexuality and how sexuality shapes the law. Our subject matter is mostly constitutional, covering sexuality’s intersection with privacy, freedom of expression, gender identity and expression, equal protection, reproduction, kinship, and family formation, among other subjects. We will study case law, legal articles, and other texts (including visual works) that critically engage issues of sexuality, citizenship, nationhood, religion, and the public and private spheres domestically and internationally.
LINGUIS 1A: American Sign Language I
Sherry L Hicks
Class#: 21892
Introduction of the fundamentals of American Sign Language: comprehension skills, grammatical structures, practice in the production aspects of the language, and exposure to Deaf culture.
PSYCH 22: Neurons in Context
Linda Wilbrecht
This course will introduce students to the basics of neurobiology while exploring how experience of adversity, enrichment, and other variables can shape brain development and behavior. We will survey the basic biology of neurons, mechanisms underlying experience dependent plasticity, hormones, and responses to different forms of stress and adversity. Students will spend time discussing how their knowledge of neurobiology can be integrated with their knowledge of history, sociology, and philosophy and how we can design new strategies to support the development of youth.
PSYCH 131: Developmental Psychopathology
Qing Zhou
Class#: 26077
This course will discuss linkages between developmental processes and child psychopathology. Included will be discussion of cognitive impairments in children, including learning disabilities and mental retardation; internalizing disorders, such as anxiety, withdrawal, and depression; externalizing disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder; and child abuse and neglect. Psychobiological, familial, legal, and societal factors will be emphasized.
SOCIOL C115: Sociology Of Health And Medicine
Marina Caitlin M Daniel
Class#: 30765
This course provides an introduction to core topics in the sociology of health and illness, with an emphasis on the social and cultural structuring of health, illness, and health care. Specific topics include: 1) the social determinants of health and health disparities; 2) the social construction and production of health; 3) the medical profession; 4) the political economy of health; and 5) activism and alternatives.
SOCIOL 169C 002: Cross-Cultural Communications
Marina Romani
Class#: 19010
This course is designed to interrogate different aspects of cross-cultural communication and cultural differences: family life, social relationships, the workplace, government, education, gender, romance, and religion. Throughout exploring these topics, we will strive to engage in personal self-reflection, hands-on experience, and to understand the connections to larger social structures. The cornerstone of the course is being involved in a cultural subgroup that you are not familiar with in or around the East Bay (e.g. student group, church, volunteer organization, internship, etc.). You will be expected to join this co-culture regularly (weekly or biweekly) throughout the semester and write a final paper on the experience.
SOCIOL 190 002: Reproductive Health, Politics, And Inequalities
Instructor TBA
Class#: 16943
This course grounds the biological process of human reproduction in social processes and institutions. We will examine social scientific research on a wide range of reproductive topics, including contraception, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, pregnancy, and birth. We will discuss how the politics of reproduction are shaped by the intersecting inequalities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, disability, and nationality. This course includes readings about reproduction around the globe with particular attention to the current US context.
THEATER R1A 003: Performance: Writing and Research: Acts of Solidarity
Chelsea M Gregory
Class#: 30664
In this course we will examine acts of solidarity through performance, and we will watch and analyze performances of solidarity that have taken place in formal theater spaces as well as in public spaces such as the streets, in front of prisons and other oppressive institutions, in war zones, in work places, in TV and film, and on social media. We will also consider our own personal and social identities as they relate to the conversations we are having, and discuss performances of solidarity that we have seen or experienced firsthand. Through dialogue and writing we will explore the efficacy of these performances, as well as the distinction between “performative” activism and active solidarity. As we explore these ideas together, the course will also support you in developing the reading and writing skills necessary to succeed in this course and beyond. These skills will help you develop your critical thinking, which will be of benefit in both your life and academic work. To develop these skills we will engage in discussion of readings and performances, develop written responses to these materials, original written work, and offer guided peer feedback. You will strengthen all of the steps of your writing process from formulating a topic and finding sources to outlining, drafting, and revising a paper.
UGIS 110: Introduction To Disability Studies
Emily Nusbaum
Class#: 23027
This course focuses on the social and personal meaning of disability and chronic illness. We will explore definitions and conceptual models for the study of disability, the history of disabled people, bio-ethical perspectives, the depiction of disability in literature and the arts, public attitudes, and legal and social policies. The course will investigate the interaction of disability with social factors such as gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and class. The course is for students with and without disabilities, and may be of special interest to students preparing for careers in the health professions, education, law, architecture, social work, or gerontology.