Courses on Latin America
HILA 161/261. History of Women in Latin America
A broad historical overview of Hispanic-American women's history focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, and the family as they relate to women, as well as the historiographical issues in Latin American and Chicana women's history.

POLI 134P. Organizing Women in Latin America
Survey of women's participation in formal political institutions in Latin America (public bureaucracies, political parties, trade unions, peasant organizations), the politics
of gender in recent women's movements, and the impact on women of democratization and neoliberal economic policies: revolutionary episodes; psychological theories; ideology and belief systems; coups; insurgencies; civil wars; terrorism and revolutionary outcomes.

ETHN 148. Latino/a and Chicano/a Literature
This course will study the representation of a variety of social issues (immigration, racism, class differences, violence, inter/intra-ethnic relations, etc.) in works written in Spanish by Latino/a and Chicano/a writers. May be repeated for credit as topics, texts, and historical periods vary. (Cross-listed with LTSP 154.)

LTSP 175. Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
This course will examine issues of gender, sexuality, and culture in Spanish, Latin American, and/or Chicana/o literatures. Repeatable for credit as topics, texts, and historical periods vary.

General Courses on Gender Issues

CGS 100. Conceptualizing Gender: Theories and Methods
This course will compare the uses of gender as a category of analysis across academic disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences with particular attention to research methodologies: biotechnology, biological determinism, eugenics, plagiarism and invisible work, information technologies and access, and the politics of museums.

CGS 101. Gender, Modernity, and Globalization
Considers how men and women around the globe are affected differently by modernity, modernization, and globalization. Possible topics: international consumer culture; international divisions of labor; construction of sexuality and gender in context of global movements and migrations of people, capital, culture.

CGS 103. Feminist Theory
An interdisciplinary course in feminist theory. Topics may range from a general survey of feminist theory in a variety of disciplines to a more focused interdisciplinary theoretical topic such as postmodernism and feminism. May be taken for credit three times when topics vary.

COCU 138. Feminist Theory
This class is designed to initiate students into the pleasures, pains, and perplexities of critical thinking about gender. We will survey a wide variety of thinkers and issues, consider some of the historical as well as con-temporary debates within western feminist thought, and develop tools of analysis for future work.

POLI 116A. Feminist Theory
Readings in historical and contemporary feminist theory; development of gender as a category of political analysis; alternative perspectives on core concepts and categories in feminist thought.