FEMGEN 312F: Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media (DLCL 312, ENGLISH 318)
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (undergraduates enroll in 119) Most of the time, writing a pitch for a popular outlet just means writing an email. So why be intimidated? This course will outline the procedure for pitching essays and articles to popular media: how to convince an editor, agent, or anyone else that your idea is compelling, relevant, and deliverable. We'll take a holistic approach to self-presentation that includes presenting yourself with confidence, optimizing your social media and web platform, networking effectively, writing excellent queries and pitches, avoiding the slush pile, and perhaps most importantly, persevering through the inevitable self-doubt and rejection.We will focus on distinguishing the language, topics and hooks of popular media writing from those of academic writing, learn how to target and query editors on shortform pieces (personal essays, news stories, etc.), and explore how humanists can effectively self-advocate and get paid for their work.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Goode, L. (PI)
FEMGEN 313: Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, TAPS 313)
Performance theory through topics including: affect/trauma, embodiment, empathy, theatricality/performativity, specularity/visibility, liveness/disappearance, belonging/abjection, and utopias and dystopias. Readings from Schechner, Phelan, Austin, Butler, Conquergood, Roach, Schneider, Silverman, Caruth, Fanon, Moten, Anzaldúa, Agamben, Freud, and Lacan. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Phelan, P. (PI)
FEMGEN 344F: New Directions in Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment (HISTORY 244F, HISTORY 344F)
Welcome! This is a new upper-level course in Gendered Innovations that explores how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research and design sparks discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational background, disabilities, geographic location, etc., where relevant. We will read new research touching on basic concepts, intersectional design, gendering social robots, new approaches to sustainability, what's new in biomedicine & public health, facial recognition, inclusive crash test dummies, and more. As Director of Gendered Innovations, I work with the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and major journals on policy to support integrating sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into the design of research. The operative question is: how can this type of analysis lead to discovery & innovation while enhan
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Welcome! This is a new upper-level course in Gendered Innovations that explores how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research and design sparks discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational background, disabilities, geographic location, etc., where relevant. We will read new research touching on basic concepts, intersectional design, gendering social robots, new approaches to sustainability, what's new in biomedicine & public health, facial recognition, inclusive crash test dummies, and more. As Director of Gendered Innovations, I work with the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and major journals on policy to support integrating sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into the design of research. The operative question is: how can this type of analysis lead to discovery & innovation while enhancing social equity and environmental sustainability? Students will read and report on new research in weekly sessions and present a paper on a topic of their choice. We welcome open and respectful discussion. This course is open to upper-level undergraduate students and to graduate students by application
https://forms.gle/2KmxUUnRSG2LNNSS6. Limited to 15.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Schiebinger, L. (PI)
FEMGEN 385N: Transfeminism (PHIL 385N)
This graduate seminar explores the metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology of transness, using sources from the 1970s to the present, primarily focused on the US, the UK, and Canada. Among the questions we'll investigate are: How can we theorize about gender in a way that acknowledges the breadth and diversity of embodied human experience? How should we understand trans femininity, trans masculinity, and genderqueerness? What is the relationship between a person's internal sense of their own gender, and the gendered expectations of the broader society where they live? 2 unit option only for Phil PhDs beyond the second year.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
FEMGEN 395: Graduate Independent Study
Students pursue a special subject of investigation under supervision of an affiliated faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors:
Briggs, R. (PI)
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Brody, J. (PI)
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Davies, A. (PI)
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Briggs, R. (PI)
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Brody, J. (PI)
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Davies, A. (PI)
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Fonrobert, C. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Hadlock, H. (PI)
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Hanlon, P. (PI)
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Harrison, L. (PI)
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Krieger, S. (PI)
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Menon, J. (PI)
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Moraga, C. (PI)
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Myers, K. (PI)
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Rivers, D. (PI)
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Robinson, P. (PI)
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Schiebinger, L. (PI)
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Stefanick, M. (PI)
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Wotipka, C. (PI)
FEMGEN 443C: People, Plants, and Medicine: Atlantic World Amerindian, African, and European Science (CSRE 243C, CSRE 443C, HISTORY 243C, HISTORY 343C, HISTORY 443C)
Explores the global circulation of plants, peoples, disease, medicines, technologies, and knowledge. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and focuses on their exchanges in the Caribbean, in particular within the French and British empires. We also take examples from other knowledge traditions, where relevant. Readings treat science and medicine in relation to voyaging, the natural history of plants, environmental exchange, racism, and slavery in colonial contexts. Colonial sciences and medicines were important militarily and strategically for positioning emerging nation states in global struggles for land and resources. Upper-level undergrads must apply for 243C; please fill in this short form:
https://forms.gle/XpUXwfT6ULiwC8P19 Graduate students taking the course as a one-quarter seminar should enroll in 343C. Graduate students taking the course as a two-part graduate research seminar should enroll in the 443C (Part I) in Winter and the 443D (Part II) in Spring.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Schiebinger, L. (PI)
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