(2018) Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.S. 1996, Truman State University; M.A. 1998, University of Cincinnati; Ph.D. 2014, University of California, Los Angeles.

(2024) Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 2011, Emory University; Ph.D. 2019, University of Virginia.

The Gender and Women’s Studies department emphasizes interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational studies with a focus on the intersectionality of gender, race, class and sexuality. It includes coursework in feminist theories, women and social movements, transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, postcolonial feminism, women’s economic conditions in the context of globalization and development, productions of women …

The Gender and Women’s Studies department emphasizes interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational studies with a focus on the intersectionality of gender, race, class and sexuality. It includes coursework in feminist theories, women and social movements, transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, postcolonial feminism, women’s economic conditions in the context of globalization and development, productions of women …

We see our department as a force for change in California, in the nation as a whole and in the world, change which strives to achieve social justice, deepen democracy and create world peace. We do this by offering students an outstanding undergraduate education in Gender and Women’s Studies. Courses in Gender and Women’s Studies …

This ADT/STAR Act Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2023 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. All lower division GE completed. Requirements with completion of an AA-T in Global Studies as listed below. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. Transfer Year 1: First Semester Course Units GWS 100 or GWS 110 (if …

This ADT/STAR Act Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2024 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. 2025 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. All lower division GE completed. Requirements with completion of an AA-T in Global Studies as listed below. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. Transfer Year 1: First Semester Course Units …

This ADT/STAR Act Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2023 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. All lower division GE completed. Requirements with completion of an AA-T in Social Justice Studies as listed below. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. Transfer Year 1: First Semester Course Units GWS 100 or GWS 110 …

This ADT/STAR Act Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2024 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. 2025 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. All lower division GE completed. Requirements with completion of an AA-T in Social Justice Studies as listed below. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. Transfer Year 1: First Semester Course …

This 4-Year Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2021 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. 2022 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. YEAR 1: 1st Semester Course Units GWS 100 (meets GE C2 Humanities, or GE F Comparative Cultural Studies) or GWS 110 (meets GE D1 Social …

This 4-Year Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2023 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. YEAR 1: 1st Semester Course Units GWS 100 (meets GE C2 Humanities, or GE F Comparative Cultural Studies) or GWS 110 (meets GE D1 Social Sciences, or GE F Comparative Cultural …

This 4-Year Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2024 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. Refer to the Catalog Archives for General Education requirements. YEAR 1: 1st Semester Course Units GWS 100 (meets GE C2 Humanities, or GE F Comparative Cultural Studies) or GWS 110 (meets GE D1 Social Sciences, or GE F Comparative Cultural …

This 4-Year Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2025 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. YEAR 1: 1st Semester Course Units GWS 100 (meets GE Area 3B Humanities, or GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies) or GWS 110 (meets GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences, or GE CSUN Section F Comparative …

The Gender and Women’s Studies minor complements many majors, including Psychology, Sociology, English, Communication and Business Law. It also provides a background for various careers such as those in law, counseling and healthcare. The minor is beneficial for students who are pursuing advanced graduate degrees in assorted fields, which include women’s studies, education, communication, politics, …

This Transfer Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2023 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. The Transfer Degree Road Map on this page presumes the completion of lower division General Education, Title 5 (United States History and Government), and lower division core requirements for this major. See General Education Rules for more information. …

This Transfer Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s): 2024 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. 2025 Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A. The Transfer Degree Road Map on this page presumes the completion of lower division General Education, Title 5 (United States History and Government), and lower division core requirements for this major. See …

(2020) Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 2008, University of California, Irvine; M.A. 2011, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D. 2017, University of Arizona.

Interdisciplinary study of women in American society, including such topics as social conditions, laws, symbols, values, communication and power. Available for General Education, Area 3B Humanities or CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies.

Focuses on historical and contemporary relationship between home and community work and the marketplace within which women perform. Examines the differences in experience of work and family as these are shaped by race, class, gender and sexuality. Available for General Education, Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences or CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies.

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Corequisite: GWS 205CS. Students work in a variety of community settings—educational, political and/or social service agencies—to apply theoretical understanding of gender and women’s studies to practical and concrete community situations that affect women’s daily lives. Includes regular class meetings. Offers a community service opportunity with activities relating …

Recommended Preparatory: GWS 100. This course provides a multidisciplinary investigation of ways in which masculinity is constructed in the context of fatherhood, media, sports, fraternities, law, militarization, racialization, state violence and men’s movements. The course evaluates and critically analyzes how male identities are created, negotiated and explicated in theories of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race and …

Recommended Preparatory: AIS 101, GWS 100. A survey course that examines the concepts of gender and sexuality as they are politically, economically, socially and culturally constructed in American Indian communities. Special attention is given to the role settler colonialism plays in shaping these constructions. Explores the degree to which Indigenous articulations of gender and sexuality …

Preparatory: GWS 100. Women and Entertainment is a broad, introductory examination of women’s experience and interface with the entertainment arena, including but not limited to, film, music, and other popular cultural sites of knowledge production, from a uniquely feminist lens that focuses on the intersectionality of gender, race, class and sexuality. The course explores women’s roles …

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Preparatory: GWS 100 or GWS 110, or consent of instructor. New definitions and options for women within the family, community and society. Students study and report on women’s resources and organizations for change within the local community, as well as on the national and international scene. Available …

Prerequisite: GWS 100, or GWS 110 or GWS 300 or instructor consent. This required course for Gender and Women Studies majors and minors concentrates on the multitude of feminist theories, from the early feminist theories to the more contemporary and complex theories by a diversity of theorists, within the U.S. and globally.

Prerequisite: GWS 100 or GWS 110 or GWS 300 or instructor consent. In this course, students will be introduced to qualitative and quantitative research methods. The course will provide an overview of some of the critical concepts in the history of feminist research (e.g., feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint, inclusion of difference) and debates surrounding epistemology …

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Examines the gendered use of space and how women have balanced and crossed public and private spheres. Examines women and urban issues from the micro-level (community-based organizations and grassroots mobilizations) to the macro-level (national and international states and corporate entities). Available for General Education, Area 4 Social …

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Examines women’s roles and concerns in socioeconomic and political development processes. Positive and negative effects of colonization, post-colonial modernization, democratization and capitalist and socialist development strategies on women in the “Third,” “Second,” and “First” World countries are examined. Available for General Education, Area 4 Social and Behavioral …

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. Examines historical and contemporary issues surrounding the diversity of women living in the U.S. and other cultures. Gender, race, socioeconomic class and sexuality are presented as central theoretical concepts and as conditions of experience that affect all women and men, as well as being primary categories of …

Prerequisite: Completion of the lower division writing requirement. This course focuses on dimensions of violence women experience in the U.S. and internationally. It provides an overview of sexual violence, including rape in intimate partnerships, childhood sexual assault, sexual harassment, sex trafficking and violence against women under foreign occupation. Varied feminist scholarship around three broad areas …

The course employs a gender-based analysis of the global problem of sexual health and examines the cultural, social and economic variables associated with sexual and reproductive health disparities in the U.S. and abroad. The course provides a feminist approach to understanding issues pertaining to the nature of women’s and men’s social roles; women’s symbolic meaning …

Experimental Topics

Prerequisite: GWS 302. Recommended Preparatory: GWS 301. This course is a culmination (capstone) of the students’ undergraduate studies and will not necessarily introduce new topics. Instead, students reflect on and review important women’s studies theories, key principles and questions. Each student conducts a research project applying feminist methodology and writes a research paper on a …

In this course, students employ critical perspectives to examine narrow definitions of gender/sexuality constructed in media representations. Students deconstruct norms of masculinity and femininity generated by industries such as television, film and advertising that perpetuate and naturalize the commodification of women’s bodies. Special attention is paid to bodies and modes of sexuality that transgress (representations …

This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural course explores how religious authorities, and scriptural and legal sources have contributed to the status and legal rights of women and to the construction of theories, laws and practices concerning gender roles and sexuality in the Islamic tradition. Students study how these constructed gender roles, sexual norms and attitudes have reflected, …

Neoliberal globalization is as fundamental to understanding contemporary discourses of sexuality as sexuality is key to understanding global issues. The course will foreground a wide range of theoretical perspectives of feminist, queer and globalization theories that help students understand how the emergence of sexuality as an intellectual and social arena is concurrent with specific characteristics …

Recommended Preparatory Courses: GWS 100 or GWS 110. Students study the situation of women and the different types of feminisms that have emerged in Latin America in contemporary times. The course examines how feminism and the status of women in Latin America have been impacted by factors such as colonialism, imperialism, modernization, democratization, Latin American …

Intensive study of selected themes or figures in Gender and Women’s Studies. Topics change from semester to semester.

Independent Study

(2003) Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies B.A. 1977, Makerere University; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 2003, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

(1997) Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 1974, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1985, University of California, Los Angeles.

(2000) Department Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies; Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 1991, DePauw University; M.A. 1993, Pepperdine University; Ph.D. 1999, University of New Mexico.

(2001) Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 1975, University of Heidelberg; M.A. 1982, Free University of Berlin; Ph.D. 1994, Cornell University.

(1989) Dean Emeritus, College of Humanities; Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 1981, California State University, Northridge; Ph.D. 1988, University of Southern California.

(2013) Director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program; Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.A. 1995, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. 1999, University of Oregon; Ph.D. 2009, University of California, Los Angeles.

(1997) Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women’s Studies. B.S. 1974, University of Tehran; M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1983, University of Illinois.