Courses
Women's and Gender Studies
ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188
Feminist film studies. Uses an intersectional lens to analyze women's roles in cinema as filmmakers and actors from its origins to the present.
Formerly WOMN 10
ADVISE: ESL 186 or placement in ESL 188 or readiness for college-level English
The course offers strategies for researching individual and community stories to enhance life and career/job choices while emphasizing female oral storytelling traditions. Documentation skills and processes such as formatting, copyediting, layout, and working with multimedia design consultants are also covered.
Formerly WOMN 20
ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188
Introduction to the origins, purpose, subject matter, and methods of Women's and Gender Studies and to feminist perspectives on a range of social issues affecting women of diverse backgrounds. Study of the formation of gender and its intersections with race, class, sexuality, dis/ability, age, religion, and other systems of difference.
Formerly WOMN 25
ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188
An interdisciplinary and intersectional study of masculinities within US culture and society. Special attention will be given to how masculinity is represented and constructed along axes of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, and ability, as well as possibilities for challenging hegemonic masculinity and building new masculinities.
ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188
An examination of the political, social, and psychological causes of sexual violence, its connections to other forms of violence, and strategies for addressing the social problem of sexual violence and transforming a rape culture, including prevention education and the healing function of writing. Field project required.
Formerly WOMN 54. Can be taken in any order with WGST 55.
Education and skills training in peer education to promote healthy relationships and reduce sexual violence, specifically intimate partner violence and acquaintance rape. Peer education activities include preparation of a facilitation plan, campus-wide visibility projects, presentations to CCSF classes and volunteer work in community-based organizations. Field project required.
Students can take WGST 55 and WGST 54 in any order. Course was formerly WOMN 55.
Instruction and practice in physical and psychological aspects of self-defense. Emphasis on developing strategies to emerge from threatening situations without sustaining serious physical or psychological trauma. The attainment of these skills can boost self-esteem, facilitating the pursuit of life and career goals.
Formerly WOMN 2501