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The goal of the Women, Culture and Development
minor is to allow students to study aspects of women's subordination and
resistance to that subordination in the Third World, and to ensure that
cultural aspects of women's lives are taken seriously when analyzing women's
position. In other words, Women, Culture and Development is located at
the intersection of three cutting edge areas within the academy: feminist
studies, cultural studies and Third World studies.
Feminist studies has suggested that both policies and analytic/critical
work are impoverished if adequate attention is not paid to women. That
is, the invisibility of women in most writings about global and international
developments has meant that the labor, cultures and histories of women
are rarely taken into account, or, when they have been taken into account,
women are most often seen as lacking agency - as merely victims in a society
of cruel and unjust inequalities. Thus, much work which focuses on the
Third World either operates with a conception of women as beings without
agency, or does not analyze the roles played by women in both the public
and private domains. In addition, such work also rarely comments upon how
women's role in the private domain impacts upon the public domain.
Cultural studies has directed attention to the importance of analyzing
cultures within their context - both locally and globally. It has also
suggested that cultures may be conceptualized not simply as habits, customs
and mores of a particular society - but, rather, that culture refers to "structures
of feeling" - that is, that culture may best be analyzed when it is
understood as the lived experience of people in a society. However, the
approaches particular to cultural studies, while drawn upon by feminist
scholars in the West, are rarely utilized to provide insights into specific
aspects of societies in the Third World.
Third World/Development studies is an area of inquiry that resists being
incorporated in a singular way into the projects of globalization. Third
World studies implies that global and international processes need to be
seen in situ, in particular for countries of the Southern Hemisphere. Thus,
if it attends to gender, Third World studies suggests that gendered divisions,
alongside their political, economic and social aspects are important in
order to analyze what actually occurs in these countries. However, it is
rare for Third World/Development Studies to integrate the examination of
culture with gender - or to view such integration as either a source of
information or as a vehicle for change.
There are two required seminars in Women, Culture and Development - GLBL
180A and 180B (cross-listed as Soc 156A and 156B) - which will be taught
at the upper division level, and minors can choose their remaining 16 upper
division units from a list of almost 100 courses based in 15 departments.
Each student who takes this minor will be assigned a faculty advisor who
will work with you to help you decide which courses could best be taken,
and when, in order to fulfill minor requirements.
UCSB scholars who have developed this minor include Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kathleen
Bruhn, Martha Davis, John Foran, Nancy Gallagher, Mary Hancock, Barbara
Harthorn, Mary Jacob, Chris McAuley, Oyeronke Oyewumi, Susan Stonich and
Mayfair Yang.
Not only is the UCSB Minor in Women, Culture and Development a new way
to approach gender, third world and cultural concerns, but, in addition,
the three areas above are all explicitly interdisciplinary approaches -
ones that span the humanities and the social sciences. The UCSB campus
has a growing reputation for being especially strong in interdisciplinary
work. It also has internationally recognised scholars in feminist and women's studies.
The UCSB campus is the perfect place for this initiative for it is known
as a campus that fosters interdisciplinary study, of which the Women, Culture
and Development minor is one example. Graduate students in sociology, history,
English and anthropology have been involved in the development of this
initiative. The WCD program holds a graduate student conference (held every
other year) on this topic, in which undergraduate students and faculty
have also participated. We also held an international conference in February
1999 with speakers such as Cynthia Enloe, Caren Grown, Dessima Williams,
Valentine Moghadam, and Ruth Gilmore. In March 2000, we held a 2-day conference
on Gender, Sexuality, and Globalization.
For more information about this program, contact:
Undergraduate Advisor
Global & International Studies
Tel: (805) 893-7860
cutler@global.ucsb.edu
Chair, Advisor
Women, Culture and Development
Sociology
Tel: (805) 893-3240
Email: bhavnani@soc.ucsb.edu
Requirements
At present, there
is no formal process to "declare" a minor, but the department
will have the requirements for the minor and will start the process.
Is there a deadline?
To receive recognition for completing a minor, you MUST notify
the sponsoring department of your intentions no later than the second week
of the term in which you declare candidacy for the bachelor's degree. The
department will prepare a clearance form for you and send the form to the
Registrar. (You must inform the department by the second week of the quarter
even if you are still completing courses toward the minor.)
You should bring an unofficial copy of your UCSB transcript (obtained through
RBT night menu) and documentation of any accepted transfer work you intend
to use for the minor. Please see additional "conditions" on the
requirements page for the desired major or minor.
If you fail to notify the department early in the term of your candidacy,
or if you do not provide needed records, you will not receive recognition
for completing the minor.
What if I want to ask for an exception to one of the requirements
for the minor?
There is no petition for seeking exceptions for the minor. Instead, you
discuss you request with the faculty advisor and/or department. If the
request is approved, it will be noted on the official clearance form prepared
by the sponsoring department.
Once you have provided the sponsoring department with your transcript and
stated your intention to complete the minor, the department will forward
a clearance form with the appropriate faculty signature to the Registrar.
The minor will appear on your diploma and transcript.
Units and Academic Residence:
To complete a minor in Women, Culture and Development, students
must take 24 units of upper-division courses.
8 of these units (2 courses) will be taught by the WCD program:
a 2 quarter upper-division introductory sequence in women, culture and development . Both core courses must be taken in sequence (that is, GLBL 180A must be taken before GLBL 180B) but that sequence need not be within the same academic year.
- Both courses are taught by Professor Bhavnani, as well as other members of the Women, Culture and Development group (in rotation, as appropriate). These two courses are cross-listed with sociology and anthropology.
The remaining 16 units (4 courses) are to be chosen from the following list of courses.
- Students will be asked to take 1 course from list # 1, consisting of courses which cover general aspects for this minor such as diasporic concerns, or which attend to overall processes such as colonization, nationalism, the environment, religion, and resistance movements.
- Students will also be required to take 3 more courses that contain courses according to area: Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. These courses are detailed in lists 2, 3, 4, and 5. As the aim of the minor is for etudents to obtain a general background in the issues and debates across the Third World, students will not be permitted to take more than two courses from any one list. By petition, students may substitute other courses, and they may also petitition to substitute up to 8 units of courses taken in an appropriate study abroad or other overseas program.
Grade Options
The P/NP grading option is not allowed for any upper division course applied
to the minor.
GPA Requirements
Students must achieve an average of at least 2.0 in all UC upper-division
minor courses.
Recognition
The minor will be posted in the memorandum column of the transcript at the
time of graduation, provided that the student has submitted all the forms
needed for verification of units and acceptance of the minor by the office
of the Registrar.
Courses
GLBL 180A - Will critically examine
the concepts of women, culture and development, and their interrelationships.Topics
to be covered include colonialism, violence, the state and globalization,
health and reproduction, religion and nationalism, the environment and
sustainable development, biotechnology, representation, and resistance
movements.
GLBL 180B - This will continue the interdisciplinary exploration
of issues raised in 180A by inviting faculty who participate in the program
to make presentations on their research as it relates to the themes of
the course, and the topics covered in 180A.
Possible Courses for the Completion of a Minor
in WCD:
List 1 - General
List 2 - Africa
List 3 - Asia
List 4 - Latin America
List 5 - Middle East
Faculty Advisory Committee
Kum- Kum
Bhavnani, Ph.D., Chair, Sociology, GISP and Women's Studies
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval,
Ph.D. Chicano Studies
Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Ph.D., Chicano Studies
Kathleen Bruhn, Ph.D., Latin
American & Iberian Studies, Political Science
Swati Chattopadhyay, Ph.D., Art History
Catherine Cole, Ph.D., Drama
Eve Darian Smith, Ph.D., Law
and Society
Adrienne Edgar, Ph.D., History
Cornelia Fales, Ph.D., Ethnomusicology
John Foran, Ph.D., Latin American & Iberian
Studies, Sociology
Nancy Gallagher, Ph.D., History, Women's Studies
Lisa Hajjar, Ph.D., Law and
Society
Mary Hancock, Ph.D., Anthropology,
Women's Studies
Barbara Herr Harthorn, Ph.D., Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research
Mary Jacob, Ph.D., Office of International
Students and Scholars
Ming Yan Lai, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center
Christopher McAuley,
Ph.D., Black Studies, Latin American & Iberian Studies
Cecilia Mendez, Ph.D., History
Stephen Miescher, Ph.D., History
Sylvester Ogbechie, Ph.D., Art History
Bhaskar Sarkar,
Ph.D., Film Studies
Susan Stonich, Ph.D., Anthropology,
Environmental Studies
Mayfair Yang, Ph.D., Anthropology,
East Asian Studies