Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. This is a reading, discussion, and viewing-intensive course that pursues an interdisciplinary feminist inquiry into identity, representation, and feminist research. The course is centrally concerned with considering how Women's Studies might best address the interests of diverse communities of women. We draw primarily on critical race, multicultural, and postcolonial feminisms to consider this question. The course is roughly divided into two parts.
Part one is designed to give students a seminar experience.
During this time period, class meets weekly to exchange ideas about readings and films. Part two focuses on the development of a final inquiry paper and oral presentations based on this inquiry. Central goals of the course include furthering each of our understandings of the questions, issues, and vocabulary, of current feminist inquiry into creating a more inclusive Women's Studies discipline. Further central course goals are to develop each participant's abilities to express themselves orally, visually, and in writing in relation to course topic, questions, and materials. Joan Scott, in reader.