GENDER 104Bodies
Gender Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of scholarly theories and histories of body, with focus on topics such as sex identities, sexuality, gendered violence, and reproductive politics. How has science, medicine, and culture sought to distinguish male from female in different historical periods and locations? How have meanings of terms sex and gender varied across time and place? How has gendered body been represented in different visual cultures? How have embodied identities been produced in different historical and geographic contexts? What is relationship between embodiment and desire?
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 10.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
GENDER 104
- GENDER 10Introduction to Gender Studies
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
GENDER 104
- GENDER 120SLFeminist Praxis: Community-Based Learning
- GENDER 187Senior Research Seminar: Gender Studies
- GENDER 198AHonors Research in Gender Studies
- GENDER 198BHonors Research in Gender Studies
- GENDER 198CHonors Research in Gender Studies
- GENDER 195Community or Corporate Internships in Gender Studies
- GENDER 197Individual Studies in Gender Studies
- GENDER 199Directed Research in Gender Studies
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 8 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.