GENDER 202Key Theories and Concepts in Gender Studies
Gender Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Relationship of debates in field to key intellectual and social movements (such as Marxism, poststructuralism, critical race studies, queer studies, indigenous studies, and postcolonial and transnational studies) that have elicited feminist critiques and contributed to development in feminist thought. Issues include analysis of central theoretical works in field and survey of key methodologies, examination of key concepts and debates in gender studies, and identification of debates that have generated key analytics in feminist analysis and gender studies scholarship. May be repeated once for credit with instructor change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
GENDER 202
- GENDER 296Doctoral Roundtable
- GENDER 596Directed Individual Study or Research
- GENDER 598Research for MA Thesis
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.