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Feminist Studies Course Offerings

2024-2025

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What is Feminist Studies at UCSC?

Sample the department's long-running course, "Feminism and Social Justice," in this free, online adaptation taught by Distinguished Professor Bettina Aptheker.  Click here to access Coursera.

Department News

  • fmst logoNovember 25, 2024After 50 successful years, Feminist Studies faculty vote to disestablish the formal department, making way for more wide-ranging feminist scholarship across campus
  • No text descriptionNovember 24, 2024Feminist Studies Departmental Transition Statement

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Department  Calendar

May  16
RADICAL RESEARCH: 2025 FMST Undergrad Research Symposium | 10-2 @ Cowell Hay Barn
Jun  6
Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UCSC | 3pm @ Stevenson Event Center

Recent Faculty  Publications

A Call to Rasanblaj (Greek), Gina Athena UlysseAbundance, by Anjali ArondekarInvited to Witness, by Jenny KellyCommunists in Closets, Bettina Aptheker Unsettled Borders - SchaefferStories That Bind: Political Economy & Culture in New India, by Madhavi MurtyAbolition.Feminism.Now. Against Muerto Rico by Marisol LeBronSurrogate Humanity by Neda Atanasoski

For Students

Click on the links below for more information:

  • Undergraduate Advising
  • FMST Course Offerings (current year)
  • Major Requirements Worksheet (pdf)
  • Petition for Feminist Studies Credit (pdf)
  • Individual Study Form (pdf)

Why Feminist Studies?

Professor Bettina Aptheker speaks about social change and the Feminist Studies major at UCSC.

Support Feminist Studies

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  • Giving to Feminist Studies
  • Ways to Give

 

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