The student must have a designated graduate adviser from the feminist studies core faculty who serves on the qualifying examination committee or in some other appropriate capacity.
The student must take four graduate courses in feminist studies, two of which must be taught directly in the department. Two courses can be selected from among the graduate offerings of any UC Santa Cruz department, as long as they are taught by core or affiliated feminist studies faculty.
| FMST 200 | Feminist Theories | 5 |
| FMST 201 | Topics in Feminist Methodologies | 5 |
| FMST 202 | Disciplining Knowledge/Graduate Research | 5 |
| FMST 203 | Feminist Pedagogies | 5 |
| FMST 207 | Topics in Queer/Race Studies | 5 |
| FMST 211 | Sexuality, Race, and Migration in the Americas | 5 |
| FMST 212
/HISC 212
| Feminist Theory and the Law | 5 |
| FMST 214 | Topics in Feminist Science Studies | 5 |
| FMST 215 | Postcolonial and Postsocialist Transactional Analytics | 5 |
| FMST 216 | Archives/Genders/Histories: An Introduction | 5 |
| FMST 218
/CRES 218
| Militarism and Tourism | 5 |
| FMST 222 | Religion, Feminism, and Sexual Politics | 5 |
| FMST 232 | Topics in Postcolonial Studies | 5 |
| FMST 243
/CRES 243
| Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge | 5 |
| FMST 260 | Black Feminist Reconstruction | 5 |
| FMST 270 | Anthropology at Its Interfaces with Feminist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial STS | 5 |
Courses in other departments that satisfy the DE requirement when taught by affiliated faculty include:
| ANTH 231 | Intimacy and Affective Labor | 5 |
| ANTH 232 | Bodies, Knowledge, Practice | 5 |
| ANTH 234 | Feminist Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH 238 | Advanced Topics in Cultural Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH 243 | Cultures of Capitalism | 5 |
| ANTH 249 | Ecological Discourses | 5 |
| ANTH 255 | Regulating Religion/Sex | 5 |
| ANTH 260 | Anthropology of Freedom | 5 |
| FILM 226 | Queer Theory and Global Film and Media | 5 |
| FILM 284 | Film, Culture, and Modernity | 5 |
| HAVC 245
/HISC 245/FMST 245
| Race and Representation | 5 |
| HIS 204A | History of Gender Research Seminar | 5 |
| HIS 205 | Diaspora and World History | 5 |
| HIS 215A | Topics in American History: U.S. Labor and Working Class History | 5 |
| HIS 221 | Empires and New Nations in the Americas | 5 |
| HIS 227 | Gender and Colonialism | 5 |
| HIS 230B | Engendering China | 5 |
| HIS 230C | Readings in 20th-Century China | 5 |
| HIS 231 | Historicizing the People's Republic of China | 5 |
| HIS 243 | Transnational Japan | 5 |
| HIS 244 | Gender and Japanese History | 5 |
| LALS 210 | Latina Feminisms: Theory and Practice | 5 |
| LALS 215 | Latina Cultural Studies: Culture, Power, and Coloniality | 5 |
| LALS 240
/FMST 240
| Culture and Politics of Human Rights | 5 |
| LALS 242 | Globalization, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Americas | 5 |
| LIT 230C | Feminist Theories/Historical Perspectives | 5 |
| LIT 231A | Studies in Literary and Cultural History | 5 |
| LIT 250 | Theory and Methods | 5 |
| LIT 251 | Topics in Cultural Studies | 5 |
| MUSC 254K | Music, Gender, and Sexuality | 5 |
| POLI 204 | Bodies in History | 5 |
| PSYC 210 | The Experimental Method in Social Psychology | 5 |
| PSYC 247 | Special Topics in Developmental Psychology | 5 |
| PSYC 251
/FMST 251
| Feminist Theory and Social Psychology | 5 |
| PSYC 254 | Psychology of Gender | 5 |
| PSYC 256 | Psychology of Social Class and Economic Justice | 5 |
| PSYC 264 | Transnational Feminism, Development, and Psychology | 5 |
| SOCY 240 | Inequality and Identity | 5 |
| SOCY 245 | Feminist Theory | 5 |
| SOCY 249 | Feminisms and Cultural Politics | 5 |
| SOCY 255 | Engaging Cultural Studies | 5 |
| SOCY 264 | Science, Technology, and Medicine | 5 |
The student must prepare a significant piece of writing in the area of feminist studies. This writing may be a master’s essay, qualifying examination essay, or a chapter of the doctoral dissertation.