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.
| FMST200 | Feminist Theories | 5 |
| FMST201 | Topics in Feminist Methodologies | 5 |
| FMST202 | Disciplining Knowledge/Graduate Research | 5 |
| FMST203 | Feminist Pedagogies | 5 |
| FMST207 | Topics in Queer/Race Studies | 5 |
| FMST211 | Sexuality, Race, and Migration in the Americas | 5 |
| FMST212
/HISC 212
| Feminist Theory and the Law | 5 |
| FMST214 | Topics in Feminist Science Studies | 5 |
| FMST215 | Postcolonial and Postsocialist Transactional Analytics | 5 |
| FMST216 | Archives/Genders/Histories: An Introduction | 5 |
| FMST222 | Religion, Feminism, and Sexual Politics | 5 |
| FMST232 | Topics in Postcolonial Studies | 5 |
| FMST243
/CRES 243
| Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Knowledge | 5 |
| FMST260 | Black Feminist Reconstruction | 5 |
| FMST270 | 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:
| ANTH231 | Intimacy and Affective Labor | 5 |
| ANTH232 | Bodies, Knowledge, Practice | 5 |
| ANTH234 | Feminist Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH238 | Advanced Topics in Cultural Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH243 | Cultures of Capitalism | 5 |
| ANTH249 | Ecological Discourses | 5 |
| ANTH255 | Regulating Religion/Sex | 5 |
| ANTH260 | Anthropology of Freedom | 5 |
| FILM226 | Queer Theory and Global Film and Media | 5 |
| FILM284 | Film, Culture, and Modernity | 5 |
| HAVC245
/HISC 245/FMST 245
| Race and Representation | 5 |
| HIS204A | History of Gender Research Seminar | 5 |
| HIS205 | Diaspora and World History | 5 |
| HIS215A | Topics in American History: U.S. Labor and Working Class History | 5 |
| HIS221 | Empires and New Nations in the Americas | 5 |
| HIS227 | Gender and Colonialism | 5 |
| HIS230B | Engendering China | 5 |
| HIS230C | Readings in 20th-Century China | 5 |
| HIS231 | Historicizing the People's Republic of China | 5 |
| HIS243 | Transnational Japan | 5 |
| HIS244 | Gender and Japanese History | 5 |
| LALS210 | Latina Feminisms: Theory and Practice | 5 |
| LALS215 | Latina Cultural Studies: Culture, Power, and Coloniality | 5 |
| LALS240
/FMST 240
| Culture and Politics of Human Rights | 5 |
| LALS242 | Globalization, Transnationalism, and Gender in the Américas | 5 |
| LIT230C | Feminist Theories/Historical Perspectives | 5 |
| LIT231A | Studies in Literary and Cultural History | 5 |
| LIT250 | Theory and Methods | 5 |
| LIT251 | Topics in Cultural Studies | 5 |
| MUSC254K | Music, Gender, and Sexuality | 5 |
| POLI204 | Bodies in History | 5 |
| PSYC210 | The Experimental Method in Social Psychology | 5 |
| PSYC247 | Special Topics in Developmental Psychology | 5 |
| PSYC251
/FMST 251
| Feminist Theory and Social Psychology | 5 |
| PSYC254 | Psychology of Gender | 5 |
| PSYC256 | Psychology of Social Class and Economic Justice | 5 |
| PSYC264 | Transnational Feminism, Development, and Psychology | 5 |
| SOCY240 | Inequality and Identity | 5 |
| SOCY245 | Feminist Theory | 5 |
| SOCY249 | Feminisms and Cultural Politics | 5 |
| SOCY255 | Engaging Cultural Studies | 5 |
| SOCY264 | 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.