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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Feminism and Social Justice by University of California, Santa Cruz

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About the Course

"Feminism and Social Justice" is an adaptation of Distinguished Professor Bettina Aptheker's long-running course at UC Santa Cruz. In the course, Professor Aptheker presents a broad definition of feminism that serves to frame three significant events in the history of feminism and social justice: the Empire Zinc strike of 1951, the 1971-1972 trial of Angela Davis, and the #metoo Movement....

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SC

Apr 11, 2021

It was a wonderful introduction on the vast studies on Feminism abd Social Justice. It made desire to learn more and to study how feminism as a movement has operated in my country in the last century.

VR

Aug 7, 2023

very interesting to hear a perspective of somebody that actually lived the history. I liked discovering more about events I heard in passing and being challenged to think even more about these topics.

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By PAX T

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Sep 22, 2021

The presentation of the course is good with great videos, audio, and information. However, after a little bit of research, most of the information offered in the course is based on the professor's opinion, not facts. I was looking for a course with historical facts. This is not it. Example: Free Angela. She stated her opinion but did not go in-depth with the findings of the case. When talking about the "Year of the women" she did not mention any accomplishments of any of the elected senators, just the fact that they were women. Starting the course, she stated that gender is a social construct but then talks about "Gender discrimination". Feminism-: the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feminism) I believe men and women should have equal rights. This course is BIAS, be aware of misandry.

By Jorge E A F

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Sep 30, 2020

Even though it's great to learn about social injustices against women, this course it's strongly biased, since professor speaks about communism and uses terms like "neocolonialism" Theses terms tend to make the statements made lose objectivity. Also, professor tends to include gender studies and theories as real basing her arguments on sentimental issues. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, but you shouldn't teach such a biased course in an academic space.

By Sheza S

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Dec 9, 2023

Although the course helped enlighten me with feminist theories and social justice, I believe the scope of the course could be further enhanced by making it more broad in terms of the experiences and examples shared. I believe including the struggles of WoC from across the globe, and not just those in the Western diaspora could enhance the breadth and depth of this course.

By Om P S

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Apr 13, 2021

I do feel the feminism must include their duties toward the society and nation to make them more civilized world for the males. There are male who worked under the females and feel harassed to the gender equal-ties. Indian women who feel more at equal in the home they are married than USA counterparts. In USA the women never feel their obligations towards their in-laws.

By Rebecca B

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Nov 11, 2022

the course could have been a lot more interesting if it hadn't had the old long winded lady talking and talking. the movie that was part of the course didn't make sense at first but did when you skimmed the transcript of her story time / lecture. she seems sweet but needs to get to the point. there should be zero lecture videos.

By Adisha M

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Jul 31, 2020

It was definitely a good course in terms of the knowledge gained but it was purely history and there was nothing analytical about the whole the module. It would have been helpful if the course incorporated more challenging views, questions and so on rather than simply being a history class.

By Team G A A A

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Jul 15, 2020

Very informative but I do find some prejudice and bias causing logical leaps that wouldn't necessarily make sense. However, very informative and useful and gave me new perspective on the relevant issues.

By Vanessa S

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Sep 29, 2020

Not very objective, terms like "neocolonialism" are mentioned and therefore tend to lead the conversation towards the left. It would have been better if it wasn't a politicized class of feminism.

By ALEJANDRA G F

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Sep 21, 2024

Creo que el curso en sí es bueno, pero los vídeos son muy largos. Recomendaría el uso de textos al interior del curso para así tener videos más cortos y sentir que las cosas son más rápidas.

By Sebastian D

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Apr 15, 2022

It may be the fact that I've been studying feminism and social justice issues for years, but the content of this couse was all information I already knew, so I felt bored.

By TUĞBA Ü

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Dec 6, 2024

a long talk about woman and man who died in some situations. so what? what is happeneing now? Black people still dies under arrest and women still being harrassed.

By Maria J G G

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Nov 10, 2020

I would like more key terms to be defined, that there was greater interconnection between topics, it was a beautiful and unconventional course, thank you

By Ritika S

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Sep 21, 2020

Whatever taught was great and insightful. However, I wish it covered the further intricacies of feminism and wasn't this cursory in detail.

By Işıl E Ö

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Dec 11, 2020

its so sad that ı can share or even have a certificate if I didn't pay even though I have all the materials and spend so many hours

By Ioanna G

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Jan 5, 2021

I have learned a lot of interesting things that I did not know, but I expected a more in depth analysis of certain aspects

By Rob C

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Dec 28, 2019

Fascinating glimpse into the issues through some good case studies, but too short and I would have welcomed more theory.

By Iván I S T

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Aug 15, 2020

No creo que las preguntas sean las adecuadas para evaluar el conocimiento sobre la tematica del curso

By Minyao X

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Jul 2, 2021

A bit off topic, but it is a nice elementary for studnets to learn about feminism (in USA history).

By Ishita C

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Oct 29, 2021

extremely US centric does nothing to understand feminism and social justice in Asian countries

By Ange A

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Apr 12, 2023

The video lectures are too long , it is difficult to follow along

By Winnie N

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Nov 27, 2024

The course case study is narrow and mostly focuses on the west.

By pushpalatha

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Feb 15, 2021

very helpful and can definitely helps to enhance our skills

By Linda N

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Jun 8, 2023

not as interesting as I thought it would be

By Sapna S

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Jul 27, 2022

focused more on racial aspects but feminism

By Tanusree R

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Aug 20, 2020

Pretty fine!