| WGSS 100-01 |
Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to central concepts, questions and debates in gender and sexuality studies from US, Women of Color, queer and transnational perspectives. Throughout the semester we will explore the construction and maintenance of norms governing sex, gender, and sexuality, with an emphasis on how opportunity and inequality operate through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability and nationality. After an introduction to some of the main concepts guiding scholarship in the field of feminist studies (the centrality of difference; social and political constructions of gender and sex; representation; privilege and power; intersectionality; globalization; transnationalism), we will consider how power inequalities attached to interlocking categories of difference shape key feminist areas of inquiry, including questions of: work, resource allocation, sexuality, queerness, reproduction, marriage, gendered violence, militarization, consumerism, resistance and community sustainability.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| WGSS 101-01 |
Imagining Futures: Gender, Power, and Justice in Utopian/Dystopian Worlds
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-01. Advancing social justice requires critical analyses of systemic power relations, which involves grappling with questions of power, privilege, and oppression. The speculative worlds of utopian and dystopian fiction provide a unique space to explore the complex problems facing humanity, examine oppressive power dynamics, and envision creative and liberatory solutions. Utopian and dystopian worlds challenge their audiences to both identify with and critique the structural injustices within their fictional worlds, understand how power functions, and imagine possibilities for sociopolitical transformation. Utopian and dystopian texts offer a valuable tool for testing ideological boundaries and shifting collective imagination, creating space for audiences to fundamentally reconsider our interconnections with one another and the futures we hope to inhabit/fear we will inhabit. In this course, we will delve into popular culture texts showcasing utopian and dystopian narratives across speculative fiction, science fiction, and futurism. Through a combination of film and media assignments, reading assignments, and active class discussions, we will explore what utopia and dystopia genre texts reveal about historical and contemporary efforts to understand gender, race, class, sexuality, justice, nature, politics, and possibilities for our collective future. Students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and complete weekly informal writing assignments, midterm, and a final project exploring a utopian/dystopian text of their choice.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| WGSS 101-02 |
LGBTQ Literature in the US
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 101-02. This course will explore how sex and gender intersect with other forms of difference- including race and class-in literature by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) authors, and authors who present LGBTQ characters and themes in their texts. Students will consider the impact of sexuality and gender on literature and experience. Our readings will include a rage of literary genres, such as essay, poetry, novel, drama, and film and we will focus on the interpretation of texts particularly through the lens of queer theory. Authors may include, among others: Gloria Anzalda, Tony Kushner, Adrienne Rich, Leslie Feinberg, Dorothy Allison, and Audre Lorde.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| WGSS 101-04 |
Disorderly Women
Instructor: Amy Farrell, AMST STAFF
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-01.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 101-05 |
Southern Women Writers
Instructor: Carol Ann Johnston
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 101-06.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 314 |
| WGSS 200-01 |
Feminist Practices, Writing and Research
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Building upon the key concepts and modes of inquire introduced in the WGSS Introductory course, WGSS 200 deepens students understanding of how feminist perspectives on power, experience, and inequality uniquely shape how scholars approach research questions, writing practices, methods and knowledge production. Approaches may include feminist approaches to memoir, oral histories, grassroots and online activism, blogging, visual culture, ethnography, archival research, space, art, literary analysis, and policy studies.Prerequisite: 100 or 208, which can be taken concurrently.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 303 |
| WGSS 201-01 |
Arab Feminism: Then and Now, Image and Reality, Secular and Religious
Instructor: Magda Siekert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 200-01. This course will trace Arab feminism from its early years in Egypt and Tunisia to the present day. We will look at the work of the early pioneers fighting for equal rights for women while actively supporting nationalist, anticolonial movements in the region. We will then explore the gains that women made post-independence and the limits placed on their freedoms as voiced in their writing, filmmaking, and activism. Next, we will look at Islamic feminism in its many manifestations, its pursuit of a feminist re-interpretation of the Qu'ran, and role in shaping the dialogue on women's rights. We will focus on diverse voices from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. Throughout, we will hear women's voices directly in memoires, historical accounts, literature (poetry and short stories), essays, documentaries, and interviews.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 103 |
| WGSS 202-01 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-02. From children tossing a ball in the backyard, to middle-aged weekend warriors on tennis and basketball courts, to athletes in their prime on quests for Olympic gold, sports affect our understandings of our bodies, relationships, and larger social groups. Gender, Sport, and American Society involves the applications of the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - to the field of sport cultures. Class readings and discussions will consider how sports institutions and cultures operate as interlocking systems of power shaping the shifting significance of bodies, differences, opportunity, and marginalization in the US, particularly along the lines of gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality. No WGSS or AMST experience necessary.
|
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| WGSS 202-02 |
Gender, Politics, and Policy in the U.S.
Instructor: Katie Marchetti
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 233-01. Overview of gender and politics in the United States. Examines the roles women play in the U.S. policy process, how public policies are "gendered", and how specific policies compare to feminist thinking about related issue areas. The course also discusses gender-based differences in political participation inside and outside of government.
|
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 103 |
| WGSS 300-01 |
Feminist Perspectives and Theories
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
This course deepens students understandings of how feminist perspectives situate power and privilege in relationship to interlocking categories of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability and nation. Through foundational theoretical texts, it expands students understandings of significant theoretical frameworks that inform womens, gender, critical race and sexuality studies, as well as debates and tensions within them. Frameworks may include political activisms, materialist feminism, standpoint epistemologies, critiques of scientific objectivity, intersectionality, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, transnational critique and feminist legal theory. Helps students develop more nuanced understandings of the relationship between everyday experiences, political institutions, forms of resistance and theoretical meaning-making. Prerequisite: WGSS 100 or 208.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| WGSS 301-01 |
Sex and the City of Light: Early 20th-Century Women in Paris
Instructor: Adeline Soldin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FREN 364-01. This course in comparative literature and visual culture investigates the city of Paris as a site of sexual and artistic exploration, liberation, and confrontation for women of the early 20th-Century. Students will study a variety of literature, visual art, performance art, and haute couture created and produced by women from diverse backgrounds who came to Paris in search of free self-expression. Most of these writers, journalists, artists, dancers, and designers knew each other; many collaborated professionally and mingled socially; and some became involved romantically. We will discuss the implications of their professional, social, and intimate relationships and consider to what extent these networks may have fostered artistic creation as well as political activism. To facilitate these investigations, students will read feminist and queer theory to deepen and strengthen our analyses.
|
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| WGSS 301-02 |
James Baldwin: Reflections of a Radical
Instructor: Nadia Alahmed
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 320-01. This is an interdisciplinary seminar that seeks to explore the different sides of James Baldwin: a writer, an intellectual, a cosmopolitan, a radical, and an activist. The seminar will focus on James Baldwin's essays, in addition to his major novels and works of fiction. We will watch the recent, highly acclaimed film based on his writings, "I am not your Negro" as well as his speeches and debates with prolific figures like Malcolm X. Finally, we will explore Baldwin's invaluable contributions to the discourses on Queer Studies, critical race theory, class, philosophy, and above all, his visions of Black liberation and the meaning of freedom.
|
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
ALTHSE 201 |
| WGSS 301-03 |
Toni Morrison
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 320-02. This course is part one of a yearlong exploration of the imaginative and critical works of Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. During the semester, we will trace Morrison's development as a novelist from 1970-2000, paying particular attention to the ways in which she crafts her novels and employs them to provide provocative commentaries on Black identity and culture. In our analyses of these works, we will use such critical approaches as psychoanalytic theory, Black feminism, and new historicism.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| WGSS 301-04 |
Culture War Dramas: Identity Politics, Crossdressing, and Transgression in Early Modernity
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01 and SPAN 380-02. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| WGSS 301-05 |
Cuír/Queer Brazil
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 285-01 and PORT 380-01. Course taught in English. Stereotyped as the country of carnival and licentiousness, Brazil combines a complex history of traditional, oppressive, and progressive values and laws. Same-sex marriage was approved in 2013, sex-correction surgeries are supported by the universal health care system, and So Paulo hosts the largest LGBTQIA+ parade in the world. Still, Brazil has the highest recorded number of murders of trans* people in the world. The goal of this course is to analyze the complexities of the literary, historical, and cinematographic production in Brazil of cur authors and topics. The course examines how self-representations and representations have created, challenged, promoted, and affected the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same time, the course foregrounds the importance of how Brazilians have thought about their own curness.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
KAUF 179 |
| WGSS 302-01 |
Foucault
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-01, LAWP 290-02, PHIL 261-02 and SOCI 313-01. Michel Foucault was perhaps the most influential social thinker of the late 20th century. His arguments about the panopticon, historical epistemes, the medical gaze, governmentality, sexuality, and power now permeate the social sciences and humanities. He once wrote, "Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." These words will inform our semester of reading and discussing a variety of his primary works, including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, v.1, as well as some of his lectures and interviews. While our primary focus in this WID course will be Foucault's work itself, we will read a small selection of secondary literature that explicates and critiques some of his arguments.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| WGSS 302-02 |
Gender Identity & International Human Rights Law
Instructor: Mireille Rebeiz
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LAWP 290-03. This course examines the intersection of gender identity, gender violence, and international human rights laws. It explores the definitions of gender identities and their protections (or lack of) in main international human rights texts. Through the lens of gender and legal feminist theories, this course examines various human rights such as the right to equality and non-discrimination based on sex, the right to privacy and family life, the right to peace and clean environment. It studies cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, and enforced disappearance of persons. This course offers a transnational legal perspective and gives examples from different legal traditions (common law and civil law) and different countries.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 208 |
| Courses Offered in AFST |
| AFST 320-01 |
James Baldwin: Reflections of a Radical
Instructor: Nadia Alahmed
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-02. This is an interdisciplinary seminar that seeks to explore the different sides of James Baldwin: a writer, an intellectual, a cosmopolitan, a radical, and an activist. The seminar will focus on James Baldwin's essays, in addition to his major novels and works of fiction. We will watch the recent, highly acclaimed film based on his writings, "I am not your Negro" as well as his speeches and debates with prolific figures like Malcolm X. Finally, we will explore Baldwin's invaluable contributions to the discourses on Queer Studies, critical race theory, class, philosophy, and above all, his visions of Black liberation and the meaning of freedom.
|
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
ALTHSE 201 |
| AFST 320-02 |
Toni Morrison
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-03. This course is part one of a yearlong exploration of the imaginative and critical works of Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. During the semester, we will trace Morrison's development as a novelist from 1970-2000, paying particular attention to the ways in which she crafts her novels and employs them to provide provocative commentaries on Black identity and culture. In our analyses of these works, we will use such critical approaches as psychoanalytic theory, Black feminism, and new historicism.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 101-01 |
Disorderly Women
Instructor: Anna Neumann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-04.
|
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| AMST 101-02 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01. From children tossing a ball in the backyard, to middle-aged weekend warriors on tennis and basketball courts, to athletes in their prime on quests for Olympic gold, sports affect our understandings of our bodies, relationships, and larger social groups. Gender, Sport, and American Society involves the applications of the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - to the field of sport cultures. Class readings and discussions will consider how sports institutions and cultures operate as interlocking systems of power shaping the shifting significance of bodies, differences, opportunity, and marginalization in the US, particularly along the lines of gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality. No WGSS or AMST experience necessary.
|
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| Courses Offered in EDST |
| EDST 391-01 |
Foucault
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LAWP 290-02, PHIL 261-02, SOCI 313-02, and WGSS 302-01. Michel Foucault was perhaps the most influential social thinker of the late 20th century. His arguments about the panopticon, historical epistemes, the medical gaze, governmentality, sexuality, and power now permeate the social sciences and humanities. He once wrote, "Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." These words will inform our semester of reading and discussing a variety of his primary works, including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, v.1, as well as some of his lectures and interviews. While our primary focus in this WID course will be Foucault's work itself, we will read a small selection of secondary literature that explicates and critiques some of his arguments.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| Courses Offered in ENGL |
| ENGL 101-02 |
LGBTQ Literature in the US
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-02. This course will explore how sex and gender intersect with other forms of difference- including race and class-in literature by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) authors, and authors who present LGBTQ characters and themes in their texts. Students will consider the impact of sexuality and gender on literature and experience. Our readings will include a rage of literary genres, such as essay, poetry, novel, drama, and film and we will focus on the interpretation of texts particularly through the lens of queer theory. Authors may include, among others: Gloria Anzalda, Tony Kushner, Adrienne Rich, Leslie Feinberg, Dorothy Allison, and Audre Lorde.
|
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| ENGL 101-06 |
Southern Women Writers
Instructor: Carol Ann Johnston
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-05.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 314 |
| Courses Offered in FMST |
| FMST 220-01 |
Imagining Futures: Gender, Power, and Justice in Utopian/Dystopian Worlds
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-01. Advancing social justice requires critical analyses of systemic power relations, which involves grappling with questions of power, privilege, and oppression. The speculative worlds of utopian and dystopian fiction provide a unique space to explore the complex problems facing humanity, examine oppressive power dynamics, and envision creative and liberatory solutions. Utopian and dystopian worlds challenge their audiences to both identify with and critique the structural injustices within their fictional worlds, understand how power functions, and imagine possibilities for sociopolitical transformation. Utopian and dystopian texts offer a valuable tool for testing ideological boundaries and shifting collective imagination, creating space for audiences to fundamentally reconsider our interconnections with one another and the futures we hope to inhabit/fear we will inhabit. In this course, we will delve into popular culture texts showcasing utopian and dystopian narratives across speculative fiction, science fiction, and futurism. Through a combination of film and media assignments, reading assignments, and active class discussions, we will explore what utopia and dystopia genre texts reveal about historical and contemporary efforts to understand gender, race, class, sexuality, justice, nature, politics, and possibilities for our collective future. Students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and complete weekly informal writing assignments, midterm, and a final project exploring a utopian/dystopian text of their choice.
|
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| Courses Offered in FREN |
| FREN 364-01 |
Sex and the City of Light: Early 20th-Century Women in Paris
Instructor: Adeline Soldin
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-01. This course in comparative literature and visual culture investigates the city of Paris as a site of sexual and artistic exploration, liberation, and confrontation for women of the early 20th-Century. Students will study a variety of literature, visual art, performance art, and haute couture created and produced by women from diverse backgrounds who came to Paris in search of free self-expression. Most of these writers, journalists, artists, dancers, and designers knew each other; many collaborated professionally and mingled socially; and some became involved romantically. We will discuss the implications of their professional, social, and intimate relationships and consider to what extent these networks may have fostered artistic creation as well as political activism. To facilitate these investigations, students will read feminist and queer theory to deepen and strengthen our analyses.
|
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in LALC |
| LALC 285-01 |
Cuír/Queer Brazil
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PORT 380-01 and WGSS 301-05. Course taught in English. Stereotyped as the country of carnival and licentiousness, Brazil combines a complex history of traditional, oppressive, and progressive values and laws. Same-sex marriage was approved in 2013, sex-correction surgeries are supported by the universal health care system, and So Paulo hosts the largest LGBTQIA+ parade in the world. Still, Brazil has the highest recorded number of murders of trans* people in the world. The goal of this course is to analyze the complexities of the literary, historical, and cinematographic production in Brazil of cur authors and topics. The course examines how self-representations and representations have created, challenged, promoted, and affected the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same time, the course foregrounds the importance of how Brazilians have thought about their own curness.
|
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
KAUF 179 |
| LALC 300-01 |
Culture War Dramas: Identity Politics, Crossdressing, and Transgression in Early Modernity
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in LAWP |
| LAWP 290-02 |
Foucault
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-01, PHIL 261-02, SOCI 313-02, and WGSS 302-01. Michel Foucault was perhaps the most influential social thinker of the late 20th century. His arguments about the panopticon, historical epistemes, the medical gaze, governmentality, sexuality, and power now permeate the social sciences and humanities. He once wrote, "Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." These words will inform our semester of reading and discussing a variety of his primary works, including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, v.1, as well as some of his lectures and interviews. While our primary focus in this WID course will be Foucault's work itself, we will read a small selection of secondary literature that explicates and critiques some of his arguments.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| LAWP 290-03 |
Gender Identity & International Human Rights Law
Instructor: Mireille Rebeiz
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 302-02. This course examines the intersection of gender identity, gender violence, and international human rights laws. It explores the definitions of gender identities and their protections (or lack of) in main international human rights texts. Through the lens of gender and legal feminist theories, this course examines various human rights such as the right to equality and non-discrimination based on sex, the right to privacy and family life, the right to peace and clean environment. It studies cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, and enforced disappearance of persons. This course offers a transnational legal perspective and gives examples from different legal traditions (common law and civil law) and different countries.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 208 |
| Courses Offered in MEST |
| MEST 200-01 |
Arab Feminism: Then and Now, Image and Reality, Secular and Religious
Instructor: Magda Siekert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-01. This course will trace Arab feminism from its early years in Egypt and Tunisia to the present day. We will look at the work of the early pioneers fighting for equal rights for women while actively supporting nationalist, anticolonial movements in the region. We will then explore the gains that women made post-independence and the limits placed on their freedoms as voiced in their writing, filmmaking, and activism. Next, we will look at Islamic feminism in its many manifestations, its pursuit of a feminist re-interpretation of the Qu'ran, and role in shaping the dialogue on women's rights. We will focus on diverse voices from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. Throughout, we will hear women's voices directly in memoires, historical accounts, literature (poetry and short stories), essays, documentaries, and interviews.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 103 |
| Courses Offered in PHIL |
| PHIL 261-02 |
Foucault
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-01, LAWP 290-02, SOCI 313-02, and WGSS 302-01. Michel Foucault was perhaps the most influential social thinker of the late 20th century. His arguments about the panopticon, historical epistemes, the medical gaze, governmentality, sexuality, and power now permeate the social sciences and humanities. He once wrote, "Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." These words will inform our semester of reading and discussing a variety of his primary works, including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, v.1, as well as some of his lectures and interviews. While our primary focus in this WID course will be Foucault's work itself, we will read a small selection of secondary literature that explicates and critiques some of his arguments.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| Courses Offered in PORT |
| PORT 380-01 |
Cuír/Queer Brazil
Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 285-01 and WGSS 301-05. Course taught in English. Stereotyped as the country of carnival and licentiousness, Brazil combines a complex history of traditional, oppressive, and progressive values and laws. Same-sex marriage was approved in 2013, sex-correction surgeries are supported by the universal health care system, and So Paulo hosts the largest LGBTQIA+ parade in the world. Still, Brazil has the highest recorded number of murders of trans* people in the world. The goal of this course is to analyze the complexities of the literary, historical, and cinematographic production in Brazil of cur authors and topics. The course examines how self-representations and representations have created, challenged, promoted, and affected the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same time, the course foregrounds the importance of how Brazilians have thought about their own curness.
|
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
KAUF 179 |
| Courses Offered in POSC |
| POSC 233-01 |
Gender, Politics, and Policy in the U.S.
Instructor: Katie Marchetti
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01. Overview of gender and politics in the United States. Examines the roles women play in the U.S. policy process, how public policies are "gendered", and how specific policies compare to feminist thinking about related issue areas. The course also discusses gender-based differences in political participation inside and outside of government.This course is cross-listed as WGSS 202. Prerequisite: 120 or AP credit equivalent.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 103 |
| Courses Offered in SOCI |
| SOCI 313-02 |
Foucault
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-01, LAWP 290-02, PHIL 261-02, and WGSS 302-01. Michel Foucault was perhaps the most influential social thinker of the late 20th century. His arguments about the panopticon, historical epistemes, the medical gaze, governmentality, sexuality, and power now permeate the social sciences and humanities. He once wrote, "Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." These words will inform our semester of reading and discussing a variety of his primary works, including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, v.1, as well as some of his lectures and interviews. While our primary focus in this WID course will be Foucault's work itself, we will read a small selection of secondary literature that explicates and critiques some of his arguments.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 380-02 |
Culture War Dramas: Identity Politics, Crossdressing, and Transgression in Early Modernity
Instructor: Amaury Leopoldo Sosa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01 and WGSS 301-04. Why did identity-bending representations feature so prominently on the pages and stages of early modern Spain? How did readers and audiences receive, relate, and respond to these transformations? What were the aesthetic, social, ethical, political, and legal consequences of the practice and discourse of transvestism? In this dramatic literature course, we closely engage and compare subjects who adopt, imitate, fashion a different gender, race, religion, class, nationality. Moreover, we read and analyze these embodiments alongside moral, conduct, and theatrical treatises, audio/visual representations and adaptations, secondary scholarly sources, and post/critical theories. Through academic, creative, and personal dialogues, activities, and assignments, we examine key concepts, questions, and debates related to individual and collective identity formation and social categorization: self-fashioning, performativity, material culture, passing, stereotyping, assimilation, code-switching, and dis/identification. *This course is taught in English with the option for Foreign Language Integration (FLIC)*
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |