Junior Colloquium: Critical Queer Studies
AMST 201
Fall 2011 not offered
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| Certificates: Social, Cultural and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Disability Studies |
This junior colloquium will give students a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies and help students imagine the uses to which theory can be applied, such as research, activism, or conceptualizing community. While we will continually return to queer studies, an essential interdisciplinarity within the field of American studies, we will also explore the centrality of queer theory to other interdisciplinary fields that center the body, such as feminist studies, gender studies, critical race studies, transgender studies, fat studies, and disability studies. Finally, we will demonstrate the ways in which queer theory can be usefully brought to other disciplines that benefit from a theoretical approach, primarily history, literature, and anthropology.
Students should expect to end the semester confident of their ability to read queer theory, critique it, and put it to use in an intellectual or artistic project of their own devising.
This course is excellent preparation for a queer studies concentration in American studies. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Students who are not in the American Studies major who wish to take this course are invited to do so, but cannot enroll until the first week of the semester. Please put in an enrollment request if you cannot enroll and I will notify you at the end of pre-registration about whether I can admit you in the spring.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(CSCT)(FGSS) |
Major Readings:
Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black
Lee Edelman, No Future
Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires
Kathryn Stockton, The Queer Child
Andrew Tucker, Queer Visibilities
David Valentine, Imagining Transgender
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Examinations and Assignments:
Four critical essays; one class presentation. |
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