All the Feels: Affect Theory and Cultural Studies
WRCT 302
Spring 2021
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01
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| Crosslisting:
ENGL 308, FGSS 314 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Queer Studies |
Butterflies in your chest. Perspiration on your upper lip. A racing heart. Every day we witness and manage sensorial experiences; quite often these negotiations illuminate the ways in which powerful norms and institutions shape our daily lives. This course explores the relationship between the seemingly individualized experience of feeling and the social world of power by introducing students to the vibrant field of affect studies. A recent "turn" in critical theory, affect theory is interested in embodiment, the senses, and sensorial experience, questioning the dominance of rationality and cognition by exploring the role emotions and feelings play in our social worlds. This course will focus predominantly on affect theory as it emerged from queer, feminist, and racialized minoritarian discourses in order to ultimately contemplate the ways theories of affect, feeling, sensation, embodiment, and emotion open up literary and cultural texts. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA WRCT |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(FGSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Will likely include Lulu Wang's The Farewell, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, Beyonce's Lemonade, and Claudia Rankine's Citizen in addition to selections from the work of Jose Munoz, Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Arlie Hochschild, David Eng, Lauren Berlant, Brian Massumi, and others.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Participation, weekly reading journal, 2 short response papers, a final project.
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Silber,Lauren Times: ..T.R.. 11:10AM-12:30PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 18 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 6 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 4 | FR: 2 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 14 | 1st Ranked: 4 | 2nd Ranked: 4 | 3rd Ranked: 3 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 2 |
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