FG114
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Introduction to Queer Studies
Course Subject Code
FG
Course Number
114
Course Long Title
Introduction to Queer Studies
Status
Active
Division
Non-Divisional
Department
Unit(s)
0.5
Unit(s) Max
1
Schedule Type
Block Seminar, Extended Format
Instruction Mode
Traditional, Traditional
Grade Modes
Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit
Course Attributes
CPS, EPUS
Course Description
What are LGBT/Queer Studies? What does it mean to identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? Who gets to create knowledge about LGBTQ people? This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying these questions by wrestling with the changing nature of LGBT and Queer as categories across time and space/location. Studies a critical consciousness on LGBTQ issues that recognizes the ways gender and sexuality are complicated by intersectional experiences of race, class, and nationality. Interrogates gender, sex, the “body,” erotic pleasure, sexuality, and sexual orientation as social constructions embedded in power structures, analyzing the impact of myriad intellectual and activist approaches to social policy, popular culture, law and governance, science, and public discourse.