205: Introduction to Queer Theory (3)
Focus is on the relationship between gender and sexualities. Prepares students for further study in gender and sexuality studies.
216: Hollywood and Beyond: Gender, Race & Sex in the Movies (3)
Prerequisite: Fooundation curriculum completed.
Explores ideologies of gender, race, sexuality and class in mainstream and independent films. Focus is on learning to critically evaluate representations of identity and their social and political significance, including hegemonic and alternative representations.
416. Queering Gender (3)
This course explores the intellectual debates in the emergent field, queer theory. It will focus particularly on the intervention queer theory seeks to make into heteronormative culture on all levels of social life, including: the personal, community, national, and transnational.
449. Feminism and International Human Rights (3)
Prerequisite: Upper division status or consent of instructor.
Reviews feminist debates on racism, colonialism, and international human rights. Will consider current international women’s rights issues and critiques of western feminist perspectives on veiling, genital surgeries, gender-based persecution, violence against women in war, sati, dowry murders, migration and trafficking.
490. Masculinities
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