WGS 350 - Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies

Formerly Beyond Heterosexuality: Approaches to Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course provides a broad, multidisciplinary introduction to the fields of Queer and Transgender Studies while also exploring its possibilities and limits as a field of study. After examining foundational issues, texts, and tensions, we will focus on contemporary contributions to the field from disciplines across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The course uses an intersectional analysis that simultaneously considers sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, nation, ability, and other categories of identity and power. Our analyses will be grounded in a focus on the lives, struggles, and cultural production of queer and trans communities primarily in the United States but also across the world.

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One WGS course or permission of instructor

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