Queer History and Theory ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course is an advanced exploration of Queer History and Theory. Developed in response to historical and contemporary social structures and systems that have marginalized individuals and groups based on gender and sexuality, queer histories and theories interrogate gender and sexuality in connection with other axes of power, privilege, and oppression such as race and class, in the pursuit of social justice, including the imagining of possible futures. Focusing on queer knowledge production primarily in the United States, the course is organized around social structures and systems, and concepts centered in queer thought such as the state, colonialism, racism, empire and imperialism, militarism and security, science, law and policy, religion, family and kinship, capitalism, labor, language, the body, and media. Students should have previous experience with some gender and sexuality studies course such as Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies, Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sex and Sexuality: Facts and Fictions, etc.