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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Corequisite: Internship Seminar (SCA-UA 42). Requires 10 hours of fieldwork.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to interest and challenge both the student new to the study of gender and sexuality and the student who has taken departmental courses focusing on women, gender, and/or sexuality. Through a focus on particular issues and topics, explores the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality; gender asymmetry in society; sexual normativity and violations of norms; and the interactions of sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation. This interdisciplinary course engages materials and methodologies from a range of media and disciplines, such as literature, the visual arts, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Examines both feminist and nonfeminist arguments from a variety of critical perspectives.
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2.00 Credits
The internship program complements and enhances the formal course work of the gender and sexuality major. Students intern at agencies dealing with a range of issues pertaining to gender and sexuality and take a corequisite seminar that enables them to focus the work experience in meaningful academic terms. The goals of the internship are threefold: (1) to allow students to apply the theory they have gained through course work, (2) to provide students with analytical tools, and (3) to assist students in exploring professional career paths. Open to juniors and seniors. Interview and permission of the director of internships required.
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4.00 Credits
The Latinized City, New York and Beyond SCA-UA 540 Prerequisite: Approaches to LatinoStudies (SCA-UA 501), or any introductory course in the social sciences, or a MAP course in Cultures and Contexts. 4 points.
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4.00 Credits
Allows students to explore theoretical issues in gender and sexuality studies on an advanced level. Theoretical arenas vary and may include feminist theory; queer theory; psychoanalysis; postcolonial theory; border theory; social movements; postmodernism; performativity; theories of history, culture, and representation; intersectionality. See course schedule for current description.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced-level course. An interdisciplinary and comparative inquiry into the historical and contemporary linkages between gender dynamics, the culture of nationalism, and the politics of colonialism on an international scale. Studies different perspectives on the national question- as a liberation movement, as a political ideology, and as a mechanism for inclusion/exclusion.
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4.00 Credits
Develops notions of queerness-deviation from a sexed and gendered norm-through detailed exploration of literary texts in a variety of genres. Historical period and national focus (British, American, Commonwealth) may vary; consult the schedule of classes for current focus.
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4.00 Credits
If pushed to choose a single term to describe this historical moment, many might choose "globalization" to describe the contemporary world. Everything seems to be "going global"-media, markets, movements. Have sex and gender "gone global" as well? This course approaches this question by identifying key concepts and frameworks in the field of feminist geography. Specific issues include transnational queer communities, international reproductive politics, sex tourism, and cybersex.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates transgender identities, movements, and communities as they have arisen in particular historical, political, social, and cultural conditions. At the heart of this course is a series of questions about transgender's origins, enabling functions, exclusions, problems, and possibilities.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces undergraduate students to the central concepts of "sexual rights," which have emerged recently from both community action and multidisciplinary academic perspectives. Through an exploration of academic, legal, and activist Major/Minor in Gender and Sexuality studies perspectives, students are encouraged to formulate analyses of a variety of themes, such as women's sexual rights, migration and sexuality, heterosexuality, HIV and public health, gay/lesbian/bisexual/ transgender rights, sex work, and pornography and the "sex wars."
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