2019 Featured Spring Quarter Course Offerings
GWSS 290 A: QTPOC New Media Art, (5) I&S, Dr. Kemi Adeyemi,
This course explores how contemporary artists of color who inhabit a variety of gender and sexuality expressions use new media technologies to theorize the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. We will learn how to contextualize and analyze the ways that new media practices develop and circulate, especially on online platforms like Tumblr. Using feminist and queer theories, and queer of color critique, students will learn how artists use new media practices to reflect upon (and oftentimes resist) racism, homophobia, misogyny, imperialism, and capitalism.’
GWSS 390 A: Feminist Social Reproduction Theory and Radical Politics of Care (5) I&S, Jiwoon Yulee,
The class will read major works of feminist social reproduction theorists, such as Siva Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Lisa Vogel, Nancy Fraser, and Tithi Bhattacharya, and be introduced to critical concepts, like “life’s work,” and “life-story.” The course will encourage students to develop their own critical understandings of current neoliberal conditions of life and slow death that are sustained by intersecting systems of power and the evolving material and discursive relations between the global north and south. Reviewing the major sites of reproductive struggles around the world, the course will collectively explore alternative forms of radical resistance against the neoliberal ways of life.
GWSS 445: Feminist Science Fiction Studies (5), VLPA/I&S Dr. Regina Y. Lee,
What is ecological ethics? How does science fiction theorize a racialized and gendered present? And what can speculative stories show us about our relationships with each other in ecological and social contexts? This course uses developments in both evolutionary research and feminist theory to explore narratives which trouble and transform the human, the inhumane, the scientific apparatus, and the natural world. We examine how the stories we tell articulate our social material contexts into being, in order to examine more fully the intricate interactions of gender, race, sexuality, and ability.
GWSS 490 A: Oral History Methodology (5) I&S, Priti Ramamurthy, PhD
Ordinary people tell extraordinarily important stories. We’ll learn how to listen and record their stories, transcribe, interpret and archive them. You’ll do one oral history with someone you choose. A second, with a person in the GWSS community, is for our community history project which commemorates 50 years since the Department was founded.
GWSS 490 C: Neoliberalism & the changing shape of identity (politics) (5) I&S, Dr. Kemi Adeyemi,
In the digital media age, popular culture saturates many aspects of everyday life. How has this happened between the 20th and early 21st century? What are the conditions that generate changes in the meaning of “popular culture”? In what ways do gender, race, class, and sexuality shape the objects, production, and interpretations of “the popular” at any given historical moment? How are contemporary manifestations of popular culture shaped by historically-based ideas?
Laura Marquez, Undergraduate Academic Counselor, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
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