Session

Fall 2024

 Term

Y

Format

ONLN (Fully Online)

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This course is designed to take a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of power and difference. It specifically focuses on the social and historical construction of race, gender and sexuality, and how these categories inform each other in complex ways. The readings draw on a range of theoretical perspectives and applications in the fields of critical race studies, critiques of settler colonialism, anti-racist feminist studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, (post)colonial studies, transnational and diaspora studies, disability studies, trans* studies, film studies, and cultural studies.Prerequisites: AP/GWST 1501 9.00, AP/GWST 1502 6.00, or AP/SXST 1600 9.00.

Course Start Up

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