GRSJ 350B: Joy as Resistance
This course will look at how joy can fuel social movements and activate defiance and resistance while recognizing when joy can be understood as assimilation and accommodation, and be imposed as a tool to curtail and erase dissent.
GRSJ 350A: Fandoms, Fan Cultures, and Social Justice
This course explores various fandoms in the context of fan studies and social justice as spaces for negotiating identity, escapism, a means of collaboration and community, and as a form of activism.
CSIS 301: Introduction to Trans* Studies
How race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, culture and dis/ability are materially and socially constructed together to give meaning to the category trans*. (Trans*: transgender, transsexual, gender variant and other articulations.)
CSIS 300A: Introduction to Critical Studies in Sexuality
A multidisciplinary course which provides an introduction to the study of sexuality, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and transgender issues and related topics.
GRSJ 328: Theories of Subjectivity
How feminist scholarship has shaped and reinterpreted accounts of the subject, drawing on such traditions as structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and Queer Theory.
GRSJ 327: Theories of Representation & Difference
Feminist scholarship emphasizing languages and processes of representation and the construction of difference in cultural discourses and institutions.
GRSJ 326: The Politics of Gender, Families & Nation-Building
Investigation of historical and contemporary scholarship on the diversity of families, focusing on differences of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class within and across national borders.
GRSJ 325: Anti-Colonial & Feminist Qualitative Methods
Data collection techniques, the politics of interpretation, and the formulation of a research proposal using a feminist, anti-racist framework.
GRSJ 316: Queer & Trans of Colour Theorizing
The intellectual and political interventions of queer of colour theorizing in the gender and sexual politics of racial and imperial projects, including its engagements with women of colour feminisms, settler colonial and indigenous studies, and immigration and diaspora studies.
GRSJ 315: Critical Racial Theories
Critical theories of racial and cultural difference. Initial formulations of theses against scientific racism and their later transformation by historical, social, and global-historical accounts of racial subjugation.