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Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (15468)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+CSCL3456W+Fall2016
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15468/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (16269)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+CSCL3456W+Fall2016
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16269/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (51194)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
GLBT 3456W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
3 credits, (meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive; meets Lib Ed req of Diversity and Soc. Justice in the U.S. (was Cultural Diversity)) Description: What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? This course examines the complex relationship between ?sexuality? and ?culture? through four prominent discourses?sexology, psychoanalysis, libidinal economy, and historicism?all of which were instrumental in both studying and organizing human sexuality from the 19th century on. The primary text for the course, Joseph Bristow's _Sexuality_, provides an introduction to each of these discourses. We will consider pressing topics such as pornography, censorship, and the impact of AIDS on sexuality (among others), through readings of a variety of cultural texts, such as movies, essays, photographs, short stories, web sites, etc. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51194/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2010

Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (51719)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? In the West, for example, pre-modern understandings of human sexuality were radically reconfigured in the 19th century, being organized around the concept of 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual'--symbiotic and mutually exclusive definitions we continue to struggle with to this day. The course examines ways that such struggles--homo/hetero, natural/unnatural, normal/deviant, bio-function/pleasure--are articulated in thought and art, among other things, in order to imagine the possibility of sexuality beyond binary oppositions. Links between sexuality and identity, criminality, and violence are also explored. Readings from critical work of Foucault, Wittig, Cixous, Butler, Sedgwick, etc.; fiction by writers like Melville, Gide, Genet, Duras, Winterson, and Hollinghurst; films by directors such as Birkin, Riggs, Resnais, Haynes, and van Sant.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51719/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 July 2008

Fall 2016  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (15791)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+CSCL3456W+Fall2016
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15791/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Fall 2016  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (16668)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue, Thu 06:20PM - 07:35PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+CSCL3456W+Fall2016
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16668/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Spring 2016  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (54251)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
GLBT 3456W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 35
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hadl0046+CSCL3456W+Spring2016
Class Description:
3 credits, (meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive; meets Lib Ed req of Diversity and Soc. Justice in the U.S. (was Cultural Diversity)) Description: What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? This course examines the complex relationship between ?sexuality? and ?culture? through four prominent discourses?sexology, psychoanalysis, libidinal economy, and historicism?all of which were instrumental in both studying and organizing human sexuality from the 19th century on. The primary text for the course, Joseph Bristow's _Sexuality_, provides an introduction to each of these discourses. We will consider pressing topics such as pornography, censorship, and the impact of AIDS on sexuality (among others), through readings of a variety of cultural texts, such as movies, essays, photographs, short stories, web sites, etc. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54251/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2010

Spring 2016  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (56998)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall B10
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hadl0046+CSCL3456W+Spring2016
Class Description:
3 credits, (meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive; meets Lib Ed req of Diversity and Soc. Justice in the U.S. (was Cultural Diversity)) Description: What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? This course examines the complex relationship between ?sexuality? and ?culture? through four prominent discourses?sexology, psychoanalysis, libidinal economy, and historicism?all of which were instrumental in both studying and organizing human sexuality from the 19th century on. The primary text for the course, Joseph Bristow's _Sexuality_, provides an introduction to each of these discourses. We will consider pressing topics such as pornography, censorship, and the impact of AIDS on sexuality (among others), through readings of a variety of cultural texts, such as movies, essays, photographs, short stories, web sites, etc. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56998/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2010

Fall 2015  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (17301)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Scott Hall 4
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+CSCL3456W+Fall2015
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17301/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Fall 2015  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (20774)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+CSCL3456W+Fall2015
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20774/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (54803)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54803/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (57956)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses of the slippery, and quite recent term "sexuality," and how this designator operates as concept and experience in all of our lives. We will read texts by Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, Asin Andrews' young adult transitioning memoir SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, excerpts from the incredible documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from bell hooks, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the films, BOYS DON'T CRY (Pierce, 1999) and Spike Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (1987). CSCL 3456W is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise a series of short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W include a willingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and conversations, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post on the first class day that will list group forums, course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57956/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 January 2015

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3456W Section 003: Sexuality and Culture (59318)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 335
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
As the title suggests, the goal in this course is to think critically about the relationship between sexuality and culture. Our readings, class discussion, and assignments will be framed by the following questions: Is sexuality a natural, innate part of each of us, an inborn quality that blossoms fully in adulthood? Or is it determined culturally, a learned behavior that results from the environment in which we mature? The class will begin by examining the relevance of these questions by focusing on diverse historical, philosophical, and sociological works on sexuality. The goal will be to move beyond the popular ?nature vs. nurture? debate by working though texts that examine and reconceptualize the tenuous opposition between biology and culture. The course materials will demonstrate how literature, film, scholarship, and institutional power function as important sites of cultural representation that regulate the understanding, experience, and masquerade of sexuality. Our readings will attempt to account for some of the complex discourses that define, produce, reproduce, and categorize culture, sexuality, gender, and desire. Moreover, we will consider how discourses on sexuality are imbricated with ideas about race, class, gender, and power. In particular, our work will focus on Western critiques from the 19th century onward, as this moment marks an important shift in thinking about sexuality. In this period conversations about an individual's biology, in addition to their desires and erotic life, were structured by the limited boundaries between homo / hetero, male / female, normal / abnormal, and mediated by historical developments in convention, science, medicine, and politics that normalized these distinctions. In this course thinkers like Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Eve Sedgwick, bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Genet, Joyce Mansour, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman will guide our inquiries. Additionally, we will be looking at film and television examples in order to interrogate the role of culture in the production and maintenance of dominant ideas about sexuality.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59318/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 March 2014

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (17945)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLBT 3456W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kenneth H Keller Hall 3-115
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W-003, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses or the slippery term "sexuality," and how this term operates in all of our lives. We will read texts by michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, excerpts from the documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from Lee Edelman, Margaret Talbot, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the film, LILJA 4-EVER. CSCL 3456W-003 is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise four short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W-003 include a wilingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and converstaions, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post by January 13th that will list course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17945/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 January 2014

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (21952)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? In the West, for example, pre-modern understandings of human sexuality were radically reconfigured in the 19th century, being organized around the concept of 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual'--symbiotic and mutually exclusive definitions we continue to struggle with to this day. The course examines ways that such struggles--homo/hetero, natural/unnatural, normal/deviant, bio-function/pleasure--are articulated in thought and art, among other things, in order to imagine the possibility of sexuality beyond binary oppositions. Links between sexuality and identity, criminality, and violence are also explored. Readings from critical work of Foucault, Wittig, Cixous, Butler, Sedgwick, etc.; fiction by writers like Melville, Gide, Genet, Duras, Winterson, and Hollinghurst; films by directors such as Birkin, Riggs, Resnais, Haynes, and van Sant.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21952/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 July 2008

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3456W Section 003: Sexuality and Culture (24806)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
3 credits, (meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive; meets Lib Ed req of Diversity and Soc. Justice in the U.S. (was Cultural Diversity)) Description: What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? This course examines the complex relationship between ?sexuality? and ?culture? through four prominent discourses?sexology, psychoanalysis, libidinal economy, and historicism?all of which were instrumental in both studying and organizing human sexuality from the 19th century on. The primary text for the course, Joseph Bristow's _Sexuality_, provides an introduction to each of these discourses. We will consider pressing topics such as pornography, censorship, and the impact of AIDS on sexuality (among others), through readings of a variety of cultural texts, such as movies, essays, photographs, short stories, web sites, etc. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24806/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2010

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (59911)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLBT 3456W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
What is ?sexuality?? Is it something natural and innate within us or is it something constructed and administered from the outside? Why do we care whether Bradley Cooper is gay, straight, or otherwise, or whether ? according to Star magazine ? free and single Kim Kardashian participated in ?a wild sex orgy?? Does sexuality reveal the mystery of our ?essential being,? or does it reveal more about the cultural-historical moment defining it? We are shocked, shocked, shocked to see 4 year-old beauty queens or, as others have derisively called them, ?prosti-tots,? gyrating like strippers on stage, yet collectively we watch over and over again ? courtesy of TLC, youtube and cable ?news? ? the most salacious (I mean most shocking) parts! How is this related to our fascination with the televised ?capture? of accused ?predators?? Finally, how do we know if our sexual desires and experiences are ?normal?, and to whom or what do we turn for answers? Dr. Phil? Cosmo? Maxim? The DSM-IV? Looking beyond questions of representational truth, this course explores the modern history of sexuality in the West, examining and theorizing the relationship between the abstract, ever-changing ways in which we have understood it, and the concrete, material ways in which we have subsequently lived it. Readings will include the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud and Jessica Benjamin, the historical accounts of Thomas Laqueur and Patricia Hill Collins, and the historical-critical analyses of Michel Foucault and Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
10% Quizzes
20% Written Homework
20% Class Participation
Class Format:
30% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
Workload:
25-50 Pages Reading Per Week
12-15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
1 Quiz(zes)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59911/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 January 2014

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (63446)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
3 credits, (meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive; meets Lib Ed req of Diversity and Soc. Justice in the U.S. (was Cultural Diversity)) Description: What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? This course examines the complex relationship between ?sexuality? and ?culture? through four prominent discourses?sexology, psychoanalysis, libidinal economy, and historicism?all of which were instrumental in both studying and organizing human sexuality from the 19th century on. The primary text for the course, Joseph Bristow's _Sexuality_, provides an introduction to each of these discourses. We will consider pressing topics such as pornography, censorship, and the impact of AIDS on sexuality (among others), through readings of a variety of cultural texts, such as movies, essays, photographs, short stories, web sites, etc. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/63446/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2010

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3456W Section 003: Sexuality and Culture (65453)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 120
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
In CSCL 3456W-003, or SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, we will study, discuss, explore, and analyze the history, politics, implications, effects, and metamorphoses or the slippery term "sexuality," and how this term operates in all of our lives. We will read texts by michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, excerpts from the documentary novel, RANDOM FAMILY: LOVE, DRUGS,TROUBLE AND COMING OF AGE IN THE BRONX, and articles from Lee Edelman, Margaret Talbot, Susan Faludi, and others.We will also view various television and film clips, and we will screen the film, LILJA 4-EVER. CSCL 3456W-003 is both an active course and a writing intensive one: to this end we will take part in group presentations throughout the term, write and revise four short essays, and enage in writing workshops and exercises. Prerequisites for 3456W-003 include a wilingness to partcipate and engage in daily class activities and converstaions, and an openness to new ideas. You will receive a group e-mail post by January 13th that will list course materials and directions to article access.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65453/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 January 2014

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (23949)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLBT 3456W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Armory Building 202
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
Looking beyond questions of representational truth, this course explores the modern history of sexuality in the West, examining and theorizing the relationship between the abstract, ever-changing ways in which we have understood it, and the concrete, material ways in which we have subsequently lived it. Readings will include the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud and Jessica Benjamin, the historical accounts of Thomas Laqueur and Patricia Hill Collins, and the historical-critical analyses of Michel Foucault and Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
10% Quizzes
20% Written Homework
20% Class Participation
Class Format:
30% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
Workload:
25-50 Pages Reading Per Week
12-15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
1 Quiz(zes)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23949/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 November 2011

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (28332)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of the Defense of Marriage Act in June 2013, a majority of justices agreed that the federal government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages violated constitutional rights to equal protection of the law. In so doing, the justices decided that the legislation discriminated against a particular "class" of persons, in this case, the queer population (broadly construed). Indeed, in our century, and in this country, "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," and "queer," among many others, are words that apply to a person's very being; hence, it has become possible to be "a gay person" and to discriminate against "gay people" and to fight for "gay rights." This has not always been the case in the West. In 1631, for instance, when the Earl of Castlehaven was tried and beheaded for repeatedly sleeping with his male servants, neither he nor anyone else thought of him as "gay" or "homosexual." The identity category did not exist, and the earl's furtive sex life simply amounted to a series of crimes: things he had done that had nothing to do with the truth of who he was. This course will explore how our sexual desires and acts came to signify something about our essential natures, and how the nineteenth-century invention of "sexuality" with its dualistic logic defined "normative" sexual roles for man and woman against complex schemes for organizing "perversion." We'll think about the distinctions we understand among "sex," "gender," and "sexuality," as we use the words today, and the historical, discursive development of these very distinctions. We'll approach these questions, among others, from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, anthropology, medicine, psychoanalysis, public health, history, and film. We'll consider representations of sex and sexuality in art by reading literature, viewing films and videos, and listening to recordings that struggle with the relationships between sexuality, ethics, and justice. Of central importance will be our analysis of the popular division between "nature" and "culture," or timeless truth and human error, as a device that organizes thought about human sexual behavior, and we'll spend a great deal of time thinking about ways to complicate and undermine this binary.
Grading:
10% Midterm Exam
10% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
20% Journal
20% Class Participation
Class Format:
35% Lecture
15% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
Workload:
100 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/28332/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 July 2013

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 003: Sexuality and Culture (32115)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 335
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
3 credits, (meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive; meets Lib Ed req of Diversity and Soc. Justice in the U.S. (was Cultural Diversity)) Description: What is sexuality? When was it invented and how have its cultural constructions and meanings varied over time and place? This course examines the complex relationship between ?sexuality? and ?culture? through four prominent discourses?sexology, psychoanalysis, libidinal economy, and historicism?all of which were instrumental in both studying and organizing human sexuality from the 19th century on. The primary text for the course, Joseph Bristow's _Sexuality_, provides an introduction to each of these discourses. We will consider pressing topics such as pornography, censorship, and the impact of AIDS on sexuality (among others), through readings of a variety of cultural texts, such as movies, essays, photographs, short stories, web sites, etc. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32115/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2010

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 001: Sexuality and Culture (55320)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLBT 3456W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
Anchored in Postcolonial, psychoanalysis, and feminist theories, this course engages the dialectics of sexuality and power and the way cultural forms as texts and images represent, express, and capture the constructions of sexuality. Concepts such as biopolitics, masculinity, femininity, gender, and sexual difference are central topics in the course's debate. Moving between political discourse, theoretical texts, and media essentialist notions, we interrogate the (in)visible cultural structures that dictate popular understanding of sexual roles and contest the amorphous conceptualization of race and sexuality. In particular, our discussion places extraordinary emphasis on the political intersection of race, sexuality, and violence. What does it mean to mark some people with excessive sexual appetite and stigmatize others as sexual predators that must be contained? When politicized, how does sexualizing/de-sexualizing facilitate the marginalization of "Others"? Can sexuality serve the purposes of domination? And how does sexual violence become an interrogation technique? We seek to answer these questions through the careful study of influential thinkers such as Bell Hooks, Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Sigmund Freud among others. Readings 50-75 pages a week Assignments: 3 essays, 1 presentation, 1 final 8 page paper Attendance is a must
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55320/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 November 2008

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 002: Sexuality and Culture (59459)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
This course will deal with a modern Western invention: sexuality. The historical premise of the course is that pre-modern understandings of human sexuality were radically reconfigured in the West during second half of the nineteenth century, being organized around the meticulous categorization of sexualities and binaries such as ?homosexual? and ?heterosexual,? ?natural? and ?unnatural,? ?legitimate? and perverse? ? symbiotic and mutually exclusive definitions we continue to struggle with to this day. The course examines how such struggles are articulated in theory (including debates regarding such issues as camp and pornography) and cultural practices (in forms ranging from literature to film/television), and it will explore how such articulations of sexuality developed amidst cultural and political conflicts during the twentieth century.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59459/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 January 2013

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 003: Sexuality and Culture (67687)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 135
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
Anchored in Postcolonial, psychoanalysis, and feminist theories, this course engages the dialectics of sexuality and power and the way cultural forms as texts and images represent, express, and capture the constructions of sexuality. Concepts such as biopolitics, masculinity, femininity, gender, and sexual difference are central topics in the course's debate. Moving between political discourse, theoretical texts, and media essentialist notions, we interrogate the (in)visible cultural structures that dictate popular understanding of sexual roles and contest the amorphous conceptualization of race and sexuality. In particular, our discussion places extraordinary emphasis on the political intersection of race, sexuality, and violence. What does it mean to mark some people with excessive sexual appetite and stigmatize others as sexual predators that must be contained? When politicized, how does sexualizing/de-sexualizing facilitate the marginalization of "Others"? Can sexuality serve the purposes of domination? And how does sexual violence become an interrogation technique? We seek to answer these questions through the careful study of influential thinkers such as Bell Hooks, Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Sigmund Freud among others. Readings 50-75 pages a week Assignments: 3 essays, 1 presentation, 1 final 8 page paper Attendance is a must
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67687/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 November 2008

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3456W Section 004: Sexuality and Culture (68606)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 120
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.
Class Description:
Looking beyond questions of representational truth, this course explores the modern history of sexuality in the West, examining and theorizing the relationship between the abstract, ever-changing ways in which we have understood it, and the concrete, material ways in which we have subsequently lived it. Readings will include the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud and Jessica Benjamin, the historical accounts of Thomas Laqueur and Patricia Hill Collins, and the historical-critical analyses of Michel Foucault and Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
10% Quizzes
20% Written Homework
20% Class Participation
Class Format:
30% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
Workload:
25-50 Pages Reading Per Week
12-15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
1 Quiz(zes)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68606/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 November 2011

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