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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

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