AMST 1401 is also offered in Fall 2024
AMST 1401 is also offered in Fall 2023
Spring 2020 | AMST 1401 Section 001: Comparative Genders and Sexualities (55650)
- 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
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Wulling Hall 240
- Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Gender/sexual practices/identities within international framework. How such practices/identities reflect/refract national ideals and express national/international division.
- Class Description:
- Sissies, Sex Workers, and Seamen: How and why do people understand their genders and sexualities differently in diverse cultural contexts and locations? How has capitalism, colonialism, immigration, migration, and globalization impacted genders and sexualities in North America, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and Africa? The course stresses studying genders and sexualities within a cross-cultural and comparative (e.g. international/regional) framework, and also emphasizes an intersectional approach: that is, in order to analyze gender and sexuality, we must also think about how race, class, ethnicity, nationality, and geography "inform" how gender and sexuality are embodied, experienced, performed, and/or regulated, and we must also consider histories of capitalism, colonialism, migration, and globalization. Participants will read an eclectic mix of theory, history, literature, and ethnography, and watch diverse international and U.S.-based films in order to better understand and analyze genders and sexualities in different geographic, cultural, and political contexts. The course aims to promote cross-cultural learning about the gender and sexual diversity that is part of the histories and cultures of people who immigrate or reside in the United States
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
20% Class Participation
40% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: final paper
- Exam Format:
- No Exam
- Class Format:
- 35% Lecture
30% Discussion
35% Other Style Films
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
20-30 Pages Writing Per Term
5 Paper(s)
Other Workload: 4 short papers (3 pages each), plus final paper 8-10 pages
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55650/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 September 2007
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