ClassInfo - Spring 2021 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes

Spring 2021 | GWSS 1002 Section 001: Politics of Sex (48575)

Instructor(s): Sima Shakhsari
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021

Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (49 of 50 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Introductory survey of historical, cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical dimensions of analyzing gender/sexuality. Norms/deviances pertaining to gender/sexuality as differently enacted/understood by social groups in different time-/place-specific locations.
Class Notes:: Instructor TBD
Class Description:: Let's talk about sex! Why is sex important in understanding the politics of representation, history of science, history of racism, citizenship, immigration, prisons, tourism, labor, consumption, settler colonialism, colonialism, and militarism? In this course, we will discuss these issues by looking at a range of material, from film and music videos to ethnography and literature, and through interdisciplinary transnational feminist and queer approaches to sex.
Who Should Take This Class?:: Undergraduate students of all majors.
Learning Objectives:: To understand why sex is integral to politics.
Exam Format:: Two short papers and a final paper. Paper topics should be relevant to the class theme, but are chosen by students.
Class Format:: Lecture and discussion sessions.
Workload:: Light.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48575/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 5 December 2019

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