Queering Digital Humanities

3-0-9 units. HASS-H · Undergraduate

Explores emerging tools and techniques for knowledge production, artistic expression, and building community through the lens of Women's and Gender Studies. Considers how marginalized populations have created, resisted, and utilized technologies to challenge systems of oppression and construct more just worlds both on and offline. Engages interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human sexuality and introduces students to foundational debates at the intersection of feminism, queer theory, and digital humanities. Through activities, collaborative annotation, and independent research, students experiment with innovative approaches to techniques like virtual reality, gaming, cartography, archives, web design, robotics, social media, and mind-mapping. Reconceptualizes gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference in light of new technologies reshaping our individual and collective lives. Limited to 25.