Introduction to Queer Studies

(Cross listed as RCD 94-02 ) Introduction to the interdisciplinary field of queer studies through an examination of key texts and practices. Course will interrogate notions of normality; binary systems of sex, gender, and sexuality; and cultural representations of personhood, citizenship and family. It will examine the application of queer theory in fields such as economics, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and film studies. Of particular concern will be ways gender and sexuality intersect with race, ethnicity, nationality, and class. WGSS 0075 Love and War in French Film. *available as of 09/01/25 (Cross-listed as FR 75 & FMS 63) Focus on the themes of love and war in French films from the 1930's to the present. Film theory and basic cinematic techniques, as well as the historical, social, and cultural contexts of films of the poetic realism, nouvelle vague, and more contemporary movements, by directors Renoir, Clément, Carné, Resnais, Malle, Truffauat, Godard, Rohmer, Keislowski, and others. Films include: La grande illusion, Les jeux interdits, Les enfants du paradis, Hiroshima mon amour, Jules et Jim, Les parapluies de Cherbourg, Pierrot le fou, Lacombe Lucien, Les roseaux sauvages, Trois couleurs: Bleu; De rouille d'os, and Amour. In English.