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GEN&WS 343

QUEER BODIES

3 credits.

Centralizes the intersection of LGBTQ identities and dis/ability through various queer bodies which are also inflected by race, class, geographical and national locations. Approaches may include critical theory about queer bodies and personal narratives. Students will learn a variety of ways to think critically and creatively about the politics of bodily experience, including how those politics have shaped their own embodied lives.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Generate tools for respectfully discussing disability, race, gender, sexuality, and difference. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Learn how to give, receive, and integrate instructor and peer feedback. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the different ways in which critical and theoretical texts have engaged with these experiences. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Acquire options for hands-on application of concepts learned in the classroom. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Learn and apply the basic concepts and critical vocabulary of cultural analyses within conceptual frameworks. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Gain proficiency in the techniques of scholarly research and the practice of academic writing with specific emphasis in disability studies, queer of color critique, queer and trans* studies, and literary and cultural research. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Generate tools for respectfully discussing disability, race, gender, sexuality, and difference. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Learn how to give, receive, and integrate instructor and peer feedback. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the different ways in which critical and theoretical texts have engaged with these experiences. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Acquire options for hands-on application of concepts learned in the classroom. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Learn and apply the basic concepts and critical vocabulary of cultural analyses within conceptual frameworks. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Gain proficiency in the techniques of scholarly research and the practice of academic writing with specific emphasis in disability studies, queer of color critique, queer and trans* studies, and literary and cultural research. Audience: Undergraduate

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