THE BODY IN THEORY

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 Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze how contemporary theories of the body and understand that bodies and bodily experience are shaped by biological, social, political, and cultural forces. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify the social, historical, and cultural constructedness of gender, disability, and sexual identities as well as contestations over the meanings, representations, and experiences of race, gender, disability, class, and sexuality. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Use critical thinking and analysis skills to connect representation of bodies, gender, and sexuality, in cultural, medical, scientific, and digital media texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Critically examine representation and cultural production through a feminist lens. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Synthesize course content with your individual academic research and thesis interests. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze how contemporary theories of the body and understand that bodies and bodily experience are shaped by biological, social, political, and cultural forces. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify the social, historical, and cultural constructedness of gender, disability, and sexual identities as well as contestations over the meanings, representations, and experiences of race, gender, disability, class, and sexuality. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Use critical thinking and analysis skills to connect representation of bodies, gender, and sexuality, in cultural, medical, scientific, and digital media texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Critically examine representation and cultural production through a feminist lens. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Synthesize course content with your individual academic research and thesis interests. Audience: Graduate