QUEER GEOGRAPHIES
Explores several key events, sites, thinkers, and texts that contribute to the social, personal, and intellectual landscapes of Queer Geographies. An invitation to survey and reflect on queer critical strategies that sample, record, and remix constellations of relationships between theory, space, sexuality, gender, and identity. It foregrounds modes of queer spacing and placemaking in academic and popular works devoted to queer lives, studies, sexualities, narratives, publics and privates, joys and griefs, art, theory, and beyond. Offers a range of strategies for reading, interpreting, and developing nuanced scholarly interventions and theories. Question and reimagine normative notions of the personal, the social, and the socio-spatial.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the history of and key perspectives and debates in Queer Studies and Queer Theory. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Read and research theoretical scholarship. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe strategies for developing and conducting theory-driven research. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify approaches to researching socio-spatial topics. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Compose and edit academic theoretical/critical scholarship. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Recall the key issues in recent socio-spatial theory and the implications for, refractions through, and/or reactions by broader contemporary intellectual movements. Audience: Graduate 7. Identify pedagogical strategies for guiding classroom discussions. Audience: Graduate 8. Develop a personalized set of approaches to mediating challenging geographical, critical, and theoretical concepts for a broad range of learners. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the history of and key perspectives and debates in Queer Studies and Queer Theory. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Read and research theoretical scholarship. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe strategies for developing and conducting theory-driven research. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify approaches to researching socio-spatial topics. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Compose and edit academic theoretical/critical scholarship. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Recall the key issues in recent socio-spatial theory and the implications for, refractions through, and/or reactions by broader contemporary intellectual movements. Audience: Graduate 7. Identify pedagogical strategies for guiding classroom discussions. Audience: Graduate 8. Develop a personalized set of approaches to mediating challenging geographical, critical, and theoretical concepts for a broad range of learners. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027