TRANS AUTOTHEORIES
Offers an in-depth examination of trans lives, selves, and ways of knowing. Focuses on the trans "I" as it appears in autobiography, memoir, theory, performance, visual arts, music, spacing, place making, zines, and vlogs. These works ask how styles of self-making ("auto") might lead to new and changing conceptions of trans lives, worlds, and social formations ("theory"). The trans artists and writers explored fashion selves into prisms to fracture, negotiate, meditate upon, think, and re/present the encounters, becomings, transitions, and enframings that constitute trans existence. This "auto-theoretical" strategy reimagines genre, style, space, and media to create launching points for new trans aesthetics, theories, joys, and struggles. The polyphonic voices of these trans selves, taken together, bring a trans "we" into view, creating a discursive trans space made material.
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 Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the history of and critical perspectives in Trans Studies/Theory. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Read and research theoretical scholarship. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify practical strategies for developing and conducting theory-driven research. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe approaches to researching socio-spatial topics. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate the basics of writing and editing academic theoretical research. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recall the key debates in Trans Studies/Theory. Audience: Graduate 7. Identify critical issues in recent socio-spatial theory and the implications for, refractions through, and/or reactions by broader contemporary intellectual movements. Audience: Graduate 8. Design and complete theoretical, critical scholarship. Audience: Graduate 9. Describe pedagogical strategies for guiding classroom discussions. Audience: Graduate 10. Develop personalized set of approaches to mediating challenging geographical, critical, and theoretical concepts for a broad range of learners. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the history of and critical perspectives in Trans Studies/Theory. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Read and research theoretical scholarship. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify practical strategies for developing and conducting theory-driven research. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe approaches to researching socio-spatial topics. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate the basics of writing and editing academic theoretical research. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recall the key debates in Trans Studies/Theory. Audience: Graduate 7. Identify critical issues in recent socio-spatial theory and the implications for, refractions through, and/or reactions by broader contemporary intellectual movements. Audience: Graduate 8. Design and complete theoretical, critical scholarship. Audience: Graduate 9. Describe pedagogical strategies for guiding classroom discussions. Audience: Graduate 10. Develop 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