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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2017 through Summer 2021
- Course Number:
- WS 210
- Course Title:
- Introduction to Queer Studies
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Focuses on the lives and contributions of queer people in cultural, historical, and social context, including identities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, asexual, pansexual and gender non-binary. Uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the complex social constructions of sex, sexuality, race, class, gender identity and gender expression. Explores the institutional and cultural factors that create and maintain systems of oppression. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Recognize the contributions of queer people to art, culture, history, and politics.
- Analyze changing political, social, economic, racial, historical, and cultural patterns in the construction of sex, sexuality, and gender.
- Explore one's own relationships to intersecting systems of power.
- Communicate effectively about queer issues in writing, collaborating, and speaking.
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
Course Activities and Design
- Individual reading assignment
- Group discussions
- Collaborative groups
- Lecture
- Panel discussion
- Videos
- Review difficult concepts
- Case studies
- Presentations
- Creative or artistic projects
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- essays
- research projects
- participation in class discussion, exercises, small group activities or role plays
- oral or visual presentations
- written or oral examinations
- participation in organizing community events
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- systems of oppression (institutional, structural, internalized, cultural)
- gender, sexuality, race, class and other tools of critical analysis
- heterosexism, heteronormativity
- homophobia, transphobia
- sexual and gender identities, intersexuality, asexuality
- passing, visibility, information management, disclosure
- birth family as a source of oppression or resilience
- chosen family, alternative families
- reproduction politics and technologies
- the role of religion and science both in legitimizing and resisting queer oppression
- politics, law, literature, art, popular culture, media
- non-binary identities, androgyny
- identity politics
- queer social movements and activism
- feminist epistemologies
- queer theories