Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Meeting: 4:00PM - 6:50PM M (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025) 

Part of Term: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 25

Section Enrolled: 4

Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 25

Total Cross-list Enrolled: 4

Waitlisted: 0 (Max 198) 

Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.

Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2025 3:40PM

 

 

Final Exam: No Final Exam

 

Description: What does it mean to look at the world queerly? What opens up when we approach queer as a verb rather than a noun? In answering these questions, we will examine taken-for-granted ideas about sexuality through focusing on the body, place and space, and contemporary LGBTQ politics. Queer theorists offer alternative ways of conceptualizing embodiment, argue that social logics are spatialized, and critique mainstream LGBTQ movements. In this class, we will explore how thinking differently about bodies, place, and politics creates new ways to understand sexuality—and vice versa. In so doing, we will consider how one’s sexuality has come to be a large part of one’s identity, desires for community, identity, and cultural recognition, and relations among social justice, equality, and rights. Our goal is to think “queerly” about sexuality and the various identities and experiences sexuality shapes and is shaped through, including race, gender, class, disability, geography and so on. Course texts include traditional academic articles, blogs, documentary films, and fiction. Cross-list: SWGS 364.