• GNDR 5725: Queer of Color Critique

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Queer of color critique and cultural work is a rich, important, and often overlooked site of knowledge production that has heavily influenced popular culture, activist movements, and theoretical frameworks.Drawing from lived and embodied experience, the work of many queer and trans BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) scholars, activists, and artists not only critique and expand upon the fields of queer studies and ethnic studies, but also create an entirely new field from which we can gain the theoretical and material tools for ensuring a future in which all peoples survive, thrive, and flourish. Together, we will analyze theoretical readings, alongside music, poetry, cinema, art, and performance, to think critically about the kind of radical future these works make possible.
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• GNDR 5730: Chic/x and Lat/x Fems

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course explores the theoretical contributions of contemporary Chicana, Chicanx, Latina, and Latinx scholars and applying these theories to works within anthropology, sociology, history, and cultural studies. We will study the writings of Chela Sandoval, Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Emma Perez, Gloria Anzaldua, and other leading Chicana/x and Latina/x theorists to better understand feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. Some of the topics/concepts we will cover include colonization, diasporic subjectivities, (de)colonization methodologies, consciousness, and borderlands.
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• GNDR 5755: Gender/Power Latin Amer

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Explores the question of the interplay between gender, power, and the creation of identities in Latin America. Examines how gender relations are socially constructed, maintained, and challenged. Examines the economic and cultural phenomenon which define women's roles in the region. Also considers the relationship between the status of women and their means of fighting for social justice, including instigating change in the status of women.
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• GNDR 5760: Gndr/Sex in Int'l Lit

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course explores American and international fictional/biographical narratives/poems in the light of the question, "Which theoretical models of gender and sexuality and/or which narrative structures underlie our perception that a particular character is male, female, gay, lesbian, straight, or otherwise located on the sex/gender spectrum?" The course introduces critical tools for the study of novelistic or other narrative structures, including a historical overview of the representation of gender; sexuality theories; and semiotic and narratological theories of signification. Prerequisite: GNDR 3900.
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• GNDR 5761: Queering Ethnic Studies

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course rethinks the field of ethnic studies by centering the work of queer of color theorists. These theorists challenge queer theory's focus on gender and sexuality as singular and discrete axes of oppression by demonstrating how gender-and-hetero normativity intersect with racial and class oppression. They also theorize race and ethnicity as gendered and sexualized formations. Queer of color theory illuminates how gender and sexual difference has historically marked racial and ethnic minorities as unworthy of U.S. citizenship. Moreover, it unsettles the categories of race and ethnicity by exposing their adherence to a set of norms (gender, sexual, class, aesthetic, bodily, political). Those who do not adhere to these norms are often multiply marginalized. Rather than focus solely on multiply marginalized people (queer and trans people of color), however, queer of color theorists deconstruct the norms of racial and ethnic identity to expose the complicity of minority communities with state-based and capitalist modes of exclusion. Therefore, we will interrogate categories such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation as intersecting sites of power and categories of normativity. We will do so through an examination of critical essays from the emerging fields of black queer studies and queer of color critique. Also, we will analyze literary and visual representations of LGBTQ communities of color.
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• GNDR 5770: Sexual & GNDR Diversity

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course will provide a comprehensive overview of sexual orientation/identity over the life course from a primarily psychological perspective, emphasizing theoretical and empirical debates over such core issues as the nature and development of sexual orientation; biomedical research on gender and sexual orientation; gender differences in the same-sex sexuality; links between sexual orientation and gender identity; the role of race, class, and ethnicity in the development and expression of same-sex sexuality; cross-cultural differences in same-sex sexuality; sexual, romantic, and family relationships; transgender issues; reparative therapy. A primary emphasis will be the multiple ways in which individuals' experiences of same-sex sexuality, and the impact of same-sex sexuality on social and psychological life, varies according to gender.
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• GNDR 5775: Gay Family in America

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This class is an interdisciplinary exploration of gay families (i.e., the families of lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals) in America. Drawing on texts from the fields of History and Psychology we will analyze the dynamics of the gay family in light of a long record of family diversity in America. We will examine the most recent psychological literature on family life including research into same-sex couples, marriage, and parenting. Finally, we will address the impact that the emergence of gay families has had on American understandings of categories such as gender, race, and class, as well as of the structure, purpose and ideology of family.
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• GNDR 5880: Bad Bodies

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course introduces students to, or expands their knowledge in, the field of Disability Studies, particularly examining the intersections amongst disability and gender, race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality. The course explores how bodyminds often considered 'bad' can also be understood as defiant, resistant to conventional understandings of 'normal' identity. We will examine how disabled people have been and continue to be marginalized, but we'll also explore how disability scholars, activists, and artists are remapping how we think about and experience gender, identity, and humanity.
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• GNDR 5950: Independent Study

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  No course description available.
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• GNDR 5960: Special Topics

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Varied topics, see current course listing for offerings each semester.
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