[Biostudent] GWSS special topics courses: Body Politics and Queering CRT

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GWSS special topics courses: Body Politics and Queering CRT

 

Hello,

 

Please share this information with any students who might be looking for
courses to earn SSc or DIV credits this spring. These courses provide a
great opportunity for students to learn about and engage critically with
topics that continue to make headlines and spark debates. Both courses are
open to all students and do not have prerequisites. GWSS 490 is suitable for
graduate students and undergrads. 

 

GWSS 290 A

Special Topics in Women Studies: Body Politics

SLN 15160
<https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/GWSS%20290?id=998d505b-26aa-40d2-9e7
8-52b3e9d97700&states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwAMAnAEwA0yY
62YACllCmSljSUGAVioBfEOKA>  (MyPlan) 

This course is an introduction to foundational concepts in feminist inquiry
by focusing on the socio-historical positionality of the body in terms of
gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability. The course examines systemic
power through which bodies are politicized and regulated. We further explore
resistance and counternarrative embodied by groups and peoples historically
and contemporarily held furthest from justice. How is something so intimate
as the body shaped by political, economic, scientific, cultural, and
community norms as well as resistance to normative politics? Through varied
methodologies, this class examines how bodies are made through cultural
systems and structures (e.g., media, medicine).

 

GWSS 490 A

Special Topics in Women Studies: Queering CRT

SLN 15177
<https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/GWSS%20490?id=747213e1-7148-4572-a44
3-40b71bfb41a9&states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIxUAstANMmOtm
AApZQpkpZqUATADYqAXxBigA>  (MyPlan)

Instructor video intro to course
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This course grad/undergrad-level course explores intersectionality via
contemporary (2020-2023) cultural battles over Critical Race Theory (CRT)
and gender in schools, healthcare, the family, and in state and local
government. Race and gender co-create one another, they are not static;
rather, social, cultural, and political mechanisms constantly construct,
reinforce, and perpetuate them. Students delve into race and gender as
ever-moving political processes queering the debates surrounding CRT and
gender, disrupting the fictitious distance between the two. Queerly we ask,
how do racism and cissexism continue to shape the U.S. sociopolitical
landscape?

 

Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Celine

 

Celine Waldmann (she/her)
Academic Counselor
Department of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
 <mailto:gwssadvs at uw.edu> gwssadvs at uw.edu /  <https://gwss.washington.edu/>
gwss.washington.edu

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