CRIT 305 Theories of Gender & Sexuality

3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course

Theories of Gender and Sexuality is an introduction to key issues and important voices in critical approaches to gender and sexuality. At the heart of our interdisciplinary exploration of such approaches will be feminist and queer theoretical lenses from a variety of disciplines, including law, social sciences, and history. These lenses will help us examine topics like representations of sex and sexuality in popular culture and contemporary creative practices, gendered systems of being and seeing, political and social movements that work to intervene in histories of oppression, and the scientific and legal constructions of sex and gender. Central to our investigations of gender and sexuality: how identity categories like race, class, nationality, ability, and age intersect with sex and gender classifications.

Prerequisites COMP*102, COMP*102D, COMP*102E, COMP*112, or COMP*112H

This course is not repeatable for credit.