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CCTP-704-01 Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Spring only
Gender/Sexuality/Body are key to much contemporary work in new media, technology and popular culture studies. Using these themes as a locus, this seminar will range across a rich field: from psychoanalysis to queer studies to performance studies and beyond. Concurrent with our thematic focus on gender/sexuality/body, we will also address questions of method: what does it mean to do a cultural studies of new media and technology using gender/sexuality/body as the lens? To meet these two aims, readings will consist of both theoretical explorations as well as case studies which use theoretical constructs to perform cultural analysis. Students may expect to encounter the works of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Joan Scott, Luce Irigaray, bell hooks, Gayatri Spivak, Donna Haraway, Mark Hansen, Lisa Nakamura, and Alondra Nelson among others. Students will read key thinkers in the fields of gender/sexuality/body and also explore how those ideas are used in studies specific to the areas of new media, technology and popular culture.
Substantial reading, writing, and discussion will be required. Students will actively apply theory and show that ability through the creation of new media objects in the course--an online poster for one week's reading (Merlot Poster Tool); a collaborative online annotation of a key thinker's work (CommentPress); and an in-depth, individual multimedia annotation of a cultural artifact (perhaps using Sophie).
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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