GWS 395

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Credit: 3 hours.

Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same term to a maximum of 9 hours; may be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours.

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GWS 395 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	64132	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	MW	Armory	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Queer of Color Film Section Info: Meets w/ENGL 325 (CRN 59287) and AAS 390 (CRN 48718) Topic: Queer of Color Film This course will introduce students to films about and/or directed by queer people of color that have been produced independently or within the mainstream movie industry. The course traces the history of queer of color film from boundary breaking documentaries filmed or released in the mid to late 1980s by Marlon Riggs and Jenny Livingston, to experimental and independent films in the 1990s, and concludes with examining the emergence of a cadre of new queer of color filmmakers from the first decade of the 21st century to the present such as Alice Wu, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Parvez Sharma, Dee Rees, and Sydney Freeland. Throughout the semester we will explore how each of these films and the filmmakers engage with or disrupt dominant narratives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, gender nonconforming and queer people of color. Through this examination we will examine how these directors create a cinematic vocabulary that draws from queer of color life, culture, history, and politics. While the limited amount of time means that the class cannot cover every queer of color film that has been released, the course aims to provide a representative and comprehensive perspective of queer of color film historically and contemporarily. In addition to screening films, students will read scholarly articles and book chapters on queer of color theory, feminist theory, film theory and popular culture in order to learn concepts that will enrich their writing and discussion of the major themes and controversies emerging from each film. A number of reviews of the films screened will also be assigned for reading, since a writing goal for the course is to introduce students to what it means to write a critical review of a cultural text from a position centered on intersectionality. Though students do not need to have prior knowledge of film theory or queer of color theory and history, it would be helpful if students have taken a previous course in critical race ethnic/cultural studies, LGBTQ studies, feminist and gender studies, or film studies. Overall, students will be expected to do the work required to become thoughtful, informed viewers of queer of color film and readers of related scholarship.
	64106	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	English Building	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Black Freedom Rhetorics Section Info: Meets w/ ENGL 380 (CRN 51868, Sec. F) Topic Section F: Black Freedom Movement Rhetorics This course explores historical and contemporary rhetorics of the freedom and liberation of people in the African diaspora as they emerge from social movements from the 19th century to the present. Merging rhetorical analysis with Black feminist and Black queer theories and epistemologies, the course will note and discuss specific rhetorical strategies people of African descent have employed in speeches, essays, photography, visual and performing arts, popular music and fashion/style, to assert their right and desire to define their life on their own terms and discuss the world as they see and experience it. Among the movements explored will be those for the abolition of slavery, desegregation, secure voting rights, peace and antiwar demonstrations, Black Power, Black Feminist activism, Black LGBTQ activism, anti-apartheid movements, organizing against mass incarceration, and #BlackLivesMatter. These movements for Black Freedom—varied and complex in their own right—will be discussed alongside assigned readings in rhetorical theory, Black feminist and Black queer theory, African American/African diasporic history, Women’s and Gender history, and LGBTQ history. Doing so, students will gain a more complex understanding of Black Freedom Movement Rhetorics that spans time, circumstance, and a diversity of publics. Though not required, it would be helpful if students have taken a previous course in rhetoric, African American Studies, critical race/ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, or LGBTQ studies. In sum, students will be expected to do the work required to become critically engaged readers and writers on the topic of the history and theory of Black Freedom Movement Rhetorics.