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 fall 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
68222	Lecture-Discussion	A	3:30PM -6:00PM	MW	103 1207 W Oregon	Cacho, L	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/23/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Race, Asylum, Deportation Section Info: Topic: "Race, Asylum, Deportation." Meets with LLS 396. Interdisciplinary course that examines how the United States' past and present laws and policies concerning immigration, asylum, and deportation have racialized and gendered consequences.
67214	Lecture-Discussion	D1	11:00AM -12:50PM	MW	G30 Foreign Languages Building	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Queer of Color Film Section Info: 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.
67215	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:30PM -4:45PM	MW	1026 Lincoln Hall	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Hip Hop Rhetorics Section Info: You say one for the treble two for the time come on – Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape/Now Let it fall-Huuh!/ My restlessness is my nemesis/It’s hard to really chill and sit still/Committed to page/I write a rhyme, sometimes won’t finish for days/Scrutinize my literature from the large to the miniature. . .’ – Mos Def “Hip Hop” This course examines the hip-hop rhetorics of writers, performers, and activists of the hip-hop generation. These rhetors draw on hip-hop cultural tools, including rap, fashion, dance, graffiti, and deejayin’, to construct their identities and make and disseminate meaning within and about their social worlds, particularly around issues of racism, sexism and misogyny, poverty, and heterosexism. The primary goal of the course will be to strengthen skills in writing and rhetorical analysis through a study of hip hop and its links to controversies of cultural, social, political, economic, educational, and global consequence. Reading some foundational and more recent scholarship in Hip-Hop Studies, as well as popular articles about hip-hop, we will examine the ways hip-hop operates with historical, cultural, economic, and political consequence within the U.S. and all over the world. Through these readings students will engage the following questions: What is Hip Hop Rhetoric? How is this rhetoric constructed and deployed? What is the relationship between hip hop rhetorics and a diversity of other language and literacy practices in everyday life? Topics the course may cover include: rap and social consciousness; hip hop feminism; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) hip-hop performers; youth culture and activism; spoken word and hip-hop theater; and commercialism and commodification of hip hop culture. Engaging these topics through a variety of written and oral communication projects, students will learn the usefulness of employing hip-hop cultural tools as a tool of argument, analysis, and other forms of expression within the everyday. In addition to reading and participation in discussion, students will complete informal short writing assignments, regular reading quizzes, three essays, a group presentation, and a final project. TEXTS: Chang, Jeff, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); Forman, Murray and Mark Anthony Neal, That’s The Joint!: The Hip Hop Studies Reader, 2nd ed. (2011); (select chapters) Lunsford, Andrea A., John J. Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters, Everything’s an Argument with Readings, 6th ed. (2012); Pough, Gwendolyn, Elaine Richardson, Rachel Raimist, and Aisha Durham, Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology (2007); Rose, Tricia, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop (2008).