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 2018
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
51471	Lecture-Discussion	DG	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	103 1207 W Oregon	Glisch-Sanchez, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: Queer Latinidades Section Info: Topic: Queer Latinidades: Meets with LLS 396. This course uses queer and queerness as a framework to understand various Latina/o identities that exist outside of the mainstream. Queerness, in this course, is not limited to a certain set of sexual and gender identities (LGBT), but is an idea that helps interrogate who gets to be counted as “legitimately” and “authentically” Latina/o and who is denied this. In particular, we will take an in-depth look at transgressive Latina/o sexualities and gender identities, blackness, indigeneity, and disability. Meets w/LLS 396, Sec. DG (CRN 62053)
66122	Conference	KF	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Flynn, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Title: GWS Internship
64106	Lecture-Discussion	S	12:30PM -1:45PM	MW	1060 Lincoln Hall	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Hip Hop Rhetorics Section Info: “I don’t make songs for free, I make ‘em for freedom” – “Blessings” by Chance The Rapper 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 redressing white supremacy, racism, sexism, misogyny, poverty, heterosexism, homophobia, cisnormativity, and transphobia. The primary goal of the course will be to strengthen writing, rhetorical analysis, and critical thinking skills through a study of hip hop and its links to matters of cultural, social, political, economic, educational, and global consequence. Reading some foundational and cutting edge scholarly writings in Hip-Hop Studies, as well as popular articles about hip-hop, we 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 in the course may cover include: rap and social consciousness; cultural appropriation; 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. Course assignments include regular reading and participation in discussion, informal short writing assignments, regular quizzes on reading and lecture, scholarly essays, a presentation, and final project. Though students do not need to have prior knowledge of hip-hop culture, it would be helpful if students have taken a previous course in critical race ethnic/cultural studies, LGBTQ studies, feminist and gender studies, or cultural studies. Meets w/ ENGL 380 (CRN 51868, Sec.S )