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FG200 Feminist Theory
Feminism aims to seek justice for people and communities that are systematically and systemically marginalized based on gender, race, sexuality, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. Along these lines, feminist theory tries to understand, explain, and interrogate power and dominance. This course, then, functions as the introduction to various feminist theories, as well as the philosophical, political, cultural, and practical considerations and commitments that are their foundations. As feminist theory is interdisciplinary, we will examine theorists from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, sociology, psychology, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and economics. Along these lines, we will undertake an examination of liberal, radical, socialist, psychoanalytic, and other feminist theories, as well as their bases in liberal, anarchist, socialist, and other traditions. Additionally, will also consider the ways in which feminist theory advances intellectual collaboration both within and outside of the academy.
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FG211 Where My Girls At?: Gender & Sexuality in Hip Hop
Feminist intellectuals have long-studied hip hop’s theories and politics, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. Beyond simply locating oppression within hip hop culture—music, art, fashion, dance, writing, film, television, and other elements—these intellectuals have theorized the impetuses for and implications of these problematics. Additionally, they recognize hip hop’s resistive and generative qualities, especially how it has challenged the denigration of marginalized communities since its inception over 40 years ago. This course examines this contention and contradiction, especially considering how these problematics have been revised, resisted, rejected and reproduced within and outside of hip hop culture.
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AH210 Islamic Art
A general survey of the art and architecture of the classical Islamic lands, the Mediterranean and Near East, from 650 to 1700. We will pay particular attention to the formation of Islamic art--how typical "Islamic" forms developed from the artistic vocabulary of the late antique Mediterranean and Persia. Architecture and manuscript painting will be emphasized, although metalwork, pottery and textiles, so important in the Islamic tradition, will be considered as well. Throughout the course, we will compare Islamic achievements in architecture and painting to the contemporary traditions of western Europe.