All Courses
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FG212 Critical Media Studies
Theorizing media as one of the most important “information-diffusing socializing agencies” in the U.S., this course allows students to develop the competencies necessary for analyzing media codes and conventions and interpreting the myriad meanings and ideologies generated by media texts. More specifically, we explore how gender, sexuality, race, class, citizenship, and other social, cultural, and political markers are constructed in media, including the multidimensional impetuses for and implications of these constructions. Additionally, since counter-hegemonic texts, as well as audience interpretations of media texts, have the potential to “challenge central political positions and cultural assumptions,” we also study the ways in which various media texts and audiences revise, resist, reject, and reproduce dominant mediated narratives, especially those that further subjugate marginalized people.
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FG214 Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin
Through various intersectional, feminist and multidisciplinary critical perspectives—such as Black, Transnational, and LGBTQ—this course examines how the identities of Black, Jewish, Turkish, and LGBTQI communities, as well as (im)migrants, refugees, victims of Neo-Nazi terrorism and police brutality, and other marginalized people are constructed in Germany, focusing especially on Berlin—particularly how these constructions are dependent on racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression. Additionally, it examines how these people and communities resist, reject, revise, and reproduce these narratives as they construct their subjectivities.
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CC Refugee Alliance ESL Tutoring
CC Refugee Alliance ESL Tutoring
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FG206 Tpcs in Feminist & Gender Studies:Do #AllLivesMatther?:Historical and Contemporary Protest in the US
According to its creators, the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag was created after the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin “as a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society” and as “an affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.” In response, #AllLivesMatter was created more informally to counter what many felt was an exclusionary focus on Black lives at the expense of others, gaining popularity after utterances from Canadian singing group The Tenors, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and author Terry McMillan, and many others. This, however, is just one example of the debates that ensue regarding the causes and consequences of various forms of protest, especially that which is entrenched in discourses about race, gender, sexuality, and other social, cultural, and political markers. This course allows students to examine these and other debates about protests concerning the LGBTQ movement, immigrants’ rights, mass incarceration, and other interrelated concerns.
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FG110 Introduction to Feminist and Gender Studies
Introduces the theories and methodologies constitutive of Feminist & Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that examines the historical, contemporary, and always changing relationships between power and markers of identity, such as gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, dis/ability, and citizenship. Informed by the legacies of the civil rights, student, labor, LGBTQ, and women’s movements, this course encourages reflection on student participation in institutions of power and privilege, as well as their role in affecting change.
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FG312 Black Feminist Theory
Examines some of the earliest articulations of U.S. Black feminist theory, in poetry and prose developed primarily outside the academy, with a particular focus on the ways race, gender, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers are interconnected and the ways Black communities are particularly oppressed systemically and systematically, Black women’s relationships with Black men, motherhood, Black queer communities, work inside and outside of the home, religion and spirituality, and other concerns. Also, applies Black feminist analysis to Black women’s film from the late 1980s to the present.