Senior Capstone Seminar (396-0-20)

Instructors

Zavier Nunn

Meeting Info

TBA: Mon, Wed 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

The Capstone seminar introduces students to recent work in the fields of gender and sexuality studies. This year's seminar will focus on the object of "sex", the valance that term holds in feminist, queer, and trans scholarship, and its renewed significance in today's politics. Students will build upon their foundational knowledge as GSS majors and minors and engage with current scholarship to the end of understanding how knowledge production (especially in what Robyn Wiegman calls "identity knowledge fields") evolves and is shaped by the context in which it is created. Not only will we be up to date with where these fields are at in their thinking currently, but we will also ask how we might critically engage the world right now through the study of gender and sexuality.

Students are encouraged to proactively steer this seminar to their greatest benefit and to fill in any gaps in their knowledge as they finish their undergraduate studies in GSS. The syllabus will include recent publications that interrogate questions of sex such as the edited collection Feminism Against Cisness (2024), but there is great latitude for students to request topics, readings, or media that they wish to discuss so that we might build a syllabus that best suits the needs of the moment.

Class Attributes

Advanced Expression