ENGL 34201 - Gender And Sexuality In Transnational Literature And Film

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 10400 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C- OR ENGL 10000 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF B- OR ENGL 10800 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C- OR ENGL 10100 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C-

Credit Hours: 3.00. Course uses anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives to examine international literature, texts, and film. Emphasis is on these artifacts’ roles in shaping and reflecting cultural values. Special attention is paid to the influence of cross-cultural exchanges, local and global interfaces, and intersections of gender, race and ethnicity, class, religion, immigration and citizenship status, sexuality, and disability/ability. Thematic approaches may consider human rights of gender diverse people and women, economics and development, health and welfare, feminization of poverty, migration, gender-based violence, conflict and peacemaking, censorship, misappropriations of gender rights concepts, propaganda, etc. May be taught online, on ground, or as a hybrid course.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Understand that language plays a critical role in structuring and distributing power. 2. Understand that languaging is a key component in the construction of subjectivity and culture. 3. Recognize that gender and sexuality operate as systems of social stratification and differentiation along multiple dimensions including political, economic and cultural. 4. Recognize that gender is non-binary and that it and sexuality intersect with other socially constructed categories such as race, class, disability status, nationality, age, caste, etc., to create interdependent systems of discrimination and/or disadvantage. 5. Recognize that anti-racist, transnational feminist partnerships foster equity and social justice by resisting feminist and state imperialism and by operating within, between and at the margins of geopolitical and socio-cultural boundaries locally and globally. 6. Apply anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives and literary theories to interpret literary artefacts. 7. Apply ethical frameworks informed by anti-racist transnational feminisms to interrogate inequities operationalized through languaging as well as creation and consumption of literary artefacts. 8. Evaluate key concepts in anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives and literary theories. 9. Develop critical consciousness sustaining anti-racist, transnational feminist social change using tools offered by languaging, literary artefacts and literary study. 10. Synthesize theory and practice to advocate for anti-racist, transnational feminist social change by employing languaging, literary artefacts and literary study to practice social justice.

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