The LGBT program is offering a new course this fall semester that might be of
interest to GVPT students- The
course, LGBT 448Q "Queer Citizenship: Perspectives
on Bodies, Sexualities, and Performances" is approved for CORE
Diversity, as well as GenED Understanding Plural Societies.
As this course has just recently been added to the schedule, there are a large number of seats still available
About LGBT 448Q “Queer Citizenship”
Students
will examine the processes and practices of citizenship in everyday
life with a specific focus on lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) cultures and identities.
Beginning with Thomas Marshall’s concept of citizenship, students
explore the history of citizenship in the U.S. with a “queer” lens and
identify how exclusion and inclusion operate within
citizenship formations of “minority” groups. They investigate
mobilizations and political and cultural affiliations of LGBTQ
communities to understand the changing historical and material contexts
of citizenship that produce new forms of identity and new forms
of belonging.
Course objectives include:
- Understanding how marginalized or “minority” LGBTQ groups resist, negotiate, and/or incorporate issues of citizenship in their everyday lives primarily through various artistic expressions;
- Reframing citizenship to highlight the cultural aspects of identity that have been excluded from legal discourse to underscore the expressive, communal, and artistic frames that create different forms of membership illustrating LGBTQ self-making and self-determination;
- Examining how LGBTQ cultures, sexualities, and identities have changed, disrupted, or modified early conventions of citizenship and theorize the potentials for a 21st-Century "queer" citizenship.
More information about other LGBT courses can be found at http://lgbts.umd.edu/courses.html
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