Monday, June 24, 2024

WGSS Summer Session II Courses

WGSS is excited to offer WGSS 205: Reproductive Justice: An Introduction and LGBT 327: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film & Video this upcoming Summer Session II!  Earn general education credit or just try something new all while exploring queer and feminist theory.


DSHS, DVUP, Online Asynchronous, Summer Session II

This course reviews the historical, legal, and social bases of reproductive rights in the U.S.; discusses the history of feminist organizing for reproductive freedom; surveys critical theories of reproductive justice that go beyond abortion law to advocate for broader social transformation; and evaluates the possible futures of intersectional feminist activism after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.


DSHU, DVUP; Online Asynchronous; Summer Session II-C

This course encourages students to engage in a comparative analysis of forms, themes, and the politics of representation in film and video by and/or about LGBT people. This course begins from the premise that movies are designed to give us a variety of meaningful viewing experiences, sometimes pleasurable, sometimes not. The class teaches a range of analytical approaches for understanding how films create meanings and what those meanings may be. In this course, we will trace both the diversity and similarities between global and Western representations of what we call homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender identities as represented in film and video.


For questions about the classes or the department, please contact Gwen Warman at gwarman@umd.edu.

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