Seats available in LGBT 448Q “Queer Citizenship” Fall 2013

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