WMST 241 - Topics in the Construction of Gender

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This course examines the construction of gender as a social category and introduces students to various methodologies of gender studies and feminist analysis. Particular attention is given to the connections between gender, class, race, sex, and sexual identity. Topics vary from year to year and may include the study of gender in the context of a particular historical period, medicine and science, or the arts and literature. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed.

Topic for 2015/16b: Race, Anti/Colonialisms, and Queering Music Performance. (Same as AFRS 241 , LALS 241 , and MUSI 241 ) The course examines music performance in/as activism, with an emphasis on the constructions of race, gender, sexuality, class/caste, and national belonging, in various global contexts. The class features a practice component. Students make music, performance, and/or electronic art (with a choice as to which), with the aid of the instructor and a guest artist brought in for a two-week workshop funded by the Creative Arts Across Discipline grant. No previous performance, artistic or musical training is required. Texts are interdisciplinary, drawing from performance theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology, film, and media studies. Mr. Krell.

Prerequisite: WMST 130 or permission of the instructor.

This course is cross-listed with Music and and qualifies as a 200-level elective in the Music and Culture correlate.

Two 75-minute periods.