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Class number:
3397
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Title: Transgender Stories |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 8 |
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Available seats: 7 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM, HL - 123 |
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Instructor(s): Provitola, Blase |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
What role do narratives play in identity construction? How have authors and filmmakers established and contested tropes that society associates with “transgender identity”? What do trans stories have to tell us not only about trans experience, but about human experience and society more broadly? We will explore these questions by examining a variety of sources created primarily by trans, non-binary, and gender-variant people, including both fiction (novels, feature films) and non-fiction (historical texts, autobiographies, documentaries). Topics may include the medicalization of trans identity and critiques of that model, queer and trans kinship, and the ways in which legacies of colonization inform Western conceptions of gender. |