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Class number:
3486
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Title: Sex, Gender, Identity |
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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 |
| Enrollment limited to 16 |
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Current enrollment: 7 |
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Available seats: 9 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM, LIB - 174 |
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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:
How do sex, sexuality, and gender impact the way we see ourselves, others, and the world around us? How have authors and filmmakers used storytelling not only to make sense of their own identities, but to shift cultural understandings of those identities more broadly? By reading short theoretical texts along with narratives of lives that depart from the status quo, we will gain insight into the social construction of human experience. Course texts will primarily consist of contemporary works and may include novels and memoirs such as Audre Lorde’s Zami and Imogen Binnie’s Nevada, graphic novels like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, and films and television shows like Moonlight, Pose, and Sense8. |