Looking for a course? Consider one of these unique upper-level GWSS courses!
GWSS 420/520: Gender and Sexuality in India
Priti Ramamurthy | T/Th 1:30-3:20 | Eagleson Hall G01
This course traces histories and debates in feminist and queer studies in India. It approaches gender and sexuality as configurations – multiple, contested, and always in flux. We will explore how gender and sexuality are produced and experienced. As importantly, gender and sexuality are analytical frameworks which give us new insights about cultural politics, inequities, and aspirations in contemporary India and beyond. Offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Fulfills the GWSS major Transnational Perspective requirement.
GWSS 490 A: Revolutionary Genders of the Middle East
Mediha Sorma | M/W 1:30-3:20 | Sieg Building 230
This course examines configurations of gender and sexuality intertwined with systems of class, race/ethnicity, state-building, and citizenship in the Middle East. How are gender and sexuality regulated, navigated, and subverted within different systems of power? Areas of inquiry include nation-state politics, colonialism, intimacy, reproduction, migration, militancy, resistance, and representation. Course materials challenge dominant depictions of gender in the region that cast women and non-normative bodies as victims of Islam, demonstrating the substantial role of these social actors in revolutionary politics.
GWSS 414 A /514 A: Feminist Ethnographic Studio
Sasha Welland | M/W 1:30-3:20 | Gould Hall 435
This practice-based studio course supports advanced undergraduate and graduate students to develop ethnographic research within creative formats alternative to the predominant practice of analytic, propositional prose. It provides a collaborative environment for students to explore the relationship between ethnographic content and form, cultural aesthetics and ethnographic representation. Guiding students in research-creation, in which art practices are research methods, the studio centers critical feminist praxis in knowledge production and provides a space to develop research skills for a project that is possibly complementary to honors, capstone, or dissertation work. For more about the history of the course, see “Ethnography Unbound: Experiments in New Scholarship.” Offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
REGISTRATION FOR 490 B/590 A: By add code from the instructor only. Please submit inquiries or project proposals to the instructor at swelland@uw.edu. Applications (500 words or less) should describe ethnographic research already completed, underway, or planned and a proposal for how you want to develop this material, including the medium you will use and a rationale for why you have chosen it.