Winter 2021: GWST 321—Queer Representation in Film and TV Dr. Kathryn Kein, AH GEP

This winter, Hulu broke opening-weekend streaming records with Happiest Season, the first holiday rom-com from a major studio to center a same-sex couple. If you’re one of the many who saw the film and want to seek out more queer representation in film and television, GWST 321 is for you!

 

In Queer Representation in Film and TV, we’ll watch and read about some of the most noteworthy films and shows featuring queer characters and stories. We’ll catch some of the firsts, some of the greats, and even some…not-so-greats. In a quick online winter session, you’ll complete a full 3-credit GWST course, pick up an Arts and Humanities GEP, expand your knowledge of film and TV with queer elements, and hone your analysis skills. Check it out at: https://highpoint-prd.ps.umbc.edu/app/catalog/classsection/UMBC1/2210/1207

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Need a winter class to round out your schedule this year? Consider taking a class with GWST!

All our winter classes are going to be fully online this winter and all carry GEP credit.

GWST210 - Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies
Dr. Kate Drabinski

This course introduces students to the field of critical sexuality studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course conducts a critical inquiry into the historical precedents and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand the role of sexuality in shaping personal, social, economic, and political life. The course focuses on patterns of subordination and exclusion based on individuals¿ sexual practices and identities, explains the origins and persistence of those patterns, and considers ways of challenging them. Throughout the course, special attention will be given to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and disability.

Crosslisted with AMST210.

GEP: Culture, Social Sciences

GWST321 - Queer Representations in Film and Television
Online, asynchronous
Dr. Kathryn Kein

This course will utilize films, television programs and theoretical, historical, and analytic readings to focus on the ways in which LGBTQ people and queer issues have been represented historically in film and television, and how issues of homosexuality intersect with issues of race and gender. Using material from before and after the modern LGBTQ rights movement, we will explore such themes and stereotypes as sissies, mannish lesbians, cross dressing/drag, AIDS, transgender, bisexuality, and others.  Recommended Preparation GWST 100, GWST 200, or permission of instructor.

GEP: Arts and Humanities

GWST323 - Gender and Sitcoms
Online, asynchronous
Dr. Susan McCully

The course studies the relationship between changing gender roles and the leading ladies of television situation comedy between the 1950s and the 1990’s with particular emphasis on the sitcom form and the representation of domesticity. The course explores the second wave of US feminist history and shifting sitcom roles of wife, mother and working women during this period. Text studied will include: Mary Tyler Moore, The Honeymooners, Leave It to Beaver, Murphy Brown, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Roseanne, The Burns and Allen Show and Father Knows Best. Feminist readings, analysis and discussion support the understanding of the media.

GEP: Arts and Humanities
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This course will cover four geopolitical regions and political regimes:
  1. Caribbean Dictatorships: Trujillato in the Dominican Republic (1930-1961)
  2. Southern Cone Dictatorships: Pinochet's Chile (1973-1989)
  3. Central American Mayan Genocide: Guatemala (1960-late 1980s)
  4. Andean Guerrilla Rebellion: Peru's Shining Path (1980-1990s)

The class meets MW 2:30-3:45pm and will be taught by Dr. Maria Celleri
GEP requirements: AH/C

GWST Majors: Meets RoE, Representations as/in Culture elective

Course Description:

This class examines the politics of human rights and cultural representations of gender violence in contemporary Latin American history. Focusing on specific moments of state-sponsored violence in Latin America, the class will explore broader issues relating to Western and Third World discourses on human rights, feminism and gender relations. Students taking this course will gain an understanding of the histories of the region, the relationship between universal human rights, nationalism, political violence and contemporary gender issues. Recommended Preparation GWST 100  or GLBL 100 

Image credit: Julie Van Grol, 2016
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This course introduces students to Arab and Muslim experiences in the U.S. via the study of literature, film, and music created by Arab and Muslim Americans. The artist featured in our thumbnail is @theunapologesticstreetseries.

The class meets MW 1-2:15pm and will be taught by Dr. Mejdulene Shomali.

GEP requirements: AH/C

GWST Majors: Meets RoE, Representations as/in Culture elective

Course Description
This course introduces students to Arab and Muslim experiences in the U.S. via the study of literature, film, and art created by Arab and Muslim Americans. The course takes a historical approach and looks at texts that concern major historical events in Arab and Muslim American history. It will discuss how Arab and Muslim artists and writers are responding to and refusing racism and Orientalism while challenging gendered, sexual, and cultural norms within their communities. Recommended Preparation GWST 100 or AMST 200 or GLBL 100 

This course is crosslisted with AMST245.
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