New Course
LGBT 448Q
Queer Citizenship
Course Description:
Students will examine the processes and practices of citizenship in everyday life with a specific focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) cultures and identities. Beginning with Thomas Marshall’s concept of citizenship, students explore the history of citizenship in the U.S. with a “queer” lens and identify how exclusion and inclusion operate within citizenship formations of “minority” groups. They investigate mobilizations and political and cultural affiliations of LGBTQ communities to understand the changing historical and material contexts of citizenship that produce new forms of identity and new forms of belonging.
Course Objectives:
Understanding how marginalized or “minority” LGBTQ groups resist, negotiate, and/or incorporate issues of citizenship in their everyday lives primarily through various artistic expressions;
Reframing citizenship to highlight the cultural aspects of identity that have been excluded from legal discourse to underscore the expressive, communal, and artistic frames that create different forms of membership illustrating LGBTQ self-making and self-determination;
Examining how LGBTQ cultures, sexualities, and identities have changed, disrupted, or modified early conventions of citizenship and theorize the potentials for a 21st-Century "queer" citizenship.
More information about other LGBT courses can be found at http://lgbts.umd.edu/courses.html
LGBT 448Q
Queer Citizenship
Course Description:
Students will examine the processes and practices of citizenship in everyday life with a specific focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) cultures and identities. Beginning with Thomas Marshall’s concept of citizenship, students explore the history of citizenship in the U.S. with a “queer” lens and identify how exclusion and inclusion operate within citizenship formations of “minority” groups. They investigate mobilizations and political and cultural affiliations of LGBTQ communities to understand the changing historical and material contexts of citizenship that produce new forms of identity and new forms of belonging.
Course Objectives:
Understanding how marginalized or “minority” LGBTQ groups resist, negotiate, and/or incorporate issues of citizenship in their everyday lives primarily through various artistic expressions;
Reframing citizenship to highlight the cultural aspects of identity that have been excluded from legal discourse to underscore the expressive, communal, and artistic frames that create different forms of membership illustrating LGBTQ self-making and self-determination;
Examining how LGBTQ cultures, sexualities, and identities have changed, disrupted, or modified early conventions of citizenship and theorize the potentials for a 21st-Century "queer" citizenship.
More information about other LGBT courses can be found at http://lgbts.umd.edu/courses.html
