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Core Courses

WMST 2600 6.0: Introduction to Critical Sexualities

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Lecture: Tuesday, 12:30-2:30pm
Tutorials:
1) Tuesday, 11:30am-12:30pm
2) Tuesday, 10:30am-11:30pm
3) Tuesday, 2:30-3:30pm

Course Directors: TBA

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary fields of knowledge that constitute what is now called 'sexuality studies'. Critical artistic, biological, cultural, economic, geographic, historical, legal, literary, political and psychological approaches to sexuality will be explored, with an emphasis on critical intersections of ability, class, gender, gender identity, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex and sexuality.

Throughout the course, students will explore the operations of sexual dynamics in Canadian and non-Canadian contexts past and present. Students will gain significant knowledge of the breadth and depth of sexuality studies and will also develop critical analytical and methodological skills that will facilitate work in a variety of fields..

WMST 4600 6.0: Advanced Seminar in Sexualities

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Thursday, 7:00-10:00pm
Course Director: F. Latchford
Prerequisite: AP/GL/SXST 2600 6.00
Please Note: All spaces are reserved for 3rd & 4th year students in SXST & WMST.

This advanced seminar delves deeply into historical, contemporary and newly burgeoning theories that are central to critical sexuality studies. It examines psychoanalytic, existential, post-structural, post-colonial, transgender, and critical disability theories of sexuality from a feminist and intersectional philosophical perspective. It focuses on questions of epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, and subjectivity as each relates to sexuality or sexualities as historical, social, and political events.

Topics this course explores can vary from year to year and may include sexual shame and pride, desire, sexual love, hate and ambivalence, sexual or erotic racism and classism, sexual power, ability, knowledge and experience, sexual pain and pleasure, sexual abjection, and sexual resistances. Students in this course must be prepared to actively participate in class, work cooperatively, think and write critically, and lead seminars on course texts. They will also have an introductory background in critical sexuality studies (i.e., SXST/WMST 2600).