WMST 170 - Gender/Transgender in Popular Culture

Gender/Transgender in Popular Culture offers students the opportunity to sudy how issues of gender, specifically those pertaining to the transgender person, are represented in popular culture and how those representations may shape the lived experiences of those they are said to represent. Specifically, students will read memoirs, novels, personal essays, and view films as tools for the understanding how our culture seems to understand the role sexual orientation plays in human experience.

Credit(s): 4
General Education Designations: Diversity & Power
Offered: May Term.