After completing this course, the student:
A) has acquired specialized knowledge of state-of-the-art theory and critical research in feminist, queer, critical race, and/or postcolonial studies
B) has developed a historical and theoretical understanding of significant shifts in the field of cultural analysis
C) can close-read theoretical texts and then apply concepts to concrete case studies
D) has gained confidence in presenting academic findings in both written and oral form
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Following up on Theory and Critical Research I, this core research seminar delves more deeply into cutting-edge theory and critical research in feminist, queer, critical race, and/or postcolonial studies. While the topics covered in this seminar will change each year according to the instructor's area of expertise, the course will consistently pose questions that are of particular relevance to feminists and others concerned with social justice at this historical moment. The course will take as its point of departure an intersectional approach to gender, sexuality, race, nation, class, and ability, as well as to relations between subject matter, discipline, time, place, and theory. This research seminar will also trace the development of historical and theoretical understandings in the field of cultural analysis, examining the ways in which texts and images perform cultural hierarchies. The presented theoretical and conceptual frameworks will be illustrated by close readings and textual analyses. In addressing theory and critical research as an ongoing, future-oriented cultural endeavor, this course grapples with academic and ethical questions that are relevant to current politics with transnational relevance.
Career orientation:
This course trains the students in foundational knowledge in the field of Gender Studies and emphasizes their socio-political embedding and relevance. It thereby teaches the students in foundational manners to contribute to a societally relevant understanding of higher education in the humanities.
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