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This course will focus on the following goals: To gain an understanding of sociological approaches to sexuality and identity; to apply these approaches to everyday experience; to better understand the structural and political factors that affect the ways in which non-heterosexualities have been viewed in U.S. society throughout the 20th century; to better understand how sexualities, identities and genders intersect and; to challenge your perceptions of our social world. Throughout the course we will contrast modern and postmodern conceptions of and discourse surrounding sexuality, identity and gender. The term "queer" will be used in this course in two principle ways: 1) as a term of inclusion, and 2) as a political and discursive movement to disrupt or otherwise deconstruct modern conceptions of sexuality, identity and gender.
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