Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Queer Notions: Thinking to Move Beyond Binaries
Instructor(s): Brian Lawson, Dance
Can the thoughts and creations born of queer people model a way for us to engage in complex thinking which challenges binaries? By exploring themes of interdisciplinarity, ambiguity, and resistance to traditional hierarchies, students in this course will interrogate normative ideas and practices which shape dominant culture. Discussions, readings, and activities will serve as introductions to college-level literacy and thinking skills while acquainting students with queer theory, educational philosophy, fiction, and more. This course uses interdisciplinarity as a means to complicate the ways in which we understand the binaries around us: investigating gender roles, the body/brain divide, the interplay of art and theory, and myriad other dualisms we encounter in culture. The course will culminate with each student designing, executing, and presenting an interdisciplinary research project of their choice.
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