COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZLEM DUVA KAYA

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY

Course Objective

This course aims to familiarize students with the core texts and key debates that have shaped around the queer theory. By tracing the expansion of the term of queer from its early contestation with LGBT identities and politics to its current use as a broad framework that designates non-normative modes of knowledge, cultural practices, and political activism, the course purposes to bring students some basic questions on current sexist categories. Central to the investigation are the intersections between queer theory and feminism and critical race theory. This course will ultimately engage Queer Theory by means of a rich philosophical and political interrogation of the meaning and content of queer.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

1-History of Sexuality Vol. I, Michel Foucault, trans. Robert Hurley, Vintage, 1990,
2-Black Queer Studies, eds. E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, Duke University Press, 2005
3-Queer Injustice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, eds. Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock Beacon Press, 2012
4- Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category, David Valentine, Duke University Press, 2007
5- Undoing Gender, Judith Butler, Routledge, 2004
6-Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler, Routledge, 1990
7-Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Sara Ahmed, Duke University Press, 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

See "Assessment Methods" and "ECTS Table"

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the assignment of the student and by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 attendance is required.
2. The participation in midterm and final exams will be considered in grading.
3. The participation in presentation activity will be considered in grading.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0232 301 94 13
ozlem.duva@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced at the every semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes