COURSE UNIT TITLE

: QUEER THEORY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 6040 QUEER THEORY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 11

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR 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

1   To familiarize students with the core texts and debates that have shaped the overall development of the field,
2   To develop a critical understanding of identity and make students to understand how it is constructed (and re-constructed) by individuals and groups over time and in different contexts.
3   Making students to become conversant in queer, feminist, and critical race theory, thereby honing advanced analytic and critical thinking skills (both written and verbal).
4   To introduce students to the expansive agenda of contemporary radical queer politics, which goes beyond the narrow confines of identity politics, anti-discrimination policy, and rights-based reforms.
5   To engage in a deep philosophical and political interrogation of the meaning and content of queer, particularly as it relates to politics and political activism.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Untold Histories and the meaning of Queer
2 Untold Histories and the meaning of Queer
3 The relationship between feminist theory and queer theory
4 The relationship between feminist theory and queer theory
5 Feminist Disputes: Women of Colour Feminists
6 Feminist Disputes: Radical Feminists
7 Feminist Disputes: Liberal Feminists
8 Midterm Exam
9 The Queer Canon: Foucault
10 The Queer Canon: Foucault
11 The Queer Canon: Butler
12 The Queer Canon: Butler
13 Some of the key contestations between feminist theory and queer theory
14 The State and Sexual Surveillance(s)
15 General assessment
16 Final Exam

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

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 3 24
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 15 180
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 268

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.1555
LO.245
LO.355
LO.45
LO.5555

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