Queer Studies: Subjects, Bodies, Ecologies

Education facts

Code: 757A41

<p>This course will provide you with an introduction to queer studies: an interdisciplinary field that critically examines and challenges normative and binary understandings of gender, sex, and sexuality, as well as hierarchies, social inequalities, and discrimination linked to sexuality and gender identity and expression. &nbsp;</p><p>The course focuses on the genealogy of queer studies; on queer theory, as a critical lens that examines concepts of sexuality and gender as social and cultural phenomena structured and represented through binaries, categories, and language; and on state-of-the-art developments in the field, such as queer ecologies, queer death studies, and queer aesthetics. You will learn how to apply queer methodologies to LGBTQIA+ questions and to the problematics that extend beyond traditionally understood frames of intersectional gender, sex, and sexuality. &nbsp;</p><p>The course will equip you with key concepts, analytical tools,&nbsp;and critical skills necessary for a better understanding and assessment of contemporary discourses and representation of gender and sexuality – in their enmeshment with processes of racialisation, class, and disability, among others – in cultural debates and expressions, society, art, and the media. &nbsp;</p>

Entry requirements

180 ECTS credits passed with 90 ECTS in the same main area. English corresponding to the level of English in Swedish upper secondary education (Engelska 6 or Engelska nivå 2). Exemption from Swedish

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Queer Studies: Subjects, Bodies, Ecologies

  Linköping University

  Distance

  Start date: 8 March 2027

  End date: 16 May 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %