Spring 2021 - GSWS 212 D900
STT-Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (3)
Class Number: 7976
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 11 – Apr 16, 2021: Tue, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Vaibhav Saria
vsaria@sfu.ca
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An introduction to how gender and sexuality is lived, experienced, and negotiated in South Asia, and how these get entangled with intellectual and philosophical questions concerning the fate of the region.
COURSE DETAILS:
In this course we will introduce ourselves to the study of modern South Asia. This region of our world has not only been very intensively studied but has also emerged as critically important partly because of global capital flows (seen in examples such as outsourcing, call centres, and nuclear weapons etc.) and partly because of globalizing cultural artifacts that are associated with South Asia (seen in examples such as yoga, Bollywood, caste system, arranged marriages, etc.). Thus, this course will not only be a study of South Asia but also a study of how bodies of knowledge are transformed, circulated, contested, and consumed. This course will take South Asia as offering intellectual challenges to familiar notions of gender, sexuality, religion, love, and citizenship. My goal in organizing our readings according to topics and keywords is to help see us the cultural logics that South Asia offers.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: http://www.sfu.ca/gsws/undergraduate/courses/Educational_Goals.html
Grading
- Weekly precis: 30%
- Midterm Essay: 30%
- Final Essay: 30%
- Attendance: 10%
NOTES:
Online- Partially Synchronous Lecture will be held weekly
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
All the weekly assigned readings will be uploaded on canvas and will be made available through the library. Students will not be required to buy any books. Readings will be around 50-75 pages, and students will be expected to do these readings before the lecture.
Registrar Notes:
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TEACHING AT SFU IN SPRING 2021
Teaching at SFU in spring 2021 will be conducted primarily through remote methods. There will be in-person course components in a few exceptional cases where this is fundamental to the educational goals of the course. Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.
Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112).