Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Students choose one of 10 FASSFirst Special Topics seminars open only to first-year FASS students by invitation from the Dean’s Office. Top ranked professors from across the Faculty work with students to discover the surprising, profound and interdisciplinary reach of the arts and social sciences. Students will learn to draw connections between values, ideas and evidence while developing core academic skills, from reading to research, writing and dialogue. Students with credit for FASS 101 may not take this course for further credit. Writing.

COURSE DETAILS:

At the end of every episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, host RuPaul says, “If you can’t love yourself honey, how you gonna love somebody else?” Self-love begins with self-acceptance, something that, as a queer black man, RuPaul knows does not come easy. This course explores what radical acceptance means, examines how others are applying it in their daily lives, and provides us with an opportunity to test it out in our own life.  

I am Professor Elise Chenier, the course instructor. I’ve been teaching at SFU since 2004, and every term I look forward to seeing how far we can travel in thirteen weeks’ time. I strive to create a supportive learning environment so that we can all relax and enjoy the process of learning and changing together. My email is echenier@sfu.ca. You are invited to AQ 6222 during the term in on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30-12:30 to chat about the course. This class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-4:20 in AQ 5035.  

This course facilitates the exploration and direct application of radical acceptance principles, as well as the development of writing skills. It requires active engagement on multiple levels: with ourselves, with each other, and with assigned materials (which includes podcasts, videos, and music, as well as texts).

Grading

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

Required Books:
Each week we will read one chapter of Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance: Embracing your Life with the Heart of a Buddha (New York: Random House, 2003).

You must purchase a copy of the book; it is available in the SFU Bookstore. All other assigned “readings are free and available via the course web page.