Study of Women and Gender 270 - COLQ: ORAL HIST & LESBIAN SUBJ

This course explores lesbian, queer and bisexual communities, cultures and activism as preparation for oral history work. While becoming familiar with the existing narratives about lesbian/queer lives, students are introduced to the method of oral history as a key documentation strategy in the production of marginalized histories. Our texts include secondary literature on 20th-century queer cultures and communities, oral history theory and methodology, and primary sources from the Sophia Smith Collection (SSC). Students conduct, transcribe, edit and interpret their own interviews for their final project. The oral histories from this course are archived in Smith's Special Collections. Prerequisites: SWG 150 or the equivalent. Enrollment limited to 20.