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What is a politics of the trans ordinary, of everyday life for the singularity of trans life? This course will develop a method to explore different answers to this question. That answer, trans phenomenology, will be defined as a style of reasoning that examines the variety of ways that transness cannot be reduced to `crossing? gender or sex. Course materials will include theoretical accounts from mostly contemporary (1990-present) phenomenologies and literature (fiction and non-fiction).

This course offers a critical and feminist perspective on the American university as a physical and intellectual space where different constituencies negotiate power and knowledge. We will begin by examining the origins of the private university as designed to fortify free, white, Christian governance, and the later emergence of the public university as primarily coeducational and secular.

Ethnography, the signal methodology of anthropology, is now a widespread research method, taken up by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand social processes in everyday life. Queer scholars in the United States pioneered the use of ethnographic methods within the US, arguing that queer communities constituted 'subcultures' that should be studied in their own right. This course begins with these earlier works, from the 1970s and 1980s, and will quickly move to a survey of contemporary queer ethnographic work.

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This course examines the ways that narratives produced by women, queer, and Black subjects across the African Diaspora have been sites of conflict over gender, nationhood, generation, race, class, sexuality, and other differences. It uses the framework of the Black diasporic subject to examine how bodies and borders are imagined, valued, and crossed in trans-national contexts.

The Commonwealth Honors College thesis or project is intended to provide students with the opportunity to work closely with faculty members to define and carry out in-depth research or creative endeavors. It provides excellent preparation for students who intend to continue their education through graduate study or begin their professional careers. The student works closely with their 499Y Honors Research sponsor to pursue research on a topic or question of special interest to them in preparation for writing a 499T Honors Thesis or completing a 499P Honors Project.

The Commonwealth Honors College thesis or project is intended to provide students with the opportunity to work closely with faculty members to define and carry out in-depth research or creative endeavors. It provides excellent preparation for students who intend to continue their education through graduate study or begin their professional careers. The student works closely with their 499Y Honors Research sponsor to pursue research on a topic or question of special interest to them in preparation for writing a 499T Honors Thesis or completing a 499P Honors Project.

The Commonwealth Honors College thesis or project is intended to provide students with the opportunity to work closely with faculty members to define and carry out in-depth research or creative endeavors. It provides excellent preparation for students who intend to continue their education through graduate study or begin their professional careers. The student works closely with their 499Y Honors Research sponsor to pursue research on a topic or question of special interest to them in preparation for writing a 499T Honors Thesis or completing a 499P Honors Project.