Dilemmas of LGBT Politics and Identity

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Course ID:	3700-KON10-AL
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.0 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0220) Humanities (except languages), not further defined The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Dilemmas of LGBT Politics and Identity
Name in Polish:	Dylematy polityki i tożsamości LGBT: Polska, Europa, USA
Organizational unit:	Faculty of "Artes Liberales"
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses
Prerequisites (description):	Basic knowledge of English (level B2) is welcome, but not absolutely necessary.
Short description:	The course is an interdisciplinary introduction to gender and sexuality studies. We invite students to analyze literature, film, art, and media through the lens of the LGBT politics. Our aim is to juxtapose texts coming from diverse cultural background, mainly Polish and American. The comparative perspective is supposed to help us to establish to what extend Poland belatedly repeats the Western path towards sexual freedom, and to what extend it chooses its own route. We will ponder over what is the specificity of the Polish nonheteronormative identities, and what is the import from the dominant Western cultures. Do strategies overtaken by the American Gay Movement make sense in Poland? Is it possible to catch up with the West? Is it desirable?
Full description:	The course will consist of two dovetailing fields. First, we will focus on the history of the LGBT movement. Second, we will interpret texts that deal with nonheteronormativity, mainly from the point of view of politics and identity. As intended by the course instructors, the participants • Will learn what it means that sexuality is culturally constructed and will be able to give examples of how it is constructed. • Will learn the history of the LGBT movement in Poland and in the US; they will know how the movement changed over the years. They will learn the reasons and significance of the changes. • Will know basic concepts used in LGBT studies, such as heteronormativity, homonormativity, homosociality, homonationalism, pink washing, and others. • Will learn to evaluate arguments employed in current debates over the LGBT politics. • Will learn what identity politics is; what are its advantages and limitations. • Will know the significance of inersectionality. • Will learn to recognize basic film and literary conventions used to deal with nonnormative sexuality and gender. Students will learn how to interpret texts in relation to the representations of sexuality, and they will be able to critically evaluate the consequences of these representations.
Bibliography:	Obowiązkowe lektury zostały podane w polu „Zakres tematów”. Poniżej przedstawiamy krótki przegląd opracowań związanych z tematyką kursu (10 pozycji). A. Gajewska (red.), Teorie wywrotowe. Antologia przekładów. Poznań 2012. G. Ritz, Nić w labiryncie pożądania: gender i płeć w literaturze polskiej od romantyzmu do postmodernizmu, tł B. Drąg, A. Kopacki, M. Łukasiewicz, Warszawa 2002. Z. Sypniewski, B. Warkocki (red), Homofobia po polsku, Warszawa 2004. W. Śmieja, Literatura, której nie ma. Szkice o polskiej „literaturze homoseksualnej”, Kraków 2010. B. Warkocki, Różowy język. Literatura i polityka kultury na początku wieku, Warszawa 2013. T. Kitliński, P. Leszkiewicz. Miłość i demokracja: rozważania o kwestii homoseksualnej w Polsce, Kraków 2005. E. Kosofsky Sedgwick, Męskie pragnienie homospołeczne i polityka seksualności, tł. Adam Ostolski, “Krytyka Polityczna” 2005 nr 9/10. J. Weeks. Sexuality and Its Discontents. London 1985. S. Seidman. Społeczne tworzenie seksualności, tłum. P. Tomanek, Warszawa 2012. L. Duggan, The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy, Boston 2003.
Learning outcomes:	Student: K_W02 knowing the basic terminology of the humanities and social sciences K_W06 knowing the relationships between humanities disciplines and the exact and natural sciences in a philosophical and social context K_W10 basic knowledge on the latest achievements of interdisciplinary research methods in the humanities and the social, exact and natural sciences K_W15 basic knowledge on contemporary cultural life in Poland and Europ K_W16 understanding the relationships between cultural activities and changes in social life K_U01 selecting and interpreting information from different textual, iconographic and electronic sources K_U02 analysing artistic, philosophical and sociological texts using the appropriate research tools, and presenting the results of such work K_U05 basic skills in using interdisciplinary research methods and tools to analyse phenomena of contemporary culture K_U11 analysing written and oral academic texts in Polish and in one of the “congress” languages K_K03 understanding the dynamics of scientific, cultural and social development and keeping up with new research methods and paradigms
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Assessment of students’ participation in discussion and two short papers.

This course is not currently offered.

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