AP/GWST3547 3.0 A: Reframing Fat
Offered by: GWST
Session
Summer 2020
Term
S2
Format
LECT
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
In this course, students become familiar with feminist and post-colonialist theories of embodiment, and use them to explore how the fat body and fat phobia have been and are produced through history, through policy, and through popular culture. Note: A knowledge of feminist theory is required. A knowledge of feminist theories of the body is an asset. Prerequisite: AP/GL/GWST 2500 6.00 or AP/GL/GWST 2510 9.00 or AP/GL/WMST 2500 6.00 (prior to Fall 2013) or AP/GL/WMST 2510 9.00 (prior to Fall 2013). Course credit exclusions: AP/GL/WMST 3547 3.00). PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Prerequisite: AK/AS/GL 2500 6.00 or AK/AS/GL 2510 9.00. Course credit exclusion: AK/AS/WMST 3547 3.00.
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