Undergraduate Program
Unique No. 07155
Faculty: Stone
Class Time: TH 2-5P
Room: Studio 4B (CMB 4.110)
Writing Comp: No
Comm/Culture Req: No
Closing Limit: 15
Cross-listed: RTF 390N
Prerequisites
For RTF majors, the following coursework, with a grade of at least C in each course: RTF 305; 318 or 319; and 6 additional semester hours of lower-division coursework chosen from RTF 309, 314, 316, 317, and 318 OR 319 (whichever has not already been taken). For others, consent of instructor on the first class day.
Consent requirements
This course does not require consent. Registration is open via TEX to all RTF majors.
First class day policy
Students who are not on time on the first class day will be automatically dropped.
Course description
This course is an exploration into the media and technologies of identity, with emphasis on transgender and transsexuality across cultures and throughout history. We will: conduct a global historical survey of the practices of transsexual and transgendered people from antiquity to the present; review changes in scientific perspectives on the design and significance of the male/female body as well as intersexed and transsexual bodies; discuss gender, prosthetics, cyborgs, and the relation of the posthuman to media production; explore the function of the transsexual figure in films, pulp fiction, and popular culture. You will produce physical and/ or digital projects as well as research papers, in line with the ACTLab emphasis on making. The course is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students from any department. Graduate students are encouraged to speak with the instructors before registering. Advanced undergraduates require instructor approval.
Taught by Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone (UT Austin and European Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies), who is a practicing transgendered theorist and performer.
This course does not repeat the content of any previous course of similar name.