ENG 337 - LGBTQ2IA+ Literatures and Cultures

• Define key concepts in relation to the study of Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusivity including antiracism, racism, race, ethnicity, discrimination, privilege, diversity, equity, inclusivity, and intersectionality.
• Analyze the role of race, racism, and antiracism in the United States.
• Describe intersections between race and ethnicity and other minoritized identities.
• Explain systematic and structural mechanisms that perpetuate both privilege and inequities.
• Compare and contrast your own core values, assumptions, and biases with those held by other individuals, cultures, or societies.
• Analyze how minoritized genders and sexualities intersect with other problematics like race, disability, class, citizenship, and nationhood, as expressed in LGBTQ2IA+ narratives and queer theory.
• Explain how LGBTQ2IA+ texts have formed from such topics as: queer love, the relationship between gender and identity, the fight for rights and representation, and discrimination based on gender, sexuality, and intersecting minoritized identities, including race.
• Construct arguments about foundational concepts, major themes, and terms in queer studies, gender studies, and LGBTQ2IA+ cultural conversations.
• Discuss how texts by LGBTQ2IA+ authors address significant political and sociocultural movements and events.