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HIST 464 Sexuality: A Global History Units: 6.00
This is an advanced seminar on the history of sexuality in comparative context. It explores recent work that globalizes the field to include South Asia, the Sinosphere, Africa, and Latin America. It introduces current historiographical debates and theoretical approaches, with an emphasis on sexuality, colonialism, and imperialism.
Learning Hours: 288 (72 Seminar, 216 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Compare and contrast, through a critical reading of the literature as well as active and engaged seminar discussion, the divergent histories that make up the global history of sexuality beyond Europe and North America, including South Asia, the Sinosphere, Africa, and Latin America.
- Identify and explain the central debates animating the field by mastering the art of historiographical critique in a series of essays.
- Critique the Western notion of ‘sexuality’ and assess its applicability to non-Western historical contexts, at the same time as assessing the impact of indigenous and colonial sexual formations on the metropole.
- Distinguish and utilize some of the main theoretical innovations in the field, including postcolonial, feminist, and queer approaches.
- Formulate effective seminar questions and oral presentations, as well as demonstrate research and paper-writing skills, through the exploration of topics in the history of sexuality.