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POLS 456 Theories of Identity Politics Units: 3.00
An investigation into different theoretical perspectives on the issue of 'identity' and the import of these perspectives for the 'politics of identity'. Theories of gender, race, class, nation, and sexual orientation, from a variety of perspectives, including Marxist, feminist, postmodern, and psychoanalytic theory.
Learning Hours: (LECTURE) 120 (36L;84P). LEARNING HOURS (SEMINAR) 120 (36 Seminar, 12 Group Learning, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 4 or above and registration in a POLS Major, Joint Honours, or POPE Plan) and ([POLS 250/3.0 and POLS 350/3.0] or POLS 250/6.0*) and a (minimum GPA of 2.50 on all units in POLS).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Become familiar with a range of identity politics issues and historical events that inform this theoretical work.
- Become familiar with a variety of theoretical approaches to identity politics, and their accompanying conceptual vocabulary.
- Compare and contrast the political implications of different theoretical understandings of the self, subjectivity, and identity.
- Learn the skills involved in developing an engaging, supportive, and challenging intellectual community.
- Practice advanced skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
- Reflect upon one's own experiences of identity, privilege, oppression, difference, normalcy, etc., and interrogate the relationship of those experiences to conceptions of justice and political activity.