Community Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Community Praxis

Using St. Louis as a lens, the course focuses on examining the imbrication of class, gender, race, and sexuality in the US and the variety of community efforts that use feminist and queer principles to enact social change. Course readings present theories of class, gender, race, and sexuality as well as visions of community response. Service work in community engagement placements enables students to ask how their understanding of social change is challenged when put into practice and how communities can and should shape academic discourse. Course assignments ask students to evaluate both academic and community praxis (theory in practice) with the goal of creating a more just and equitable St. Louis. Students can do engagement hours with a group with which they already have established a relationship, but must notify instructor when enrolling in the course. Course enrollment is limited to Juniors and Seniors. Course expects significant community work outside of class meeting hours and thus carries 4 credits.

Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM; AS SC

Community Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Community Praxis

WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES 3174

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