CTSJ 145:  Collegiate Sexualities
(TR 3:00-4:25 pm)

Students will be introduced to feminist and queer theories through the study of the sexual practices, identities, and cultures of college students in the contemporary United States. Topics include femininity and the desire to be desired; the lesbian continuum; masculinity, misogyny, and homophobia; male boding and the traffic in women; the invention of homosexuality and of heterosexuality; the intersectionality of sexuality, gender, race, and class; and the incitement to discourse. The books to buy are Peggy Sanday's Fraternity Gang Rape, Michael Kimmel's Guyland, Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs, and Kathleen Bogle's Hooking Up.  Other readings include texts by Freud, de Beauvoir, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Adrienne Rich, and Gayle Rubin. Students are called on to draw connections between the readings and their own observations of everyday life on and around campus.  Open only to first- and second-year students.

CTSJ 341:  Ethnographic Inscription
(TR 10:00-11:25 am)

Ethnography is a collection of methods used to produce a description of a community. Ethnographic methods are employed by researchers in many disciplines, including cultural anthropology, sociology, education, linguistics, performance studies, and cultural studies. In this course we will focus on a particular ethnographic method: participant-observation. Students will learn how to conduct participant-observation and how to produce ethnographic fieldnotes by doing fieldwork in the Occidental College community. Coursework includes weekly fieldwork exercises and readings on the history and politics of ethnography with emphasis on the Boasian tradition of ethnography as cultural critique. The books to buy are Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, Michael Moffat's Coming of Age in New Jersey, Rebekah Nathan's My Freshman Year, and Emerson, Fretz and Shaw's Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes.  Prerequisite: a 200-level CTSJ course or junior or senior status.