When: 1:00-2 PM on 4/7, 4/21, 5/5, 5/19
Where: Namm 704
Category: Uncategorized
8th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium 11/30/23
8th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium
You are invited to attend the 8th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on Thursday, November 30 (9:00AM-5:00PM)
Online via Zoom, Sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences.
The theme for this year is âScience Fiction, Gender, and Sexuality.â The event features a keynote address by Ytasha L. Womack, a critically acclaimed author, filmmaker, and independent scholar; a writers discussion panel of authors published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine; the presentation of the Analog Emerging Black Writer Award; a panel discussion from faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a panel discussion with Macaulay Honors College, CUNY undergraduate students, and paper presentations from scholars exploring all aspects of this yearâs theme. The symposium is all day long, but attendees may dip in-and-out as their schedules permit. Also, the event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Links for registration and the livestream along with the program are available on the Science Fiction at City Tech OpenLab site.
ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity
ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity: Representations of Gender and Space in Literature (WI)
Pathways: US Experience in its Diversity
Focuses on space and place: personal, home/household, communal, virtual, digital, or global representations as they relate to self-perception and gender identity. Here, students will read works that explore the unique relationship between gender identity roles/expectations and the form and function of different types of place and space as being gender specific. Students will study environment, race, physical space, (C)lass, culture, gender roles, and sex and sexuality.
ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation
ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation (WI)
Pathways: US Experience in its Diversity
Provides students with an introductory understanding of identity, focusing specifically on the concepts of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and other aspects of social location and identification. Students will analyze the appearance of gender and sexuality as integrated social concepts by reading and discussing contemporary American texts across multiple genres and media.
ENG 2170ID Introduction to Studies in Maleness and Manhood
ENG 2170ID Introduction to Studies in Maleness and Manhood (WI)
Pathways: Creative Expression
Identifies expected and redefined understandings and representations of Maleness and Manhood through physical, psychological, sociological, and philosophical approaches through literature, scholarly writing, and film. Subject matter includes sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, perception, identity, power, politics of manhood, violence, and the use or expectation of male dominance.
ANTH 1103: Gender, Culture and Society
ANTH 1103: Gender, Culture and Society
Pathways: World Cultures and Global Issues
Female development from a historical, economic, sociological, psychological and anthropological perspective. Focuses on readings and research concerning women with and analytical emphasis on biological versus cultural orientations in the literature.
ENG 2160Â Introduction to Womenâs Studies
ENG 2160Â Introduction to Womenâs Studies (WI)
Pathways: World Cultures and Global Issues
Focuses on literature, scholarly writing, and films that focus specifically on girls and women, both nationally and internationally, in the hopes of determining whether women themselves or others (external forces, individuals, or social systems) construct definitions of womanhood. Course texts, by both men and women, will address such themes as womanism, stereotypes, feminism, violence, politics, intimate/familial relationships, sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, and prescribed and evolving gender roles as they relate to girls and women.
ENG 2150 Introduction to Women Writers
ENG 2150 Introduction to Women Writers (WI)
Pathways: Individual and Society
Introduction to the writings of selected women writers, both major authors and less well-known women writers. A variety of genres including essays, fiction, poems and plays will be explored.
Courses
Many Gender & Sexuality Studies courses at City Tech are Pathways certified and can satisfy Writing Intensive (WI)* and Interdisciplinary (ID)** degree requirements.
Individual and Society
ENG 1773ID Weird Science: Interpreting and Redefining Humanity (WI)
AFR 2000 Blacks in Media: Race, Gender & Cultural Representations (WI)
AFR 2250 Black Women In Literature (WI)
World Cultures and Global Issues
ENG 2160 Introduction to Womenâs Studies (WI)
ANTH 1103: Gender, Culture and Society
Creative Expression
ENG 2150 Introduction to Women’s Writers(WI)
ENG 2170ID Introduction to Studies in Maleness and Manhood (WI)
US Experience in its Diversity
ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation (WI)***
ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity: Representations of Gender and Space in Literature (WI)
COM 2406 Gender and Health Communication(WI)
Free Electives
IS9010/ID Interdisciplinary Independent Study
HUS 3630 Diversity and Intersectionality
HEA 1108 Women’s Health Issues
*Writing Intensive courses require a minimum of fifteen pages of writing per student, including formal and informal writing assignments.
**Interdisciplinary courses are taught by more than one faculty member from two or more departments using either team teaching or a guest lecture model.
***All students enrolled in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Minor must take this course.
