ASTU 100 is a year-long course that combines literature with academic research and writing through the study of a core research topic, which for my class is “Reading and Representing Law and Society.” Students are studying legal “states of exception,” and discussing forms of legal abandonment in connection to fictional representations of internment camps, residential schools, and “illegal” migration. My course is coordinated with courses in History, Anthropology, and Political Science, and is organized into thematic mini-units that approach the tension between law and society from different perspectives and in diverse contexts.
GRSJ 300 is an online, summer course focused on intersectional approaches to gender studies. It emphasizes historical and cross-cultural approaches to and aspects of the social construction of masculinity, femininity, transgender, and gender.