2020 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Special Lecture: Gender
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Npritaka Moriyama
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.H308
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims at enabling students to acquire basic knowledge about sexual diversity, and to learn about queer studies, which is a new academic field problematizing norms on gender, body and desire.
Through the consideration of sexual diversity, this course facilitate students' understanding and perspectives in order to live together with various others.
Course description and aims
1) Have an understanding of the basic knowledge about sexual diversity
2) Acquire perspectives of queer studies
3) Apply queer perspectives to various social problems
Keywords
Feminism, Gender, Sexuality, LGBT, Queer Studies
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Coursework will include writing comments on various topics everytime.
This course is a four day intensive course, and dates and time periods are as follows;
February 18 (Thu)：Class 1(Period 1-2), Class 2(Period 3-4), Class 3(Period 5-6), Class 4(Period 7-8)
February 19 (Fri)：Class 5(Period 1-2), Class 6(Period 3-4), Class 7(Period 5-6), Class 8(Period 7-8)
February 22 (Mon)：Class 9(Period 1-2), Class 10(Period 3-4), Class 11(Period 5-6)
February 24 (Wed)：Class 12(Period 1-2), Class 13(Period 3-4), Class 14(Period 5-6)
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Orirentation: Gender and Sexuality | Differenciate Gender and Sexuality |
| Class 2 | Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity | Understand "SOGI" |
| Class 3 | What is "LGBT" ? "One-e" and "One-e kotoba" | Overview Japanese "LGBT" |
| Class 4 | Limits of Some Concpets about Sexual Minorities | Problematize LGBT-centered Thoughts on Sexual Minorities |
| Class 5 | HIV/AIDS and the Beginning of Queer Studies | Retrace the Birth of Queer Studies |
| Class 6 | Basic Features of Queer Studies | Focus on Three Basic Feartures of Queer Studies |
| Class 7 | Performativity and Homosocial / Homosexual | Reading Butler and Sedgwick |
| Class 8 | Rethinking Bodies | Rethink Bodies from Queer Perspectives |
| Class 9 | From Psychoanalysis to Affect | Consider Sexual Desires |
| Class 10 | On Queer Families | Overview the diversity of families |
| Class 11 | Heteronormativity and New Homonormativity | Scrutinize the Inequality among Sexual Minorities |
| Class 12 | Same-sex Marriage and LGBT-targeted marketing | Criticize the Mainstreeming of Gay Male |
| Class 13 | Nation Ethnicity, Religion and Queer | Explore the concept of Intersectionality |
| Class 14 | Review |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
None Required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Moriyama, Noritaka. LGBT o Yomitoku: Queer Studies Nyumon. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo. (Japanese) ISBN:978-4-480-06943-6
Evaluation methods and criteria
Final report (30%) ,writing comments everytime (70%)
Related courses
- LAH.S439 ： Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences46:Gender Studies
Prerequisites
No prerequisites are necessary, but enrollment in the related courses is desirable.
Other
Should the number of applicants for this course exceed the limit, a lottery system will be used to determine which students are admitted. Be sure to attend the first class.