Teaching

We have collected syllabi for university courses that are informed by the latest scholarship at the intersections of trans studies and cinema and media studies. Click on the course name to see the syllabus.

If you are inspired by these examples, please acknowledge their authors in your own teaching materials. If you would like to share your syllabi or assignments, please email us.

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Transgender Studies / Trans Theory
Trans Cinema / Trans Cultural Production
Other Courses with Significant Trans Content
Interdisciplinary Trans Related Content

Transgender Studies / Trans Theory:

Trans of Colour Critique
Stanford University
Created by Carolina M., a student in “Queer Literature and Film” (Fall 2013)
Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0” license

Transgender Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Julie Beaulieu

Trans* Studies in Higher Education
Z Nicolazzo
See also: #TransingHigherEdSyllabus

#TransJusticeSyllabus
Sociologists for Trans Justice Committee for Advancing Trans and Intersex Studies in Academia
Note: If you are planning on adapting this syllabus for a course of your own, be sure to include the following disclaimer statement at the top or bottom of your syllabus: “This syllabus was adapted from the “#TransJusticeSyllabus compiled by the Sociologists for Trans Justice Committee for Advancing Trans and Intersex Studies in Academia” and include the link: http://s4tj.com/. Send a courtesy email to sociologistsfortransjustice@gmail.com, notifying us of your intention to use this syllabus.

Transfeminisms
Grand Valley State University
Cáel Keegan

Transgender Issues
Elizabeth Reis
Macaulay Honors College

Trans Rights Syllabus
Duke University Press
Note: All journal articles and issues in this syllabus are freely available online until September 30, 2020. Topics include black trans feminisms, coalitional models of social justice, surgery, disability, surveillance, and more.