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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.

 

Quick Links:

  • 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.

 

Trans Cinema / Trans Cultural Production:


Transgender Cinema
Carleton University
Laura Horak

Transgender Film and Media Studies
Western Washington University
Greg Youmans

Trans and Genderqueer Literature
University of Arizona
TC Tolbert

Queer and Trans Cultural Production
University of Victoria
Chase Joynt

 

Other Courses with Significant Trans Content:


Feminist, Queer, & Trans Performance
Tufts University
Kareem Khubchandani

Gender and Popular Culture
Grand Valley State University
Cael Keegan

Gender and Film
Clark University
Rox Samer

Queer Cinema and Visual Culture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
K.J. Surkan

Women, Queer and Trans* of Color Genealogies: Theories, Practices and Community Research
University of California, Riverside
Ren-yo Hwang

 

Interdisciplinary Trans Related Content
 

Who's Afraid of Gavin Grimm? The Struggle For/Against Transgender Equality
Northwestern University
Lane Fenrich

Trans/Gender in the Historical Perspective
University of Wisconsin
Finn Enke
 

 

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