SCA298

Challenge Seminar: Diversity and Social Change in the Global North. While the Nordic countries rank among the world's wealthiest, most educated, and most egalitarian, categories of identity in the Nordic region are shifting dramatically in the new millennium. Ample and important counter-narratives have emerged to prevailing discourses of exceptional and homogenous "Nordicness." This course interrogates historical categories of diversity in a Nordic context, including gender, sex, class, ethnicity, and race, as well as how these categories intersect. We will examine new forms of, and platforms for, diverse ideas and creative expression, including fluid masculinities, digital cultures, new media, and fashion. We will question the terms on which the Nordic region's indigenous peoples, the Sámi and the Greenlandic Inuit, as well as stateless people such as the Kurds, are brought into Nordic discussions of diversity, citizenship, and agency, and analyze the implications of neo-nationalist and patriarchal discourses that have emerged since the turn of the century. This course counts toward the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies major/minor. CHALS, Fall semester, even years

Challenge Seminar (CHALS)

Even Years