New Course at U. Colorado Boulder to Explore Feminism Through Disney Female Characters

New Course at U. Colorado Boulder to Explore Feminism Through Disney Female Characters

This sounds like a very serious course and not at all like an easy good grade.

Campus Reform reports:

New University of Colorado Boulder course to explore feminism through Disney female characters

The University of Colorado Boulder students will have the opportunity to study examples of Disney’s female characters in a feminist context.

Students will specifically learn “how mass media acts to enforce and maintain conventional gendered understandings of power, privilege and difference.” The course appears on the university’s Women and Gender Studies course list for the spring semester and is titled “Disney’s Women and Girls.”

A course description on the university’s website says that the class “[e]xamines the construction of gender, race, class, sexual orientation and disability in a selection of Disney’s animated films,” “[c]ultivates skills of media literacy, exploring how mass media acts to enforce and maintain conventional gendered understandings of power, privilege and difference,” and “[a]nalyzes the political economy of the Disney phenomenon through a feminist lens.”

The course does not currently have a listed faculty for next semester.

According to its homepage, the Women and Gender Studies Department is “home to one of the most culturally diverse faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder.”

“We welcome students of color, LGBTQ+ students, first generation college students, students of various ethnic backgrounds, and all students interested in learning about gender and sexuality in a range of cultural and historical contexts,” the description continues.

Other Women and Gender Studies courses next spring include “Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture,” “Women, Gender, Literature and the Arts,” “Gender, Race, Science and Technology,” “Gender and Latin American Politics,” and “Feminist Fictions.”

One way the Department achieves this goal is to maintain what it calls the “Gender Justice League.” The League allows select students to apply social justice principles to practical situations.

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