Spring 2027

Queer Bodies

Queer Bodies examines the intersection of LGBTQ identities and dis/ability through race, class, and location using critical theory and personal narratives to analyze the politics of bodily experience.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jesse Waggoner

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Generate tools for respectfully discussing disability, race, gender, sexuality, and difference.

  • Learn how to give, receive, and integrate instructor and peer feedback.

  • Analyze the different ways in which critical and theoretical texts have engaged with these experiences.

  • Acquire options for hands-on application of concepts learned in the classroom.

  • Learn and apply the basic concepts and critical vocabulary of cultural analyses within conceptual frameworks.

  • Gain proficiency in the techniques of scholarly research and the practice of academic writing with specific emphasis in disability studies, queer of color critique, queer and trans* studies, and literary and cultural research.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
GEN&WS 343

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027
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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Intersection of LGBTQ identities and dis/ability inflected by race, class, and geography.
  • Critical theory about queer bodies and personal narratives.
  • Politics of bodily experience and its impact on embodied lives.
  • Disability studies, queer of color critique, queer and trans* studies, and literary/cultural research.

Skills

  • Respectfully discuss disability, race, gender, sexuality, and difference.
  • Give, receive, and integrate instructor and peer feedback.
  • Analyze critical and theoretical texts engaging with LGBTQ and disability experiences.
  • Apply basic concepts and critical vocabulary of cultural analyses within conceptual frameworks.
  • Conduct scholarly research and academic writing in disability, queer, and trans* studies.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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GEN&WS 343 · Spring 2027

Queer Bodies

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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