Module manager: Andrew Delatolla
Email: a.delatolla@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module provides an introduction and overview of global queer politics and cultures. It examines points of solidarity and difference concerning queer activism, community, creativity, and political history across multiple geographies. Using a variety of concepts and queer methodologies as points of departure, the module explores the different social and political relations regarding emancipation, rights, and questions concerning pinkwashing and homonationalism. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Students taking this module will have the opportunity to explore queer politics and cultures in different geographic and historic contexts. By engaging with a variety of materials including academic sources, film, music, art, and manifestos, students will be able to compare and contrast different queer sites of knowledge production and experience. In these discussions students will learn about novel ideas and methods developed during and in relation to queer political engagement and how to deploy them. The sessions provided throughout the module will be a mixture of lectures, discussions, group work, and workshops, providing students with a range of learning activities and interactions.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of key developments and debates in global queer politics and cultures
2. Evaluate a variety of queer academic, artistic and activist source material
3. Construct arguments using key concepts within queer studies; supporting this with evidence from primary and/or secondary sources
4. Identify connections between wider issues raised on the module that refer to social, political, and cultural intersections including, but not limited to: race, economy, citizenship, cultural production etc.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Communicate information effectively.
6. Critically engage with and weigh up different arguments and perspectives to form an argument
7. Apply creatively concepts and knowledge to challenge preconceptions and find innovative solutions.
8. Demonstrate problem solving and negotiation in decision-making.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Seminar | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Private study hours | 179.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Oral and written feedback will be provided during the course of the module, this can be done during one-on-one meeting with students, during seminars, and following the submission of coursework.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Group public engagement project | 60 |
| Coursework | Reflective Log | 40 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 08/05/2025
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