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Students will be able to recognise sexuality as a historical cultural product and understand how desire has become an object, target and mechanism of power and ho it is linked to specific ‘techniques of the self’. Students will also be familiar with current research in the field of sexuality education and will be able to apply theories of power and subjectivation to educational contexts.

M. Foucault argues in a discussion at Berkley in 1983 that Western civilisation has become the civilisation of desire. This seminar will explore how desire has become the key measure of who we are. Therefore, on the one hand, the focus will be on the perspective of power and domination – in particular on the regime of normalisation that emerged at the end of the 18th century. On the other hand, the course will deal with the perspective of the subject and explore how people understand themselves as subjects of desire. In the second part of the seminar, students will use selected topics to examine how, for example, gender, cis-heteronormativity, ethnicity, class and disability are (re)produced in educational contexts and discuss what emancipatory relationships of the self to the self, to the world and to others might look like.

lecture, group work, discussion

Participation and text reading: 30%

Text excerpts: 20%

Final Examinator/paper: 50% 

All partial examinations must be successfully completed

Will be announced at the beginning of the seminar

According to the curriculum