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CRES 190WQueer & Anti-Colonial Gardening

5 creditsUndergraduateStudent Option

A collective study of dispersed forms of resistance to colonial models of agriculture, including the logics of the plantation economy. Students engage disparate traditions of gardening—from the imperially ambitious collections of Kew to the creole gardens of enslaved people in the Caribbean. Course investigates how non-normative practices of gardening challenge the classificatory order of sexual, racial, and species difference that colonial horticulture maintains as a hard norm. Also considers how gardens have acted as both an expression and site of queer and trans desire.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10, CRES 100 and CRES 101; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior CRES majors.

  • This course will satisfy the Transnational CRES requirement if pass with a C/P or better.
  • This course will count as a Black Studies Minor elective if pass with a C/P or better.

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When it runs

Winter 2027Open Winter 2027

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Wed 1:20pm–4:20pm
Humanities 1 420M. TyOpen 0/18

Winter 2026Open Winter 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Wed 1:20pm–4:20pm
Humanities 1 408M. TyOpen 11/18

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