San Diego State Now Offers A RuPaul's Drag Race Course To Study "Queens Of Color"

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San Diego State Now Offers A RuPaul's Drag Race Course To Study "Queens Of Color" Authored by Veronica Webber via The College Fix,San Diego State University currently offers a…

San Diego State University currently offers a course in which students will examine "race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and trans/nonbinary politics" in a drag-race competition show.

In "RuPaul's Drag Race - Media, Markets, and Power," students will analyze "the framing and reception of queens of color and debates around trans inclusion," the course description states.

This is "an upper-division course for undergraduates, [that] introduces students to the TV show featuring a drag queen competition."

Students will learn "how fandom and digital publics generate both pleasure and policing." They will also complete a final project connecting "Drag Race to broader questions of media power, commodification, and cultural politics in the streaming era," the description states.

However, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling strongly condemned the course content in an email to The College Fix. APP is a conservative political advocacy organization.

He also said that it "is a waste of time and money" and that "students will walk away arguably worse off than before they started."

Schilling added that the course represents an egregious misuse of public funds, as it burdens already expensive higher education with classes that fail to expand students' knowledge or improve their job prospects.

This course is taught by Professor Nathian Rodriguez. Neither Rodriguez nor the university responded to multiple requests for comment from The College Fix.

However, Professor Rodriguez told The Daily Aztec that courses such as his help "meet students where they're at."

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