The Minor

The minor requires 18 credits of coursework:

1) Two lower division core courses

QSX 111: Queer Histories, Communities, and Politics
Explores and analyzes queer histories, communities and politics from the ancient past to the contemporary, global present through an interdisciplinary reading of research, theory, memoir, biography, fiction, and documentary film.
QSX 112: Sexualities, Genders, Bodies
Explores how sexuality, gender, and embodiment are understood across communities and through time with an interdisciplinary analysis of literature, film, mass media, websites, research, and theory.

2) Four upper division courses approved for the minor from clusters below.

3) GPA = 2.0

The courses are clustered thematically, and each cluster will offer at least one course every fourth semester. Often, more than one course will be offered per semester. There are no cluster requirements for students; students may take any of the approved courses or petition to substitute other courses with substantial LGBT content or projects.

[1] Communities, Places, and Identities: This cluster explores the social and spatial dimensions of sexuality, the production of sexual identities, and LGBT lives and experiences.

LGBT Studies in Sociology Sociology 456
Queer Relationships Comm/Rhet Studies 331
Space and Sexuality Architecture 500
Sexualities and Gender in World Teen Cultures Women's Studies 447
Geographies of Space and Sexuality Geography 500

[2] Histories and Knowledges: This cluster analyzes the ways knowledge about sexuality is and has been constructed through social structures, cultural contexts, systems of power, epistemologies, and analytical practices.

LGBT Experience in American History History 389
Queering Theory/Embodying Knowledge Sociology 300
Trans Genders and Sexualities Women's Studies 438
Theories of Gender and Sexuality Eng/Textual Studies 360
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the African Diaspora African American Studies 309

[3] Representation, Media, and Performance: This cluster addresses the ways LGBT cultures and practices have been performed and represented in art and culture.

Documenting Sexualities Eng/Textual Studies 360
Cinema and Sexual Difference Eng/Textual Studies 360
Queer Fictions Eng/Textual Studies 360
Queer Latina/o Performance Comm/Rhet Studies 314
Writing, Rhetoric, Identity Writing 424

[4] Institutions and Public Policy: This cluster studies the ways legal, political, and educational institutions both shape and are shaped by LGBT lives and experiences.

Sexuality and the Law Political Science 400
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health & Well Being Social Work 400/600
Queer Youth, Straight Schools: GLBT Issues in Education Cultural Foundations in Education, Education 300