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Minor Requirements
The minor consists of 5 courses. Completing the minor requires students to work closely with their course instructors, their advisers, and the LGBT director. Students are encouraged to incorporate a capstone experience, such as pursuing an independent study or undertaking a thesis within one's department that meaningfully incorporates LGBTQ-related scholarship.
The requirements are as follows:
Introductory Course
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of LGIN in the course offerings.
One course must be taken from the following list and completed prior to declaring the minor:
- FMST 230Ìý-ÌýGlobal Queer Cinema and Television
- LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýExploration in LGBTQ Studies
- LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo: Masculinity in Hispanic Cultures
- LGBT 241/EDUC 241Ìý-ÌýQueering Education Ìý
- LGBT 242/ALST 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean Ìý
- SOCI 220Ìý-ÌýGender, Sexuality, & Society
- WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
Electives
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of LGEL in the course offerings.
At least four additional courses chosen from the following lists and in consultation with an adviser typically selected from the LGBT Advisory Committee:
- CORE C140Ìý-ÌýQueer Origins
- ENGL 208Ìý-ÌýSex and the Global City
- FMST 230Ìý-ÌýGlobal Queer Cinema and Television andÌýFMST 230LÌý
- FMST 350Ìý-ÌýHollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
- HIST 304Ìý-ÌýSex and Sexualities in U.S. History
- LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýExploration in LGBTQ Studies
- LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo: Masculinity in Hispanic Cultures
- LGBT 241/EDUC 241Ìý-ÌýQueering Education Ìý
- LGBT 242/ALST 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean Ìý
- LGBT 303Ìý-ÌýQueer Identities and Global Discourses
- LGBT 310Ìý-ÌýImagining Queer Caribbean Futures
- LGBT 321Ìý-ÌýGay's Anatomy
- LGBT 340Ìý-ÌýRural Sexualities and Genders
- LGBT 350Ìý-ÌýSexuality, Gender, & the Law
- LGBT 355Ìý-ÌýPartners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
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LGBT 360Ìý-ÌýSpecial Topics in LGBTQ Studies
LGBT 369/ENGL 369 - Queer Literature - RELG 253Ìý-ÌýLove, God, and Sex
- SOCI 220Ìý-ÌýGender, Sexuality, & Society
- WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
Other Courses
Other courses may be counted toward an LGBT minor, depending on the orientation of the course and/or the direction of the readings and student projects during a particular year. Such courses need the approval of the instructor and the LGBT director to be counted toward an LGBT minor. These courses include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
- ANTH 315Ìý-ÌýGender and Culture
- CLAS 232Ìý-ÌýSexuality and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
- CORE C158Ìý-ÌýPuerto Rico
- EDUC 315Ìý-ÌýPedagogies and Publics
- ENGL 340Ìý-ÌýCritical Theory: Language, Semiotics, and Form
- FMST 350Ìý-ÌýHollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
- FREN 450Ìý-Ìý20th-Century French Literature
- JAPN 240Ìý-ÌýGender and Sexuality in Japanese Culture
- LGBT 391Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
- LGBT 491Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
- NAST 310Ìý-ÌýIndigenous LGBTQ and Feminist Studies
- SPAN 459Ìý-Ìý'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America
- WGSS 202Ìý-ÌýWomen's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Additional Stipulations
- At least three of the five courses should have an LGBT prefix.
- No more than two courses should come from a single department or program other than LGBT
- No more than one course should earn credit for an LGBT minor and the student's major
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies Program
For more information about the department, including Faculty,Ìýtransfer credit, awards, etc.,Ìýplease visit theÌýLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies programÌýcatalogÌýpage.