Courses - Spring 2023
LGBT
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies
LGBT200
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Credit only granted for: LGBT200.
An interdisciplinary study of the historical and social contexts of personal, cultural and political aspects of LGBT life. Sources from a variety of fields, such as anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and women's studies, focusing on writings by and about LGBT people.
LGBT265
Restriction: Must not have completed LGBT265.
Cross-listed with: ENGL265.
Credit only granted for: ENGL265 or LGBT265.
A study of literary and cultural expressions of queer and trans identities, positionalities, and analytics through an exploration of literature, art, and media. We will examine historical and political power relations by considering the intersections of sexuality and gender with race, class, nation, and disability. Topics include the social construction and regulation of sexuality and gender, performance and performativity, intersectionality, and the relationship between aesthetic forms and queer/ trans subjectivity. Our interpretations will be informed by queer and trans theories.
LGBT310
Transgender Studies
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Cross-listed with: WGSS310.
Credit only granted for: LGBT310, WMST310 or WGSS310.
Introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, providing a history of the field and engaging current debates within it. Students will explore the emergence and consolidation of trans identities, practices, cultures, and knowledges across medical, historical, sociological, cultural, and artistic contexts, paying particular attention to dynamics of race, class, and ability, to global and transnational difference, and to the implications of transgender studies for understanding gender and sexuality overall.
LGBT386
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Organization Internship
Prerequisite: 9 credits in LGBT courses.
Restriction: Permission of LGBT Studies Program.
Supervised internship experience with a community organization that expressly serves lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Students will be expected to relate course material to experience in an analysis of an organization's activities.
LGBT459M
Selected Topics in Sexuality and Literature; American Poetry: Beginning to the Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with ENGL435. Credit granted for ENGL435 or LGBT459M.
LGBT488E
Seminar in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies; Queering Black Femininties
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Students will use cultural studies and arts and humanitie s approaches in order to grapple with the intricacy of black femme identity as a radical critique of sexuality, whiteness, gender and intersecting categories of oppression. The complexity of "femme" is revealed when each of those terms in put into question. Who or what constitutes queer? How does one present feminine; is that merely an aesthetic choice? What constitutes feminine? Does one have to be a womanto be feminine? For black femmes, whose femininity has been circumscribed and defined not only against butchness but also against white femininity, claiming "femme" can be a means to radically critique static categories of gender, race, and sexuality.
LGBT499
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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