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Minor Requirements
The minor consists of 5 courses. Completing the minor requires 闪电资源网s 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 230听-听Global Queer Cinema and Television
- LGBT 220听-听Exploration in LGBTQ Studies
- LGBT 227听-听Machismo: Masculinity in Hispanic Cultures
- LGBT 241/EDUC 241听-听Queering Education 听
- LGBT 242/ALST 242听-听Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean 听
- SOCI 220听-听Gender, Sexuality, & Society
- WGSS 279听-听Black 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 C140听-听Queer Origins
- ENGL 208听-听Sex and the Global City
- FMST 230听-听Global Queer Cinema and Television and听FMST 230L听
- FMST 350听-听Hollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
- HIST 304听-听Sex and Sexualities in U.S. History
- LGBT 220听-听Exploration in LGBTQ Studies
- LGBT 227听-听Machismo: Masculinity in Hispanic Cultures
- LGBT 241/EDUC 241听-听Queering Education 听
- LGBT 242/ALST 242听-听Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean 听
- LGBT 303听-听Queer Identities and Global Discourses
- LGBT 310听-听Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
- LGBT 321听-听Gay's Anatomy
- LGBT 340听-听Rural Sexualities and Genders
- LGBT 350听-听Sexuality, Gender, & the Law
- LGBT 355听-听Partners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
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LGBT 360听-听Special Topics in LGBTQ Studies
LGBT 369/ENGL 369 - Queer Literature - RELG 253听-听Love, God, and Sex
- SOCI 220听-听Gender, Sexuality, & Society
- WGSS 279听-听Black 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 闪电资源网 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 315听-听Gender and Culture
- CLAS 232听-听Sexuality and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
- CORE C158听-听Puerto Rico
- EDUC 315听-听Pedagogies and Publics
- ENGL 340听-听Critical Theory: Language, Semiotics, and Form
- FMST 350听-听Hollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
- FREN 445听-听Writing the Self in the 20th Century: Autobiography in French
- FREN 450听-听20th-Century French Literature
- JAPN 240听-听Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Culture
- LGBT 391听-听Independent Study
- LGBT 491听-听Independent Study
- NAST 310听-听Indigenous LGBTQ and Feminist Studies
- SPAN 459听-听'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America
- WGSS 202听-听Women'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 闪电资源网's major
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies Program
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