Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies Minor

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

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies Program

For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies program catalog page.