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GEN&WS 200

INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND QUEER+ STUDIES

3-4 credits.

A multidisciplinary introduction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) studies, including theories of identity formation, different societal interaction with LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ cultures in history, and contemporary legal and political issues. Course materials explore the intersections between LGBTQ+ identities and other socially marginalized identities, including (but not limited to) those based on race, ethnicity, religion and disability.

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Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify vocabulary for discussing and understanding LGBTQ+ people, concepts, histories, and politics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe how categories such as sex, gender, sexuality, and race are multidimensional and socially constructed. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss how sex, gender, and sexuality intersect with other social categories historically used to control access to political power and material resources, including race, class, disability, citizenship, religion, and so on. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine the ways in which LGBTQ+ people are affected by, participate in, and work to change larger social structures and institutions, including healthcare, the legal system, education, employment, and marriage and the family. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Construct personal analyses of historical and contemporary LGBTQ+ experiences and outcomes in conversation with scholarly research. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify vocabulary for discussing and understanding LGBTQ+ people, concepts, histories, and politics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe how categories such as sex, gender, sexuality, and race are multidimensional and socially constructed. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss how sex, gender, and sexuality intersect with other social categories historically used to control access to political power and material resources, including race, class, disability, citizenship, religion, and so on. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine the ways in which LGBTQ+ people are affected by, participate in, and work to change larger social structures and institutions, including healthcare, the legal system, education, employment, and marriage and the family. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Construct personal analyses of historical and contemporary LGBTQ+ experiences and outcomes in conversation with scholarly research. Audience: Undergraduate

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