This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

The undergraduate minor in Queer Studies prepares students to examine how gender and sexuality are constructed and policed and, further, imagines liberatory futures for people of all genders and sexualities. Centering itself on the activism and scholarship of women of color, transnational feminisms, Two-Spirit Indigenous people, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people of color, this minor examines homophobia and transphobia's relationship with racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism and other forms of power.

Minor Code: 877

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Recognize and articulate entwined relationship between heterosexism, patriarchy, gender regimes, racism, classism, colonialism, and xenophobia.
• Critically engage oppression and inequality through intersectional analyses in scholarship.
• Practice tactics of intervention in their scholarship and activism that challenge all systems of oppression and inequality.
• Interrogate one's own multiple and shifting social locations in relationship to intersecting systems of power.
• Practice social justice and transformation through scholarly, artistic, and organizational projects that engage both the OSU campus and local, national and international communities.

A total of 29 credits is required for the minor, with at least 12 of these credits at the upper-division level.

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Baccalaureate Core course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in a catalog year up to 2024-2025

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Core Education course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in catalog year 2025-2026 and beyond

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Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) course

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The remaining 8 credits may be taken from the Queer Studies electives (any course with the QS prefix) and from approved courses offered by other departments

Minor Code: 877