Queer Studies (QS)
QS 262, *INTRODUCTION TO QUEER STUDIES, 3 Credits
Centering itself on activism and scholarship, this course examines homophobia's and transphobia's relationship with racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism and other forms of oppression. Introduces key concepts, histories, and political frameworks within Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer political movements. CROSSLISTED as QS 262/WGSS 262. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: QS 262H, WGSS 262, WGSS 262H
Available via Ecampus
QS 262H, *INTRODUCTION TO QUEER STUDIES, 3 Credits
Centering itself on activism and scholarship, this course examines homophobia's and transphobia's relationship with racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism and other forms of oppression. Introduces key concepts, histories, and political frameworks within Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer political movements. CROSSLISTED as QS 262/WGSS 262. (Bacc Core Course).
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator
QS 299, SPECIAL TOPICS, 3 Credits
This course is repeatable for 9 credits.
QS 321, *QUEER POP CULTURE, 3 Credits
Examines the concept of Queer popular culture through film, music, TV, image, and other mediums. Seeks to disrupt dominant discourses around gender and sexuality by centralizing women of color feminisms and queer of color critiques to analyze popular representations of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, and other social locations. CROSSLISTED as QS 321/WGSS 321. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPSI – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Social Processes & Institutions
Equivalent to: WGSS 321
Available via Ecampus
QS 361, (RE)FRAMING RACE THROUGH FILM PRODUCTION, 4 Credits
A critical engagement of ways race and ethnicity are treated in nonfiction short film as students produce their own short film as a means of challenging dominant racial representations and narratives. Requires a basic understanding of ways that notions about race and ethnicity combine with ideologies about gender, sexuality, ability, class, etc. to perpetuate unjust systems and institutions. CROSSLISTED as QS 361/WGSS 361.
Equivalent to: ES 361, WGSS 361, WLC 361
Recommended: Prior filmmaking experience
QS 362, *SERVING LGBTQ+ COMMUNITIES, 3 Credits
Engages the ethics and responsibilities involved in serving LGBTQ+ communities in fields such as education, health, law, and social services for those entering and/or continuing professions in fields that historically underserve LGBTQ+ people. Topics include LGBTQ+ youth; LGBTQ+ elders; issues affecting LGBTQ+ people across their lifespans; approaches to cultural competency; violence against LGBTQ+ people, forms of oppression including heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia; and LGBTQ+ community resilience. CROSSLISTED as QS 362/WGSS 362. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPSI – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Social Processes & Institutions
Equivalent to: WGSS 362
Available via Ecampus
QS 364, *TRANSGENDER POLITICS, 3 Credits
Addresses transgender politics--including non-binary and gender non-conforming issues--through feminist and intersectional approaches by analyzing transgender theories, arts, and activism. CROSSLISTED as QS 364/WGSS 364.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: QS 364H, WGSS 364, WGSS 364H
Available via Ecampus
QS 364H, *TRANSGENDER POLITICS, 3 Credits
Addresses transgender politics--including non-binary and gender non-conforming issues--through feminist and intersectional approaches by analyzing transgender theories, arts, and activism. CROSSLISTED as QS 364/WGSS 364.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator
QS 375, *ARTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 4 Credits
Explores concepts of structural inequality, difference, power, and discrimination through a critical survey of arts activism. Think critically about artwork and artists which address a number of social issues in the United States, including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, and indigeneity. CROSSLISTED as ES 375/QS 375/WGSS 375.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
QS 399, SPECIAL TOPICS IN QUEER STUDIES, 3 Credits
This course is repeatable for 12 credits.
QS 409, PRACTICUM: PROJECTS IN QUEER STUDIES, 1-12 Credits
Capstone projects bring theory into practice through research, design, and implementation of a project that synthesizes and demonstrates learning in the Queer Studies program.
This course is repeatable for 12 credits.
QS 431, *QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUES, 4 Credits
"Queer of color critiques" refers to political theories and activism that emerge from LGBTQ people of color to examine the intersections between race, sexuality and gender. Addresses these intersections through theory, history, and activism. CROSSLISTED as ES 431/QS 431/WGSS 431 and ES 531/QS 531/WGSS 531.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: ES 431, WGSS 431
Available via Ecampus
QS 432, *GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, 3 Credits
A creative and discussion-based course focusing on ways in which photography can and has addressed issues of gender and sexuality. An introduction to key concepts and intersections in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies and photography theory. Create written and photographic responses to artworks, texts, personal experience and pop-culture. CROSSLISTED as ART 432/QS 432/WGSS 432 and ART 532/QS 532.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination
Equivalent to: ART 432, WGSS 432
Available via Ecampus
QS 462, *QUEER THEORIES, 4 Credits
Engages key themes and critical frameworks in queer theories. Topics include histories of sexuality; forms of oppression, including heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia; resistance to oppression; violence against LGBTQ people; queer activism; diverse experiences of sexuality; and representations in literature, art, and popular media. CROSSLISTED as QS 462/WGSS 462 and QS 562/WGSS 562.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity
Equivalent to: WGSS 462
Available via Ecampus
QS 472, ^INDIGENOUS TWO-SPIRIT AND QUEER STUDIES, 4 Credits
"Two-spirit" refers to North American indigenous genders outside of European male/female binaries. Two-spirit communities argue for decolonization as a central political struggle, calling all people to unlearn settler colonial gender/sexuality on Native land. Addresses indigenous two-spirit/GLBTQ issues through theory, literature, activism, and art. CROSSLISTED as QS 472/WGSS 472 and QS 572/WGSS 572.
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course
Equivalent to: ES 472, WGSS 472
Recommended: QS 262 or WGSS 414
Available via Ecampus
QS 473, TRANSGENDER LIVES, 4 Credits
With a particular focus on transgender people of color and transnational constructions of gender, engages issues in the lives of Transgender people through autobiography, memoir, biography, poetry, and documentary film. CROSSLISTED as QS 473/WGSS 473 and QS 573/WGSS 573.
Equivalent to: WGSS 473
QS 476, *TRANSNATIONAL SEXUALITIES, 4 Credits
Explores contemporary experiences of sexualities within transnational contexts. Analyzes themes including queer and LGBTQI organizing, same-sex desires, queer transnational immigration and labor flows, sex industries and discourses of trafficking, sex tourism, and reproductive justice, using feminist, queer, and postcolonial theoretical frameworks. CROSSLISTED as QS 476/WGSS 476 and QS 576/WGSS 576.
Attributes: CSGI – Bacc Core, Synthesis, Contemporary Global Issues
Prerequisite: QS 262 with D- or better or QS 262H with D- or better or WGSS 262 with D- or better or WGSS 262H with D- or better
Equivalent to: WGSS 476
QS 477, QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR ARTS AND ACTIVISM, 4 Credits
LGBTQ people of color often engage struggles for social justice through artistic movements. Focuses on arts by LGBTQ people of color and the way these artistic movements contribute to activism that interrupts interlocking systems of oppression. CROSSLISTED as ES 477/QS 477/WGSS 477 and ES 577/QS 577/WGSS 577.
Equivalent to: ES 477, WGSS 477
Recommended: QS 262 and QS 462
Available via Ecampus
QS 499, SPECIAL TOPICS IN QUEER STUDIES, 4 Credits
Topics in gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues and scholarship. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
This course is repeatable for 12 credits.
QS 524, TRANS/GENDER POLITICS, 4 Credits
Addresses transgender politics--including transsexual, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming issues--through feminist and intersectional approaches by analyzing transgender theories, arts, and activism. CROSSLISTED as QS 524/WGSS 524.
Equivalent to: WGSS 524
QS 531, QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUES, 4 Credits
"Queer of color critiques" refers to political theories and activism that emerge from LGBTQ people of color to examine the intersections between race, sexuality and gender. Addresses these intersections through theory, history, and activism. CROSSLISTED as ES 431/QS 431/WGSS 431 and ES 531/QS 531/WGSS 531.
QS 532, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, 3 Credits
A creative and discussion-based course focusing on ways in which photography can and has addressed issues of gender and sexuality. An introduction to key concepts and intersections in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies and photography theory. Create written and photographic responses to artworks, texts, personal experience and pop-culture. CROSSLISTED as ART 432/QS 432/WGSS 432 and ART 532/QS 532.
Equivalent to: ART 532, WGSS 532
Available via Ecampus
QS 562, QUEER THEORIES, 4 Credits
Engages key themes and critical frameworks in queer theories. Topics include histories of sexuality; forms of oppression, including heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia; resistance to oppression; violence against LGBTQ people; queer activism; diverse experiences of sexuality; and representations in literature, art, and popular media. CROSSLISTED as QS 462/WGSS 462 and QS 562/WGSS 562.
Equivalent to: WGSS 562
QS 572, INDIGENOUS TWO-SPIRIT AND QUEER STUDIES, 4 Credits
"Two-spirit" refers to North American indigenous genders outside of European male/female binaries. Two-spirit communities argue for decolonization as a central political struggle, calling all people to unlearn settler colonial gender/sexuality on Native land. Addresses indigenous two-spirit/GLBTQ issues through theory, literature, activism, and art. CROSSLISTED as QS 472/WGSS 472 and QS 572/WGSS 572.
Equivalent to: ES 572, WGSS 572
QS 573, TRANSGENDER LIVES, 4 Credits
With a particular focus on transgender people of color and transnational constructions of gender, engages issues in the lives of Transgender people through autobiography, memoir, biography, poetry, and documentary film. CROSSLISTED as QS 473/WGSS 473 and QS 573/WGSS 573.
Equivalent to: WGSS 573
QS 576, TRANSNATIONAL SEXUALITIES, 4 Credits
Explores contemporary experiences of sexualities within transnational contexts. Analyzes themes including queer and LGBTQI organizing, same-sex desires, queer transnational immigration and labor flows, sex industries and discourses of trafficking, sex tourism, and reproductive justice, using feminist, queer, and postcolonial theoretical frameworks. CROSSLISTED as QS 476/WGSS 476 and QS 576/WGSS 576.
Equivalent to: WGSS 576
QS 577, QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR ARTS AND ACTIVISM, 4 Credits
LGBTQ people of color often engage struggles for social justice through artistic movements. Focuses on arts by LGBTQ people of color and the way these artistic movements contribute to activism that interrupts interlocking systems of oppression. CROSSLISTED as ES 477/QS 477/WGSS 477 and ES 577/QS 577/WGSS 577.
QS 599, SPECIAL TOPICS IN QUEER STUDIES, 4 Credits
Topics in gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues and scholarship. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
This course is repeatable for 12 credits.