Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies (LGBT)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

LGBT 2290

This course offers an introduction to central issues, debates, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Starting from the assumption that neither ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2290

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8462 LGBT 2290   LEC 001

    • TR White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 2335

In this course we will examine LGBTQ+ history in the United States with a focus on its recovery and public representation—what are the stakes of researching, preserving, and commemorating the LGBTQ+ past? ... view course details

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  • 17979 LGBT 2335   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 2760

"Language is a skin," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: "I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with ... view course details

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  •  8808 LGBT 2760   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 2841

This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."  It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8566 LGBT 2841   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 3210

Why are boys more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism, and why are women more likely than men to be diagnosed with depression? Are there different "gay" and "straight" brains? And how does brain ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIONB 3215FGSS 3210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8064 LGBT 3210   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisite: BIONB 2220, BIOMG 3320, FGSS 2010, LGBT 2290 or permission of instructor. For NBB concentration: this course may be used toward the additional 7 credit requirement, but does not qualify as an advanced course.

LGBT 3250

How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details

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  • 16556 LGBT 3250   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 3550

"My existence is a scandal," Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram the effect of his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of "art for art's sake" and ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3550ENGL 3550FGSS 3550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16594 LGBT 3550   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 3725

"One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one" wrote Simone de Beauvoir. How does such an odd becoming happen? What can literature teach us about it? Does anyone ever achieve "being a woman" and how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3725FGSS 3725

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16601 LGBT 3725   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 3740

In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3745FGSS 3740PMA 3740

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16664 LGBT 3740   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 3990

Individual study program intended for juniors and seniors working on special topics with selected reading or research projects not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16597 LGBT 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17472 LGBT 3990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 4701

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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  • 16634 LGBT 4701   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 4945

The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality--genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details

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  • 18015 LGBT 4945   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 438
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 6164

This course explores the changing historical relationship between the body's biological sex, individual subjectivity, and identity. It asks how culture shapes scientific understandings and possibilities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6164HIST 6164

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17258 LGBT 6164   SEM 101

    • W Uris Hall 254
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Loos, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 6335

In this course we will examine LGBTQ+ history in the United States with a focus on its recovery and public representation—what are the stakes of researching, preserving, and commemorating the LGBTQ+ past? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17981 LGBT 6335   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

LGBT 6755

How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16559 LGBT 6755   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person