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Minor Requirements

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.

Five Courses

A minimum of five courses, of which:

• At least three courses should be at the 300 or 400 level
• 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

One Course

One course must be taken from the following list and completed prior to declaring the minor:

• FMST 230Ìý-ÌýGlobal Queer Cinema and Television
• LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýAn Exploration into LGBTQ Studies: Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry
• LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo & the Latin Lover
• LGBT 241/EDUC 241Ìý-ÌýQueering Education Ìý
• LGBT 242/ALST 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean Ìý
• SOCI 220Ìý-ÌýGender, Sexuality, and Society
• WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers

Four Additional Courses

At least four additional courses chosen from the following lists and in consultation with an adviser typically selected from the LGBT Advisory Committee:

• CORE C140Ìý-ÌýQueer Origins
• ENGL 208Ìý-ÌýSex and the Global City
• FMST 230Ìý-ÌýGlobal Queer Cinema and Television andÌýFMST 230LÌý
• FMST 350Ìý-ÌýHollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
• HIST 304Ìý-ÌýSex and Sexualities in U.S. History
• LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýAn Exploration into LGBTQ Studies: Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry
• LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo & the Latin Lover
• LGBT 241/EDUC 241Ìý-ÌýQueering Education Ìý
• LGBT 242/ALST 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean Ìý
• LGBT 303Ìý-ÌýQueer Identities and Global Discourses
• LGBT 310Ìý-ÌýImagining Queer Caribbean Futures
• LGBT 340Ìý-ÌýRural Sexualities and Genders
• LGBT 350Ìý-ÌýSexuality, Gender, and the Law
• LGBT 355Ìý-ÌýPartners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
• LGBT 360Ìý-ÌýSpecial Topics in LGBTQ Studies
  LGBT 369/ENGL 369 - Queer Literature
• RELG 253Ìý-ÌýLove, God, and Sex
• SOCI 220Ìý-ÌýGender, Sexuality, and Society
• WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
• LGBT 369/ENGL 369 - Queer LiteratureÌý

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

For more information about the department, including Faculty,Ìýtransfer credit, awards, etc.,Ìýplease visit theÌýLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies programÌýcatalogÌýpage.