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Futures of the Field:
Building LGBT Studies
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April 20017

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ALISA SOLOMON

Executive Director

Professor of English and Theatre,

Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

MARTIN DUBERMAN

Founder

Divtinguished Professor of History,

Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

OCLAGS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MARE BLASILS
Professor of Political Science,
LaGuardia and The Graduate Center, CUNY

PAISLEY CURRAH
Associate Proéessor of Political Science,
Brooklyn College, CUNY

GEORGE FE CUSTEN

Chair, Department of Performing and
‘Creative Agta, College of Staten Island and
Director, Film Certificate Program,

The Graduate Center, CUNY

KAY DIAZ
AlDerey

LEA DUGGAN
Associate Professor of American Studins
and History, Mew York University

DAVID ENG
Assistant Professor of English and Coenparather
Literature, Columbia University

LICIA FIOL-MATTA
Aasivtant Professor of Spanish and Latin Anverican
Cultures, Barnard College

WILLIAM FISHER
Assistant Professor of English,
Lehn College, CUNY

MARCIA GALLO

Disector of Donor Programs and Development,
The Funding Exchange

Ph.D. Candidate in History,

The Graduate Center, CUNY

DEPORAH GAMES
PhD, Candedate in Sociology,
The Graduate Genter, CUNY

SHARON HOLLAND

Associate Professor of English and Adican-American
Studies, University of Mlinais at Chicago

AMBER HOLLIEAUGH

Winter, Filmmaker

ROERT KAPLAN
Ph.D. Candidate in English,
The Graduate Cente, CUNY

LARRY LAROUNTAIN-STOKES

Assistant Profesor od Puerto Rican Studees and
Hispanic Cantbean Shades, Rutgers University
DOUGLAS MAQ

Assistant Professor of English,

Harvard University

Jost MUAOZ

Associate Professor of Perormance Studies,
Mew York University

ESTHER NEWTON

Professor of Anthropology,

SUNY Purchase

RICARDO ORT

Assistant Professor of English,

Georgetown University

ANM PELLEGRINI
Associate Professor of VWiomen's Stuclies,
Barnard College

JASHIR PUAR

Assistant Prodessor of Wornen’s, Stunfoes.
and Geography Rutgers University
(Ose QUIROGA

Associate Professor of Spanish,

Gennge Washington University

JOE ROLLINS

Agsechait Peedessor of Political Science,
‘Queens College, CUNY

FRANCES WHITE
Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Shut,
Mew York University

ALAN YANG
Lecturer, School of inbennational ane! Public Affairs,
Columbia University

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April 19, 2001
Dear Colleagues,

This document contains the initial results from a survey and research conducted in
preparation for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies conference, “Futures of the
Field: Building LGBT Studies into the 21“ Century University,” April 20-21, 2001.
We wanted to collect and distribute information on programs already in place to
see how they’ve been designed, what—if any—core curriculum is required, which
disciplines are most present in these programs and which are most absent, and
where these programs and courses of study are institutionally located. The
programs’ names, descriptions, and rationales are of particular interest—and use—
to those of us now trying to start programs. For example, many programs appear to
reflect the idea that interrogating the social organization of sexuality is best done
from the margins, from the perspective of sexual minorities (often described as
“LGBT”). Other programs, more often those located in women’s and gender
studies programs and departments—and admittedly, these programs were harder to
identify in our initial research—emphasize the examination of constructions of
normative sexualities and genders, but also find a place for the study of sexual
minorities. There are undoubtedly many pedagogical, practical, and political
reasons to account for the different ways that the field has been institutionalized.
Perhaps at this conference, we can begin to sort some of them out.

Some caveats: No doubt we have missed many programs in this first draft. Some
of the programs we learned about simply by surfing the web. Others we learned
about from the web-based survey of LBGT/Sexuality Studies Programs CLAGS
conducted. Where possible, we tried to confirm information we found on the web
with the program director. Moreover, it appears that there are many
LBGT/sexuality studies concentrations, minors, or streams within women’s and
gender studies majors and departments and we have probably missed the majority
of those in this draft. Also, we limited all descriptions of each program, including
rationale, requirements, and course offerings, to two pages. In most cases,
however, more information is available on the program’s web site. Finally, with
two exceptions this survey covers programs only in the United States. We hope in
future versions that we'll have more comprehensive material from non-U.S.
locations. If your program was not included in this survey, please email the
information to us at clags(@ge.cuny.edu. This document will be updated and
posted on the CLAGS web site at www.clags.org.

We hope that the circulation of this “nuts and bolts” material will stimulate
productive discussions about the institutionalization of the field—whatever it is—
in the academy. It’s clear from the programs listed below that there are many ways
to organize the study of sexuality.

Alisa Solomon
Executive Director

aisley/Currah and Ji

Future’ of the Field Gaénference Co-Chairs


Allegheny College From web page only: not confirmed

interdisciplinary Minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Coordinator: Professor Sonya Jones
hitp:/Avebpub.alleg.edu/group/interdis/LesbianGayStudies. html

Program Description: An interdisciplinary minor which combines three Liberal Studies courses focused.on lesbian
and gay issues with courses from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences that connect these issues to other
cultural themes. Liberal Studies 206 Before and After Stonewall, Liberal Studies 207 Human Sexual Identity, and
Liberal Studies 306 Cultural Construction of Sexuality are required. LS 206 should be taken before LS 306. The minor
requires 20 credits. The minor coordinator is Professor Sonya Jones, and the minor is administered by a committee
whose membership includes Professors William Bywater, Deb Dickey, Sonya Jones, and Glen Wurst.

Course Requirements for the Lesbian and Gay Studies Minor:

Take the following core courses on lesbian and gay issues

Liberal Studies 206 Before and After Stonewall: An Introduction to Issues in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Liberal Studies 207 Human Sexual Identity

Liberal Studies 306 Cultural Construction of Sexuality

Take one of the Sexuality in a Biological Context courses
Biology 070 (or LSN 270) Human Heredity
Biology 072 (or LSN 272) The Neurosciences

Take one of the Lesbian and Gay Issues in Cultural Context courses
Psychology 102 Sex and Gender

History 150 The Sixties in America

Psychology 160 Life Span Development

Philosophy 210 Liberation Theories

English 362 20th Century Gay and Lesbian Literature



University of Amsterdam
Gender, Sexuality and Culture Stream
http:/Avww.pscw.uva.nl/gl/
Gert Hekma
hekma@pscw.uva.nl
Gay and Lesbian Studies
(Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185
. 1012 DK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telephone: *31205252226

In 1978, the initiative was taken to establish gay and lesbian studies at the University of Amsterdam. Staff from the
Humanities and students from the Social Sciences succeeded in 1980 in creating courses in their fields. In 1983, the
group of gay and lesbian studies organized the international conference “Among Men, Among Women. Social and
historical recognition of homosocial arrangements”. After this highly successful event, the University provided
finances to create two positions in gay and lesbian studies within the department of sociology. The staff of the
department has since taught dozens of courses in gay, lesbian, gender and sexual studies. It organized many
conferences and collaborated with other groups on several exhibits. At the Faculty of the Humanities, irregular
activities were scheduled off and on that have largely vanished in 2000 due to budget cuts in this faculty. The
teaching in gay and lesbian studies is nowadays nearly exclusively English language.

The Gender, Sexuality and Culture Stream is part of the International School, www.pscw.uva.ni/internationalschool,
and offered through a certificate programme in humanities and social sciences.

The courses include:

Introduction to Sexual Studies

Experiencing Differences

The Social Meaning of Gender

Gender and Ethnicity

Social Theories of Sexuality

The Local and Global Complexity of Prostitution


University of California, Berkeley

Minor Program in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
Faculty Director: Chris Nealon

scholar9@uclink4.berkeley.edu

455 Wheeler

642-4479

http://queer.berkeley.edu/academics/minor.php3

Program Description:

In the course of the past twenty-five years the critical study of sexuality as developed by scholars in the field of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies has established itself as one of the most vibrant areas of intellectual
inquiry in the humanities and social sciences in the United States. LGBT Studies works to establish sexuality as a
crucial category of analysis in the humanities and social sciences. It draws on disciplines such as anthropology,
sociology, psychology, history, literature, and cultural studies, in order to document the extent to which sexuality itself
is a complex cultural and historical phenomenon that bears. careful examination. Just as Women's Studies, for
instance, is not only by, about, and for women, LGBT Studies is not only by, about, or for lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
trangendered people, but includes all humanity in its purview.

A large portion of the energy spent developing this field has been devoted to discovering (and recovering) the history,
dynamics, and complexities of same-sex relationships. Both those relationships and study have had to combat a
variety of delegitimizing forces originating from numerous social locations. The study of same-sex relationships within
LGBT Studies has intended to provide legitimacy to those kinds of relationships, to the communities of people
organized around and involved in those relationships, and to the history of those people and those communities. In
working toward this end, the field of LGBT Studies has necessarily worked to theorize the concept, practice, and
history of sexuality itself; it has learned to examine the various ways intimacies and sexual experiences are
constructed and perceived in different periods, cultures, and social classes. The field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Studies thus both addresses the particularities of the modern forms of sexuality we call lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and trangendered (forms of sexuality that have only recently been able to claim for themselves the right to
serious academic study), and further addresses the phenomenon of sexuality itself in all its historical and cross-
cultural diversity.

Interested students in any major can earn a minor in LGBT Studies by completing four required core courses (one
lower division and three upper division) and two upper division elective courses approved for the minor program.

Requirements:

The minor consists of 4 core courses plus two electives. The four core courses are:

UGIS 20AC: Alternative Sexual Identities and Communities in Contemporary American Society: This course
examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities and communities in the US in the 20th century (and the
early 21st!). We will begin with a broad historical overview, including a look at the relationship between sexuality and
science in the 20th century; and then we will focus for several weeks on one- and two-decade segments of queer
history, beginning with the development of urban queer subcultures after World War |, and ending with a look at the
history and representation of AIDS in the 1980s. After spring break, we will examine a series of issues that
importantly defined queer culture in the 1990s: the development of youth identities, and of transgender identities; the
relationship between homosexuality and the US military; the role of performance and artistic representation in queer
politics; and the meanings of “family” in queer communities. .

UGIS 145: Interpreting the Queer Past: Methods and Problems in the History of Sexuality: This course
examines interpretive issues in studying the history of sexuality and the formation of sexual identities and
communities. Considering primary documents, secondary literature, and theoretical essays, we investigate specific
historiographical concerns and raise questions about historical methodology and practice. This course also listed as
Women's Studies C145.

UGIS 146: Cultural Representations of Sexualities - Queer Visual Culture: This course examines modern visual
cultures that construct ways of seeing diverse sexualities. Considering Western conventions of representation during
the modem period, we will investigate a variety of media, including film, television, and video. How and when do
“normative” and "queer" sexualities become visually defined? Thiscourse is also listed as Women's Studies C146.
UGIS 147B: Sexuality, Culture and Colonialism: An introduction to social theory and ethnographic methodology in
the cross-cultural study of sexuality, particularly sexual orientation and gender identity. The course will stress the
relationships between culture, international and local political economy and the representation and experience of
what we will provisionally call homosexual and transgendered desires or identities. This course is also listed as
Anthropology C147B. ;

Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures
Director: Michael Lucey

mlucey@socrates berkeley.edu



University of California, Los Angeles

Minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
James A. Schultz

Director, UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program

271 Kinsey Hall, Box 951384

Los Angeles, California 90095-1384

310 206-0516

Igbs@humnet.ucla.edu

http:/Avww.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Igbts/

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program at UCLA is an interdisciplinary program that supports
teaching and research on the historical and contemporary experience of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and
transgendered people. It provides an academic home for those who wish to study the intellectual and cultural
traditions that have shaped our current understanding of sexuality, as well as for those who wish to challenge such
traditions and generate new theoretical paradigms. The program sponsors courses, offers an undergraduate minor,
organizes lecture series, facilitates the study of minority sexualities in the broadest interdisciplinary context, and tries
to bring together interested students, faculty, and members of the larger Los Angeles community.

The History of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at UCLA

UCLA has sponsored research in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies for nearty fifty years, longer than
almost any other university in the United States. It enjoys this distinction thanks to the work of Evelyn Hooker, a
research psychologist at UCLA, who was urged by a former student and other gay men she knew to study
homosexuals who lead relatively well-adjusted lives. Her research, which she began presenting publicly in 1954,
showed that there is no detectable difference in the psychological health of homosexual and heterosexual men. As
one of the very first academics to challenge the belief that homosexuals are in some way flawed, Hooker assured
UCLA a place of honor among U.S. universities in the struggle to combat prejudice with creditable research.

Not until 1976 was the first course in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies taught at UCLA. It was devoted
to "Gay and Lesbian Literature" and was taught by Peter Thorslev, professor of English. More recently, the Women’s
Studies Program has sponsored courses with lesbian and gay content, among them the "Introduction to Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Studies," first taught in 1992 by Daniel Calder, professor of English and Linda Garnets, lecturer in
psychology and women’s studies. Over the years other departments too have offered a steadily increasing number of
related courses.

After several years of discussion and planning, an undergraduate minor in lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies was
approved early in 1997, and the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Program began its work in the fall quarter of that
year. In 1998, the program was renamed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies.

Why Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies? ran

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies has only recently acquired a name and found a place in university
curricula, yet this apparently new field actually represents the intersection of two traditions that have existed for -
thousands of years. The better known is the learned tradition, which, at least since the end of the ancient world, has
been overwhelmingly hostile. Medieval theology condemned the sodomite; nineteenth-century medicine pathologized
the invert; and until very recently psychiatry felt called upon to "cure" the homosexual. For at least as long, however,
men and women attracted to others of their own sex have kept alive another, affirmative tradition, a knowledge of
their past that sustained them, often in the face of overwhelming official hostility. The guests at Plato’s Symposium
looked back to Achilles and Patroclus; women-loving-women in early twentieth-century Paris remembered Sappho.

As the political movement for lesbian and gay rights gained strength after 1969, the knowledge that had flourished
underground for centuries found a public voice sufficiently strong to mount a sustained challenge to the official
teachings concerning minority sexualities. This challenge ted to a dramatic increase in research on same-sex desire,
most of it the work of scholars without academic affiliations. Inspired by these accomplishments, students and faculty
at colleges and universities eventually mustered the courage to address similar topics, thereby transforming—partly
by assimilation, partly by contestation—the previously hostile learned tradition. This originally rather disparate work
gradually coalesced into lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, which, over the last decade, has developed
into an academic discipline of remarkable breadth and vitality. The field embraces work in genetics and cultural
studies, in literature and anthropology, in the health sciences, history, and the visual arts. {t ranges from archival
research to the elaboration of queer theory, from the analysis of constitutional law to questions of public health, from
the study of popular culture to investigations into the development of sexual identity.

Although the initial focus in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies is usually on minority sexualities, it is
impossible to study minority sexualities in any meaningful way without raising questions about sexuality in general.
And questions about sexuality cannot be answered without considering questions of gender, race, class, ethnicity,
history, political economy, and the construction of scientific knowledge. Thus Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Studies, which may at first seem to concern the private practices of a small number of people, inevitably



leads to the much larger study of sexuality and culture. Indeed, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies is
the site of some of the most exciting work being done today on the relation of culture and sexuality.

The minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies offers students he opportunity to study sexuality from
a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Those who minor in the field are expected to take eight courses: the
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, six electives, and, as seniors, a seminar that, by
requiring an internship in a community organization, offers a kind of knowledge that is not usually available in the
classroom. Interdisciplinarity is assured by requiring students to take at least one course each in the life sciences, the
social sciences, and the humanities. The minor aims to acquaint students with some of the many different ways
sexuality has been organized in the past and the present and with a variety of approaches to studying sexuality at the
end of the twentieth century.

Requirements

Students minoring in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies must take eight courses, as follows.
Alt courses must be taken for a grade. Courses in which students receive a grade of C- or lower will not count
towards fulfilling the minor requirements.

LGBTS M114: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. This course, previously taught
under the same title as Women's Studies 114, will acquaint students with issues in LGBTS from the perspectives of
the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences.

Six upper-division courses chosen from the quarterly list of approved courses. One of the six must be from the
humanities, one from the social sciences, and one from the life sciences. Students may petition to have a course not
on the quarterly list counted towards the six-course requirement provided they can demonstrate that LGBT issues
play a significant role in the course and that they will focus their own work for the course (amounting to 30% of the
final grade) on an LGBTS topic. No more than four units of LGBTS 199 can be counted.

LGBTS 196: Senior Internship Seminar in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies: This seminar will
be structured as a field-based internship in the LGBT community of greater Los Angeles. Students enrolled in the
seminar will prepare a research paper synthesizing their field-study experiences and their academic work in LGBTS.
Limited to seniors. Before taking this seminar students must have completed LGBTS M114 and four additional
courses towards the minor.

During the first years of the program, LGBTS 196 will not be offered. Students who need the course to complete the
minor should see the director of the program, who will arrange an independent study to satisfy the internship
requirement.

Courses Offered by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program since the start of the
program
M14 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies/Same as Women's Studies M14
M101A Lesbian and Gay Literature Before Stonewall/ Same as English M101A and Women's Studies 101A
M101B Lesbian and Gay Literature After Stonewall / Same as English M101B and Women's Studies 101B
M114 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies / Same as Women's Studies M114
M115 Topics in the Study of Sexual and Gender Orientation / Same as Women's Studies M115
Lesbian and Gay History in the US
Boys to Men: American Masculinities, 1800 to the Present
M116 Sexuality and The City: Queer Los Angeles / Same as Women's Studies M116
M133 Chicana Lesbian Literature / Same as Chicana and Chicano Studies M133 and Women's Studies
M134 Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality: Homosexualities
M137 Gay and Lesbian Perspectives in Pop Music / Same as Music History M137
M150 Speaking Out: Public Speaking on LGBT Issues
M167 Contested Sexualities / Same as Sociology M167 and Women's Studies M167
M 196 Senior Internship Seminar in LGBTS
197 Special Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Studies:
Prescriptions for Perversity: Treating Homosexuality in the United States
Health Care Issues for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Patients
Hermaphrodites, Homosexuals, and Transsexuals: The Medical Manipulation of Sex
Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights
Queer Documentary and Issues of Identity in 20th-Century American Literature and Film/ Same as Film and
TV 144
The History of the Medical Treatment of Homosexuality
Queer African American Art and Artists / Same as Afro-American Studies C101
M197D Special Topics in Lesbian and Gay Literature / Same as English M197D:
The Importance of Being Modern: Lesbian and Gay Self-Invention from Wilde to Stein
African-American Lesbian and Gay Literature
Please visit the program’s web site for a full listing of courses from other departments that count toward the
minor.



University of California, Riverside

Interdisciplinary Minor In Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Studies
George Haggerty, Ph.D., Chair

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA 92521

(909) 787-5301

george.haggerty@ucr.edu

http:/Awww.ucr.edu/CHSS/depts/english/igb/Igbbanner.html

The minor reflects current critical, theoretical, and methodological developments in several disciplines that focus on
lesbian, gay, and bisexual, and transgender issues. Studies in this area are by nature interdisciplinary. The program
encourages new cross-disciplinary research in the field for students interested in the humanities, arts, and social
sciences. The curriculum addresses such topics as sexual identity and orientation; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender perspectives on the arts; gender, sexuality, and nationality; sexualities and ethnic identities.

Completing the Minor

1.Lower-division requirements (4 units): WMST 001: Gender and Sexuality: Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to
theories of sex and gender differences, the origins of patriarchy, and variations in sexual behavior and sexual norms.
This course fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

2.Upper-division requirements (20 units):
A. Four (4) units of English:

ENGL 122: Literature and Sexualities

ENGL 139T: Queer) & A(sian): Gay & Lesbian Asian American Literature

ENGL 140US: Studies in Literary Genres

ENGL 140GG

ENGL 143 (E-Z): Gender, Sexuality, and Visual Cultures

ENGL 190: Special Studies
B. Four (4) units of History or Ethnic Studies:

HIST 130 (formally 169): Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Early America

HIST 190: Special Studies

ETST 124: The Chicana

ETST 175: Gender, Ethnicity, and Borders
C. Four (4) units of Art, Art History, Dance, or Music:

ART 160: Intermediate Art Theory

ART 190: Special Studies

AHS 182: Modern Art Ill: Western Art after 1945

AHS 186: Film, Video, and Art: Theories and Histories .

DNCE 141: History of Ballet cs

DNCE 142: History of Modern Dance ‘

DNCE 190: Special Studies

MUS 114: Opera

MUS 190: Special Studies
D. Four (4) units of Psychology, Sociology, or Women's Studies:

PSYC 160: Developmental Psychology

PSYC 161: Personality Development

SOC 140: The Sociology of Women

SOC 141: Men and Masculinity

SOC 177E: Topics in Social Psychology: Sociological Orientation

SOC 177F

SOC 190: Special Studies

WMST 190: Special Studies

WMST 193: Senior Seminar
E .Four (4) units from those listed above or LGBTS 198-I (internship). Internship opportunities include but are not
limited to: assisting in LGBT Resource Center projects (Speakers Bureau, Coming Out Week, Pride Week, World
AIDS Day, publications or web site development, awareness campaigns, assessment studies); volunteering with
community organizations (Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays/ PFLAG, Inland AIDS Project, Gay/
Lesbian Center of the Inland Empire); any other project resulting in significant work with issues affecting LGBT people
and their allies. Students enrolled in LGBTS 198-I must identify an internship supervisor and create a written plan of
the internship experience, including goals, objectives, and outcomes. A grade will be assigned by the LGBT Studies
committee chair based upon the supervisor's evaluation and a final student-written report.

Substitutions for specific requirements may be made with the approval of the Committee in Charge.



University of California, San Diego From web page only: not confirmed

Sexuality Cluster in the Critical Gender Studies Major
http:/Awww-muir.ucsd.edu/instructional/critical-gender/

Critical Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program offering students the opportunity to study gender, race, class,
sexuality, and nationalism as intersecting categories of analysis and experience. The program's curriculum is
designed to move students beyond popularized accounts of gender to consider its complex constructions over time
and in a variety of cultural, scholarly and global arenas. Students can expect to encounter a rich spectrum of
theoretical and methodological approaches in studying these complex constructions approaches which all share,
despite their differences, a critical orientation in their analyses of gender relations.

This orientation is reflected in the program's name, Critical Gender Studies: to study gender critically is to refute easy
answers and simple conclusions with respect to men and women in society and reach, instead, for clearer, more
detailed accounts of the social, political, economic, historical, and cultural contexts and intricacies of power through
which the social relations of gender have been made and maintained.

Critical Gender Studies provides students with rigorous interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary training and, for this
reason, is an ideal major for students with career aspirations in law, medicine and the health sciences, public
administration, social services, public education and higher education.

Students majoring in Critical Gender Studies focus their coursework on one of the five designated CGS Clusters...A
flyer noting Critical Gender Studies courses and related approved/petitionable departmental courses for an upcoming
quarter is available by the seventh week of the current quarter in the Muir Interdisciplinary Studies office (2024 HSS)
and at the Website.

CLUSTER TWO: SEXUALITIES

Departmental Courses APPLICABLE to the major
COCU 137: Politics of Bodies

COCU 138: Feminist Theory

LTEN 120E: Women in 18th Century

LTEN 150: Gender, Text, Culture

LTEU 102 (was LTGN 101): Women in Antiquity
LTWL 155 (was LTGN 189): Gender Studies
LTTH 101: Issues in Feminist Theory

POLI 107A: Gay and Lesbian Politics

POLI 116A: Feminist Theory

SOC/B 119: Sociology of Sexuality and Sexual Identities

Departmental Courses PETITIONABLE to the major. _
ETHN 165: Sex/ Gender in African American Community ye
HIEU 155: Modern Austria ‘
HITO 112: History of Psychoanalysis

LTCS 110: Popular Culture

LTCS 150: Topics in Cultural Studies

LTEN 120A: 18th Century: Themes, Issues

LTEN 127A: Victorian Period: Themes, Issues

LTEN 127G: The 90's: Decade of Decadence

LTEN 147: Metamorphoses of the Symbol

LTEN 189: Postcolonial Literatures

LTWL 140: Novel and History in the Third, World

POL! 102G: Topics

SOC/B 130: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
THHS 101: Topics

VIS 152: Film in Social Context



University of Chicago

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Project and the Center for Gender Studies
http: iurnanities. uchicago.edu/cgs/Agsp.html

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Project

5835 S. Kimbark

Chicago IL 60637

773-834-4509

George Chauncey, Professor of History and Chair of the Project
Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology and Co-chair of the Project

The University of Chicago has become a major center for research and graduate training in lesbian, gay and queer
studies. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Project (LGSP), an integral part of the University's Center for Gender Studies,
coordinates graduate and undergraduate courses, provides research grants and dissertation-year fellowships to
graduate students, sponsors the bi-weekly Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies Workshop, and organizes research
projects and conferences. It provides an interdisciplinary locus for Chicago faculty and graduate students who study
the historical, cultural, and textual construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer identities,
cultures, and politics; analyze those formations or the dominant culture and social theory from the perspective of
queer theory; or engage in other

critical studies of sexuality.

Courses

LGSP faculty teach undergraduate and graduate courses on American Lesbian and Gay History; Ideology, Culture,
and Sexuality; Gay Literature; Critical Studies of Sexuality; the Politics of AIDS; Desire and Subjectivity; and other
subjects. Undergraduates who concentrate in Gender Studies can choose to focus on lesbian and gay
studies.

The Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies Workshop

The Workshop meets biweekly to discuss drafts of articles and dissertation chapters written by graduate students,
faculty, and visiting scholars. Its participants include graduate students and faculty from a wide range of departments,
including history, anthropology, human development, English, art history, East Asian languages, political science,
and sociology. The Workshop provides students with a supportive intellectual community at a crucial stage in their
graduate careers, a critical interdisciplinary forum in which to present their work, and the opportunity to meet leading
scholars in the field. It also occasionally sponsors public lectures by visiting scholars. Visiting presenters and
lecturers have included theorists Judith Butler, David Eng, David Halperin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Michael
Wamer, ethnographers Judith Halberstam, Esther Newton, and Kath Weston, historians Allan Bérubé, Barbara
Smith, and Marc Stein, and political scientist Cathy Cohen.

Conferences 4,

Since 1997, the Project has organized conferences on "The Globalization of Homosexuality and Heterosexuality,"
"Race, Nationalism, and Sexual Politics," "The Formation of American Sexual Identities and Politics," "Queer
Republic? Homosexuality in Greek Politics and Political Thought,” "The Politics of Respectibility," “Objects of Desire:
Homosexualities and the History of Collecting,” and our largest conference to date, "The Future of the Queer Past: A
Transnational History Conference” (September 2000), which featured 200 historians on fifty panels and was attended
by more than 600 people.

Special research projects

In 1997-98 the LGSP faculty received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to organize a year-long seminar under the
auspices of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. The Sawyer Seminar investigated the complex cultural variations
in sexual identities, practices, discourses, and politics throughout the world, in order to understand better why
lesbian/gay/bisexual identities and identity politics have become central to American culture, why they are often less
significant elsewhere, and how globalization has affected them everywhere. The Seminar resulted in the publication
of a special issue (Autumn 1999) of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies on "Thinking Sexuality
Transnationally, " edited by Elizabeth Povinelli and George Chauncey.

Fellowships and Research Grants

Dissertation Fellowships. Our most important mission is to support graduate students writing dissertations in lesbian,
gay, and queer studies. Since 1998, a generous grant has made it possible for us to provide a $15,000 fellowship to
two students a year, so that they may work full-time on their dissertations. In 1997-98 the grant from the Mellon
Foundation enabled us to provide fellowships to three graduate students writing dissertations in anthropology, art _
history, and human development.

Dissertation Research Grants. Every year we also offer research grants to students for travel to research sites,
photocopying of research material, purchase of equipment, and similar research expenses. In recent years the grants



have been awarded to students in history, English, anthropology, political science, religious studies, and human
development.

Faculty include George Chauncey, Professor of History and Chair of the Project; Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of
Anthropology and Co-chair of the Project; Lauren Berlant, Professor of English; Michael Camille, Professor of Art
History; Cathy Cohen, Professor of Political Science; Deborah Nelson, Assistant Professor of English; Patrick
O'Connor, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature

The Center for Gender Studies

http://numanities.uchicago.edu/cgs/

The Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago was established in 1996, after a decade of faculty and
student self-organization. It now consolidates work on gender and sexuality, and in feminist, gay and lesbian, and
queer studies. Along with fostering teaching, research, and discussion in these domains, the Center seeks to
encourage a public sphere where gender and sexuality articulate with political and intellectual concerns. Questions
pursued by participating faculty and students include: liberal nationalism and contemporary transnationalism; national
and diasporic racial formation; biological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic notions of personality; the architecture of
intimacy and its representation in the law; the relation to state and religious discourse of erotic ornaments and
marginalia in medieval and early modern art. These issues cross disciplinary modes of expertise with the historical
challenge of gender and sexuality studies to locate knowledge in previously suppressed or understudied places and
modes of thought.

Undergraduate Major
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Prof. Lauren Berlant
Office: Judd 422, 702-9936

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cgs/undergrad.htm!

Program of Study

Gender Studies at the University of Chicago encompasses diverse disciplines, modes of inquiry, and objects of
knowledge. Gender Studies allows undergraduates the opportunity to shape a disciplinary or interdisciplinary plan of
study focused on gender and sexuality. The plan of study, designed with the assistance of a Gender Studies
Concentration Adviser, can take the form of a gender-track in a traditional academic discipline, interdisciplinary work
on a gender-related topic, or a combination thereof. Students can thus create a cluster of courses linked by their
attention to gender as an object of study, or by their use of gender categories to investigate topics in sexuality, social
life, science, politics and culture, literature and the arts, or systems of thought.

Program Requirements

The major requires twelve courses and a B.A. research project or paper, which will count as a thirteenth course. The
course work is divided into (1) five Gender Studies courses in a major field, (2) five supporting field courses, and (3)
two Gender Studies theory courses. NOTE: No more than two of these courses may be reading courses (Gender
Studies 297). A Gender Studies Concentration Adviser is responsible for the approval of any relevant proposal.

Major Field. Five Gender Studies courses to be chosen by the student in consultation with the Director of
Undergraduate Studies. These can be taken in a single discipline or in closely-related disciplines to develop a gender
track within a discipline . Other students might involve gender-focused course work in more than one discipline of
inquiry.

Supporting Field. Five courses to be chosen by the student in consultation with the Gender Studies Concentration
Adviser. Together, these courses provide training in the methodological, technical, or scholarly skills needed to
pursue research in the student's major field.

Theory Course Sequence. Probiems in Gender Studies (Gender Studies 101 and 102). Students concentrating in
Gender Studies take this two-quarter theory course in their sophomore or junior year.

Research Project or Paper. A substantial paper or project to be completed in the student's senior year and advised
by a member the Gender Studies Core Faculty in the student's major field of interest. The paper will be due by May 1
of the student's fourth year, or the fifth week of their graduating quarter.

Summary of Major Requirements

5 Gender Studies courses in a major field

2 Problems in Gender Studies (GendSt 101-102)
5 supporting field courses

1 B.A. Paper Preparation Course (GendSt 299)
13 in Total



Graduate Center of The City University of New York
Interdisciplinary Concentration in Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies and the Center for

Lesbian and Gay Studies

Alisa Solomon, Executive Director

The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
Room 7.115, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
212.817.1955 .
‘claqgs@ac.cuny.edu; www.clags.org

Description: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies is a rapidly-growing, multidisciplinary enterprise whose goal is the study of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered peoples, histories and cultures, as well as the study of sexuality and its role
in the deployment of cultural and social power. Lesbian and Gay Studies is a system of inquiry that examines the
roles of same-sex desire across and among cultures and histories. Queer Studies views sexuality not as a stable
category of identification or as merely a series of physical acts but sees desire itself as a cultural construction that is
central to the institutionalization and normalization of certain practices and discourses that organize social relations
and hierarchies. Together, the two constitute a field whose best work often weaves together both types of analysis.

The field traverses the humanities and the social sciences--including literary theory, film theory, cultural and social
history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, theater, economics—as well as the natural sciences.
Its antecedents can be traced back to the emergence of "sexology" as a legitimate field of academic investigation and
scholarship in the nineteenth century. Sexology coincided with the institution of many now traditional scientific and
humanistic disciplines within the academy. The rationalization of knowledge into discrete disciplines corresponded
with the construction of "the homosexual" within these newly-emerging discourses as a crime, an illness, a person

- and a problem to be solved.

Requirements:

1. Introduction to Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies: This course will introduce to students the foundational texts
and arguments of Gay and Lesbian/Queer Studies and, from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives,
explore a range of issues currently animating the field. The course will undertake a historical and cross-cultural
analysis of the formation of various sexual identities, and will examine the contested relationships between desire and
social/cultural power. Readings will consist of seminal texts that present the major theoretical debates in the field and
of texts that will acquaint students will possible areas for further inquiry. An extensive bibliography will be provided to
facilitate further exploration.

2. Three other courses. Past course offerings appropriate for the concentration include:

Anthropology U821.01, Seminar in Gender

Anthropology U895.01, Self, Body and Other >

Art U895.02, Selected Topics in the History of the Motion Picture: Issue of Race and Gender in the History of
American Cinema

Comp. Lit U885, Fashion Narratives: Constructing Gender, Hegemony, and Identity

Comp. Lit. U801.01, Feminism and Fiction in Italy

Criminal Justice U714, Psychopathology, Social Deviance, and Crime

English U804, Proust and International Gay Modernism

English U804.01, Queer Theory

English U861, Lesbian Bodies

English U805.1, Postcolonial Memory: Diasporic Bodies in Multicultural America

English U861, Black Feminist Thought

English U862, Warhol

English U860, Historicism and Queer Theory

English U860.02, Queer Performativity

French U871, Foucault and Beyond (in French and English)

German U830, German Literature in Relation to Other Arts: Issues of Gender, Race and Religion in the Weimar
Republic

interdisciplinary U842, Colloquium in 20” Century Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Representing the Body in
the 20" Century

History U702, Homosexuality in World Perspective

History U702, Heterosexuality and Homosexuality in Modern Society, 170-1900

Liberal Studies U722, Contemporary Feminist Thought

Liberal Studies U714, Major Feminist Texts

Political Science U846.01, Gay and Lesbian Theories and Politics

Political Science U739.02, Gender and Social Policy

Psychology U801, Psychology of Gender

Psychology U801, Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues in Psychology

Sociology U833, Selected Topics: Work, Power, Culture and Sexuality


Sociology U833.03, Men and Masculinity in Society

Sociology U832, Identities and Social Structures

Theater U815.03, Issues of Race and Gender in the History of American Cinema
Women’s Studies U808.02, Contemporary Feminist Thought

Women’s Studies U810.07, Social Theories of the Body

Rationale (from proposal): Lesbian and Gay Studies came into being as a counter-discourse that sought to examine
the lives of sexual minorities from the perspective of their lived experiences. Queer Studies grew out of Lesbian and
Gay Studies as a method of questioning the principles and power operations of desire. In Lesbian/Gay/Queer
Studies, heterosexuality and homosexuality are viewed as identities and social statuses, as categories of knowledge,
and as languages that frame what we understand as bodies; as such, the domain of inquiry transcends traditional
disciplinary constructs and demands new forms of scholastic endeavors.

The development of the field has paralleled the fields of women's studies and race studies, emerging as a separate
area of inquiry in the 1980s, although much work was being done by individual! scholars prior to that time. The
various names of already-institutionalized programs in the field—"Sexuality Studies," “Queer Studies," and "Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies"—reflect the plurality of the field's methodological approaches. As an
interdisciplinary concentration, Lesbian/Gay/Queer insists on a pluralistic, multicultural, and comparative approach in
its negotiation within national, racial, ethnic, religious, economic, gender, and age-defined communities. More than a
response to this demographic imperative, this field actively seeks to collapse fields of inquiry, to reveal contradictions
“and confrontations within and among disciplines, and to suggest a new model for academic study within the
‘university.

' The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)

Founded in 1992, CLAGS promotes scholarship that examines sexualities and genders. Dedicated to challenging
homophobia and oppression, CLAGS forges strong, on-going relationships, among students and scholars, activists,
artists, writers, journalists, public figures, and intellectuals who are committed to broadening the national
understanding of lesbian, gay, and queer issues. In a time when gay, lesbian, and queer people are defending’
themselves against encroachments from the federal government, the legal system, educational institutions, and
media representations, CLAGS provides active, scholarly challenges to oppressive views.

As one of the few centers for lesbian, gay and queer scholarship in the country, CLAGS’ location within the Graduate
Center advances the national field and enhances the status of the Graduate Center within that field. CLAGS sponsors
several conferences each year that cross disciplinary boundaries and draw scholars and activists of local and
national stature. Some such conferences are “Black Nations/Queer Nations,” which analyzed the political, economic,
and social environment in which communities of the African Diaspora continue to fight for the right to live, work and
love as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people; “Crossing National and Sexual Borders,” which examined
queer sexualities in Latin American and Latino communities in the United States; “Queer Globalization/Local
Homosexualities: Citizenship, and the Afterlife of Globalization,” which examined the intersections of the fields of
colonial / postcolonial studies and queer studies in a contemporary climate of globalization; “Passing Performances:
History, Evidence, Identification,” a symposium on the sexual politics of the American theatre; “Queer Middle Ages,”
the first national conference to examine discourses of sexuality and gender in the Middle Ages; “Local Politics and
Global Change: Academics and Activists Thinking About a Queer Future”; and “Whose Millennium? Religion, -
Sexuality, and the Values of Citizenship.” CLAGS’ on-going colloquium series offers a setting for local academics
and activists to present and discuss their research and thinking about the state of lesbian, gay, and queer politics,
culture, and communities. In order to foster such a dialogue between queer scholars and members of nonacademic
queer communities, CLAGS, in July 1998, inaugurated “Seminars in the City,” a monthly series of discussions of
published books grouped around particular areas that are led by individual CLAGS Board members and are held in
one of New York’s local bookstores. CLAGS also inaugurated a book series with NYU Press in 1997 that has
published five books to date.



University of Colorado at Boulder

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies Certificate Program
Contact: Bud Coleman

bud.coleman@colorado.edu or LGBT@Colorado.edu

Dept. of Theatre and Dance

UCB 261, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

Boulder, CO 80309

T. 303-485-7591

http://Awww.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/LGBTStudies

Program Description: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder
is an interdisciplinary program encompassing more than 20 courses in a dozen departments. LGBT Studies involves
the academic investigation of sexuality in established fields such as literature, history, theatre, law, medicine,
economics, sociology, anthropology and political science. With its interdisciplinary approach, LGBT Studies
interweaves complex theories and analysis into the study of sexuality. Through the certificate program and the
guidance of faculty advisors, students are given an opportunity to integrate a wide variety of courses offered in the
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, to extend and deepen their knowledge and understanding of
societies and cultures and to relate that understanding to lived experience.

Program Requirements: In order to be eligible for the LGBT Studies Certificate, students (undergraduate, haa
or former) must meet the following General Program Requirements:

e Any CU student with a C average or better may be admitted to the program.

e Completion of a major in any discipline offered by the University of Colorado. Post-bachelor students must
have earned a degree from an accredited college or university.

* 24 hours of acceptable course work (C or better) from the certificate program list, of which a minimum of 15
must be upper division. A minimum of 12 hours of courses must come from outside the student's major.

e Up to six credit hours of independent study may be applied toward the certificate program.

e No pass/fail credits will count toward the requirements of the program.

e Credits earned at other institutions may be transferred in partial fulfiliment of the requirements
upon approval of the Program Director. No more than 12 hours (6 upper division) of transferred
course work may be applied to the Certificate.

e Undergraduate certificates will be awarded upon approval for graduation

‘ e Petitions to alter any of the above requirements must be approved by the Program Director.

REQUIRED COURSES

LGBT 2080: Introduction to LGBT Studies: Investigates the social and historical meanings of racial, gender, and
sexual identities and their relationship to contemporary lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities.
English 2708: Introduction to LGBT Literature: Offers students at sophomore ind j junior levels an introduction to
some of the forms, concerns, and genres of contemporary lesbian, bisexual, and gay writing in English . Prereq.,
sophomore standing.

LOWER DIVISION ELECTIVES

SOCY 1006, The Social Construction of Sexuality

WMST 2020, Social Construction of Femininities and Masculinities
LING 2400, Language and Gender

HIST 2626, Gender and Culture

UPPER DIVISION ELECTIVES

FILM 3013, Women and Film

SOCY 3026, Women of Color: Chicanas in U.S. Society

HUMN 3065, Feminist Theory/Women's Art

ARSC 3100, Multicultural Perspective and Academic Discourse

PHIL 3110, Feminist Practical Ethics

ENGL 3377, Topics in Multicultural Literature

ENGL 3796, Queer Theory

WMST 3930, LGBT Studies Internship

HUMN 4093, Studies in Humanities: Sexuality and the Arts

PSCI 4271, Sex Discrimination: Constitutional Issues

ENGL 4287, Studies in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Literature
PSCI 4291, Sex Discrimination: Federal and State Law

WMST 4300, International Sex Trade

WMST / HIST 4636, Lesbian and Gay History: Culture, Politics, and Social Change in the United States



Cornell University -
Undergraduate concentration and a graduate minor in Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay
Studies |

Chair of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies Program Steering Committee: Ellis Hanson
391 Uris Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

607.255.7527

Igbstudies@cornell.edu

www.arts.cornell.edu/lbq

Program Description

The field of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies is devoted to the study of sexuality and its importance to the
organization of social relations more generally. Primary among its concerns is also the study of lives, the politics, and
the creative work of sexual minorities. LBG Studies is founded on the premise that the social organization of sexuality
is best studied from the perspectives offered by those positions that have been excluded from established social and
cultural norms and best approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. At present, the program includes courses
that study sexuality and sexual minorities from a variety of perspectives: anthropological, psychological, sociological,
biological, political, historical, literary, and artistic.

Although LBG Studies is housed in the Women's Studies Program, only those courses that devote a significant
amount of their time to sexuality and to questioning the historical institution of exclusive heterosexuality qualify for the
LBG concentration.

Central to the curriculum in Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies are such overarching principles as the following:
...that the study of sexuality must include a study of the dynamics of sexual oppression

...that definitions of sexuality-including those that privilege exclusive heterosexuality-are not immutable,
universal, or beyond question, but instead vary across time and place, serve political ends, and have
ideological underpinnings

..that systems of sexual oppression interact with other social inequities, including those of gender, class,
race, ethnicity, age, religion, and physical ability

...that even the most current knowledge derived from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences
is not as impartial, objective, or neutral as has traditionally been thought, but instead emerges out of
particular historical and political contexts. _
Program Offerings: Undergraduate Concentration and a Graduate Minor’
Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies offers an undergraduate concentration and a graduate minor. Undergraduates in
any

college at Cornell can concentrate in LBG Studies in conjunction with a major defined elsewhere in the university.
The concentration consists of four courses in LBG Studies, no more than two of which can come from a single
discipline. The same courses cannot be counted toward an undergraduate major and an LBG concentration;
furthermore, the same course cannot be counted toward both a Women's Studies concentration and an LBG
concentration. Students who wish to apply for either the graduate minor or the undergraduate concentration should
make an appointment with the Director of Graduate Studies or the Director of Undergraduate Studies:

For a list of course offerings, go to http:/Avww.arts.cornell.edu/bg/high.html



Duke University

Certificate in the Study of Sexualities
Professor John Younger, Director

Program in the Study of Sexualities

PO Box 90102, Duke University

Durham, NC 27708-0102.

Tel: (919) 684-20822; Fax: (919) 681-4262
jyounger@duke.edu; http:/Avww.duke.edu/web/SXL/

|. Introduction

The idea for this program began in the Fall of 1991 during the initial meetings of the newly formed University Task
Force for LGB Matters. On 11 December, one of the meetings of the Board of Trustees focused on the Task Force
and the campus environment for gay students; there John Younger read a statement that promised an
interdisciplinary course in Gay Studies. That spring semester 15 faculty members and graduate students planned the
course, and received funding from Richard White, Dean of Trinity College. The course, IDC 115S/ENG 101S
“Perspectives in GLB Studies", was sponsored by English and first taught in the Spring 1993 to an enrollment of 45;
team-taught, it focused on the Sharon Bottoms case (lesbian mother loses custody of her son to her mother) and
featured Charlotte Patterson, a psychologist who testified in the case, and the poet Minnie Bruce Pratt.

Since the course had found a constituency, Dean White encouraged the original committee to reconstitute itself as a
LGB Studies Planning Committee, which submitted its proposal, "Rationale for a Program in the Study of Sexualities"
to the Curriculum Committee at the end of Spring term 1995. After fine tuning, the Arts and Sciences Faculty Council
approved the program on 6 January 1996. The Program's first advisory board, however, was constituted late and met
for the first time in the Fall 1997. During the Program's first year of operation, it received the approval to offer a
FOCUS Program, "Diversity and Identity", which began Fall 1998, and it hosted the first Lavender Graduation.

il. Program Rationale

In the last decade of the twentieth century, the study of gender and sexualities became a vital and active field of
academic inquiry and scholarly research. Initially situated over a century ago in the disciplines of Psychology,
Sexology, and Sociology, deliberate inquiry into the personal and cultural nature of sexuality has now become so
thoroughly cross-disciplinary that issues of sexuality and gender are researched and debated in such diverse areas
as Genetic Science, Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, History, Art, Classical Studies, Philosophy, Public Policy,
Literature and Law. Because gender and sexualities are biologically as well as culturally construed, the effects of their
determinations and expressions are felt in every aspect of personal and social fife.

Briefly, the study concerns the ways our gender roles (the ways by which we express our biological sex -- male,
female, hermaphroditic, transsexual -- in society) influence not just our personal but also our social, economic, and
political lives. Because expressions of sexuality differ from culture to culture and from time to time, a close description
and careful analysis of the character and effects of sexualities provide a major research instrument for charting and
interpreting culture, history, literature, art, and the relations of power. While many of the most significant advances
have come in legal studies, cultural studies, and literature, the impact of scholarship in gender and sexualities can be
felt in almost every academic discipline in Western universities (see the related web site of gender & sexuality
programs, courses, and centers in North American universities at http:/Avww.duke.edu/web/iyounger/fgbprogs.html).

The Program in the Study of Sexualities focuses on the political, historical, cultural, and psychological contexts in
which gender identities and sexualities have been and are currently being expressed. At the core of any study of
sexualities is the social belief that heterosexuality and homosexuality are extremes of a single continuum, with
bisexuality somewhere in the middle. Any thoughtful study of sexualities, however, complicates this view: at one level,
the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" are indeed co-determinate (i.e., the definition of the one
determines the definition of the other), but both are also products of larger cultural forces, especially economic and
political; bisexuality may not be some kind of merger of two categories, but rather non-categorical (as it were,
avoiding categories of sexuality and gender). Gender itself is not necessarily polarized between femininity and
masculinity, but may always be in flux, while transgendered people may be so depending as much on personal
identity as on social situations and ethnic identities. The social and personal meanings of such terms as sexuality and
gender, and sexual and gender preference, orientation, and choice, all need to be more richly understood, and the
areas of their significance, exclusivity, interconnection, and dependency need to be explored.

The impact of research along the lines of gender and sexualities has charted new territories for investigation and has
demanded new teaching in virtually every department and program at Duke. Courses in this subject already exist,
housed in a variety of departments and programs, most notably Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Cultural
Anthropology, English, Film & Video, Literature, History, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, and
Women's Studies. Other departments offer, often on an irregular basis, similar courses: Classic al Studies, Romance
Languages, Dance, and German. See the lists of permanently approved courses for the SXL Program), approved
courses offered each semester, as well as courses offered by Women's Studies).



Since 1994 the SXL Program has offered its own undergraduate course, SXL 115S: Perspectives in Lesbian, Gay,
and Bisexual Studies, cross-listed in the English Department (ENG 101S). This course introduces the major areas of
this discipline (see the most recent syllabus). Since 1999, SXL 120, a special topics course, serves the Focus
program "Diversity & Identity". Student response to these courses has underscored the discipline’s relevant place in
the undergraduate curriculum and in student life. In fact, Duke University has a national reputation as an intellectual
center for these studies.

As is clear from the list of departments and programs that offer courses in the study of gender and sexualities, this
discipline is not site-specific or dependent on a unified faculty; in fact, this hybridized study resembles more the inter-
disciplinary programs of Comparative Areas Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies. Like them, the
study of gender and sexualities is a phenomenon that few universities can afford to neglect. To complement these
academic offerings and holdings, Duke also fosters an atmosphere both increasingly open and tolerant to discussions
about sexualities. We have many LGBT organizations and services; see Duke's Queer Info Server with links to: The
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Life Center; the University Task Force on LGBT Concerns;
Gothic Queers, the Undergraduate group; OUTLAW for LGBT Law students; an active LGBT alumni/ae association
(BiGALA-Duke); and other queer student organizations, including QueerGrads, the Graduate and Professional
Student LGBT Association, Queer Vision (film & video), Queer Buddhists. Duke also hosts a local e-mail discussion
group (DukeLGBT).

ill. Program Description

Students planning to earn a certificate in the Study of Sexualities will take an introductory course and five additional
courses selected from a list of appropriate courses offered at Duke (see immediately below for a list of permanently
approved courses, and farther below for a current list of approved courses now being taught ). The last of these five
courses may be an appropriate upper-leve! seminar designed primarily for participants in the program to explore
special issues and topics. In courses offered and in courses cross-listed by the program, students will read and
consider the large body of fine scholarship and theory produced in gender studies over the past century -- from
Havelock Ellis to contemporary queer theorists, such as Jeffrey Weeks and Adrienne Rich, and historians, like Martin
Duberman and John D'Emilio.

The Program in the Study of Sexualities is administered by an advisory committee appointed by the Dean of Trinity
College and will consist of a Director, faculty and staff from appropriate departments, and student representatives.
Members of the Committee will make policy and act as advisors to the students in the Program and will recommend
the satisfaction of requirements based on the courses the students have taken.

The Program will encourage the offering of courses in gender and sexualities under its own sponsorship and under
that of the Focus Program "Diversity & Identity”, including both courses housed in regular academic units and house
courses on special topics. The Program will also sponsor public lectures and other events in cooperation with other
programs, including the Women's Center, Women's Studies, the Program in Literature, and the Institute of the Arts.

Costs of the Program are modest: supplement income for the director, an office, part-time staff assistance, and the
usual office supplies (computer support, photocopying, stationery, telephone and postage privileges). There are funds
for adjunct instructional development and for graduate instructors.

IV. Bulletin Description of the Program

Study of Sexualities (SXL)

Professor Younger, Director

A certificate, but not a major, is available in this program.

The Program in the Study of Sexualities offers an interdisciplinary course of study that introduces students to critical
analyses of the various expressions of sexuality in societies around the world, both past and present. Such
expressions encompass a wide range from heterosexuality to homosexuality, and include other erotic desires, sexual
relationships, and gender roles. Critical analyses concern how sexuality is formed, defined, and regulated by
biological and social forces. Students must take as an introductory course Study of Sexualities 115S, Cultural
Anthropology 103 or Sociology 149, and five additional courses, one of which may be a special seminar designed
mainly for participants in the program. Of the total six courses, no more than three can originate in a single
department, and four must be at or above the 100-level. Appropriate courses may come from the list given below or
may include other courses (new courses, special topics courses, and independent study) as approved by the director.
Regular courses are described under the listings of the various departments. Students may also wish to take
advantage of house courses on topics in this area although house courses cannot satisfy the requirements of the
program.

V. Permanently Approved Courses
SXL 115S. Perspectives in Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies. (CZ) Topics include homosexuality and history,

religion, law, education, the arts and literature, the military, and the health sciences. C-L: English 101S. One course.
Younger


Harvey Milk Institute

Noncredit program
Kevin Schaub

584 Castro St #451

San Francisco, CA 94114
Tel: 415-552-7200

www. harveymilk.org
harvmilk@aol.com

tel: 415-552-7200

fax: 415-552-0179

Mission

The mission of the Harvey Milk Institute (HMI) is.to foster the development and examination of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer culture and community in the Bay Area and beyond. HMI conducts programs that present and
interpret works by contemporary and historical queer artists and critical thinkers that explore community and personal

issues within the context of queer culture.

Harvey Milk Institute courses are open to the general public-any interested person may enroll.

Spring 2001 course offerings

he Constitution: Gender, Sexuality, and the Supreme Court
Transgender 101

Uncle Lynee's Skool for Boyz

Lesbian Sex
Video Production 101 (Section 1)

Spanish Queer Travelers 201

How to Purchase Your First Home

Sewing for Beginners, Part Il

Buttplay, a Hands-in Approach: For Men
Structuring a Scene: For Women

The Photographic Portfolio

Genderopoly

Erotic Massage: For Men

Sex Writing for Queer Men

Making the Most of Your Midlife: For Women
Middie Eastern Queer Experience
Genderblast ill

Intimacy—Promisese and Challenges: For Men
Deeper Tissue Massage: For Men

Lesbian Relationships: Agony and Ecstasy
Queer Parenting: Surviving the First Year

Hey, That's My Copyright! Intellectual Property for Artists
Essentials of Women's Self-Defense
Bloodplay: For Women

Sustained Fire: Writing the Long Poem
Communication Skills for Building an Intimate Relationship
Drawing in Metalpoint

Intensive Résumé Writing Workshop

Investing in Stocks 101

Video Production 101 (Section 2)

Orat History Workshop #3

SM 101: For Men

Etruscan Chainwork

Backpack Construction

Investing in Stocks 201

Working with Genderqueer Youth: For Providers
Practical Issues in Gay Male Dating

Basic Earrings

Making Sense of Your Stock Options

Working with Intersex Youth: For Providers

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Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Major and minor in lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies
http:/Avwww.hws.edu/quide/programs/esbian/main.html!
LESGAYBISCHR@hws.edu

The program in lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies seeks to understand the historical and cultural construction of
sexuality. This interdisciplinary program is anti-homophobic in intent, offering courses that attend seriously to the
experience of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people; to the theoretical controversies surrounding sexual identities; and to
the variety of scholarship in this area. As a multi-disciplinary enterprise drawing on a variety of methodological
approaches, theoretical orientations, and substantive foci, the program examines subjectivity and identity, social and
economic roles, religious practice, political praxis, literary productions, and science. In so doing, the program
enhances educational development through cross-divisional courses that explore how social change and
transformation might follow from a comprehensive understanding of the cultural diversity of sexual practice.

The program offers both a major and a minor, both of which may be either disciplinary or interdisciplinary, depending
upon a student's selection of courses. No more than two course equivalents may be counted toward the major.

Faculty Coordinating Committee

Susan Henking, Religious Studies; Michael Armstrong, Classics; Betty Bayer, Psychology; Sigrid Carle, Biology;
James Henry Holland II, Modern Languages; Juan Liébana, Modern Languages; Eric Patterson, English; Lee Quinby,
English;

Craig Rimmerman, Political Science.

Requirements for the disciplinary major (B.A.): 10 courses--Two core courses; two perspective courses; five
additional courses selected either from the core group or the electives; and a capstone course, which can only be
undertaken after completing at least eight courses toward the major. The capstone course should involve close work
with a faculty advisor to create an internship, independent study, or Honors project which serves to integrate material
from throughout the major. The courses in a major program must include at least one course from each division and
at least three courses in one division.

Requirements for the interdisciplinary major (B.A.): 10 courses--All of the requirements for the disciplinary major,
but, included within the 10 courses, there must be work from at least two departments and at least three courses in
each of two or more divisions (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and fine and performing arts).

Requirements for the disciplinary minor: 5 courses--Two core courses; one perspective course; and two
additional courses selected from either the core group or the electives.

Requirements for the interdisciplinary minor: 5 courses-- All of the requirements for the disciplinary minor, but
the five courses of the minor must include courses in at least two departments agd at least two courses in each of
two divisions (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and fine and

performing arts).

Core Courses

AMST 310 History of Sexual Minorities in America
ENG 281 Literature of Sexual Minorities

POL 223 Sexual Minority Movements and Public Policy
REL 283 Que(e)rying Religious Studies

Perspective Courses

ALST 200 Ghettoscapes

ALST 240 Third World Women's Texts

ANTH 110 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 230 Beyond Monogamy

BIDS 245 Men and Masculinity

ENG 290 African-American Autobiography

ENG 291 Introduction to African-American Literature |
ENG 292 Introduction to African-American Literature II
HIST 269 Modern Germany

HIST 325 Medicine and Public Health in Modern Europe
HIST 371 Life Cycles: The Family in History

MDLN 308 Latin American/Latino Cinema

POL 175 Introduction to Feminist Theory: Radical Feminism in the U.S.
POL 215 Minority Group Politics

PEHR 212 Making Connections

PEHR 214 Teaching for Change



PSY 247 Psychology of Women

REL 109 Imagining American Religion
SOC 223 Social Stratification ;
SOC 224 Social Deviance

SOC 230 The Sociology of Everyday Life
SOC 259 Social Movements

SOC 340 Feminist Social Theory

WMST 100 The Female Experience

Note: Courses in dance, creative writing, and languages may also be appropriate choices.

Electives

BIDS 240 AIDS: Scientific Investigation and the Human Experience
CLAS 230 Gender in Antiquity

ENG 304 Feminist Literary Theory

ENG 342 Readings in Multi-Ethnic Women's Literature

ENG 381 Sexuality and American Literature

POL 216 African-American Women: Politics and Feminist Thought
POL 244 Urban Politics

POL 310 Feminist Legal Theory

PSY 230 Biopsychology

PSY 357 Self in American Culture

SOC 221 Sociology of Minorities

SOC 226 Sociology of Sex and Gender

WMST 400 Feminist Theory



University of Illinois at Chicago

Gender and Women's Studies Program
1152 BSB (MC 360) .

1007 West Harrison Street

Chicago, IL 60607-7137

1152 BSB (MC 360)

Ph - (312) 413 7629

Fax - (312) 355 4478
http:/Awww.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/WSweb.html

The Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago currently offers an
undergraduate minor and a graduate concentration. In each case there is a small number of required
courses and a larger number of free electives. A number of courses in GLBT, queer, and sexuality studies
are available at the undergraduate and graduate level. Beginning in the academic year 2001-02 there will
be two tenure-line facuity in the program whose main teaching and research are in these areas. There are
additional faculty in other departments who work in these areas [particularly in English and African-
American Studies] and are able to offer cross-listed courses.

GWS is also in the midst of planning an undergraduate major and revamping and expanding its graduate
curriculum with an eye toward developing a master’s degree. At both levels, the study of sexuality will
figure more prominently in the curriculum than it has in the past.

UIC has these other resources that support this work: 1) an Office of GLBT Concerns, with a full-time
director, an assistant director, and student workers; it maintains a large book and video library, a resource
center, and does campus programming; 2) a Chancellor's Committee on GLBT Issues, with a generous
budget that funds campus programs, including an academic lecture series; 3) small, but growing, endowed
awards, one at the undergraduate level to reward service, and one at the graduate level to support
research.



The University of lowa, lowa City from web page only: not confirmed
Sexuality Studies Certificate

Director: Mickey Eliason, Associate Professor of Nursing
Sexuality Studies Program

319-335-1984

mickey-eliason@uiowa.edu

http:/Awww.uiowa.edu/~ssp/

The Sexuality Studies Program offers students an undergraduate certificate after completed a concentrated study in
human sexuality. Courses in the program focus on “normal” sexuality, the construction of sexual deviance, sexual
and gender identities, and sociocultural issues associated with sexuality. The certificate will enhance the academic
careers of students from nearly any discipline, but particularly those in human services fields, arts and humanities,
and law.

Requirements:

The certificate program requires 18 semester hours of coursework including three required courses:

introduction to Sexuality Studies: This course introduces a variety of theoretical perspectives on human sexualities
drawn from medicine, law, the social sciences, and humanities. Cultural meanings of heterosexual, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender identities are explored.

and either

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Identities
or

Diverse Sexual Communities.

Other courses will come from a wide fist of electives. Students earn the certificate upon graduation.

Students take sexuality studies for a variety of reasons: they want to incorporate issues of sexuality into their career
planning as nurse, social worker, teacher, lawyer, or other profession; they take the courses for personal growth
experience, as the courses challenge current stereotypes and myths about sexuality; or they have family members or
friends who are stigmatized because of minority sexual/gender identity status and they wish to know more about
these identities.



Kent State

Minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies
Robert J. Johnson

Coordinator

215 Merrill Hall

rjohnson@kent.edu

330-672-2562

http://dept.kent.edu/lgbt/

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Studies program is designed to allow students to explore
sexuality and sexual minorities from a variety of perspectives. Students earning a minor in LGBT Studies select
courses (totaling 21 hours) from the following list. No more than 6 hours counted towards the major may also be
counted toward the minor. Selected or special topics or variable content courses with LGBT content may be
counted

toward the minor if approved by the coordinator.

Requirements: 21 semester credit hours; 2 required courses; 3 courses from core electives; 2 courses from related
electives

A&S 22069, Introduction to LGBT Studies
30196, Individual Investigation

Block A - Select 3 courses

MCLS 30376, The Novels of Pierre Loti

SOC 32565, Sociology of Gays and Lesbians
THEA 41114, Gay and Lesbian Theatre

A&S** 40095, Special Topics

SOC 42315, Sociology of Changing Gender Roles

OR
PSYC 40625, Development of Gender Role and Identity

Block B - Select 2 courses

AMST 10001, Introduction to American Studies

ANTH 48830, Human Behavioral Ecology and Evolution
HED 32544, Human Sexuality

HED 47070, AIDS: Issues, Education and Prevention
JUS 27311, Victimology

POL 40820, Politics of Social Movements

Soc 22778, Social Problems

SOC 32560, Family and Other Intimate Lifestyles
Soc 32570, inequality in Society

SOc 42359, Social Movements

SOC 42400, Self and Identity

Be
te,

Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required.
*Any Block A course can be used to fill the Block B requirement.
**May be substituted with the approval of the coordinator.



University of Maryland, College Park from web page only: not confirmed
Proposal for an upper-division certificate in LGBT Studies
http:/Awww.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/provost/labt/Certificate/

I. Overview and Rationale

The proposed Certificate in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Studies is a natural consequence of two
contemporary trends. The first is the growing visibility both on campus and in the general community of sexual
minorities (most of whom had been largely invisible in the public sphere until the 1970s or later). Approximately one-
hundred Fortune 500 companies and some 3,500 other companies, colleges and universities, and state and local
governments now offer domestic partnership benefits to LGBT couples. Such development is an indication that
academic, corporate, and governmental America recognizes the irreversibility of this visibility, and the growing
necessity both to treat sexual minorities in ways equivalent to treatment expected by the heterosexual majority and to
increase the knowledge of LGBT issues, persons, and topics among that majority. For these and other reasons,
courses and programs in LGBT studies have been in continuous development at major colleges and universities
since 1972 when the first such program opened at Sacramento State University. (See Appendix 1 for a list of all such
programs; Appendix 2 for details of selected programs).

The second contemporary trend leading to this proposal is the continued evolution of academic studies of human
subjects in geographical regions and other significant identity groupings. Beginning after World War Il with American
Studies and Russian and Eastern European (Soviet) Studies, this trend has seen considerable expansion at most
institutions of higher education, including the University of Maryland, College Park. We now offer credentials to
undergraduate students in the following courses of study: Afro-American Studies, American Studies, Asian-American
Studies, East Asian Studies, Family Studies, Germanic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin-American Studies, Russian
Area Studies, and Women's Studies. To credentials in these fields of study at UMCP, this proposal seeks to add a
certificate in LGBT Studies.

LGBT Studies takes as its comprehensive subject the contemporary lives, experiences, identities, and
representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals; their families and communities; their cultures
and subcultures; their histories, institutions, languages and literatures; their economics and politics; and their complex
relations to the culture and experience of the gender conformant and (hetero)sexual majority. An interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary field, LGBT studies benefits from research and teaching in a wide variety of disciplines. Among the
traditional social science and humanities disciplines incorporated into the framework for organized LGBT Studies are
those represented by the forty-two essays reproduced in the standard Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Abelove,
Barale, and Halperin (1993): Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Literature,
Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. To these may be compared the subject areas for the
signed entries in the recent, two volume Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, ed. Zimmerman
and Haggerty (2000): AIDS, Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Art History, Asian-American Studies, Biography, Black
Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Classics, Dance, Economics, Education, Fashion, Film, Geography, History,
Journalism, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Pornography,
Psychology, Religion, Science, Sexology, Sociology, Sports, Theatre, and Theory.

Although the proposed certificate is new, courses in LGBT Studies have been offered at Maryland continuously since
the early 1970s, and the present count of course offerings either focused on LGBT peoples or formally inclusive of
them now numbers approximately twenty-six. (cf. Section Il. Curriculum). The purpose of the certificate is to formally
credential students who have undertaken a coherent curriculum of 21 credits in this field. This proposal is consistent
with the assertion of UMCP's Mission Statement, that we are "the comprehensive public research university for the
State of Maryland," and that it is our responsibility to provide “high-quality undergraduate instruction across a broad
spectrum of academic disciplines.” And it further assures adherence to our Strategic Plan which instructs us to
“provide a set of undergraduate educational opportunities on a par with those available at the nation's leading public
research universities.”

The goals of the LGBT Studies certificate are five. The first is to credential undergraduate students with majors in
other fields of study. The second is to formalize UMCP participation in the group of research universities who offer
LGBT Studies, and to encourage campus units to consider their course offerings and personnel decisions in the light
of that participation and the curriculum transformation it requires. The third goal is to increase and facilitate
interdisciptinary and multidisciplinary research and teaching in the sciences humaines. To increase interaction
between UMCP students, faculty, and staff and LGBT community groups, leaders, and organizations in the region is
our fourth goal. Our fifth and final goal is to study the roots of homophobia and to seek ways of reducing its presence
in the world as we seek to reduce such other related social ills as heterosexism, misogyny, racism, and sexism.

Disciplinary trends

LGBT Studies draws upon multiple disciplines even in the formulation of its scholarly foundation. It challenges
traditional disciplinarity and forces scholars to reach across boundaries that frequently serve to divide. LGBT courses
necessarily draw upon knowledge from different fields, and utilize various methodologies including close literary,
rhetorical, and textual analysis; cultural criticism; historical inquiry, evidence assessment, and recouperative



strategies; qualitative and quantitative social science research including ethnographic observation and description
and statistical analysis, clinical and laboratory studies, scientific hypothesis formation and testing, as well as a broad
variety of communications, critical race, developmental, economic, feminist, literary, political, psychological,
rhetorical, sociological and queer theories.

Curriculum

The Program in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Studies offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate
certificate designed to examine the lives, experiences, identities and representations of LGBT persons, those who are
today described as having a minority sexual orientation or who are gender transgressive. Students study LGBT
families and communities, cultures and subcultures; histories, institutions, languages and literatures; economic and
political lives; and the complex relations of sexual minorities to the culture and experience of the gender conformant
and (hetero)sexual majority. LGBT Studies is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field, and promotes the
application of new theories and methodologies (e.g., queer, feminist, critical race, and multicultural theories) to
established disciplines, and it advances the generation of new knowledge within traditional fields of scholarship.
Through study of sexua! minorities, students gain an understanding of and respect for other differences in human
lives such as age, ability, class, ethnicity, gender, race, and religion. With the help of faculty advisors, certificate
candidates design a program that complements their major field of study and makes them more competitive in their
post-graduate endeavors.

This certificate consists of 15 core credits and 6 elective credits. No more than 9 credit hours may be applied toward
the major. A minimum of 9 credit hours must be taken in upper division courses (i.e., those numbered 300 or above).
A maximum of 3 credit hours of "Special Topics" or "Selected Topics" courses may be taken with the exceptions
noted below. No more than 9 credit hours may be taken at institutions other than UMCP.

Because this is a rapidly evolving field of study, it is expected that the Faculty Advisory Group will periodically review
all courses in this program for their appropriateness. This is especially true for the list of approved electives.

The core requirements comprise 15 credits. They include one lower and one upper division course focused on
personal, social, political and historical aspects of LGBT people, one lower and one upper division course focused on
literature by or about LGBT people, and a final course focused either on the interaction of the humanities and social
sciences in this field of study, or on the practical application of this academic training in community service
organizations.

1. LGBT200 Introduction to Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies; (3 credits) An interdisciplinary study of
the historical and social context of personal, cultural, and political aspects of LGBT life. Sources from a variety of
fields such as anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and women's studies, focusing on the writings by and
about LGBT people.

2. One of the following two 200-level courses focused on literature by or about LGBT people.
CMLT291 International Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Studies ~
ENGL265 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Literature “

3. One course from the following list of upper division courses focused on the social, political, and/or
historical aspects of LGBT people.

LGBT350 LGBT People and Communication

PHIL407 Gay and Lesbian Philosophy

WMST494 Lesbian Communities and Differences

4.One course from the following list of upper-division courses focused on literature by or about LGBT
people.

ENGL359 Special Topics in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Literatures

ENGL459 Selected Topics in Sexuality and Literature

ENGL465 Theories of Sexuality and Literature

5.One of the following two options.
LGBT400 Seminar in LGBT Studies
NEW LGBT450 Supervised internship - LGBT Community Organizations

Students choose 6 hours of elective credits in consultation with their advisor in LGBT Studies. Electives are chosen to
complement the student's knowledge of LGBT people and issues by exploring disciplines that contrast with the major
field of study.

[The rest of this very comprehensive proposal can be found on the web site listed above.]}

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University of Minnesota
Steven J. Schochet Center for GLBT Studies

Linnea A. Stenson

Program Director

132 Klaeber Court

320 16th Ave. SE

Minneapolis, MN 554555
htto:/Awww.glibtstudies.umn.edu

The Schochet Center for GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, aims to enhance
knowledge about GLBT lives in three interconnected ways:

Academic Focus - interdisciplinary GLBT studies
Community Focus - interactive community events and the participation of community scholars

Historical Focus - the creation of an Archive in association with the UMN Libraries that reflects
GLBT life and history locally and nationally

Currently offers self-designed concentrations, minors, and majors through the university’s individualized
learning programs.



New York University
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)

Carolyn Dinshaw

- carolyn.dinshaw@nyu.edu

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)

New York University

285 Mercer Street, Third Floor

New York, NY 10003-6653

Tel. 212/992-9540

gender.sexuality@nyu.edu
www.nyu.edu/fas/gender.sexuality

Status of program: Currently the Women's Studies Program curriculum is in the process of transition to Gender and
Sexuality Studies; in both the current and future incarnations, the curriculum will include but not be limited to GLBT/Q
issues.

Founded in the fall of 1999, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) is unique nationwide in its
named emphasis on both gender and sexuality. We foster explorations of gender and sexuality in a broad range of
contexts in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and professions. We facilitate conversations in the NYU
community, especially across disciplinary and institutional divides, and bring the NYU community into meaningful
interaction with sites outside the university dedicated to gender and sexuality issues. Connections are made—
between gender, sexuality, and other social formations; between students, teachers, and researchers in qualitative
and in quantitative fields; between NYU schoois; between NYU and larger community contexts. Our programs are
intended to promote scholarship, to strengthen the campus community of teachers and students of these subjects,
and to encourage activism at NYU and beyond.

The CSGS is a developing institutional site that consists of academic programs and a research institute. Currently,
the CSGS administers the Women’s Studies Program, an undergraduate major and minor. Women’s Studies will
soon be expanded and replaced by a new undergraduate major and minor, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Plans for a
graduate certificate and other graduate programs are in the making. We intend that our affiliated faculty will come
from a wide range of departments in NYU schools, including the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Tisch School of the
Arts, the School of Education, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the School of Law, and the
Gallatin Schoo! of Individualized Study. In addition to this large affiliated faculty, we will be hiring three new faculty
members over the next several years.

In our undergraduate core courses and our cross-listed electives, we explore issues related to gender and sexuality
across disciplines and professions. Our graduate courses will be similarly wide-ranging. New undergraduate courses
in development include a historical introduction to the interrelated fields of gender and sexuality studies; case studies
in gender and sexuality studies; a junior-level practicum on research methods; and a Senior seminar on gender,
sexuality, and other social formations. A new graduate seminar, available to advanced undergraduates, on AIDS
Activist Videos is being planned. Student internships with area organizations are strongly encouraged.



Purchase College, State University of New York

Minor in Lesbian and Gay § Studies
Dr. Esther Newton

Professor of Anthropology

Lesbian and Gay Studies Program

College at Purchase/SUNY

735 Anderson Hil! Road

Purchase, NY 10577

(914) 251-661115

College at Purchase, State University of New York

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Program offers courses across disciplines that address lesbian, gay, and bisexual
concerns. The program is designed to allow students to focus on such issues as theories of sexual orientation, the
history of the gay movement, AIDS, queer theory, and the lesbian/gay artist and writer. Students majoring in any
discipline may pursue a minor in lesbian and gay studies by completing Tve courses, one of which must be LGS
1015/introduction to Lesbian/Gay Studies. The four remaining courses will be selected after consultation with a
member of the Lesbian/Gay Studies Board of Study, and should represent an interdisciplinary approach to the area.
An internship is strongly recommended. All students must submit a completed Minor Application Form.

Lesbian and Gay Studies Course Descriptions

LGS 1015 Introduction to Lesbian/Gay Studies

4 Credits. (Core X) An overview of the history and politics of gay and lesbian communities in Western culture, as well
as of their cultural expressions. Topics include: theories of sexual orientation, coming out, lesbian/gay families,
representation in the law, the lesbian/gay artist.

LGS 2100 Queer Performances

4 Credits. In the past twenty years, the field of performance art has emerged as a major site of "minority" expression.
At the same time, the field has been a target of the religious right's ongoing culture wars. In this course we will
explore the work of queer artists in videos and texts, and also look at the political, social and artistic questions they
raise.

LGS 2200 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Cultures

4 Credits. This course will examine the emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trangendered cultures in the US from
the 1920's to the present day. We will examine the connections between sexuality and gender, race, class, and
ethnicity and the rise of lesbian, gay, and other queer political movements.

LGS 3890 Junior/Senior Seminar in Lesbian/Gay Studies ta

We read key texts by leading scholars in different disciplines in the emerging fi elds of Lesbian/Gay/Queer studies.
The main types of questions addressed are in the fields of politics and culture (including literature, performance,
visual art, etc.). Each student pursues his/her own interest culminating in a substantial paper (or thesis topic) and
class presentation. Prerequisites: LGS 1015 or WOM1520 and one other LGS course.

Other Lesbian and Gay Studies Courses
DRA 3520/Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Drama
LIT 3001/Lesbian and Gay Fiction

LIT3004 Lesbian and Gay Poetry

PHI 3725/Theories of Sexuality

PHI 3870/Philosophy of Law

PSY 2690/Social Psychology of AIDS

PSY 3840/Psychology of Gender

ANT3405 Culture and Values
ANT3710/Anthropology of Homosexuality
ANT 3750/Sexuality in Western Culture

ECO 3300/AIDS: Economic, Political, and Ethical Issues
ECO 4860/Seminar in AIDS Education



San Francisco State University From web page only: not confirmed

Minor in Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies
Director: Gilbert Herdt

PSY 502

415-338-1137 .
htto:/Avww.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/current/programs/gaylesbi.htm

Program Scope .

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies intends to delineate and analyze meanings that have been associated with
homosexuality in various artistic, biological, cultural, educational, ethical, historical, and literary contexts; and
examine the related issues of mixed-gender and cross-gender roles and practices.

The minor is broadly interdisciplinary. It draws courses from anthropology, biology, cinema, counseling, English,
history, human sexuality studies, psychology, NEXA, social sciences, speech and communication studies, and
women studies. The university also offers a Minor in Human Sexuality Studies.

Minor In Gay, Lesbian, And Bisexual Studies

The minor consists of a minimum of 24 units of undergraduate study. It is possible to use these courses to meet
requirements in some undergraduate majors, in other minors, and various clusters in the Genera! Education program.
Specifically, several courses meet the requirements of the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Perspectives cluster in Segment Ill
of the General Education program.

Required Courses:
HMSX 301 Introduction to Bisexual, Lesbian, and Gay Studies, 3 units
HIST 314 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual History, 3 units

One course from the following, 3-4 units

HMSX/SS 421 Homophobia and Coming Out

SPCH 525 Sexual Identity and Communication (4)
WOMS 552 Lesbian Lives and Thought

One course from the following, 3-5 units

ENG 633 Gay Love in Literature (4)

WOMS 551 Lesbian Literature

ENG 618 Studies in Gay and Bisexual Literature [all topics]

ENG 604 _ Literary Aspects of Contemporary Film (5)

One course from the following, 3 units
NEXA 391 Biological Sex and Cultural Gender eo
PSY 650/HMSX 600 Research on Sexuat Identity “
PSY/HMSX 320 Sex and Relationships

COUN/HMSX 326 Work and Leadership Issues of Bisexuals, Lesbians, and Gays
Elective units from the following, 9-10 units

ANTH 569 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Sex and Gender

BIOL 330 Human Sexuality

ENG 580 Individual Authors [selected topics on advisement]

HMSX 304 Queer Art History

HMSX 400/PSY 450 Variations in Human Sexuality

HMSX/PSY 436 The Development of Maleness and Femaleness (4)
HMSX 550 Field Service in Human Sexuality Studies (1-3)

HMSX 567 Cross-cultural Aspects of Sex and Gender

WOMS 550 Special Studies in Lesbian Lives

Total for minor: 24-28 units



City College of San Francisco From web page only: not confirmed

Department of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies
Jack Collins .
Chair .

GLBT Studies Departmen

City College of San Francisco

50 Phelan Ave., S-77

San Francisco, CA 94112

Telephone: 415-648-6563

GLST 05 - Introduction to Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Studies: An introduction to the subjects and
methods of the field Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Studies. This novel class situates a wide historical range of
GLBT work in the humanities against the social and historical ground of its making. Thus, the class is about
understanding culture and context. Issues like identity, history, labeling, oppression and liberation will be explored in
detail.

[Now in the process of designing a major and minor in GLBT Studies.]}



Sarah Lawrence

interdisciplinary Study in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
Jutie Abraham .

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

Sarah Lawrence College

1 Mead Way -

Bronxville, NY 10708-5999

Tel: 914 395-2313

jabraham@sic.edu
http://sic.edu/undergrad/bachelor_arts/interdisciplinary/gay_index.html

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies is an interdisciplinary fietd that engages questions extending across
a number of areas of study. Sarah Lawrence College offers students the opportunity to explore a range of theories
and issues concerning gender and sexuality across cultures, categories, and historical periods. This can be
accomplished through seminar course work and discussion and/or individual conference research.


Studies. Thus, the minor would give students who take several courses in this area an opportunity to demonstrate
more visibly their readiness to perform jobs that call for awareness of and sensitivity to lesbian and gay issues.

Lesbian and Gay Studies is a recognized academic field with its own conferences and journals. The rapid growth in
the number of Ph.D. Dissertations and published works devoted to lesbian and gay topics attests to the growing
acceptance and legitimacy accorded to lesbian and gay studies scholarship. By approving a Lesbian and Gay
Studies Minor, TSU would join other. colleges and universities in granting this relatively new field the academic
recognition and legitimacy that is associated with institutionalized programs of study. It would also give TSU an edge
over its competitors in attracting students who find the existence of this program a strong reason to choose. TSU and
to stay here once admitted.

Educational Objectives
1. To familiarize students with major concepts, theories, substantive findings, and works of fiction and nonfiction in
the field of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

2. To make students aware of the diversity of the attitudes toward and the experiences of gay men and lesbians in
different cultures and historical periods.

3. To examine institutionalized homophobia and heterosexism and their impact on the political, social and economic
status of lesbians and gay men.

4. To investigate the relationships between prevailing gender norms and systems and the social construction of
heterosexualities and same-sex sexualities and the cultural images associated with them.

5. To examine differences within and between gay and lesbian communities along lines of race, class, gender,
ethnicity, age and region and the social and political ramifications of such differences for those communities.

6. To understand the wide range of political strategies used by lesbians and gay men in the past and the present in
their struggles against oppression.

7. To trace the historical evolution of sexual identities and the roles of lesbians and gay men in reshaping them.


University of Windsor

Minor in Studies in Sexuality
Dr. Barry Adam

Program in Studies in Sexuality

Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Windsor

Room 157-2 Chrysler Hall South

401 Sunset

Windsor Ontario

N9B 3P4

Tel: (519) 253-3000 ext. 3497; Fax: (519) 971-3621
adam@uwindsor.ca
www.uwindsor.ca/igbt

The University of Windsor is one of only a few universities in Canada to offer a Minor in Studies in Sexuality. These
courses explore a wide range of issues, including ways in which sexuality may be viewed as natural or cultural; how
sexual assumptions have changed through history; sexuality as pleasure, desire, and reproduction; sexual orientation
and sexual identity; sexuality and gender, and so on. Sexuality studies is a vibrant field offering many opportunities
for graduate study, and providing an important asset for people in helping professions, and community and social
services. ;

Requirements for the minor: any six of the following courses.

Sociology

* 48-205 Sociology of Sex

* 48-350 Theories of Sexuality

* 48-351 Gay and Lesbian Studies

Psychology

* 46-240 Psychology of Sex and Gender

¢ 46-463 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in North America

* 46-464 Psychology and the Historical Construction of Gender and Sexuality

History .

* 43-412 History of Sexuality: Rome to the Council of Trent

* 43-463 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in North America

* 43-464 Psychology and the Historical Construction of Gender and Sexuality

Women's Studies e
* 53-215 Religion and Sexuality ‘
* 53-220 Biology of Sex and Gender



Smith College

Queer Studies Concentration in the Women's Studies Major
Women's Studies Department

Smith College

Northampton, MA 01063

(413) 584-3336

http:/Avww.smith.edu/wst/queerstudies html

Queer Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze antinormative sexual identities,
performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and
gender. Queer studies comes out of a critique of identity politics. It rejects essentialized conceptualization[s] of
sexuality, gender, and sexual identity as innate or fixed. It represents a deconstruction of hegemonic conceptions of
sexual and gender categories within straight, gay and lesbian communities. In queer studies, the interpretation,
enactment, and destabilizing of sexual identities is linked to that of gender categories. The queer studies
concentration’s home in women’s studies makes explicit these links between theories of gender and sexuality.

In the queer studies concentration students are encouraged to consider the historical and theoretical foundations of
queer studies as well as the potential consequences (epistemotogical and political) of a queer studies critique. This
might include attention to the connections between gay and lesbian studies and queer studies, feminist studies and
queer studies and the implications of a queer studies critique for other disciplines.

Possible areas of focus include: the history of sexuality, social movements, politics, anthropology, literature, theater,
art, film, science and sexology, public policy, law, ethnic studies, music, demography, geography, media analysis,
philosophy, etc.

A concentration consists of at least three courses chosen from the list published annually in the Women's Studies
Course Guide and available through the Women’s Studies website.

Courses in the Queer Studies Concentration 2000-01
WST 100b Issues in Queer Studies (2 credits)

WST 220a Queer Theories: Borders, Limits, and Margins
WST 300b Special Topics: Sexual Histories, Lesbian Stories
GOV 266a Politics of Gender and Sexuality

GOV 367b Seminar in Political Theory: Queer Theory
SOC229a Sex and Gender in American Society

PSY 268a Lesbian Identity and Experience

THE 316a Contemporary Canadian Drama

Other Courses of Interest a
CLS 233 Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Greco-Roman Culture

CLT 272a Women Writing: 20th Century Fiction

SOC 323a Seminar: Gender and Social Change

Bracketed for 2000-01
WST 300 Queer Resistances, Identities, Communities, and Social Movements
GOV 366 Seminar in Political Theory: The Body Politic



Towson University

Minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Program Director: Cindy Gissendanner
cgissendanner@towson.edu

http:/Avww.towson.edu/~tinkler/Iqb/minor. htm!

Catalog Description for Lesbian and Gay Studies Minor

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Minor addresses issues of sexual orientation from interdisciplinary and multicultural
perspectives. The growing public visibility and awareness of diverse sexualities and their cultural and political
ramifications for individuals, social institutions, and communities is evident in increased media coverage of political
activism and debate related to issues of sexual orientation. Lesbian and Gay Studies is a response to these forces in
the contemporary world but also represents a growing field of scholarship which is in the forefront of developing
theoretical and methodological innovations in interdisciplinary studies. The Lesbian and Gay Studies minor aims to
give students the critical skills to analyze a wide range of issues including the historical evolution of sexual identities
in different cultural settings, the relationship between gender systems and sexual orientation, the development of
lesbian and gay cultural institutions, institutionalized forms of heterosexism and homophobia, conflict within and
between lesbian and gay communities, and the social and political mobilization of lesbian and gay peoples and their
allies in efforts to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Requirements: 18 credit hours.

Required Course:

IDIS 101 introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies (3): Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural examination of
homosexualities, institutionalized homophobia, gay and lesbian culture and communities, and gay and lesbian
political activism.

Electives

Five of the following:

ANTH 370 -- Sexual Orientation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

HIST 361 -- Gays and Lesbians in U.S. History

ENGL 376 -- Themes in Literature: Gay Themes in American Literature

ENGL 375 -- Themes in Literature: The Literature of AIDS

PSYC 457 -- Gender Identity in Transition

PSYC 470 -- Special Topics: Psychology of Lesbian Culture (Currently being proposed as a new course with
permanent catalog status, Psychology Department has approved it)

WMST 338 -- Women and Sexuality

Rationale for the Program (from proposal)

TSU already has an impressive array of Lesbian and Gay Studies courses in a variety of disciplines. Those of us who
teach these courses know that many of our students take several Lesbian and Gay Studies courses over their full
course of study. The existence of a Lesbian and Gay Studies minor would allow students who already take a
concentration to get formal recognition for their studies and might also encourage students to take one or two more
courses in order to get this recognition. The courses that we are proposing as options within the minor are well
established and have a good track record in enrollment. The Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies course is on
the approved list for General Education credit in the Western Heritage: Pluralism and Diversity category. Thus, we
have a course that could well serve as a feeder course for the minor. In general, the student demand for Lesbian and
Gay Studies courses has been strong and there is no reason to believe that this will change for the worse in the
coming years.

No institution in the UMS currently offers students either a minor or a major in Lesbian and Gay Studies. TSU has the
opportunity to be a leader in this field. Students in Lesbian and Gay Studies classes at Towson tell their instructors
that they were drawn to TSU because it offers a wide range of courses in this area. We also teach students from
other colleges and universities who take courses here because similar offerings are not available at their home
institutions.

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Minor fits with TSU's current push to create more interdisciplinary program options for
its students. It has the support of the Dean of CLA and of the Provost. Furthermore, this program can be created with
virtually no commitment of additional university resources. Faculty are already teaching the courses that make up the
minor. The same faculty have been ordering library resources for several years, though the journal and audio-visual
holdings could stand to be updated. In other words, this is a win-win situation for the university and its students. —

As more employment opportunities become available for college graduates in lesbian and gay organizations, cultural
institutions, research centers, and academic programs and in professions that service openly lesbian and gay
clientele, employers will increasingly look favorably upon students with expertise in the area of Lesbian and Gay


University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

Certificate Program in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Program Coordinator: Jeffrey Merrick

History, UWM

PO Box 413

Milwaukee WI 53201

Holton Hall 330

414-229-4924 (fax: -2435)

jmerrick@uwm.edu

http:/Awww.uwm.edu/Dept/GLBCGert

Program Description: LGBT Studies investigates the historical and contemporary experiences of people traditionally
neglected in scholarship and courses. It explores questions about sexuality as well as identity, community,
representation, diversity, assimilation, and discrimination that are both academically and socially significant. Work in
this innovative field includes material and methods from many disciplines: English and foreign languages, Allied
Health Professions, Anthropology, Art History, Biology, Communications, Economics, Fine Arts, History, Music,
Nursing, Political Science,

Psychology, Sociology, and Social Welfare.

The LGBT Studies Certificate Program provides a curricular structure for undergraduates interested in the
interdisciplinary study of same-sex relations, and human sexuality more generally, in past and present cultures.

Program requirements
Students must complete at least 18 credits in courses from the LGBT Studies list with a minimum GPA of 2.5.

1. GayLesb 200 (Introduction to LGBT Studies), 3 credits: Explores ideas about sexual identity and community
through theory, literature, film, photography, music, and popular culture.

2. 9 additional credits in courses that focus primarily on LGBT issues in at least two of the following three areas:
a. Literary and cultural studies (English and foreign languages, Art History, Communication, Fine Arts)
b. Social sciences (Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology)
c. Behavioral and natural sciences (Biology, Psychology, Allied Health Professions, Nursing, Social
Welfare

3. 6 credits in courses that include a significant amount of attention to LGBT issues or in courses that focus primarily
on LGBT issues

4. 9 of the 18 credits in courses numbered 300 or above
5. No more than 6 credits in independent study

6. No more than 9 credits in any one department

7. Atleast 9 credits taken at UWM

8. No credits taken on a credit/no credit basis

It is recommended that, in their senior year, students complete one independent study course or an upper-level

course such as Eng 629 (Seminar in Literature and Human Sexuality) to synthesize their previous work in LGBT
studies.


Yale University From web page only: not confirmed
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies track in the women’s studies
major

Director of undergraduate studies: Naomi Rogers

Women and Gender Studies Program

100 Wall St.

432-0847

naomi.rogers@yale.edu

http:/Avww. yale.edu/ycpo/ycps/Q-Z/wmnsstFEM.html

Description: The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies track consists of seven required courses and six
courses in the area of concentration. This track focuses on the experiences of people of nonconforming sexualities
and genders; it analyzes those experiences in their own terms and explores new critical perspectives on sexuality as
a complex social, cultural, biological, and historical phenomenon. The introductory course required for this track is
WGST 296a.

Examples of disciplinary concentrations for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies track are: lesbian,
gay, or related social movements (Sociology), gay and lesbian literature (English, French, German, Spanish, or the
Comparative Literature track of the Literature major); gay and lesbian history (History); nonconforming sexualities and
politics (Political Science or Ethics, Politics, and Economics); sexuality and biology (Molecular, Cellular, and
Developmental Biology). Examples of topical concentrations are: queer theory; sexuality and representation;
nonconforming sexualities and public policy; interaction of heterosexuality and nonconforming sexualities.

Core course: is WGST 296a, Introduction To Lesbian And Gay Studies: A study of works that have as their
theme gay and lesbian experience and identity in the twentieth-century United States. They include fiction and
autobiographical texts, historical and sociological materials, texts on queer theory, and films, focusing on modes of
representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality.