WGST 2020 - Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

5 credit hours
Introductory course in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies. Examines contributions to the field by scholars from a range of academic disciplines in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Surveys a variety of methods these scholars have brought to the subject matter, and traces some of the ways that LGBTQ Studies have influenced cultural and social theory more broadly. Exploration of the historical, political, economic, and cultural context of LGBTQ identities, communities, and politics, and the social production of sexualities, policies, and communities, and the politics of sexualities. Uses interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate race, class, ability, and nation as analytical categories in conjunction with sexuality and gender to examine power and culture. LGBTQ Studies is inextricably linked to the social movements from which it emerged, and so we will critically examine LGBTQ activism and activist texts.