Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER STUDIES

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary examination of sexual desires, sexual orientations, and the concept of sexuality generally, with a particular focus on the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. The course will look specifically at how these identities interact with other human phenomena such as government, family, popular culture, scientific inquiry, and especially gender. In exploring sexual diversity, we will highlight the complexity and variability of sexualities both across different historical periods, and in relation to identities of race, class, ethnicity, and nation.