Introduction to LGBTQ+ and Queer Studies

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the academic disciplines of LGBTQ+ and Queer Studies, interdisciplinary fields that analyze structures of power and privilege in relation to categories and norms about gender, sex, and sexuality.  Students will interrogate both the ways that culture regulates these identity categories and the ways in which they influence social institutions, artistic expressions and political discourses, particularly in relation to LGBTQ+ people.