Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersexual, and Transgender Studies Minor

Subject abbreviation: LGBS College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Keith Harris, Ph.D., Co-Chair Jennifer Doyle, Ph.D., Co-Chair Program Office, 3100 INTS

• (951) 827-3456

lgbitstudies.ucr.edu

Committee in Charge Byron Adams (Music) Alicia Arrizon (Women’s Studies) Amalia Cabezas (Women’s Studies) Erica Edwards (English) Katja Guenther (Sociology) George Haggerty (English) Tamara Ho (Women’s Studies) Nalo Hopkinson (Creative Writing) Mariam Lam (Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages) Robert Latham (English) Tiffany Ana Lopez (Theatre) Molly McGarry (History) Erika Suderberg (Art) James Tobias (English) Carole-Anne Tyler (English) Jane Ward (Women’s Studies) Traise Yamamoto (English) Stephen E. Cullenberg, Ph.D. Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, ex officio

The program reflects current critical, theoretical, and methodological developments across several disciplines that focus on lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersexual, and Transgender Studies are by nature interdisciplinary, and this program is meant to encourage new cross- disciplinary research in the field for interested students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The curriculum addresses such issues as sexual identity and orientation; gay, lesbian, and bisexual representation; gay, lesbian, and bisexual perspectives on the arts; retheorizations of gender; sexuality and cultural diversity; intersections of sexualities and ethnic identities.

Requirements for the minor (24 units)

• 1. Lower-division requirements (4 units) chosen

from LGBS 001 or WMST 001

• 2. Upper-division requirements (5 courses [at

least 20 units]) chosen from the approved list of courses:

• a) Humanities: at least one of the five from

ENGL 122 (E-Z)/LGBS 122 (E-Z), ENGL 143 (E-Z)/LGBS 143 (E-Z)/MCS 143 (E- Z), LGBS 105, LGBS 139/WMST 139

• b) Fine Arts: at least one of the five from

DNCE 135, ENGL 143 (E-Z)/LGBS 143 (E-Z)/MCS 143 (E-Z), LGBS 153/MUS 153

• c) Social Sciences: at least one of the five

from ANTH 145/WMST 103, ETST 175/ WMST 175, LGBS 128/WMST 128, LGBS 134/WMST 134, LGBS 135/WMST 135, LGBS 137/WMST 137, LGBS 139/WMST 139, LGBS 152/WMST 152, WMST 100

Students may petition to have a course not on the approved list counted towards the five upper division requirements provided they can demonstrate that LGBIT 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 LGBIT topic.

Students may use 4 units of LGBS 190 and up to 8 units of LGBS 193 to count towards the five upper division requirements.

Note Students may satisfy an upper-division requirement by completing 4 units of LGBS 198-I (Internship).

See Minors under the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in the Colleges and Programs section of this catalog for information on minors.