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

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

Jane Ward, Ph.D., Chair Department Office, 2025 INTN

• (951) 827-4843

jane.ward@ucr.edu

lgbitstudies.ucr.edu

Committee in Charge

Byron Adams (Music) Alicia Arrizón (Gender and Sexuality Studies) Amalia Cabezas (Media and Cultural Studies) Jennifer Doyle (English) Erica Edwards (English) Katja Guenther (Sociology) George Haggerty (English) Tamara Ho (Gender and Sexuality Studies) Nalo Hopkinson (Creative Writing) Anthonia Kalu (Comparative Literature and Foreign Language) Mariam Beevi Lam (Comparative Literature) Molly McGarry (History) Eric Stanley (Gender and Sexuality Studies) Erika Suderberg (Media and Cultural Studies) James Tobias (English) Carole-Anne Tyler (English) Deborah Vargas (Ethnic Studies) Jane Ward (Gender and Sexuality Studies) Traise Yamamoto (English) Milagros Peña 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, Intersex, 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 GSST 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/GSST 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/GSST 103, ETST 175/ GSST 175, LGBS 128/GSST 128, LGBS 134/GSST 134, LGBS 135/GSST 135, LGBS 137/GSST 137, LGBS 139/GSST 139, LGBS 152/GSST 152, GSST 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.