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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transg (GLBT) Courses

Academic Unit: Gender, Women and Sexuality

GLBT 1001 - Introduction to GLBT Studies [SOCS DSJ]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 1007

History of contemporary GLBT-identified communities. Terms of theoretical debates regarding sexual orientation, identity, and experience. Analyzes problems produced and insights gained by incorporating GLBT issues into specific academic, social, cultural, and political discourses.

GLBT 1042 - Engaging with Queer Cinema [AH]

(3 cr; S-N only; offered Every Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 1042, ENGL 1042

What codes are at work that make a film Queer? In Queer Cinema, you will be an interpretive artist and active spectator as we analyze and consider subversive cinema from across nations and historical periods. Sometimes these films will be obviously queer or trans. However, the queer and trans film is often coded or distorted, especially in response to legal or societal censorship or disapproval. As a result, Queer directors and writers sometimes speak in a liberatory way to particular oppressed/silenced groups on the level of coded content, but if the content is consumed out of the context of the code, the experience of a film may be contradictory, even offensive. Consequently we'll be looking for the queer subversions within the distortions.

GLBT 3211 - History of Sexuality in Europe

(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: HIST 3211 (starting 18-JAN-11)

History of sexuality in Europe, from ancient Greece to present. Plato's philosophy of love, St. Augustine's conception of sin, prostitution in 15th century, sexual science of Enlightenment. Industrial revolution and homosexual subcultures. Rape scares and imperialism. Eugenics and Nazi Germany.

GLBT 3212 - Dissident Sexualities in U.S. History

(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)

Equivalent courses: AMST 3212, HIST 3212 (starting 02-SEP-08)

History of sexuality in United States. Emphasizes sexualities that have challenged dominant social/cultural norms. Development of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay identities/communities. Politics of sex across lines of race/ethnicity. Historical debates over controversial practices, including sex work.

GLBT 3301 - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Social Movements in the United States

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 3501

Interdisciplinary course. Development of GLBT social movements using social movement theory/service learning.

GLBT 3305 - Queer Cinema [AH]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 3305 (starting 17-JAN-12, was WOST 3305 until 05-SEP-06)

What "queer" and "queering" signify in relation to cinema. Directors, films, styles, genres of queer cinema. Ways in which traditional narrative codes are challenged/repackaged. Ideological dimensions. Impact of political climate. Readings, screenings, discussions, assignments.

GLBT 3309 - LGBTQ Literature: Then and Now [LITR DSJ]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)

Equivalent courses: ENGL 3331

LGBTQIA life in the US has changed significantly over the past few decades. By examining a selection of poetry, prose, and film, our class will try to answer the questions: "How did we get to where we are today?" and "Where do we go next?" We will look at classic works in their historical contexts to see what was revolutionary about their publication; we will trace how they paved the way for all that followed. We will look at very new works to understand the concerns of twenty-first century LGBTQIA writers and readers. From the "lavender scare" to the Stonewall Riots to the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality to genderqueer and trans movements, we will explore how LGBTQIA authors and filmmakers have both responded to and shaped the ethos of our times.

GLBT 3404 - Transnational Sexualities [GP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 3404 (starting 02-SEP-08, was WOST 3404 until 05-SEP-06)

Lesbian/gay lives throughout world. Culturally-specific/transcultural aspects of lesbian/gay identity formation, political struggles, community involvement, and global networking. Lesbian/gay life in areas other than Europe and the United States.

GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture [WI DSJ]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: CSCL 3350W (starting 07-SEP-10, was CSCL 3456W until 16-JAN-18, was CSCL 3456 until 05-SEP-00)

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLBT 3502 - Transgender Studies Now [DSJ]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 3502 (starting 06-SEP-16)

Transgender studies transforms ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and biology. We look at how knowledge is made about transgender life across disciplines and media: film, fiction, and the internet, as well as medicine, history, anthropology, and gender studies. This course also asks how transgender social practices and community politics are embedded in dynamics of race, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability.

GLBT 3993 - Directed Studies

(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-GLBT studies minor, instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 6 times)

Guided individual study. GLBT topic not available through regular course offerings. Students work with faculty who share their research interests. Number of credits based on scope of project, student needs, and advising instructor's approval.

GLBT 4101 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America [HIS DSJ]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)

Equivalent courses: AMST 4101 (starting 07-SEP-10, was AMST 4101W until 03-SEP-02)

Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.

GLBT 4204 - Sex, Love, & Disability

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 4204

In America's cultural imagination, people with disabilities are figured either as childlike and asexual, or improperly hypersexual. For disabled people (or anyone perceived as disabled) this paradox has meant denial of sexual agency and gender expression, histories of forced sterilization and institutionalization, sociopolitical marginalization, and great risk of sexual violence (and even death). In this course, we'll examine this history to better understand our contemporary present. We'll analyze constructions of disability and sexuality as they are interwoven with gender, class, race, and citizenship. We will ask: What might it mean to desire disability? Is there a disability sexual culture? Do disabled people queer sex, or does sexuality queer disability? What is the relationship between GLBTQ and disability rights and liberation movements? Drawing from feminist, queer, and disability studies, we'll answer these questions (and more) by examining how the imagined able-bodymind structures our understanding of gender/sexuality, and how disability sexual cultures resist these norms.

GLBT 4403 - Queering Theory

(3 cr; Prereq-Any GWSS or GLBT course; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 4403 (starting 02-SEP-08, was WOST 4403 until 05-SEP-06), GWSS 5503

This course will give you a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies in addition to explaining its relation to other scholarly traditions, including (but not limited to) feminist theory, GLBT studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Over the course of the semester you will examine the historical forces that birthed queer politics and theory, become conversant in its conceptual basis, interrogate and analyze its various uses and applications, and finally apply it in your own arguments.

GLBT 4415 - Transnational Body Politics [GP]

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: GWSS 4415 (starting 23-MAY-16)

Our bodies are always already modified. How we shape our bodies can express our deepest feelings about who we are. Body modification can also represent cultural and subcultural identifications or expectations based on gender, race, class, and sexuality. But what we do with our bodies is never separate from the politics of cultural difference and fluctuating ideas of what is acceptable or unacceptable, civilized or uncivilized. These ideas are historically and culturally specific. This course looks at body modification on a transnational scale to ask how we come to know what differentiates "mutilation" from "correction." We ask how feminist, queer and critical race theories illuminate these debates, reading across historical, anthropological, medical, and literary texts. Weekly topics include gender, race, and cosmetic surgery; skin whitening technologies; transnational gender reassignment; surgical tourism; female genital cutting; piercing, tattooing and scarification; the cultural politics of hair; and body modification in the context of transnational feminized labor.

GLBT 5993 - Directed Study (independent study)

(1 cr [max 12]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits)

Directed Study

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