Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Studies, Minor

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Sexual and gender diversity have become highly visible issues across business, the humanities, and the sciences. The Minor in Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Studies offers students the opportunity to analyze for themselves facts, theories, research, and realities concerning diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, communities, and histories, and the ways in which race, class, and other dimensions of identity and experience impact LGBTQ people, histories, and politics. Representing Chapman University’s commitments to diversity and intellectual inquiry, the minor provides students of almost any major the means to explore the issues surrounding this academic field in its scientific, socio-cultural, political, and artistic contexts. In addition to supplementing academic specializations ranging from history or biology to English or psychology, the minor can also serve students preparing for careers in law, public policy, health, social services, advocacy, activism, the arts, entertainment, or the ministry.

The Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Queer minor is not available to Women’s and Gender Studies minors.

For information about the Minor in Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Studies, including additional options that fulfill requirements, such as independent studies, contact the program director, Dr. Ian Barnard in the Department of English via email at barnard@chapman.edu.

Students pursuing a Minor in Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trangender/Queer Studies are required to:

Complete a minimum of 21 credits in the minor, 12 of which cannot be duplicated by coursework in the student’s major or any other minor(s).
Complete a minimum of 12 upper-division credits.
Complete a minimum of 6 upper-division credits completed in residence.

core requirements (9 credits)

HUM 205 - Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Studies 3 credits
IES 310 - LGBTQ Issues in Education 3 credits
PSY 344 - Psychology of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation 3 credits

three of the following (9 credits)

IES 102 - Social Construction of Difference 3 credits
HIST 125 - LGBTQ America 3 credits
HIST 200 - A History of Sexuality 3 credits
MUS 201E - Popular Music: LGBTQ Perspectives 3 credits
MUS 202 - Music and Gender 3 credits
SOC 281 - Sociology of Sex and Gender 3 credits
ANTH 300 - Queer Anthropology 3 credits
POSC 309 - Sexual Politics in a Diverse Society 3 credits
COM 311 - Gender and Communication 3 credits
PHIL 319 - Philosophy of Women/Women of Color 3 credits
DOC 321 - The Documentary Tradition 3 credits *
PSY 340 - Human Sexuality 3 credits
ENG 347 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies 3 credits (The Literature of the LGBT Experience)
HUM 352B - Topics in LGBTQ Studies 1-3 credits
SOC 371 - Sociology of Human Sexuality 3 credits
HIST 377 - The AIDS Epidemic in the United States 3 credits
AH 401 - Gender, Art, and Western Culture 3 credits
HON 416 - Sex, Self, Society 3 credits **
HON 432 - Queer Theory 3 credits **
FS 444C - Queer Cinema 3 credits
FS 444O - Film, Gender and Sexuality 3 credits
OR
ENG 472 - Film, Gender, Sexuality 3 credits

elective (3 credits)

selected from the list of courses above or with approval of program director

total credits 21

*DOC 321 can count toward the minor, when the current iteration of the course contains a substantial Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Studies component.

**Students not enrolled in the University Honors program may enroll in HON 416 and HON 432 with the consent of the Honors Director.