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. Joshua Liashenko, in the Department of Sociology via email at liashenk@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.
- No more than 3 courses or 9 credits overall are allowed in the same subject code, including the courses in the core and elective choices, with the exception of HUM courses, on which there is no restriction.