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Dec 22, 2025
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American University Catalog 2025-2026
Sexuality and Queer Studies (Minor)
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Offered by the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies , College of Arts and Sciences , the Sexuality and Queer Studies (Minor) examines familiar issues in gender/sexuality studies (including lesbian, gay, bi and trans studies, masculinities, and feminist theory). But here, the starting point for discussion destabilizes categories/identities while emphasizing queer of color critiques, queer diasporas and migrations, and the new queer cultural studies. Critical applications of queer theory to personal and social life are emphasized.
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Minor Requirements
- 18 credit hours with grades of C or better, a minimum of 9 credit hours at or above 300-level, and at least 12 credit hours unique to the minor
Foundation (3 credit hours)
Electives (12 credit hours)
Complete 12 credit hours from the following, with at least 6 credit hours at or above 300-level, or other courses approved by program director: - AMST-330 Contemporary American Culture (3) (approved topic)
- AMST-340 Community Activism and Regional Studies (3) (approved topic)
- ANTH-215 Sex, Gender, and Culture (3)
- ANTH-350 Special Topics (3) (approved topic)
- ARTH-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6) (approved topic)
- COMM-416 Topics in Film and Media Arts (3)
- HIST-382 Queer Literatures and Histories (3)
/ LIT-382 Queer Literatures and Histories (3)
/ WGSS-382 Queer Literatures and Histories (3) - HLTH-300 Queering Health: Introduction to LGBTQI Populations and Health (3)
- LIT-319 Imagined Bodies: Historicizing Race and Gender (3)
/ WGSS-319 Imagined Bodies: Historicizing Race and Gender (3) - LIT-337 Topics in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture (3) (approved topic)
- LIT-340 Topics in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture (3) (approved topic)
- LTST-355 Latina/o/x Sexualities (3)
/ WGSS-355 Latina/o/x Sexualities (3) - PSYC-365 Human Sexual Behavior (3)
- WGSS-242 Gay and Lesbian Documentary (3)
- WGSS-243 The Gay Eighties (3)
- WGSS-244 The Lavender Screen (3)
- WGSS-250 Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3) (approved topic)
- WGSS-315 Colloquium in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1) (approved topics)
- WGSS-341 Lesbian Cultures (3)
- WGSS-350 Interpreting Gender in Culture (3) (approved topic)
- WGSS-400 Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Theory (3)
- WGSS-460 Research Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3)
- WGSS-491 Internship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1-6)
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