Minor in Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies
Program Learning Outcomes
- Identify the histories and identities of LGBTQ, Two-Spirit, and Gender Non-Conforming (GNC) people of color and indigenous people.
- Apply the concept of intersectionality to the analysis of gender-oppressed people of color and indigenous people, such as women of color, queers of color, Two-Spirit peoples, and transgender people of color.
- Interpret cultural production by and about QoC, and the ways it expresses agency of oppressed peoples and/or challenges social inequalities.
- Analyze social movements in the contestation of social hierarchies based on race, gender, sexuality.
- Analyze race, gender, and sexuality as co-constitutive identities and recognize both marked and unmarked categories of identity.
Minor in Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies – 12 units
A minimum of 6 upper-division units are required to complete the minor.
All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Core Requirements – 6 units
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select One: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Ethnic Studies | ||
| Critical Thinking and the Ethnic Studies Experience | ||
| RRS/SXS 380 | Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies | 3 |
Foundational Gender and Sexuality Studies – 3 units
Select One:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| SXS/SOC 110 | Sexuality in Society | 3 |
| SXS 300 | Introduction to Human Sexuality | 3 |
| WGS 200 | Introduction to Women and Gender Studies | 3 |
Gender and Sexuality in Communities of Color – 3 units
Select One:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AA S 584 | Asian American Sexualities | 3 |
| AIS/WGS 420 | Native Genders and Feminism | 3 |
| AIS/SXS/WGS 440 | Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse | 3 |
| LTNS 350 | Gender and Latina/x Feminisms | 3 |
| LTNS/WGS 445 | Gendered Borders: Latinas and Globalization | 3 |
| LTNS/WGS 505 | Gender, Sexuality, and Latino Communities | 3 |
| RRS 280 | Disrupting Science Fiction: Race, Gender, and Alternative Futures | 3 |
| RRS 304 | Decolonize Your Diet: Food Justice and Gendered Labor in Communities of Color | 3 |
| RRS/SXS 460/COUN 450 | 3 | |
| RRS 571 | Women, Race, and Class | 3 |
| RRS 375 | Queer Arabs in the U.S. | 3 |
| RRS 640 | Race and Sexual Migration | 3 |