Queer Studies Programs
 | Allegheny
College: Interdisciplinary Minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies
-- An interdisciplinary minor which combines three Liberal
Studies courses focused on lesbian and gay issues with courses
from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences that
connect these issues to other cultural themes.
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| City
College of San Francisco: Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Studies
Department -- City College of San Francisco, a pioneer
in the development of the field of queer studies, is among the
most hospitable campuses for G/L/B/T students in the
country.
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| Cornell
University: Lesbian, Bisexual, & Gay Studies -- The
field of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies is devoted to the
study of sexuality and its importance to the organization of
social relations more generally. Primary among its concerns is
also the study of lives, the politics, and the creative work
of sexual minorities.
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| Duke
University: Program in the Study of Sexualities -- The
Program in the Study of Sexualities focuses on the political,
historical, cultural, and psychological contexts in which
gender identities and sexualities have been and are currently
being expressed. At the core of any study of sexualities is
the social belief that heterosexuality and homosexuality are
extremes of a single continuum, with bisexuality somewhere in
the middle.
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| Gender
Studies at University of Chicago -- Gender
Studies at the University of Chicago encompasses diverse
disciplines, modes of inquiry, and objects of knowledge.
Gender Studies allows undergraduates the opportunity to shape
a disciplinary or interdisciplinary plan of study focused on
gender and sexuality.
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| Harvey
Milk Institute, San Francisco -- The
mission of the Harvey Milk Institute (HMI) is to foster the
development and examination of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer culture and community in the Bay Area
and beyond. HMI conducts programs that present and interpret
works by contemporary and historical queer artists and
critical thinkers that explore community and personal issues
within the context of queer culture.
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| Hobart
and William Smith Colleges: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies
-- The program in lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies seeks to
understand the historical and cultural construction of
sexuality. This interdisciplinary program is anti-homophobic
in intent, offering courses that attend seriously to the
experience of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people; to the
theoretical controversies surrounding sexual identities; and
to the variety of scholarship in this area.
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| Lesbian and
Gay Studies at Purchase College -- The
Lesbian and Gay Studies Program offers courses across
disciplines that address lesbian, gay, and bisexual concerns.
The program is designed to allow students to focus on such
issues as theories of sexual orientation, the history of the
gay movement, AIDS, queer theory, and the lesbian/gay artist
and writer.
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| New
York University: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
-- Founded in the fall of 1999,
the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) is
unique nationwide in its named emphasis on both gender and
sexuality. We foster explorations of gender and sexuality in a
broad range of contexts in the humanities, social sciences,
sciences, and professions.
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| San
Francisco State: Minor in Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies
-- Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies intends to delineate
and analyze meanings that have been associated with
homosexuality in various artistic, biological, cultural,
educational, ethical, historical, and literary contexts; and
examine the related issues of mixed-gender and cross-gender
roles and practices.
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| Smith
College: Queer Studies Concentration in the Women's Studies
Major -- Queer Studies is an emerging
interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze anti-normative
sexual identities, performances, discourses and
representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion
of normative sexuality and gender.
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| Towson
State University: Proposal for a Lesbian and Gay Studies Minor
-- The Lesbian and Gay Studies Minor addresses issues of
sexual orientation from interdisciplinary and multicultural
perspectives. The growing public visibility and awareness of
diverse sexualities and their cultural and political
ramifications for individuals, social institutions, and
communities is evident in increased media coverage of
political activism and debate related to issues of sexual
orientation.
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| University
of California, Berkeley: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgendered Studies -- LGBT Studies works to
establish sexuality as a crucial category of analysis in the
humanities and social sciences. It draws on disciplines such
as anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, literature,
and cultural studies, in order to document the extent to which
sexuality itself is a complex cultural and historical
phenomenon that bears careful examination.
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| University
of California, Los Angeles: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Studies -- The
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program at
UCLA is an interdisciplinary program that supports teaching
and research on the historical and contemporary experience of
lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people.
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| University
of California, Riverside: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies --
The program encourages new cross-disciplinary research in the
field for students interested in the humanities, arts, and
social sciences. The curriculum addresses such topics as
sexual identity and orientation; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender perspectives on the arts; gender, sexuality, and
nationality; sexualities and ethnic identities.
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| University
of Chicago: Center for Gender Studies --
Gender Studies at the
University of Chicago encompasses diverse disciplines, modes
of inquiry, and objects of knowledge. Gender Studies allows
undergraduates the opportunity to shape a disciplinary or
interdisciplinary plan of study focused on gender and
sexuality.
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University
of Maryland, College Park: Proposal for a Certificate in LGBT
Studies -- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
(LGBT) Studies epitomizes the vanguard of Higher Education
today through its multi-disciplinary approach to
scholarship.
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University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Certificate Program in Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
-- LGBT Studies investigates the historical and
contemporary experiences of people traditionally neglected in
scholarship and courses. Work in this innovative
field includes material and methods from many disciplines:
English and foreign languages, Allied Health Professions,
Anthropology, Art History, Biology, Communications, Economics,
Fine Arts, History, Music, Nursing, Political Science,
Psychology, Sociology, and Social Welfare. |
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