Course Catalogs

Queer Sexuality (QSX)

QSX 101  Queer Lives  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
An introduction to queer studies through an exploration of queer lives and the stories they tell - about sexualities, genders, bodies, relations, and ways of worldmaking.
University Requirement Course: IDEA Requirement Eligible  
QSX 111  Queer Histories, Communities, and Politics  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Explores and analyzes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender histories, communities, and politics from the ancient past to the contemporary, global present through an interdisciplinary reading of research, theory, memoir, biography, fiction, and documentary film.
University Requirement Course: IDEA Requirement Eligible  
QSX 112  Sexualities, Genders, Bodies  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Explores how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender sexualities, genders, and embodiment are understood across communities and through time, with an interdisciplinary analysis of literature, film, mass media, web sites, research, and theory.
University Requirement Course: IDEA Requirement Eligible  
QSX 200  Selected Topics  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable  
QSX 201  Queer Studies  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
An introduction to key figures, ideas, methods, and developments in queer studies.
Prereq: QSX 101 or QSX 111 or QSX 112  
QSX 280  International Course  (1-12 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Repeatable  
QSX 300  Selected Topics  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable  
QSX 306  Sexuality in Spain  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with SOC 306, WGS 306  
Offered only in Madrid. Explores important transformations in Spaniards' concepts of sexuality and gender through readings, film screenings and observing certain urban areas in Madrid.
Shared Competencies: Communication Skills  
QSX 340  Queer Theories  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
An exploration of queer theories - how they work, what they do, and what differences they make - across a range of topics and from a variety of perspectives.
Prereq: QSX 101 or QSX 111 or QSX 112 or QSX 201  
QSX 348  Queering the Middle Ages?  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with HST 348  
This course introduces students to the models and methods developed in the field of queer theory and applies them to a wide range of medieval texts (letters, novels, monastic rules, medieval historiography, legal texts etc.).
University Requirement Course: IDEA Requirement Eligible  
QSX 357  Queerly Religious  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with REL 357  
Intersections and interactions of religions and sexualities in historical and contemporary contexts. Materials entwine case studies and queer theories. Particular attention given to religious and sexual desires, identities, and enactments.
University Requirement Course: IDEA Requirement Eligible  
QSX 362  Nazi Germany and the Holocaust  (3-4 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with HST 362, JSP 362  
Rise of Nazism, fall of the Weimar Republic, fascist ideology, everyday life under Nazism for "Aryans," Jews, disabled people, Roma, gay people, Afro-Germans, others. Planning for genocide, the Holocaust, reactions and memories after 1945.
University Requirement Course: IDEA Requirement Eligible  
Shared Competencies: Communication Skills; Ethics and Integrity  
QSX 380  International Course  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Repeatable  
QSX 389  LGBT History  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with HST 389, WGS 389  
The history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender experience in period and region (North America, Europe, or Global) of instructor's expertise, with attention to the international context..
QSX 400  Selected Topics: Queer Sexuality  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable  
QSX 416  British Masculinity On Screen: James Bond and Sherlock Holmes  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with FIL 416, WGS 416  
Offered only in London. Construction of British masculinity in screen adaptations of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. Providing close readings of texts and adaptations, explores gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and nationhood in construction of hegemonic and ¿other¿ British masculinity on screen.
Shared Competencies: Critical and Creative Thinking  
QSX 437  LGBTQ Health and Well Being  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with SWK 437, PHP 437  
Application of concepts from an ecological framework to understand the micro, mezzo, macro, and social forces that impact the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer populations.
Shared Competencies: Ethics and Integrity  
QSX 438  Trans Genders and Sexualities  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with WGS 438  
Examines normative and non-normative genders/sexualities. Focuses on embodiment, desire, and identity. Examines relation between individual and collective subjectivities and politics. Foregrounds transnational and decolonial challenges to categories such as man/woman, lesbian/gay, straight/queer, transgender, transsexual..
QSX 453  Feminisms, Sexualities, and Human Rights in Middle Eastern Societies  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with WGS 453, MES 453  
Focuses on the centrality of gender and sexuality to the politics of everyday life by mapping women's rights movements, LGBT Mobilizations, and minority activisms in the Middle East.
Shared Competencies: Critical and Creative Thinking  
QSX 456  LGBT Studies in Sociology  (3 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Cross-listed with SOC 456, WGS 456  
Recent sociological research in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies addressing sexuality, identity, community, representation, politics, social change and their inter-relations.
QSX 470  Experience Credit: Queer Sexuality  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Repeatable  
QSX 490  Independent Study  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable  
QSX 500  Selected Topics:Queer Sexuality  (1-6 Credits)  
Arts & Sciences  
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable