Director of the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender studies program

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Studies, Minor

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences > Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program > Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Studies, Minor

Director: Prof. Elizabeth Gregory

Associate Director: Prof. Guillermo de los Reyes

Housed in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, the minor in LGBT Studies is available to all UH students. Academic advising is coordinated through the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program.

The minor consists of the monitoring 18-hour requirement:

3 hours of Introduction to LGBT Studies;
9 hours in approved LGBT studies advanced courses;
3 hours from the list of approved Women’s Studies advanced courses; and
3 hours in approved capstone course (supervised study, field-based service, internship, or an additional 3 hours in elective LGBT studies course).

At least 12 of the 18 hours must be taken in residence of which 9 must be advanced. A minimum 2.00 grade point average is required for all courses attempted in the minor.

The interdisciplinary nature of this minor requires students

director of the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender studies program

Marilee Lindemann, associate professor of English, served as Director of the Lesbian, Lgbtq+, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, in the Office of Undergraduate Studies, 2002-2013. She then stayed on as Director as the program transitioned in 2013-14 into its new house in the Department of Women's Studies. As the founding Director of LGBT Studies, she developed an extensive course list, expanded enrollments, and helped to establish a highly victorious queer studies coalition among area universities, faculty, and students. In July, 2014, she was appointed Executive Director of College Park Scholars.

In 2013, she received the W. E. Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award. In 2013-14, she chaired the Senate Programs, Courses, and Curricula Committee, and was elected to the Senate Executive Committee for 2014-15. She serves on the General Education Faculty Board for Diversity, and chaired this board during FY14.

Lindemann came to the University of Maryland in 1992. She received her PhD in English Language and Literature from Rutgers University in 1991 and a BA in English and Journalism from Indiana University in 1981. From 1988 to 1991, she was an instructor and assistant

Certificate of Graduate Study

Coordinator: Katy Jaekel (Acting Director, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

This interdisciplinary certificate fosters research and training related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Course work leading to this certificate includes study of sexuality and gender individuality and their significance, through a systematic engagement with theories and methods in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual , and queer studies and their application in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts. The certificate is recommended for all students interested in examining issues of gender and sexual orientation in arrange to incorporate such concerns into their scholarly function as well as to function as informed citizens and successful professionals in the 21st century. The certificate is particularly appropriate for students preparing for or currently working in a variety of disciplines or careers in business, communications, the arts, training, health, social sciences, humanities, and human services.

This certificate of graduate study is available to any graduate-level student in good standing. Students interested in pursui

Faculty

Professor Valente
Associate Professor Barreto (Director, fall), Woolley (Director, spring)
Assistant Professor Humphrey
Lecturer Sprock
Research Affiliate García Flores

Advisory Committee Barreto (Director), Hill, Humphrey, Julien, Krahmer, Kuan, Loe, Maitra, Rugg, Sanya, Simonson, Spring, Sprock, Stern, J. Tomlinson, Valente, Woolley

The affiliated minor in womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies (LGBT) examines the lives and representations of individuals and groups considered sexual minorities, as well as the various forces that have affected them across cultures and throughout time. Sexuality suggestions a critical lens to analyze communities, cultures, and subcultures; institutions, discourses, and literatures; economic and political movements; the social construction of power, status, and hierarchies; and identity categories configured on the basis of age, ability, class, ethnicity, gender, race, and religion. Moreover, sexuality is considered as the subject of biological, medical, and psychological research. LGBT studies is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary minor that emphasizes the application of

History

Department History

For many years, women’s studies at Maryland was a program, not a department. Part of the advantage of being a program was that it was by definition and necessity a cross-campus project. Affiliate faculty served on the committees, which were constituted during an annual planning retreat of the core and affiliate faculty. This committee created an self of women’s studies as belonging to the campus as a whole. An annual poly-seminar, a series of lectures and research forums around a ordinary theme over the course of the year, brought visiting scholars, artists and activists to offer public presentations, go to classes and face with faculty and students in a range of ways.

In 1999, we inaugurated a Ph.D. program, awarding our first degrees in Spring 2007.

In 2005 we began offering, jointly with the Department of African American Studies, an undergraduate minor in Jet women’s studies.

In 2008 we officially became home to the Beta Beta chapter of Iota, Iota, Iota (Triota), the women’s studies honor society.

In 2013 we became the unused home of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person, and Transgender Studies Program, which proposals both an undergraduate minor and cert