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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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DESCRIPTION:
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program offers Graduate Minors at the Master's and Ph.D. levels. A Graduate Minor in Queer Studies prepares students to examine how gender and sexuality are constructed and policed and, further, imagines liberatory futures for people of all genders and sexualities. Centering itself on the activism and scholarship of women of color, transnational feminisms, Two-Spirit Indigenous people, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people of color, this graduate option examines homophobia and transphobia's relationship with racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism and other forms of power.
REQUIREMENTS:
Master's students must complete a total of 20 credits, and doctoral students must complete a total of 24 credits. Students whose primary area is WGSS may use required coursework for their program towards an MA or Ph.D. minor in Queer Studies.
All students must complete the following course:
QS 562: Queer Theories (4 credits)
In each of the following two sections, both master's and doctoral students will complete 8 credits. In addition, doctoral students will complete an additional 4 credits in either area.
Students must complete 8 credits in the following area:
Sexuality, Gender, Race, and Nation (8 credits)
QS/WGSS/ES 531. Queer of Color Critiques (4)
QS/ES/WGSS 572. Indigenous Two-Spirit and Queer Studies (4)
QS/WGSS 576: Transnational Sexualities (4)
QS/ES/WGSS 577. Queer/Trans People of Color Arts and Activism (4)
QS 599. Special Topics in Queer Studies (4)
WGSS/SPAN/QS/ES. 569. Topics in Joteria Studies (3)
Students must complete 8 credits in the following area:
Gender Politics (8 credits)
QS/WGSS 524. Trans/Gender Politics (4)
QS/WGSS 573. Transgender Lives (3)
QS 599. Special Topics in Queer Studies (4)
WGSS 514. Systems of Oppression in Women's Lives (4)
WGSS 560. Women and Sexuality (3)
WGSS 585. Transnational Feminisms (4)
WGSS 616: Multiracial, Transnational, and Queer Feminisms I (4)
Even as its counterparts in the Pacific Northwest allowed their students to achieve a degree in Indigenous studies, Oregon State University for years did not.
OpEd Dr. Susan Shaw, Professor in WGSS at Oregon State University.
"The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever." Dr. Susan Shaw's most recent editorial in Baptist News Global. Dr. Shaw is a Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. She is also ordained Baptist minister and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her most recent book is Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide, co-authored with Grace Ji-Sun Kim.
Dr. Luhui Whitebear on OPB's Think Out Loud
More and more organizations, companies and institutions are incorporating land acknowledgments into their work. These statements are intended to acknowledge and show respect to the Indigenous people who have lived on the land for millennia.
Luhui Whitebear, assistant professor in the Oregon State University School of Language, Culture, & Society, says land acknowledgments should be the beginning of an organization’s work with tribes, not the end. Whitebear helped to craft OSU’s land acknowledgment. We hear from her and Rachel Black Elk, junior instructor for the Indigenous Nations Studies program at Portland State University.
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