Certificate
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program (LGBT)
at the University of Maryland offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate
certificate designed to examine the lives, experiences, identities,
and representations of LGBT persons, those who are today described
as having a minority sexual orientation or who are gender-transgressive.
Students study LGBT families and communities, cultures and subcultures;
histories, institutions, languages and literatures; economics and
politics; and the complex relations of sexual minorities to the culture
and experience of the gender-conformant and (hetero)sexual majority.
LGBT Studies is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field.
It promotes the application of new theories and methodologies (e.g.,
queer, feminist, critical race, and multicultural theories) to established
disciplines, and it advances the generation of new knowledge within
traditional fields of scholarship. Through study of sexual minorities,
students--regardless of their sexual orientation--gain an understanding
of and respect for other differences in human lives such as age, ability,
class, ethnicity, gender, race, and religion.
Student Learning Outcomes
In keeping with the above goals and foci, students should expect
to achieve the following outcomes through their work in the LGBT Studies
Program:
- familiarity with major concepts and vocabulary in the field of LGBT Studies;
- proficiency in interpreting same-sex sexuality/eroticism as an
aspect of literary/cultural expression;
- critical reasoning and research skills in the field of LGBT Studies.
Any student in good standing in the University may enroll in the LGBT certificate program by declaring her/his intention to the LGBT program director or a designated advisor for the program. In consultation with a faculty advisor, the certificate candidate will design a program that complements her/his major field of study. The certificate consists of 21 credits, 15 from core courses and 6 from electives. Each student must obtain a grade of C or better in each course that is to be counted toward the certificate.
Credits for the certificate are distributed as follows:
- LGBT 200: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (formerly WMST 298E);
- A lower-division course focused on literature by or about LGBT
people (ENGL 265 or CMLT 291);
- An upper-division course focused on the personal, social, political,
and historical aspects of LGBT people (LGBT 350, PHIL 407, or WMST
494);
- An upper-division course focused on literature by or about LGBT
people (ENGL 359, 459, or 465);
- A capstone course (LGBT 386 [internship]
or 488 [seminar]);
- Two electives (at least one upper-division).
Note on Electives:
Electives may be chosen from the list of core courses (see 1-5 above)
or from a list of approved elective courses maintained by the program
(see below). Electives should be chosen in consultation with the
director and ideally should complement the student's knowledge of
LGBT people and issues by exploring disciplines that contrast with
the major field of study. Approved electives either contain significant
LGBT material, sometimes within a larger context (e.g., HLTH 377
Human Sexuality), or center on interdisciplinary methodological and
theoretical tools that may be helpful for a particular focus (e.g.,
ENGL 444/WMST 444 Feminist Critical Theory). Students may petition
to have courses not on the approved elective list count toward the
elective requirement by providing evidence, usually the syllabus,
that a substantial amount of the course work, such as a term paper,
consists of LGBT material. Students should also bear in mind that
only 3 credits of "Special Topics" or "Selected Topics" courses
can count toward the certificate, though ENGL 359 and 459 do not
count toward this maximum.
Approved Electives
- AASP398T Selected Topics in the African Diaspora: Gender, Sexuality,
and the Black Family;
- AASP478Q Humanities Topics in Afro-American Studies: AIDS
and African American: History, Rhetoric, and Literature;
- AASP498X Special
Topics in Black Culture: Race, Gender,and Labor;
- CMLT 498L: Sexuality in the Cinema
- EDCP 418D: Special Topics in Leadership: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Leadership
- ENGL 428B: Seminar in Language & Literature: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
- ENGL444/WMST444 Feminist
Critical Theory;
- FMST260 Couple Relationships;
- FMST330 Family Theories and Patterns;
- FMST430/WMST430 Gender Issues in Families;
- HIST219R Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Experiences in
the 20th Century Unitied States;
- HLTH377 Human Sexuality;
- HONR258W Honors Seminar: Exploring Homophobia: Demystifing Lesbian
and Gay Issues;
- LGBT327 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Fim and Video;
- LGBT448: Special Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Studies: Asian American Sexualities;
- LGBT 448L: Special Topics in LGBT Studies: Law and Identities;
- PSYC332 Psychology of Human Sexuality;
- SOCY325/WMST325 The Sociology of Gender;
- WMST400 Theories of Feminism.
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