Course Archive

The LGBTQ Studies Program is continuously exploring more diverse and inclusive topics. This list comprises an archive of courses offered by the LGBTQ Studies Program since it was established in 1997.

LGBTQS 19 Fiat Lux Seminars:

  • UCLA Centennial Initiative: Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Mattachine Society, and Homosexuality Depathologized – Winter 2020 Mitchell Morris

LGBTQS 181 Variable Topics in Queer Diversities: 

  • Creating Queer Performance Art – Fall 2013 Monica Palacios
  • Gaytino! Performance and the Power of One – Spring 2014 Dan Guerrero
  • Invisible Bodies: Agency, Voice, and Erasure in the Records of Trans and Gender Variant Persons – Fall 2014 Laura Wynholds
  • To Live & Die in L.A.: Activism & Social Change in the City – Summer 2014 Raja Bhattar
  • Queer Noir – Winter 2015 Alicia Gaspar de Alba
  • Recovering Shadowed Lives – Spring 2015 Ernesto Chavez
  • Cyberqueer: Gender Sexuality and New Media – Spring 2015 Linzi Juliano
  • Queer Chicano Literature – Winter 2017 Omar González
  • Out of Closet and Into Vaults: Archival Research and Outfest/UCLA Legacy Project – Fall 2017 Alice Royer
  • Queer Cuba: Post-Revolutionary Cultural Production – Spring 2018 Alli Carlisle
  • Hindi Cinema: Queer Perspective – Spring 2018 Saundarya Thapa
  • ¡Gaytino! Performance and Power of One – Summer 2018 Dan Guerrero
  • Gay Latino Literature and HIV/AIDS Fall 2018 Omar González
  • Queer Latinx Literature – Spring 2019 Wanda Alarcon
  • Queer and Trans Muslim Interventions – Fall 2019 Shawndeez Jadali
  • Film and Television in Queer 90s – Spring 2020 Morgan Woolsey
  • Queer Historiography in Argentina – Fall 2020 Madison Felman-Panagotacos

LGBTQS 182 Variable Topics in Education, Law, and Public Policy

  • LGBT Communities and Criminal Justice – Winter 2017 Jordan Woods
  • Hate Crimes Against LGBTQ Community: Theory, Policy, and Practice – Summer 2019 Kevin Medina
  • Healing Justice – Winter 2020 Nadia Zepeda

LGBTQS 183 Variable Topics in Queer Subjectivities /Theories/History

  • Queer Arts in LA – Fall 2005, 2012 / Summer 2014 / Spring 2015/ Winter 2017, 2020 Winter Alma Lopez
  • Queer Film and Media – Winter 2013 Jen Moorman
  • Queer/Trans of Color Genealogies – Winter 2013 Jason Lau
  • Transsexual Histories – Winter 2013/ Spring 2014 Des Harmon
  • Queer Noise-making: Visible and Aural Political Cultures and Practices – Fall 2013 Freda Fair
  • Heteronormative Colonialism: Sexual Institution and Resistance in Conquest and Exploitation – Fall 2014-2016/ Winter 2018 Doran George
  • LGBTQ Theater & Performance U.S 20th Cent-Pres – Winter 2015 Lisa Sloan
  • Queer Melancholia – Spring 2015 Jill Rogers
  • Coming out to the Movies: The L.A. Film Festival – Summer 2015 Alma Lopez
  • Queer Theater from Tennessee Williams to Fun Home – Winter 2017 Scott Barnhardt
  • Hindi Cinema: Queer Perspective – Fall 2017 Saundarya Thapa
  • Queer Poetry – Spring 2017, 2020 Louise Brown
  • Caribbean Sexualities and Postcolonial Representations – Spring 2018 Eva Heppelmann
  • Dancing at the Brink of the Abyss: Homosexuality from Weimar Berlin to Nazi Death Camps – Fall 2020 Andreas Benjamin Seyfert

LGBTQS 184 Variable Topics in Science, Health, and Genetics

  • LGBT Families: Social Science Perspectives – Fall 2012 Justin Lavner
  • Gender, Sexuality and Sience – Spring 2013 / Winter 2014 Nathan Ha
  • Diversity in the Psych of LGBT – Spring 2013 Negin Ghavrni
  • The Sexual and Racial Politics of Popular Music from Bessie Smith to Riot Grrrl – Spring 2004 Alice Echols
  • Introduction to Trans Studies – Fall 2004 Talia Bettcher
  • Mental Health and Sexual Orientation – Fall 2004, 2006 Linda Garnets
  • LGBT Community Activism and Public Policy – Winter 2005 Torie Osborn
  • Queer Theater – Spring 2005 Brian Freeman
  • Topics in Asian American Sexuality: Comparative Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality – Spring 2005 Eric Wat
  • LGBT Institutions and Organizations- Spring 2005-2012 Michael Fleming

LGBTQS 187 Selected Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

  • Introduction to Transgender Studies – Fall 2004 Talia Bettcher
  • Sexual Orientation and Mental Health – Fall 2004 Linda Garnets
  • Translational Queer Studies – Winter 2013 Alvin Wong
  • Queer Asia –Winter 2014 Alvin Wong
  • Queer Hollywood – Fall 2005 Kristen Hatch
  • LGBT Community Activism and Public Policy – Winter 2005 Torie Osborn
  • Queer Theater – Winter 2005 / Spring 2005 Brian Freeman
  • The Evolution of Sexuality and Gender – Winter 2005, 2006 Jeffrey Thomas
  • Topics in Asian American Sexuality: Comparative Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality – Spring 2005 Eric Wat
  • Intersexuality, Transsexuality, and the Emergence of “Gender” – Spring 2006 Noa Ben-Asher
  • International and Comparative Perspectives on Law and Sexuality – Winter 2007 Holning Lau
  • Race, Class, Ability, and Transgender Rights – Fall 2007 Dean Spade
  • Queer Cinema and Film Theory – Fall 2007-2008/ Spring 2011 Cheryl Dune
  • LGBT Politics in the U.S. – Winter 2008 Rob Hennig
  • Queer of Color Critique: Queer Activism and Social Justice – Spring 2008 Fatima El -Tayeb
  • Sex in the Topics – Spring 2008 Frances Negron-Muntaner
  • Queering Chicana/Chicano Theater: Solo Performance Workshop – Fall 2008 Monica Palacios
  • Same Sex Relationships: Psychological Perspectives and Public Policy Issues – Winter 2009 Natalya Melsel
  • LGBT Law and Politics – Spring 2009 Doug NeJaime
  • Mythology and Community in 20th-Century Queer Literature – Spring 2009 Sam See
  • Public Intimacies: Queering Kinship, Law, and Culture – Winter 2010 Kathryn Oliviero
  • AIDS and Discourses of Art – Spring 2011 Aaron Gorelik
  • Sexuality, Gender, and Law: Tensions in Feminist and Queer Legal Theory – Winter 2012 Laura Foster
  • Transgender Voices: Global and Local Perspectives on Transgender History and Culture – Winter 2012 Muriel Vernon

LGBTQS M191E Topics in Gender and Sexuality

  • Modernism, Gender, and Sexuality – Fall 2011/ Spring 2019 Louise Hornby
  • LGBTQ Spectatorship – Benjamin Sher
  • Psychology of Multiple Social Identities in Contemporary U.S. – Spring 2012 Negin Ghavami
  • Queer Indigenous Literature – Fall 2019, 2020 Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne

LGBTQS 197 Individual Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

  • Health Care Issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Patients – Fall 1998 Carol Hodgson
  • Hermaphrodites, Homosexuals, and Transsexuals: The Medical Manipulation of Sex – Winter 1999 Vernon Rosario
  • Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights – Spring 1999
  • Queer Documentary and Issues of Identity in 20th-Century American Literature and Film – Spring 1999 Cheryl Dune
  • The History of the Medical Treatment of Homosexuality – Winter 2000 Vernon Rosario
  • Queer African-American Art and Artists – Spring 2000 Cheryl Dune
  • Latina Lesbian History in the U.S. – Winter 2001 Yolanda Retter
  • Gay Science: The Medical History of Homosexuality – Winter 2001 Vernon Rosario
  • Cross Cultural Queers in Film – Winter 2002 Vivian Price
  • Creating Queer Performance Art – Spring 2001 / Winter 2002 Monica Palacios
  • An Intensive Introduction to Transgender Studies – Spring 2002 C. Jacob Hale
  • LGBTS Film: Queer Looks – Winter 2003 Kristen Hatch
  • Substance Abuse in LGBT Populations – Spring 2003 Emilia Lombardi
  • Global HIV/AIDS and Art – Fall 2003 David Gere and Robert Sember
  • Sexual Orientation and Mental Health – Fall 2003 Barrie Levy
  • Race, Class, and Community Formation – Winter 2004 Eric Wat

LGBTQS M197D Special Topics in Lesbian and Gay Literature

  • The Importance of Being Modern: Lesbian and Gay Self-Invention from Wilde to Stein – Fall 1997/ Spring 1999 Janet Sarbanes
  • African-American Lesbian and Gay Literature – Spring 1998 Arthur Little
  • Religion and LGBT Literature – Fall 2002 Norman Jones
  • Sodom in Legend, Literature, and Theory – Winter 2003 Lowell Gallaher