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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AMST 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture

3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course studies the history of sexual identities in the twentieth-century United States, with a particular emphasis upon the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities, through the study of cultural texts such as novels, songs, films, and poems. Topics covered in the course include homosexuality in the turn-of-the-century United States, sex in the Harlem Renaissance, sexual politics in the Depression years, purges of gay women and men in federal employment during the cold war and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. AMST 325L and WGS 325L  are the same course.

Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102  and a minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor

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