Summer and Fall WGSS and LGBT Courses

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland offers a range of interdisciplinary programs and opportunities for students interested in exploring how the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability and other inequalities configure historical and contemporary struggles for social change.

Summer we have 4 great online courses

• LGBT 327/ ENGL 359F LGBT Film and Video a DSHU & DVUP  (only offered in Summer)
• WGSS 290 Bodies in Contention -Black Bodies in Visual Culture a DSHS, DVUP, & SCIS (This course is already full in Fall 23!)
• WGSS 298W Monsters and Racism: Black Horror & Speculative Fiction a DSHU (only offered in Summer)
• WGSS 379L/ HIST328I Online and in the Streets: Protest and Activism in Latin American Feminist Movements a Global Classrooms course (only offered in Summer)

Fall courses both online and in-person

• LGBT 200 Intro to LGBTQ Studies DSHS & DVUP
• LGBT 310/ WGSS 310 Transgender Studies
• LGBT 350 LGBT People and Communication  DSSP & DVCC connected to the LGBTQ+ Equity Center's Speakers Bureau
• LGBT 448L/ AASP 498Y Black Queer Studies  DVUP
• WGSS 105 Introduction to Disability Studies DSHU & pending DVCC
• WGSS 250 Intro to WGSS: Art and Culture DSHU
• WGSS 263 / AASP 263 Introduction to Black Women's Studies
• WGSS 319P Workshop in WGSS: Pleasure Intimacy, Violence
• WGSS 488G Senior Seminar: Transnational Feminisms