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• WGST U365: LGBTQ Studies

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  Social, historical, theoretical contexts for understanding LGBTQ people, cultures, representations, and perspectives. Major thematic concerns and methodologies are presented in relation to the development of LGBTQ Studies as an academic discipline.
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• WGST U375: Feminist Disability Studies

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  Social, historical, and theoretical contexts for understanding disability as a gendered phenomenon. Limitations of the medial model of disability are contrasted with alternative models generated by disabled feminists to resist and replace negative cultural discourses of disability.
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• WGST U380: Gender, Disability, Eugenics

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  Comparison of eugenic practices, including hospitalization, medical experimentation, sterilization, euthanasia, infanticide, and extermination of disabled people, as well as the disproportionate impact of these practices on women, children, and LGBT people.
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• WGST U385: Mad Feminism

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  Social, historical, and theoretical contexts for understanding psychiatric disability as a gendered phenomenon. Limitations of the medical model of psychiatric disability are contrasted with alternative models of mental difference generated by feminist psychologists, feminist psychiatric disability studies, and the mad pride movement.
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• WGST U398: Topics in Wmn & Gndr St.

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  Area of study not covered in permanent offerings, to be planned around a faculty member's current research. Prerequisite: WGST U101 or consent of instructor.
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• WGST U399: Independent Studies

  1.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  An individualized program of study in the student's area of interest and in consultation with a faculty member. May be repeated for total of no more than 6 hours of credit. Prerequisite: WGST U101; junior or senior standing; GPA 2.0 overall, 2.5 in Women's and Gender Studies courses; a minimum of 6 hours in courses approved for the Women's and Gender Studies minor numbered 300 and above; and consent of instructor.
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• WGST U499: Internship

  1.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Upstate

  
  Supervised professional experience or project with selected community organizations. For each credit hour a minimum of 45 hours of supervised work and periodic consultation with the instructor are required. May be repeated for total of no more than 6 hours of credit. Prerequisite: WGST U101; junior or senior standing; GPA of 2.0 overall, 2.5 in Women's and Gender Studies courses; a minimum of 6 hours in courses approved for the Women's and Gender Studies minor numbered 300 and above; and consent of instructor.
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