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RESOURCES

Courses

The QS Program will offer its core QS 301 & QS 302 classes in Spring 2010. However, we have various pre-approved electives that students can take through other departments.

Please click here to see a list of QS related courses for the Spring.

QS Coordinator & Advisor

The Coordinator for the Queer Studies Program is Dr. Sheena Malhotra.

Please follow the link to Dr. Malhotra's Advising page for her office hours and contact information.

Dr. Sheena Malhotra will also serve as the Advisor for the Queer Studies Program in 2008-09. Please email her to set up an appointment for advising.

Email Dr. Malhotra

Please come in and see the QS Advisor if you have any questions about your class scheduling or if you are considering Queer Studies as a minor.

 

Affiliated Faculty

Ian Barnard

English

C. Jacob Hale

Philosophy

Leilani Hall

English

Sabina Magliocco

Anthropology

Sheena Malhotra

Gender & Women's Studies

Gina Masequesmay

Asian American Studies

Jeanine Minge

Communications

Martin Pousson

English

Kathryn Sorrells

Communications

Yarma Velázquez-Vargaz

Chicano/a Studies

 

For QS Students...

Links to QS Clubs & Organizations

NEWS AND INFORMATION

Queer Studies Program

California State University, Northridge

18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8415

Phone: 818-677-6762
Fax: 818-677-3605

The Queer Studies Program is located in Sierra Hall 190 in the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies.

 

Announcements

Wong-Sayaman Equality Award

The Queer Studies Program is happy to announce a new award for undergraduate students (from any major/minor) who are committed to a leadership role in Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. The annual competitive award of $1,000 will be announced at the Annual QS Spring Lecture Series this year, on March 30th. The application deadline for the award is March 15, 2010. Please click the link below for the award criteria and application form.

Wong-Sayaman Equality Award criteria and application form

LGBTA student wins National Award

Michelle "Missy" Dominguez of LGBTA won the Video Contest by the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights. Please follow this link to the announcement of her award. You can watch Missy's video here.

 

Spring 2010 Event Highlights

LGBTA General Meeting - Thursdays at 7 p.m. (Thousand Oaks Room).

March

March 30th. The 2nd Annual Queer Studies Spring Lecture Series features John Rechy. Whitsett Room (Sierra Hall 451). Reception at 4 p.m. Main Event at 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

John Rechy is the author of two works of nonfiction and twelve novels, including the controversial best seller The Sexual Outlaw and the modern classic City of Night, as well as Numbers, Bodies and Souls, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, and The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens. In 1997, he became the first novelist to receive PEN-CENTER-USA's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the recipient of the Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, and an NEA fellow.

If you have a queer studies related event to announce, please contact sheena.malhotra@csun.edu


LGBTA Rap Groups - Mondays at 5 and 6 p.m. - Agoura Room, USU (across from Thousand Oaks room). Please refer to the Calendar link above to find the topic for each week.

Watch this space for announcements on upcoming QS events. QS Calendar


Students at a "Take Back the Night" rally

Prop 8

The QS Program views Prop 8 as a discriminatory proposition that took away the constitutional right to marry from same sex couples in California. While we recognize and respect the diverse critiques of marriage as an institution, we see the passage of Prop 8 as motivated by homophobia and encourage its repeal.  We also encourage protestors against Prop 8 not to target specific ethnic communities, but to recognize that large numbers of Californians of all ethnicities voted both for and against Prop 8.

 

Below are links to video shot by QS faculty and students from the wave of protests against Prop 8.

From Student Billimarie Robinson

http://www.losangelesiam.com/videos/20f26d55fda1

From Prof. Ian Barnard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4wmo1OvKNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msEO4SwWyQ

 

Welcome to Queer Studies

The Queer Studies Program at CSUN began offering classes in the Fall of 2008.

Housed in the College of Humanities, QS is an interdisciplinary minor that questions normative constructions of sexuality and gender.

The Queer Studies minor focuses on histories, contemporary experiences, and community-based knowledges of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, intersexed people, queers, and others who occupy non-heterosexist and non-normative gender positionalities.

Students at a "Take Back the Night" rally

The program explores how heterosexism, heteronormativity and transphobia intersect and collide with national, ethnic, racial, class and other identifications, fostering a community of learners who grapple with issues of diversity, gender, sexuality and social justice.

QS at CSUN provides an academic home for those who wish to study the intellectual, cultural and material conditions that have shaped our current understandings of sexuality and gender variation as well as for those who wish to generate new, resistant theories and practices. The program offers an undergraduate minor, sponsors courses, organizes lecture series, and brings together interested students, faculty, and larger Los Angeles communities.

The Queer Studies Minor

Queer Studies offers a 18 unit minor.

Queer Studies Minor Requirements

Queer Studies Learning Outcomes

Please click the link above or here to view the QS SLO's

Queer students and allies at an Immigration Rights rally

Queer students and allies at an Immigration Rights march.