Associate of Arts - LGBTQ Studies - Transfer Degree

The Associate in Arts in Social Justice: LGBTQ Studies for Transfer Degree Program at Los Medan's College offers students a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer identities, culture, art, literature politics, history and society in the United States and across cultures. Through the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, students will incorporate queer theory, theories of race and ethnicity, and feminist theory, to examine, analyze and compare social and political movement, and consider the ways that society currently understands and have historically understood various constructions of sexuality, gender identity and behavior depending upon historic time and global location. To support this multidisciplinary approach, students in the Associate in Arts in Social Justice: LGBTQ Studies for Transfer Degree Program may take courses in history, psychology, politics, literature, film, art, ethnic studies, gender studies, child development and health. The degree requires a minimum of 18 units lower division work in LGBTQ Studies and related disciplines and is combined with the California State General Education Pattern to prepare students to take upper division courses at a California State University.

Statement of Program Goals and Objectives (PSLOs): • Read critically a variety of primary and secondary, interdisciplinary, multicultural "texts" (essays, literature, visual art, film, music) about LGBTQ history, politics, literature, arts and media, and think critically and creatively about these works. • Summarize the histories and experiences LGBTQ people, as well as other oppressed ethnic, class, and gender minority groups in the United States, and discuss their contributions to the development of American society. • Analyze the social and political construction of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as that of race, ethnicity, class, and gender and sexual orientation, and articulate how these concepts operate across social and cultural institutions. • Evaluate the ethical implications of the patterns of social and political power that affect sexual and gender minorities, as well as racial, ethnic, class minorities in the United States. • Analyze and evaluate the history of American social movements that have sought justice for oppressed sexual and gender minorities, as well as racial, ethnic, and class minority groups. • Compare and contrast the American experience of oppression and liberation with that of other selected nations and cultures.