The following are the classes that Colorado College offers regarding LGBT issues under various departments including Women’s Studies, Psychology, English, and Sociology. These include classes on gender, race, class, and sexuality.

Gender
Gender Inequality
How sex roles shape our experiences. Sources and consequences of the differences between males and females. Biological differences, cross-cultural patterns, socialization processes, participation in the economy and the family. Possibilities for and consequences of changing sex roles.

Introduction to Men’s Studies
An examination of men’s lives in the United States that focuses on men’s relationships with other men, with women, and with themselves (mind, body and spirit). The course will use a feminist and sociological approach to describe the ways in which boys become men, the complex expectations held of boys and men by society and the ways in which men respond to these expectations. While various components of the male life course will be examined; youth and young adulthood will receive special attention.

Psychology of Gender
An examination of research and theory on psychological gender differences and similarities. This course will explore the ways in which gender is a system of meanings that operate at the individual, interactional, and cultural level to structure people’s lives. Special attention is made to methodological issues, and to feminist critiques of traditional methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

Men, Masculinity and Culture
This course explores representations of men and masculinity in various forms of U.S. popular culture over the past century, with a focus on popular music, theater, and the media (especially television and movies). The course will begin with the development of critical analytic approaches to popular culture, enabling us to examine a wide range of cultural productions. “Fictional” popular culture to be considered will include dramatic and musical theater, sit-coms, and the lyrics and public presentation of popular singers and bands in such venues as MTV. “Non-fictional” popular culture to be considered will include newscasts, sporting events and commercials. The two overall goals of the course are to introduce critical approaches to popular culture and to understand how men make culture even as culture makes men.

Race, Class & Gender
We will examine theories of race, class, and gender construction in the United States and other societies, focusing on their intersections in such areas as labor, sexual relations, community, law, and other forms of cultural production. We will analyze “identity politics” as a standpoint and as vehicle for, or obstacle to, social change.

Women, Men, and “Others.”: Gender Cross-culturally
A cross-cultural approach to gender, emphasizing variability in the ways gender shapes social interaction and organization. After addressing the relationship between biological sex and culturally constructed gender and diverse sex-gender systems, the course proceeds to closely examine non-binary gender systems, where “third” (or more) genders emerge: hijras in India, berdaches in diverse Native American peoples, and travestis in Brazil. Diverse anthropological and feminist theoretical frameworks are applied.

Gender Inequality
How sex roles shape our experiences. Sources and consequences of the differences between males and females. Biological differences, cross-cultural patterns, socialization processes, participation in the economy and the family. Possibilities for and consequences of changing sex roles.

Contested Masculinities
This course draws on feminist theory, institutional analysis and sociohistorical study to consider masculinity’s meanings and practices. Male power, male pain and group-based differences among men are examined. A specific topic (sports, war/the military, social change movements, individual violence, religion) is covered in depth to assess how men sustain, resist and recreate available forms of masculinity. Requirements include an original research project. Our goal is to understand masculinity’s power in shaping society and our power to reshape masculinity.

Race and Class
Advanced Topics in Sociology: Racial and Ethnic Identities (with Emphasis on Writing)
Although racial and ethnic identities are thought to be clearly defined and similarly experiences, sociologists contend that these constructs are emergent, varied and fluid as they develop over time and in different social situations. Based on a selection of sociological, literary, journalistic and historical accounts, this course looks at how racial and ethnic identities provide sources of personal meaning, and influence individual life choices, social encounters and intra and intergroup relations. In what ways do we draw from these cultural influences to make sense of who we are, and to decide whom we will associate with and what we might aspire to? How do experiences of isolation, conflict and competition create a need for racial and ethnic solidarity? Ho do the particular social, political, and economic conditions of a time period and variables such as physical location, class, gender, education, generational status and affiliation with specific groups affect opportunities to embrace, ignore or reject racial and ethnic identities and to craft them in ways of one’s own choosing? Part of the Self and Society track.

Racial Inequality
The study of race as a dimension of inequality in the United States, Western Europe, Africa and Latin America. Individual and institutional forms of racism and discrimination. Historical, comparative and theoretical perspectives.

African-American Literature
Readings in Black American writers such as. W. E. B. Dubois, Ralph Ellison, Nella Larsen, and Rita Dove. Organized around aesthetic and cultural issues such as feminism, the “anxiety of influence,” pressures of the marketplace, identity politics, and post-modern theory.

Sexuality
Queer Theory (with Emphasis on Writing)
No course description available.)

Human Sexual Behavior
Consideration and evaluation in a seminar format of physiological, sociological and psychological viewpoints of human sexuality. In discussions, considerable emphasis is placed on attitudes, opinions and values of the participants and their reaction to the material presented.