The Program

The Five College Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies certificate provides undergraduate students an opportunity to pursue a course of study that critically examines the relationship between sexual and gender identities, experiences, cultures and communities in a wide range of historical and political contexts. Working across disciplines, students take courses in a variety of fields. The certificate also leads students to investigate how non-normative and normative genders and sexualities intersect with other social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, class and nationality.

Requirements

To obtain a Five College certificate in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies, students must successfully complete a total of seven courses, including:

• One introductory course
• At least one critical race and transnational studies course
• Five other courses. These five courses must include at least two courses in the arts/humanities and two courses in the social/natural sciences, and at least one of the five courses must be an upper-level (300 or above) course.