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CS92PROD
Psychology of Queer Issues
PSYC 327
Spring 2025
Section: 01  

While the LGBTQ+ community itself, and acceptance of LGBTQ+ community, have increased over the course of history, members of the community continue to have unique interpersonal experiences and experience bias at both the individual and systemic level. This course will cover major perspectives that aim to provide interdisciplinary insights into our understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. Topics for this course will include psychological theories that can contribute to widely held perceptions and attitudes about the LGBTQ+ community, the role of ideologies, as well as intersectional perspectives that provide a more wholistic understanding of the queer experience. Additionally, this course will also discuss how the issues faced by LGBTQ+ people may not only stem from outside the community, but also within the LGBTQ+ community, and the unique consequences these may have. Through reading and discussion of theoretical and experimental research, we will analyze and learn the perspectives that researchers use to understand the experience of LGBTQ+ people, while also considering the social implications that can come from our current psychological understanding about the queer experience.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS PSYC
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: None
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

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