University of Wisconsin Stout | Wisconsin's Polytechnic University

This living learning community is for first-year students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or any other sexual orientation or gender identity/expression--and their friends and allies! Students will create a supportive and inclusive community that encourages academic and personal growth and forges alliances with students in other diversity and social justice focused learning communities. Instructors are very supportive and courses are LGBTQ-inclusive. For more information, contact the LGBTQ Program Office, millerjul@uwstout.edu , # (715) 232-5622.

• First Year Students
  
• Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, or Ally
  
• No prior college credit for SOC/HIST310
• Enrolled in a major that allows SOC/HIST310 in the General Education area
  

Fall

SOC/HIST 310

This course explores sexual identities/categories and their uses to justify public policy, using both historical and sociological perspectives. We examine how sexuality became a basis for the exercise of power, and how sexual inequalities are illustrated by contemporary controversies such as gay marriage and other civil rights issues. The class satisfies GE-Contemporary Issues and Race & Ethnic Studies (RES B)

Spring

Gender roles in cross-cultural perspective. Anthropological theories of gender and inequality; social responsibility balancing cultural relativism and equity. Variation in domestic, social, economic, political, and religious roles; historical development of and contemporary changes in gender roles; global influences and processes of change and improvement in the lives of modern women.

Hansen-Keith Hall

Activities and events may include a theatre/cultural trip to the Twin Cities, a regional queer film festival, study nights, coordinated service learning opportunities, outdoor activities, pizza nights, and events for LGBT Awareness Month (Oct.), Transgender Day of Remembrance, and the Day of Silence.

Name: Jeff Sweat  Class: SOC 110  Contact: sweatj@uwstout.edu

The most fascinating thing I have done is: interview transgender inmates inside a large jail in California. I have also had the good fortune of meeting world-renowned scholars and many of my "intellectual heroes."

Name: Tina Lee  Class: ANTH 356  Contact: leetina@uwstout.edu