Academics: Joint Programs
Lesbian, Bisexual, & Gay Studies Program
The field of Lesbian, Bisexual, & Gay Studies is devoted to the study of sexuality and its importance to the organization of social relations more generally. Primary among its concerns is also the study of lives, the politics, and the creative work of sexual minorities. LBG Studies is founded on the premise that the social organization of sexuality is best studied from the perspectives offered by those positions that have been excluded from established social and cultural norms and best approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. At present, the program includes courses that study sexuality and sexual minorities from a variety of perspectives: anthropological, psychological, sociological, biological, political, historical, literary, and artistic. LBG Studies offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate minor. Although LBG Studies is housed in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, only those LBG courses that devote a significant amount of their time to sexuality and to questioning the historical institution of exclusive heterosexuality qualify for the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies minor.
Gender and Global Change Program
The Gender and Global Change (GGC) Program is an interdisciplinary program focused on comparative historical analyses of changing patterns of gender relations. It is part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and coordinates its initiatives with the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program; the African, Asian and Latin American Studies Programs, and topical studies groups such as International Studies in Planning, International Political Economy, and Peace Studies.
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nizes workshops, seminar series and courses, and provides summer support to graduate students for pre-dissertation and dissertation research. The program also seeks external support for workshops, meetings, research, and political activities. This includes collaborative opportunities for research with colleagues and programs within and outside of the university community and activities to support graduate and undergraduate coursework, research, and activism.
GGC is not a degree granting program, as students who work on topics related to gender and global change must fulfill their degree requirements either in one of the fields of the graduate school or one of the professional schools. However, the program provides a base from which students can develop an interdisciplinary program on gender and global change by drawing upon the abundant resources of Cornell University.
