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Chapel Hill offers an entire range of courses, including “Another Country: Homoeroticism in British Literature, “Queer Latina/o: Literature, Performance and Visual Art”, “Queer Latina/o Photography & Literature”, “The Challenge of Queer Theory to Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and the Humanities” and “Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Sexual-Transsexual Readings prior to 1900”.

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Taught from a cultural studies perspective, the course focuses on gender politics in print media, film, television and rock of the early cold war era. Topics include: the bomb and TV, the Rosenberg trial, early civil rights movement, beat generation, Hollywood dreams of true love, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Jack Kerouac, Joe McCarthy, Rosa Parks and others.

Drawing upon interdisciplinary theories of feminism, gender, postcolonial studies and queer musicology, this course examines music, gender, power and identity in diverse music traditions, including popular music, western art music and world music.

This MA in English analyses the function of sexuality and gender in fiction, theater and film. The university library has a strong gender and sexuality collection, and they run an open seminar series on queer theory, gender studies and lesbian and gay studies at which visiting academics present their research. Recent speakers have included Patricia Duncker, Terry Castle, David Halperin and Judith Halberstam, a former San Diegan who now teaches at University of California, Los Angeles.

“Star Trek, Queer theory and IDIC” an online course

This course will use queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, film and literary theory, IDIC (the Vulcan philosophy of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations), and other approaches to explore how Star Trek reflects, portrays and represents homosexuality, queerness and to a lesser extent, gender.

London South Bank University, England

LSB offers an entire LGBT Studies departments, with resources on lesbian and gay issues and special emphasis on higher education. Includes art, biography, business, dance, drama, education, fashion, film, government, history, law, literature, media, music, photography, poetry, popular culture, psychology, science, sociology, sports, theatre and other related topics.