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Apr 03, 2026
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HIST 473 - Sexuality and Identity in US History
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
Diversity of sexualities and identities in U.S. history, in the context of historical change. Considerations of power, coercion, and freedom in the experience of gender identity. Legal and political movements shaping understandings of sexuality and gender identity.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Investigate the historical evolution of diverse expressions of sexuality and gender identity in the United States;
- Analyze power and coercion in understandings and practices of sexuality and identity;
- Examine cultural expressions, political movements, and legal systems in seeking to control or expand understandings of sexuality and gender identity.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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