POLI 242 - Sexual Minorities Politics and Policy

3 Hour(s)

This course will allow students to study the political and social history of sexual minorities in the United States. We will consider the development of support and advocacy at the social level, and consider the development of political movements to expand the rights of sexual minorities. This class will study social and political discrimination and the factors that caused the development of policies to extend rights. Students in this class will evaluate the multiple ways that sexual minorities are discriminated against, including in the labor market, public office, social relations, marriage rights, adoption rights and health rights. We will examine the diverse impacts of health care policy and practice and examine the factors that have caused discriminatory policy to increase the rights of sexual minorities in the United States.