Queer & Trans Studies

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Celebrating 30 years at CU!

Founded in 1995, the Queer and Trans Studies (QTS) program, previously known as the LGBTQ Studies Certificate, has a commitment to academic rigor and intersectional frameworks. QTS encourages students to deepen their understanding of queer and trans of color critique, decolonial approaches, and transdisciplinary thinking and to work alongside award-winning faculty who research this field.

Our mission is to build an interdisciplinary and justice-oriented academic space that engages queer and trans life as sites of creativity, resistance, and world-making.

The LGBTQ Studies Certificate laid the foundation for this expansion—we’re building on a strong and important legacy. Stay tuned for upcoming events honoring the legacy of LGBTQ studies, as we grow our capacity in ways that reflect and respond to our students' lives and futures!

Queer and Trans Studies (QTS) at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is an interdisciplinary academic program offering a major and minor track within the department of Women and Gender Studies. QTS interweaves complex theories and analysis into the study of sexuality and gender, with particular focus on intersections with race, ethnicity, class and ability. Students can engage with a wide variety of courses, internships and programming in order to deepen their understanding of queer and trans issues in their academic, professional and personal lives.

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Queer and Trans Studies at CU Boulder aims to:

  • Center the lives, knowledge, and resistance of queer and trans people—especially those at the intersections of race, class, disability, and indigeneity.
  • Offer students theoretical and practical tools to analyze power, identity, kinship, culture, and resistance.
  • Provide a rigorous, critical, and creative space for the study of gender and sexuality beyond normative frameworks.

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QTS staff are available to assist students, staff, and faculty on weekdays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
The best way to reach us is by emailing QTS@Colorado.EDUÌý

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ÌýDid You Know?

The Queer and Trans Studies program offers scholarships for students who show an aptitude for leadership and involvement with queer and trans issues! Learn more about the Karen Raforth Scholarship, and other funding opportunities for students.