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Queer Studies at OSU

Trans-affirmingLast updated Jun 2026

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Queer Studies at Oregon State University is an interdisciplinary academic program examining how gender and sexuality are constructed and policed, offered as undergraduate and graduate minors in Corvallis and online through the WGSS program.

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