Requirements

  • Minor in Women’s And Gender Studies

    No major is currently available.

    Requirements for the Minor:

    At least 6 credits

    • Women’s and Gender Studies 252: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
    • 5 additional courses chosen from a list of approved courses – no more than 2 courses may come from the same department and at least 1 course must be at 300-level or above. 
      • Art 325: Women, Art, and Society
      • Art 326: Gender, Identity, and Modern Art
      • Communication 350: Topics in Communication: Gender & Media
      • Communication 382: Women’s Rhetoric and the Feminist Critique
      • Economics 265: Poverty, Discrimination, and Inequality
      • Economics 420: Labor in the American Economy
      • English 218: Blues Women in African American Literature
      • English 225: Women and Literature
      • English 307: Women Writers: Austen, Wharton, Woolf
      • English 351: Junior Colloquium: American Women Writers of the Gilded Age: 1865-1914
      • English 403: Emily Dickinson
      • French 401: Special Studies: The Role of Women in African Literature of French Expression
      • History 232: Historical Issues of Gender & Science
      • History 245: Foods, Diets, and Cultures
      • History 271: Women in Modern History: Europe and America
      • History 305: European History: Men, Women, and the Other in Medieval History
      • History 307: Topics: Women in Modern East Asia
      • History 343: Literature and Society in Russia
      • History 347: Topics in Gender and History: The Body and Western Civilization
      • Philosophy 200: Philosophy and Gender
      • Philosophy 282: Visions of the Family: East and West
      • Philosophy 303: Gender and Character
      • Philosophy 365: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation
      • Politics 318: Topics in Comparative Politics: Women in the Third World
      • Politics 355: Family Structure and Political Theory
      • Psychology 210: Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence
      • Psychology 211: Adulthood and Aging
      • Psychology 340: Psychology of Women and Men
      • Religion 275: Female Religious Images in the West
      • Religion 276: Female Religious Images in Asia
      • Sociology & Anthropology 253: Family and Kinship
      • Sociology & Anthropology 280: Gender, Culture, and Society
      • Sociology & Anthropology 281: Gender Issues in China and Taiwan
      • Sociology & Anthropology 302: Sexuality and Society
      • Sociology & Anthropology 362: Love in a Time of Capitalism
      • Sociology & Anthropology 372: Queer Theory
      • Spanish 400: Women’s Voices in Latin America
      • Theater 337: Women in Theater
      • Theater 338: Activism in Theater: Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Voices
      • Women’s and Gender Studies 207: Food, Fat and Culture
      • Women’s and Gender Studies 228: Women Writing Women
      • Women’s and Gender Studies 300: Feminist Controversies
      • an internship or independent research project may count for one of the courses