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Women’s And Gender Studies Minor
(No major is currently available.)
An interdisciplinary minor may be undertaken. Under the guidance of an advisor in this minor, students will develop a program comprising at least six courses.

Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (252) is required of all minors; five additional courses will be chosen from a list of approved courses (updated annually) with the following conditions: 1) no more than two courses may come from the same department to ensure that the interdisciplinary character of the minor is maintained; 2) at least one course is taken at 300-level or above. An internship or independent research project may count for one of the courses.

Required Course:
Women’s and Gender Studies 252 (Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies)

200-level courses in the program:
Communication 245 (Interpersonal Communication in a Multicultural Society)

English 218  (Blues Women in African American Literature)

English 225  (Women and Literature)

History 245  (Foods, Diets, and Cultures)

History 271  (Women in Modern History: Europe and America)

Philosophy 200  (Philosophy and Gender)

Philosophy 282  (Visions of the Family: East and West)

Psychology 210  (Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence)

Psychology 211 (Adulthood and Aging)

Religion 275 (Female Religious Images in the West)

Religion 276  (Female Religious Images in Asia)

Sociology and Anthropology 253  (Family and Kinship)

Sociology and Anthropology 280  (Gender, Culture, and Society)

Sociology and Anthropology 281 (Gender Issues in China and Taiwan)

300-level courses (and above)
Art 325  (Women, Art, and Society)

Art 326  (Gender, Identity, and Modern Art)

Communications 350 (Topics in Communication: Gender & Media)

Communications 382 (Women’s Rhetoric and the Feminist Critique)

Economics 420  (Labor in the American Economy)

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 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 303 (Gender and Character)

Politics 318  (Topics in Comparative Politics: Women in the Third World)

Politics 355 (Family Structure and Political Theory)

Psychology 340 (Psychology of Women and Men)

Sociology and Anthropology 302 (Sexuality and Society)

Spanish 400 (Women’s Voices in Latin America)

Theater 337 (Women in Theater)

Theater 338 (Activism in Theater: Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Voices)