The Minor in Gender & Women's Studies

This interdisciplimary program is offered as a minor only; there is no gender and women's studies major offered at this time.

REQUIREMENTS FOR the MINOR

Requirements include 18 credits of coursework. Please be advised that individual courses are not offered every year, but are offered in a rotation that will provide students the ability to complete 18 credits over the course of the four-year degree program.

I. Required Course:

  • Feminist Social Theory, SOC 406 (3 credits), or
  • Feminist Philosophy, PHIL 385 (3 credits)

Note: Although only one of the two courses is required, both may be taken for credit toward the minor in Gender and Women's Studies; both are therefore listed below under Upper Division Elective Courses.

II. At least two (2) introductory courses:

  • Women and the Visual Arts, ART/GWS 207 (3 credits)
  • The Role of Science in Defi ning Gender, INTD/GWS 220 (4 credits)
  • Introduction to Human Development, CHDV/GWS 105 (3 credits)
  • Philosophy of Love and Human Sexuality, PHIL/GWS 250 (3 credits)
  • Women in American Politics, PLSC/GWS 205 (3 credits)
  • Politics of Diversity in Latin America: Race, Religion, and Gender,
    PLSC/GWS 253 (January Interim, 4 credits)
  • Women and Religion, REL 253/GWS (3 credits)
  • Race, Class and Gender, SOC/GWS 200 (3 credits)
    Social Movements, SOC/GWS 260 (3 credits)

III. At least two (2) upper-division courses:

  • Male and Female; the Anthropological Perspective, ANTH 327/GWS (3 credits)
  • Senior Seminar in Child Development, CHDV/GWS 497 (3 credits)
  • Women in the Labor Force, ECON/GWS 355 (4 credits)
  • Discourses of Desire: Representing Love & Gender from Plato to
    Kundera, ENGL/GWS 381 (3 credits)
  • Women's Portraits/Portraits de Femmes, FREN/GWS 175/475 (3 credits)
  • Women and Gender in the United States, HIST/GWS 309 (3 credits)
  • Women and Gender in Modern Europe, HIST/GWS 360 (3 credits)
  • Feminist Philosophy, PHIL 385/GWS 386 (3 credits)
  • Human Rights, PLSC/GWS 330 (3 credits)
  • Psychology of Women, PSYC /GWS 364 (3 credits)
  • Sociology of Gender, SOC/GWS 385 (3 credits)
  • Feminist Social Theory, SOC/GWS 406 (3 credits)
  • Women's Voices in the Hispanic World, SPAN/GWS 484 (3 credits)