About Gender Studies

Requirements for the Minor in Gender Studies

This interdisciplinary program is offered as a minor only; there is no Gender Studies major offered at this time.

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.

Required course

  • GEN 385 Feminist Philosophy, 3 credits

At least two (2) Introductory Courses

  • GEN 205 Women and U.S. Politics, 3 credits
  • GEN 207 Women Artists from the Renaissance to the Present, 3 credits
  • GEN 230 Green Religion, 3 credits
  • GEN 250 Philosophy of Love and Human Sexuality, 3 credits
  • GEN 251 Monks, Nuns, and Ascetics, 3 credits
  • GEN 253 Women and Religion, 3 credits
  • GEN 255 Women and U.S. Liberation Theologies, 3 credits
  • GEN 260 Eco-Philosophy, 3 credits
  • GEN 266 Psychology of Human Sexuality, 3 credits
  • GEN 284 Women Voices in Hispanic World, 3 credits

At least two (2) upper-division courses

  • GEN 300 Intersections: Race, Class, Gender, 3 credits
  • GEN 327 Sex and Gender in Anthropology, 3 credits
  • GEN 351 Cuban Revolution, 3 credits
  • GEN 364 Psychology of Women, 3 credits
  • GEN 390 Black and Womanist Theology, 3 credits

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 BA. Please check the most recent on-line schedule for offerings, credits, and instructors.