Minor in Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies

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Our courses offer deeper insight into issues of oppression and create awareness of sexism, racism, and other biases. Our faculty teach you to expand your way of thinking, broaden your perspective, analyze difficult material, build convincing arguments and understand how gender interactions affect the business environment, as well as the cultural, emotional, familial, institutional and political impact.

Women’s and Gender Studies minor courses can be taken in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies degree.

Curriculum & Requirements

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What You'll Learn

The following information comes from the official , which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.

Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies Minor

Notes:

  • No more than 8 credits from the Applied聽Emphasis聽of the聽will count toward the minor;
  • No more than 3 credits of summer workshops may be counted toward the minor;
  • Students should consult with the Women’s and Gender Studies聽director聽on choice of聽electives鈥搒ee聽;
  • Students who are completing a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as a Gender Studies Certificate, may only count one course for both the certificate and the minor:聽奥惭厂罢听101 or 奥惭厂罢听310.

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Required Courses
INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, WOMEN'S AND SEXUALITY STUDIES5
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND POWER5
FEMINIST THEORIES5
Intermediate Courses–choose one5
INTRODUCTION TO LGBTQ+STUDIES
GENDER, REPRESENTATION AND POPULAR CULTURE
GENDER, HEALTH AND MARGINALIZATION
BODIES, SOCIALIZATION AND CULTURE
TOPICS: ISSUES IN GENDER
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS
Total Credits20

Sample Courses

GWSS聽150. GENDER, SEXUALITY AND POWER. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: GWSS 101.
Focuses on sex, gender, and sexuality in our lives and within social institutions. Builds on GWSS 101 delving deeper into intersectional feminist analyses in areas such as: health and reproductive justice, family systems, paid and unpaid labor, state law and social policy, and collective action.

GWSS聽326. BODIES, SOCIALIZATION AND CULTURE. 5 Credits.

Cross-listed: CDST 326, DSST 326.
Notes: CDST students only: CDST 300.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or equivalent.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement鈥揹iversity.
Examines cultural beliefs about gender, sex, sexuality, and the body. Experiences throughout our lifetimes impact ways that we learn to embody gender, express sexuality, and live in our bodies. We use intersectional feminist approaches to consider the variety of lived, embodied experiences and social effects of categorizing bodies.

GWSS聽250. GENDER, REPRESENTATION AND POPULAR CULTURE. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a BACR for humanities and arts.
Students apply a critical lens on the representation of gender in popular cultural mediums including film, TV, music, the Internet, social media, video games, and magazines. Employing intersectional theory, other social categories are considered including but not limited to, sexuality, race, ability, and class.

GWSS聽415. FEMINIST THEORIES. 5 Credits.

Cross-listed: HUMN 415, PHIL 415.
Pre-requisites: GWSS 101 or upper level GWSS or PHIL course.
Feminist theories developed to explain women鈥檚 subordinate position in society and current trends in feminist thought. Includes psychoanalytic feminism, feminist literary criticism and cross-cultural views of feminism.