Minor in Gender & Women's Studies

MEET CORE FACULTY

The Undergraduate Minor addresses significant, often highly controversial topics because we believe that a liberal arts education must lead to personal growth and ultimately to social transformation. Courses in Gender & Women’s Studies pursue this goal by exploring such questions as:

• How does our understanding of history and literature change when women’s lives are included as a central part of the story?

• How does one’s experience of race, class, sexuality, age, and gender shape one’s identity and world view?

• How do we develop a critical perspective about the world that allows us to recognize and challenge social injustice?

MINOR REQUIREMENTS

• Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies, GWS 200

• Western Feminist Thought, GWS 400 (prerequisite: GWS 200)

• 15 hours of electives with concentration (9 hours) in either the social sciences or the humanities, with no more than 6 hours in any one department.

GWS MINOR (Reference Number 378)                                                                                         

GWS 200	Introduction to Gender & Women's Studies
GWS 400	Western Feminist Thought

 

GWS CORE COURSES            

GWS 200	Honors Introduction to Gender & Women's Studies
GWS 200	Introduction to Gender & Women's Studies
GWS 400	Western Feminist Thought

 

APPROVED ELECTIVES (Taught by GWS Faculty)             

GWS 375	American Masculinities
GWS 470 (G)	Special Topics
GWS 499	Directed Study in Gender & Women's Studies

 

HUMANITIES     

ANTH 343	Anthropology of Gender
DANC 360	Dance in Culture: Moving History
ENG 360	Gay and Lesbian Literature
ENG 387	Studies in Autobiography
ENG 497	Women's Literature
FLK 280	Cultural Diversity
FLK 371	Urban Folklore
FLK 480	Women's Folklife
HIST 355	Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 420	History of Sexuality
HIST 446	American Legal History
HIST 453	American Women's History
PHIL 212	Philosophy and Gender Theory
RELS 333	Women and Religion
RELS 408	Religion and Ecology

 

SCIENCES/SOCIAL SCIENCES

CFS 495	Relationship Violence
PS 373	Minority Politics
PS 374	Women and Politics
PH 365	Human Sexuality
PH 464	Women's Health
PSY 345	Psychology of Sexuality
PSY 355	Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology
PSY 430	Psychology of Women
SOCL 353	Sociology of Modern Japan
SOCL 355	Sociology of Gender
SOCL 359	Sexuality and Society
SOCL 362	Race, Class, & gender
SOCL 435	Family Violence
SOCL 446	Gender, Crime, and Justice
SOCL 466	Gender/Families
GWS 421	Women and Science