Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Minor
Coordinators: Assistant Professors Guilmette and Savloff
The Elon Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies program offers an interdisciplinary collection of courses focusing on the study of the ways human lives have been organized around gender, sexualities, and inequality on those bases. Diverse faculty members offer rigorous and compelling courses that incorporate up-to-date scholarship. The extensive course offerings differ from year to year and come from a variety of fields, including upper-level interdisciplinary seminars.
Courses in the WGSS minor raise awareness of how gender and/or sexuality interacts with race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic class, religion, and age to affect human experience. Courses emphasize detailed analysis and reflection about gender and sexualities that encourages critical thinking about the world around us. WGSS minors, who are across the gender spectrum, integrate knowledge across disciplines and seek to connect knowledge through applied experiences. They are educated citizens committed to justice and equality.
A minor in WGSS complements any major and contributes to personal growth as well. Elon WGSS minors go to graduate school; they have careers in social services, business, politics, teaching and many other fields; and they make a distinctive impact on their families and communities.
Minor Requirements
Required courses: 8 sh
Select twelve semester hours from the following: 12 sh
| ANT 3240 | ANTHROPOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER | 4 sh |
| ANT 3290 | GENDER INEQUALITY ACROSS CULTURES | 4 sh |
| ARH 3200 | ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART | 4 sh |
| ARH 3210 | ISSUES IN AMERICAN ART | 4 sh |
| COR 3260 | HUMAN SEXUALITY | 4 sh |
| COR 3270 | WOMEN, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT | 4 sh |
| COR 3380 | AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE | 4 sh |
| COR 3460 | CHILDBIRTH | 4 sh |
| COR 4060 | WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES | 4 sh |
| COR 4530 | RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY | 4 sh |
| DAN 3200 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE | 2-4 sh |
| ECO 3410 | GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT | 4 sh |
| ENG 3920 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE: FEMINIST APPROACHES | 4 sh |
| GBL 2860 | INDIA'S IDENTITIES: RELIGION, CASTE AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH INDIA | 4 sh |
| HST 3550 | ORAL HISTORY: NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN | 4 sh |
| HST 3640 | HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE U.S. | 4 sh |
| HSS 3110 | SOCIAL POLICY AND INEQUALITY | 4 sh |
| HSS 3490 | VIOLENCE IN FAMILIES | 4 sh |
| HSS 3510 | GLOBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | 4 sh |
| IDS 2120 | WOMEN, MEN AND SOCIETY | 4 sh |
| IGS 1410/POL 1410 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | 4 sh |
| MUS 4400 | WOMEN IN MUSIC | 4 sh |
| PHL 3200 | RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY | 4 sh |
| PHL 3450 | SEX, GENDER, POWER | 4 sh |
| PHL 3460 | PHILOSOPHY OF THE BODY | 4 sh |
| PSY 2210 | THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS | 4 sh |
| PSY 3520 | PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER | 4 sh |
| PSY 3550 | PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SEXUALITY | 4 sh |
| REL 1810 | BUDDHIST TRADITIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 1830 | ISLAMIC TRADITIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 1850 | JEWISH TRADITIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 3260 | SEX LIVES OF SAINTS: SEX, GENDER, AND ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 3600 | HINDU GODDESSES: FROM MYTHS TO MOVIES | 4 sh |
| REL 3610 | WOMEN, RELIGION AND ETHNOGRAPHY | 4 sh |
| REL 3630 | WOMEN IN ISLAM: VENERATION, VEILS AND VOICES | 4 sh |
| REL 4600 | SPECIAL TOPICS | |
| SOC 3110 | SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILIES | 4 sh |
| SOC 3450 | SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER | 4 sh |
| WGS 3710-3790 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES | 4 sh |
| WGS 4610-690 | SEMINARS ON VARIOUS TOPICS | 4 sh |
| WGS 4985 | INTERNSHIP IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES | 1-4 sh |
| WGS 4991 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 1-4 sh |
| WGS 4999 | INDEPENDENT RESEARCH | 1-4 sh |
WGS 481: (one to four semester hours) or discipline-specific internship cross-listed with WGS
*Other courses cross-listed with disciplines will be offered from time to time with a suffix “WG” or parenthetical phrase indicating that they may be used to fulfill Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies requirements.
Total Credit Hours: 20