Minor Requirements

Courses

The GWSS minor is a five-course (5) program consisting of one (1) required core class and four (4) electives. Note: no more than three courses from one department can be counted toward the minor.

Electives

In addition to completing one core course, students will take four additional courses from the list below to fulfill the minor. Note that the five courses for the minor must be taken in at least three different departments.

AMST 240	African American Women Writers	4
ARTH 250/MAC 251	American Indians in Film	4
CTSJ 210	Mother Goose to Mash-Ups: Children's Literature and Popular Texts	4
CTSJ 222	Body Politics	4
CTSJ 230	Fundamentals of Queer Theory	4
CTSJ 233	Queer Literature and Culture	4
CTSJ 234	Materialist Feminism	4
CTSJ 255	Women of Color	4
CTSJ 311	Children, Poverty, and Public Policies	4
CTSJ 332	Psychic Life of Violence	4
CTSJ 335	Queer of Color Critique	4
CTSJ 337	Queer Los Angeles: Cruising the Archive	4
DWA 230	Gender and International Human Rights	4
DWA 231	Gender and International Relations	4
DWA 329	Junior Seminar: Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons	4
ECON 327	Economics of Gender -- Marriage, Motherhood, and Money	4
ECON 328	Economics of Race and Gender	4
ENGL 274	Women Writers	4
FREN 365	Seminar in a Literary Theme. French Feminism	4
HIST 150	Colonial Latin America	4
HIST 182	The Social and Cultural History of the Modern Middle East	4
HIST 206	History of American Women	4
HIST 220	Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence	4
HIST 237	History of Feminism	4
HIST 258	Mexican Politics in the Twentieth Century	4
HIST 277	Women and Community Health	4
HIST 282	The Muslim World in Modern Times	4
HIST 353	Catholicism and Social Justice in the Americas	4
HIST 359	Mexico-United States Borderlands	4
HIST 385	Identity Formation in the Modern Middle East and Africa	4
MAC 244	Topics in Media Representation	4
PHIL 235	Feminism and Philosophy	4
POLS 321	Gender and Politics in the Developing World	4
PSYC 350	Psychology of Gender	4
RELS 305	Islam, Gender and Sexuality	4
RELS 351	"Good" Sex: History of Christian Sexual Ethics	4
SOC 225	Masculinities	4
SOC 230	Marriage and Family	4
SOC 255	Youth Culture in United States Society	4
SOC 265	Gender and Society	4
SOC 320	Health and Illness	4
SOC 355	Power and Sexuality	4
WRD 265	Feminist Rhetoric and Social Change	4

Core coursework

All students minoring in GWSS must take at least one of the following core courses:

CTSJ 140	Critical Theories of Sexuality	4
DWA 230	Gender and International Human Rights	4
HIST 237	History of Feminism	4
POLS 321	Gender and Politics in the Developing World	4
SOC 265	Gender and Society	4

All of the core courses examine gender, women, and sexuality, and approach these concepts from an intersectional perspective, emphasizing their interconnections with different bases of identity and multiple systems of oppression, including race and class.