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.
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 units |
| AMST 268 | American Beauty: Race, Fashion, and the Female Body | 4 units |
| AMST 325 | Toni Morrison and African-American Self-Fashioning | 4 units |
| ARTH 250/MAC 251 | American Indians in Film | 4 units |
| CTSJ 160 | Introduction to Feminist Studies | 4 units |
| CTSJ 210 | Mother Goose to Mash-Ups: Children's Literature and Popular Texts | 4 units |
| CTSJ 222 | Body Politics | 4 units |
| CTSJ 230 | Fundamentals of Queer Theory | 4 units |
| CTSJ 233 | Queer Literature and Culture | 4 units |
| CTSJ 234 | Materialist Feminism | 4 units |
| CTSJ 255 | Women of Color | 4 units |
| CTSJ 261 | Race, Gender, Class, and the Media | 4 units |
| CTSJ 311 | Children, Poverty, and Public Policies | 4 units |
| CTSJ 332 | Psychic Life of Violence | 4 units |
| CTSJ 335 | Queer of Color Critique | 4 units |
| CTSJ 337 | Queer Los Angeles: Cruising the Archive | 4 units |
| CTSJ 360 | Methodologies of Gender and Women’s Studies | 4 units |
| CTSJ 361 | Gender, Race, and Nationality in Latin American and Latinx Film | 4 units |
| DWA 230 | Gender and International Human Rights | 4 units |
| DWA 231 | Gender and International Relations | 4 units |
| DWA 329 | Junior Seminar: Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons | 4 units |
| ECON 327 | Economics of Gender - Marriage, Motherhood, and Money | 4 units |
| ECON 328 | Economics of Race and Gender | 4 units |
| ENGL 159 | Lavender Cowboys: Power and Gender in the American Western | 4 units |
| ENGL 248 | Money, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century Novel | 4 units |
| ENGL 274 | Women Writers | 4 units |
| FREN 365 | Seminar in a Literary Theme: French Feminism | 4 units |
| HIST 150/LLAS 150 | Colonial Latin America | 4 units |
| HIST 182 | The Social and Cultural History of the Modern Middle East | 4 units |
| HIST 206 | History of American Women | 4 units |
| HIST 220 | Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence | 4 units |
| HIST 237 | Changing Views of Gender, Women, and Sexualities | 4 units |
| HIST 258/LLAS 258 | Mexican Politics in the Twentieth Century | 4 units |
| HIST 277 | Women and Community Health | 4 units |
| HIST 282 | The Muslim World in Modern Times | 4 units |
| HIST 353 | Catholicism and Social Justice in the Americas | 4 units |
| HIST 359 | Mexico-United States Borderlands | 4 units |
| HIST 385 | Identity Formation in the Modern Middle East and Africa | 4 units |
| JAPN 273 | Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Tokugawa Japan | 4 units |
| MAC 244 | Topics in Media Representation | 4 units |
| PHIL 235 | Feminism | 4 units |
| PHIL 353 | Health and Social Justice | 4 units |
| POLS 321 | Gender and Politics in the Developing World | 4 units |
| PSYC 350 | Psychology of Gender | 4 units |
| RELS 266 | Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism | 4 units |
| RELS 282 | "Good" Sex: History of Christian Sexual Ethics | 4 units |
| RELS 305 | Islam, Gender and Sexuality | 4 units |
| SOC 225 | Masculinities | 4 units |
| SOC 230 | Marriage and Family | 4 units |
| SOC 255 | Youth Culture in United States Society | 4 units |
| SOC 265 | Gender and Society | 4 units |
| SOC 320 | Health and Illness | 4 units |
| SOC 355 | Power and Sexuality | 4 units |
| WRD 265 | Feminist Rhetoric and Social Change | 4 units |