Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Minor)

Minor Requirements

The WGSS minor, like a typical minor, consists of 5 courses (20 credits). Students in the minor are required to complete the following program of study.  Each course can only be selected to fulfill one requirement and cannot be double counted in more than one required category. 

Minor Core Requirements

Students complete a core of TWO courses (8 credit hours).

RGS 101/RGS 101	Identity and Power	4
WGSS 200	Women, Nation, Culture	4

Race, Ethnicity, and Global South Perspectives

Students complete ONE Race, Ethnicity, and Global South Perspectives course (4 credit hours).

HIST 207/WGSS 207	Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Chinese History	4
AST 210/WGSS 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
WGSS 214	Women in World Economy	4
WGSS 232/AST 232/SOCI 223	Race, Gender & Health	4
WGSS 356	Feminist International Relations	4
WGSS 344/AST 344/SOCI 344/WGSS 344	Poetry for the People: Black Queer Poets	4
WGSS 365	Intimate Family Violence	4
AST 375/AST 575	Behind the Veil: Simmons Oral History Project	4

Electives

Students complete TWO electives (8 credit hours) from the list of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality  courses (with a WGSS prefix) or chosen from the list of approved classes. At least one of the elective  courses needs to be at the advanced 300-level.

ART 247	ART 247 Eighteenth Century Art: The Age of Revolutions	4
BIOL 109	Sex, Gender, and Biology	4
HIST 213	Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History	4
LTWR 254	The Victorian Novel	4
LTWR 320/LTWR 520	American Women Poets	4
LTWR LTWR 354/LTWR 554	Studies in Film: Melodrama	4
PSYC 220	The Psychology of Gender	4
SOCI 220	Working for Social Justice	4
SOCI 249	Inequalities	4
SPAN 336	Latin American Women Writers	4
RGS 355	Race, Gender and Sexuality Capstone Project
HUM 370	Humanities Internship	Variable
SOCI 330	Transnational Studies	4
SOCI 347	Antiracism and Social Justice	4
RGS 101/RGS 101	Identity and Power	4
WGSS 111	Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies	4
WGSS 125	Gender, Labor, and The Cultural Politics of Work	4
WGSS 193/LTWR 193	Gender and Power in Literature	4
WGSS 200	Women, Nation, Culture	4
WGSS 212	Queer Literature and Film	4
WGSS 207	Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Chinese History	4
WGSS 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
WGSS 214	Women in World Economy	4
WGSS 215	Women and Gender in U.S. History Before 1890	4
WGSS 216	Women and Gender in U.S. History: Since 1890	4
WGSS 219	Gender and Politics	4
WGSS 232/AST 232/SOCI 223	Race, Gender & Health	4
WGSS 233/POLS 233	Feminism and Capitalism	4
POLS 235	Transgender Politics & Freedom	4
WGSS 239	History of Sexuality and the Family	4
WGSS 248/ART 248	Gender and Art	4
WGSS 258/RGS 258	Special Topics in Gender & Sexuality Studies	4
HIST 260	Interpreting the Past: The Craft of History	4
WGSS 344/AST 344/SOCI 344/WGSS 344	Poetry for the People: Black Queer Poets	4
WGSS 350	Independent Study	4
WGSS 355	Thesis	4
WGSS 356	Feminist International Relations	4
WGSS 360/HIST 360	Seminar in the History of Women and Gender	4
WGSS 365	Intimate Family Violence	4
AST 375/AST 575	Behind the Veil: Simmons Oral History Project	4
WGSS 398/LTWR 398	Feminist Media Studies	4