Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Minor
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an academic, interdisciplinary program. Students select courses cross-listed in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and other disciplines, including: Communications, English, History, Literature, Media Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Work and Sociology. The minor in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies also provides students with the opportunity to pursue independent study courses, with the approval of the program director, to complete the minor.
The program draws on new scholarship about women from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds to examine and analyze traditional models of thinking and to develop creative ways to explore the roles of women and their experiences. Theoretical and critical debates that have influenced modern gender and sexuality studies (including scholarship about queer identities, LGBTQIA+) are also an integral part of the curriculum.
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies provides students with the opportunity to enrich their academic experience by examining the impact of gender and sexuality as organizing forces and cultural constructs in society. Students explore the meaning and application of such understanding to their own lives.
Requirements
Students pursuing the minor must enroll in WS 101 Introduction to Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, SO 263 Sociology of Gender, or PS 275 Psychology of Women, preferably at the beginning of their minor course of study. They then should select five courses (15 credits) from at least three disciplines cross-listed as Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses.
Total Credit Hours: 18
Coursework
The following courses have been preapproved. New electives must be approved by the director of the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies program. Approval will be based on the centrality of the course topic with respect to the study of women, gender, and sexuality.
Communication
| CM 256 | Magazines & Body Image | 3 |
| CM 257 | Women & Advertising | 3 |
| CM 351 | Women in Film & Television | 3 |
English
Foreign Languages
History
| HI 235 | Women in American Society | 3 |
| HI 239 | Women in the Middle East | 3 |
Music
Psychology
| PS 211 | Human Sexuality | 3 |
| PS 236 | Psychology of Diversity | 3.00 Credit(s) |
| PS 275 | Psychology of Women | 3 |
Social Work
| SW 140 | Perspectives on Family Violence | 3 |
| SW 224 | Human Diversity & Social Justice | 3 |
Sociology
| SO 202 | Sociology of the Body | 3 |
| SO 216 | Changing Families | 3 |
| SO 239 | Diversity & Oppression in Contemporary Society | 3 |
| SO 263 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
Theology, Religious Studies & Philosophy
Women's Studies
| WS 101 | Introduction to Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | 3 |