2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog

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.

Catholic Intellectual Tradition

CIT 209Religion & Revolution

3

Communication

CM 256Magazines & Body Image

3

CM 257Women & Advertising

3

CM 351Women in Film & Television

3

Dance

DA 310Social Issues Through Dance

3

English

ENG 231Black and Latinx Literature

3

ENG 238American Literary Experiences

3

ENG 242American Women of Color

3

ENG 263Postcolonial Women Writers

3

ENG 279Trauma in Contemporary Literature

3

 

Foreign Languages

FR 372Women Writers

3

IT 372Women Writers

3-4 CR each

History

HI 205Religion and Revolution

3

HI 235Women in American Society

3

HI 239Women in the Middle East

3

Management

MGT 378Women in the Workforce

3.00 Credit(s)

Music

MU 110Women in Music

3

Psychology

PS 211Human Sexuality

3

PS 236Psychology of Diversity

3

PS 275Psychology of Women

3

Social Work

SW 140Perspectives on Family Violence

3

SW 224Human Diversity & Social Justice

3

Sociology

SO 202Sociology of the Body

3

SO 216Changing Families

3

SO 239Diversity & Oppression in Contemporary Society

3

SO 263Sociology of Gender

3

Theology, Religious Studies & Philosophy

PH 208Feminism, Gender & Sexuality

3

TRS 173Religion & Sexuality

3

TRS 174Women in World Religions

3

TRS 255Human Rights

3

Women's Studies

WS 101Introduction to Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

3