Women’s Studies, Minor

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The Minor in Women’s Studies provides an overview of the interdisciplinary approaches to the study of women and gender equality issues, cultural representations of women and their social roles and the social axes of gender, race, class and sexuality. The minor provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary framework for analyzing social practices related to gender as well as the impact on their own lives.

For additional information regarding the Minor in Women’s Studies please contact Professor C.K. Magliola in the Department of Sociology.

The minor requires a total of 21 credits, at least 12 of which must be upper-division, distributed as outlined below. At least 12 credits may not be duplicated with coursework taken towards the student’s major and other minor(s).

core requirements (6 credits)

WMST 101 - Introduction to Women’s Studies 3 credits
WMST 498 - Women’s Studies Senior Seminar 3 credits

five of the following (15 credits)

HUM 200 - Women’s Realities 3 credits
MUS 202 - Music and Gender 3 credits
SOC 204 - Marriage and the Family 3 credits
HIST 224 - United States Women’s History 3 credits
HIST 230 - Chicano/a History and Culture to 1865 3 credits
HIST 231 - Chicano/a History and Culture, 1848-Present 3 credits
SOC 281 - Sociology of Sex and Gender 3 credits
WMST 299 - Individual Study 1-3 credits
ANTH 300 - Queer Anthropology 3 credits
WMST 300 - Women in Leadership 3 credits
POSC 309 - Sexual Politics in a Diverse Society 3 credits
SOC 310 - Feminist-Art-Theory-Power 3 credits
OR
WMST 310 - Feminist-Art-Theory-Power 3 credits
COM 311 - Gender and Communication 3 credits
LEAD 315 - The Multi-Cultural Organization: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace 3 credits
REL 316 - Genesis and Gender 3 credits
POSC 318 - Women and Politics 3 credits
PHIL 319 - Philosophy of Women/Women of Color 3 credits
WMST 329 - Experimental Course 3 credits
REL 330 - Women and Religion 3 credits
REL 330a - Women and Religion: Voodoo in Context 3 credits
REL 333 - Deconstructing Hogwarts: Religion, Race, and Gender in Harry Potter 3 credits
POSC 336 - The Global and The Local 3 credits
ENG 337 - Topics in British Literature 3 credits
HIST 342 - The History of Everyday Life in America: Cooking, Cleaning, Life and Death 3 credits
ART 344 - Performance Art 3 credits
SOC 347 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies 3 credits
SOC 350 - Gender, Stratification, and Globalization 3 credits
PCST 354 - Non-Violent Social Change 3 credits
PSY 355 - Diversity in Marital and Family Relationships 3 credits
SOC 385 - Medical Sociology 3 credits
FREN 386 - Images of Leadership in French Literature 3 credits
LEAD 396 - Gender and Leadership 3 credits
WMST 399 - Individual Study 1-3 credits
AH 401 - Gender, Art, and Western Culture 3 credits
SOC 410 - Victimless Crimes 3 credits
FS 444F - Women in Film 3 credits
ENG 445 - Major Author(s) 3 credits (Virginia Woolf; Jane Austen)
ENG 472 - Film, Gender, Sexuality 3 credits
PSY 495 - Topics in Applied Psychology 3 credits
WMST 499 - Individual Study ½-3 credits
Students may take one of the following in place of one of the preceding required five courses:
HUM 205 - Introduction to Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Studies 3 credits
PSY 340 - Human Sexuality 3 credits
PSY 344 - Psychology of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation 3 credits
ENG 347 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies 3 credits (The Literature of the Gay and Lesbian Experience)
SOC 371 - Sociology of Human Sexuality 3 credits
FS 444C - Queer Cinema 3 credits

Women’s Studies, Minor

core requirements (6 credits)

five of the following (15 credits)

total credits 21