Women’s and Gender Studies, Minor

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The Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies provides an overview of the interdisciplinary approaches to the study of women and gender, the cultural politics and social inequalities related to them, and the intersections of gender with race, class, sexuality, and other relations of power. The minor provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary framework for analyzing gendered experiences and practices. The Women’s and Gender Studies minor is not available to Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Studies minors.

For additional information regarding the Minor in Women’s and Gender 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)

WGST 101 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies 3 credits
WGST 498 - Women’s and Gender Studies Senior Seminar 3 credits

five of the following (15 credits)

No more than 2 electives (6 credits) may be lower division and no more than 3 electives (9 credits) may be in a single subject/discipline.

ENG 103 - Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition 3 credits (when topic is “Writing Gender” or “Writing about Intersection” or “Rhetoric and Intersectionality”)
PA 110 - Self Defense for Women ½ credit
MUS 202 - Music and Gender 3 credits
AFST 203 - “Mixed Race” Identities 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
HON 242 - Beyoncé, Madonna, Nina Simone 3 credits
WGST 299 - Individual Study 1-3 credits
ANTH 300 - Queer Anthropology 3 credits
ANTH 303 - Abject Bodies 3 credits
ENG 304 - Creative Writing: Special Topics 3 credits (when the topic is “Gender and Writing”)
SOC 310 - Feminist-Art-Theory-Power 3 credits
OR
WGST 310 - Feminist-Art-Theory-Power 3 credits
COM 311 - Gender and Communication 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
AFST 320 - Black Feminisms 3 credits
OR
WGST 320 - Black Feminisms 3 credits
REL 322 - Topics in Theology 3 credits (when topic is “Feminist Theology”)
WGST 329 - Experimental Course ½-3 credits
HON 330 - Bodies Under Construction 3 credits
REL 330 - Women and Religion 3 credits
REL 330a - Women and Religion: Voodoo in Context 3 credits
HUM 331 - Feminism and Freedom 3 credits
OR
PHIL 331 - Feminism and Freedom 3 credits
HUM 332 - Shakespeare’s Sister 3 credits
REL 333 - Deconstructing Hogwarts: Religion, Race, and Gender in Harry Potter 3 credits
HIST 342 - The History of Everyday Life in America: Cooking, Cleaning, Life and Death 3 credits
ART 344 - Performance Art 3 credits
ENG 345 - Topics in British Literature after 1850 3 credits (when topic is “Gender in the Victorian Age”)
PCST 345 - Gender in Peace and War 3 credits
SOC 350 - Gender, Stratification, and Globalization 3 credits
FREN 386 - Images of Leadership in French Literature 3 credits
ART 388 - Feminist Field Studies 3 credits
LEAD 396 - Gender and Leadership 3 credits
WGST 399 - Individual Study 1-3 credits
AH 401 - Gender, Art, and Western Culture 3 credits
FS 444F - Women in Film 3 credits
FS 444O - Film, Gender and Sexuality 3 credits
ENG 445 - Major Author(s) 3 credits (when topic is “Virginia Woolf” or “Jane Austen”)
SOC 450 - Postcolonial Women Writers 3 credits
OR
WGST 450 - Postcolonial Women Writers 3 credits
COM 456 - Mother-Daughter Communication 3 credits
ENG 472 - Film, Gender, Sexuality 3 credits
WGST 499 - Individual Study ½-3 credits

Women’s and Gender Studies, Minor

core requirements (6 credits)

five of the following (15 credits)

total credits 21