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Sep 30, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Women’s and Gender Studies, Minor
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The Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies provides an overview of 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 axes of power. The minor provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary framework for analyzing gendered experiences and practices.
For additional information regarding the Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, contact Professor C.K. Magliola in the Department of Sociology.
Students pursuing a Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies are required to:
- Complete a minimum of 21 credits in the minor, 12 of which cannot be duplicated by coursework in the student’s major or any other minor(s).
- No more than 2 electives (6 credits total) are allowed in the same subject code, with the exception of WGST courses which have no restriction.
- Complete a minimum of 12 upper-division credits.
- Complete a minimum of 6 upper-division credits completed in residence.
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core requirements (6 credits)
five of the following (15 credits)
No more than 2 electives (6 credits) may be lower division. No more than 2 electives (6 credits) may be in a single subject/discipline, with the exception of of WGST courses which have no restriction.
- 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
- HIST 179 - Gender, Sexuality, and Power in 19th and 20th Century Africa 3 credits
- MUS 202 - Music and Gender 3 credits
- SOC 204 - Marriage and the Family 3 credits
- HIST 223 - The Sixties 3 credits
- HIST 224 - United States Women’s History 3 credits
- HON 242 - Beyoncé, Madonna, Nina Simone 3 credits
- WGST 299 - Individual Study 1-3 credits
- ANTH 300 - Queer Anthropology 3 credits
- AFST 303 - “Mixed Race” Identities 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
- 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
- ART 344 - Performance Art 3 credits
- ENG 345 - Topics in British Literature after 1850 3 credits (when topic is ”Gender in the Victorian Age”)
- ENG 347 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies 3 credits (when topic is “The Power of Horror: Race, Gender, Sexuality” or “Fairy Tales and Cultural Studies”)
- PCST 345 - Gender in Peace and War 3 credits
- PCST 354 - Non-Violent Social Change 3 credits
- FREN 386 - Images of Leadership in French Literature 3 credits
- ART 388 - Feminist Field Studies 3 credits
- POSC 388 - Gender and Global Politics 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
- ENG 444A - Feminist Rhetorics 3 credits
- FS 444F - Women in Film 3 credits
- ENG 445 - Major Author(s) 3 credits (when topic is “Virginia Woolf” or “Jane Austen” or “Silvia Moreno Garcia”)
- SOC 450 - Postcolonial Women Writers 3 credits
OR - WGST 450 - Postcolonial Women Writers 3 credits
- COM 456 - Mother-Daughter Communication 3 credits
- WGST 499 - Individual Study ½-3 credits
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