Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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.

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.  

total credits 21


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