Women’s and Gender Studies, Minor

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.

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.

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

Women’s and Gender Studies, Minor

core requirements (6 credits)

five of the following (15 credits)

total credits 21