Minor in Gender and Women's Studies
The Undergraduate Minor addresses significant, often highly controversial topics because we believe that a liberal arts education must lead to personal growth and ultimately to social transformation. Courses in Gender & Women’s Studies pursue this goal by exploring such questions as:
- How does our understanding of history and literature change when women’s lives are included as a central part of the story?
- How does one’s experience of race, class, sexuality, age, and gender shape one’s identity and world view?
- How do we develop a critical perspective about the world that allows us to recognize and challenge social injustice?
Requirements
- Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies, GWS 200
- Western Feminist Thought, GWS 400 (prerequisite: GWS 200)
- 15 hours of electives with concentration (9 hours) in either the social sciences or the humanities, with no more than 6 hours in any one department.
View the GWS minor worksheet to check off requirements.
GWS Core Courses
GWS 200: Introduction to Gender & Women's Studies (Honors available)
GWS 400: Western Feminist Thought (Offered during odd years or anytime through Independent Learning
Approved Electives
GWS 375: American Masculinities
GWS 470/G: Special Topics
GWS 499: Directed Study
AFAM 343: Communities of Struggle
AFAM 353: Radical Blackness
AFAM/ENG 393: African American Lit.
ANTH 343: Anthropology of Gender
CRIM 446: Gender, Crime, and Justice
COMM 374: Gender Communication
COMM 388: Sem. in Political Comm.
DANC 360: Dance in Culture
DCS 363: Narrative Discourse Prisons
ENG 104: Introduction to Linguistics
ENG 295: Pop Culture & Gender
ENG 360: Gay & Lesbian Literature
ENG/FILM 465: Film Genres
ENG 387: Studies in Autobiography
ENG 388: Postcolonial Studies
ENG 488: Victorian Literature & Culture
ENG 489: The English Novel
ENG 497: Women’s Literature
FACS 311: Family Relations
FACS 495: Family & Relationship Violence
FLK 280: Cultural Diversity in the US
FLK 330: Cultural Connections/Diversity
FLK 373: Folklore & Media
FLK 480: Women’s Folklife
FILM 369: Intro to World Cinema
FILM 469: Topics in World Cinema
HIST 329: Black Intellectual History
HIST 335: 20th-Century Europe
HIST 420: History of Sexuality
HIST 446: American Legal History Since 1865
HIST 453: American Women’s History
PH 364: Women’s Health
PH 365: Human Sexuality
PS 373: Minority Politics
PS 374: Women & Politics
PSY/PSYS 350: Social Psychology
PSY 355: Issues in Cross-Cultural Psych.
PSYS 482: Psychology of Sexuality
PSYS 453: Psychology of Women
RESL 322: Islam & Pilgrimage
RELS 331: Islam in America
RELS 333: Women & Religion
RELS 341: Religion & Environment
RELS 401: Islam, Sexuality, & Gender
SOCL 220: Marriage & Family
SOCL 350: Systems of Social Inequality
SOCL 355: Sociology of Gender
SOCL 359: Sexuality & Society
SOCL 362: Social Institutions: Race, Class, & Gender
SOCL 435: Family Violence
SOCL 466: Gender/Families
SOM 310: Media Diversity
THEA 341: Culture & Performance
THEA 374: Topics in Drama
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