Women's Studies
The women's and gender studies minor provides an overview of the interdisciplinary approaches to the study of women and gender inequality; cultural representations of women and their social roles; and the social axes of gender, race, class and sexuality. The minor provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary framework for analyzing social practices related to gender as well as the impact on their own lives.
The minor requires a total of 18 credits, at least nine of which much be upperdivision, distributed as outlined below.
core requirements (6 credits)
| WMST 101 |
Introduction to Women's Studies |
3 |
| WMST 498 |
Women's Studies Senior Seminar |
3 |
four of the following (12 credits)
| ART 464 |
Women in Art |
3 |
| ATPE 261 |
Women in Sport |
3 |
| COM 311 |
Gender and Communication |
3 |
| HIST 224 |
US Women's History |
3 |
| HIST 329 |
Gender and Culture in 20th Century America |
3 |
| HIST 362 |
American Women and the Mass Media |
3 |
| HUM 200 |
Women's Realities |
3 |
| LEAD 495 |
Women's Ways of Leading |
3 |
| PHIL 319 |
Philosophy of Women/Women of Color |
3 |
| POSC 309 |
Sexual Diversity in Politics and Law |
3 |
| POSC 318 |
Women and Politics |
3 |
| POSC 329 |
Women and Development |
3 |
| POSC 425 |
The Global and the Local |
3 |
| REL 330 |
Women and Religion |
3 |
| SOC 321 |
Getting Love Right |
1 |
| SOC 381 |
Sociology of Sex and Gender |
3 |
| SOC 410 |
Topics in Deviance, Law and Social Control |
3 |
Students may take one of the following in place of one of the preceding required four courses:
| ENG 347 |
Society, Culture, and Literature: The Literature of the Gay and Lesbian Experience |
3 |
| FTV 444c |
Seminar in Film History: Gay and Lesbian Cinema |
3 |
| HUM 205 |
Intro to Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Studies |
3 |
| PSY 344 |
Psychology of the Gay and Lesbian Experience |
3 |
| PSY 440 |
Human Sexuality |
3 |
| SOC 323 |
Sexual Literacy |
1 |
total credits 18
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