Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies

Location(s): Face-to-face

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Examine how ideas about gender and sexuality shape social roles and identities within a culture. With a choice of two tracks (Women’s Studies and Gender and Sexualities) the minor in Women’s and Gender Studies extends and enriches any major degree by heightening your awareness of the range of human experience, potential, and accomplishment.

Women’s Studies Track

Students must take 2 required courses and 4 electives, as approved by the WGS advisor, for a total of 18 semester hours.

Required of All Minors, Who Are Advised to Take the Courses Early in Their Studies

WS 201 - Women’s Studies 3 Credit(s)
ENG 320 - Literature and Sexualities 3 Credit(s)

Gender and Sexualities Track

Students must take 2 required courses and 4 electives, as approved by the WGS advisor, for a total of 18 semester hours.

Required of All Minors, Who Are Advised to Take the Courses Early in Their Studies

ENG 320 - Literature and Sexualities 3 Credit(s)
WS 201 - Women’s Studies 3 Credit(s)

Two of the Following Courses (6 credits)

COMM 420 - Rhetoric of Popular Culture 3 Credit(s)
COMM 430 - Diversity in Media 3 Credit(s)
ENG 403 - Shakespeare 3 Credit(s)
PSYC 360 - Psychology of Gender 3 Credit(s)

One of the Following Courses (3 credits)

AR 367 - Women Artists in Art History 3 Credit(s)
HIST 320 - History of American Women 3 Credit(s)
SOC 318 - Race, Class, and Gender 3 Credit(s)
THTR 329 - Women and Drama 3 Credit(s)

One of the Following Courses (3 credits)

BUS 394 - Women and Power: Gender, Business & Leadership 3 Credit(s)
ENG 385 - Women and Literature 3 Credit(s)
POLS 393 - Women, Politics, and Culture 3 Credit(s)
PSYC 375 - Human Sexuality 3 Credit(s)
SOC 419 - Gender and Society 3 Credit(s)

Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies

Location(s): Face-to-face

Women’s Studies Track

Required of All Minors, Who Are Advised to Take the Courses Early in Their Studies

Two of the Following Courses (6 Hours)

One of the Following Courses (3 Hours)

One of the Following Courses (3 Hours)

Gender and Sexualities Track

Required of All Minors, Who Are Advised to Take the Courses Early in Their Studies

Two of the Following Courses (6 credits)

One of the Following Courses (3 credits)

One of the Following Courses (3 credits)