Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

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To fulfill the WGSS minor, students must complete at least 20 credit hours, usually five four-credit classes (although approved two credit courses, including May X, may also count toward the minor).

Required courses:

Additional requirements

At least sixteen credit hours of elective courses (equivalent to four four-credit courses), in at least three different disciplines. FYW courses may count toward the minor but cannot count toward disciplinary distribution requirements.

ANT-209 Gender in East Asia
ANT-258 Women in Africa and the African Diaspora
ANT-327 Feminist Anthropology
AST-255 Poverty, Gender and Development in India
ART-252 Women and the Arts
ART-258 Embodied Representations: Art, Bodies, & Identities
CLS-332 Women and Power in Antiquity
COM-315 Oratory and Social Change (specific topics approved by the oversight committee)
COM-323 Race, Class and Gender in Media
COM-412 International Women’s Rhetoric
ECN-233 Economics of Gender
ENG-252 Shakespeare (specific topics approved by the oversight committee)
ENG-270 Queer Stories
ENG-344 Gothic Literature
ENG-349 Thinking Sex
ENG-393 Literary Feminisms
FYW-1126 The Ethics of Sex
FYW-1148 Southern Women: Black & White
FYW-1312 Technofeminism
FYW-1315 Social Media and Body Image
FYW-1317 Muslim Feminisms
FYW-1325 Hispanic Masculinities
FYW-1328 Men & Masculinities
HST-215 Women in European History
HST-231 History of Women in America
HST-254 Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East
HST-256 Women and Gender in India
HST-309 Women, War, Resistance
MXP-206 Queer Histories: San Francisco
MXP-211 Thinkertoys: Co-Ed Scrapbooks as Alt Histories
MXP-221 Women in Sports
MXP-254 The Sociology of Beyoncé: Music and Social Change
PHL-212 Philosophy of Gender
PHL-415 Philosophy of Sex and Love
POL-212 Women and Politics
PSY-222 Psychology of Gender
PSY-418 Eating Disorders
REL-320 Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism
REL-323 Women, Gender, Islam
REL-325 Women and Power in Hinduism
REL-344 Black Liberation and Womanist Theologies
REL-360 Women and Gender in the Bible and Beyond
REL-363 Sexuality and Christian Theologies
SOC-232 Sociology of Contemporary Families
SOC-242 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
SPN-430 Readings in Spanish Literature (specific topics approved by the oversight committee)
SPN-445 Latin American Women’s Literature
SPN-460 Readings in Spanish Amer Literature (specific topics approved by the oversight committee)
THA-241 Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre
WGS-101 Issues in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
WGS-220 Sexuality in Modern America
WGS-240 Women in Science
WGS-250 Introduction to Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies
WGS-252 Sexual Revolutions in Modern America
WGS-502 Directed Research
WGS-503 Supervised Internship
WGS-504 Directed Independent Study
One first year seminar may contribute to the minor when the topic has been deemed appropriate by the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality oversight committee. Temporary special topics offerings can also be applied when deemed appropriate by the oversight committee. A seminar applied to minor requirements will not be considered for disciplinary distribution purposes.

Courses equivalent to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality offerings completed elsewhere and independent study on an appropriate topic may contribute to the minor no more than once each and must be approved by the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality oversight committee.