Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Minor

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Requirements for the Minor

Required Courses (8 credits)

GSWS 201 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
GSWS 410 - Feminist and Queer Theory in Action 4 credits

Electives (16 credits)*

ARTH 345 - Activist Artists and Work in the Community 4 credits
ARTH 399 - Special Studies 1 to 18 credits (as approved by program chair)
ARTH 450 - Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Art 4 credits
BI 385 - Women in Science 3 credits
COMM 460 - Topics in Communication 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
COMM 460A - Women Transforming Language 4 credits
COMM 460C - Culture, Identity, and Communication 4 credits
EC 340 - Gender Issues in Economics 4 credits
ENG 341 - Class, Culture, and Feminism in Victorian and Edwardian England 4 credits
ENG 347 - Slumming in the Nineteenth Century 4 credits
ENG 367 - British Women Writers 4 credits
ENG 368 - Women Writers in the U.S. 4 credits
ENG 418 - The British Novel after 1850 4 credits
ENG 443 - Chicana/o Literature 4 credits
ENG 447 - Major Forces in Literature 4 credits
Wilde’s Worlds: 1880s-1890s (4 credits)
The Decadent 1890s (4 credits)
England’s Others: Victorian Literature of Immigration and Empire (4 credits)
ENG 454 - U.S. Ethnic Literature 4 credits
ENG 498 - Topics in Women’s Writing 4 credits
GSWS 301 - Global Gender Movements 4 credits
GSWS 302 - Contemporary U.S. Women’s Movements 4 credits
GSWS 311 - Masculinities 4 credits
GSWS 312 - Transgender Studies 4 credits
GSWS 313 - Fat Studies: Bodies, Culture, and Politics 4 credits
GSWS 321 - Media Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
GSWS 341 - Thinking Queerly: Exploring Queer Studies 4 credits
GSWS 342 - Queer Lives and Communities 4 credits
GSWS 343 - Gender and the Body 4 credits
or
SOAN 343 - Gender and the Body 4 credits
GSWS 417 - Sexual Politics in U.S. History 4 credits
NAS 368 - Native American Topics 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
Queer Indigenous Studies (4 credits)
NAS 440 - American Indian Identities 4 credits
PHL 373 - Philosophy and Sexuality 4 credits
PHL 399 - Special Studies 4 credits (As approved by program chair)
PHL 425 - Feminist Philosophy 4 credits
PSY 369 - Human Sexuality 4 credits
PSY 492 - Psychology of Women 4 credits
SOAN 304 - Poverty, Family, and Policy 4 credits
SOAN 312 - Sociology of Families 4 credits
SOAN 322 - Schools and Society 4 credits
SOAN 340 - Sociology of Gender 4 credits
SOAN 380 - Methods in Linguistic Anthropology 4 credits
or
ENG 380 - Methods in Linguistic Anthropology 4 credits
SOAN 407 - Seminar 1 to 4 credits (As approved by program chair)
In addition to the elective courses listed above, the following GSWS courses may be applied to the 16 credits of electives:
GSWS 399 - Special Studies 1 to 18 credits
GSWS 401 - Research 1 to 5 credits
GSWS 405 - Reading and Conference 1 to 4 credits
GSWS 407 - Seminar 1 to 4 credits
GSWS 409 - Practicum 1 to 16 credits

Notes:

Other courses may be approved toward credit for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies minor upon petition to the program Chair.

Students are strongly advised to plan their course of study with the program chair. They are also urged to complete an application for minor degree status. Applications are available at the program office.

*The 16 elective credits for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies minor must be upper division. Of these 16 elective credits, no more than two courses can be from the same prefix.