Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Minor

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GSWS Minor Requirements (24 credits)

I. Foundations (4 credits)

GSWS 201 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits

II. Theory in Action (4 credits)

GSWS 410 - Feminist and Queer Theory in Action 4 credits

Electives

Take at least 16 credits from the list below, at least 12 of which must be upper division.

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
COMM 351 - Gender and Communication 4 credits
COMM 460 - Topics in Communication 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
COMM 460A - Women Transforming Language 4 credits
EC 330 / GSWS 330 - Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Economy 4 credits
ENG 240 - Native American Narratives, Fiction, and Poetry 4 credits (when the topic is Native Narratives: Native Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance)
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 372A - World War I and its Aftermath 4 credits
ENG 381A - Narratives of Captivity 4 credits
ENG 381B - Slave Narratives 4 credits
ENG 418 - The British Novel after 1850 4 credits
ENG 443 - Chicanx Literature 4 credits
ENG 447 - Major Forces in Literature 4 credits
Wilde’s Worlds: 1880s-1890s (4 credits)
England’s Others: Victorian Literature of Immigration and Empire (4 credits)
ENG 447A - Irish Literature 4 credits
ENG 447B - Race in Britain: Literature after 1945 4 credits
ENG 447C - The Decadent 1890s 4 credits
ENG 447D - Trans Literature 4 credits
ENG 447E - The Harlem Renaissance 4 credits
ENG 447I - Utopian Literature 4 credits
ENG 448A - James Baldwin 4 credits
ENG 454 - U.S. Ethnic Literature 4 credits
ENG 498 - Topics in Women’s Writing 4 credits
GSWS 199 - Special Topics 1-8 credits
GSWS 202 - Community Building in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
GSWS 210 - Violence Prevention 4 credits
GSWS 221 - Gender, Race, and Fandoms 4 credits
GSWS 222 - Gender, Race, and Food Studies 4 credits
GSWS 299 - Special Topics 1-8 credits
GSWS 300 - Explorations in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
GSWS 301 - Global Gender Movements 4 credits
GSWS 302 - Contemporary U.S. Women’s Movements 4 credits
GSWS 310 - Intersectionality 4 credits
GSWS 311 - Masculinities 4 credits
GSWS 312 - Trans and Nonbinary Activism 4 credits
GSWS 313 - Fat Studies: Bodies, Culture, and Politics 4 credits
GSWS 315 - Disability Justice 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 - LGBT2QIA+ Lives and Communities 4 credits
GSWS 343 - Gender, Race, and the Body 4 credits
or
SOAN 343 - Gender, Race, and the Body 4 credits
GSWS 344 - LGBT2QIA+ Health 4 credits
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
GSWS 411 - Theories in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
GSWS 413 - Feminist Philosophy and Theory 4 credits
GSWS 417 - Sexual Politics in U.S. History 4 credits
NAS 368 - Native American Topics 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
NAS 368A - Queer Indigenous Studies 4 credits
NAS 368B - Indigenous Masculinities 4 credits
NAS 368C - Decolonizing Transgender 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)
PSY 369 - Human Sexuality 4 credits
PSY 492 - Psychology of Women 4 credits
SOAN 304 - Poverty, Family, and Policy 4 credits
SOAN 340 - Anthropology and Sociology of Gender 4 credits
SOAN 342 - Trans*forming Institutions 4 credits
SOAN 399 - Special Studies 1 to 18 credits (as approved by program chair)
SOAN 407 - Seminar 1 to 4 credits (As approved by program chair)
SOAN 474 - Antiracist Social & Feminist Theory 4 credits
TA 348 - U.S. Burlesque History 4 credits

Notes:

Other courses may be approved to count 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 GSWS program office.

Combining Majors, Certificates, and Minors:

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, BA or BS majors are ineligible for a Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies minor or a Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies .