The Women's and Gender Studies minor you’ll study the impact of gender on important issues such as the workplace, healthcare, family life, politics and education. With fewer required credits, the minor is an ideal for a wide range of other fields of study, such as social work, criminal justice, biology and art history.

Women's & Gender Studies Minor Requirements

Women's & Gender Studies Minor Courses

Total Credits: 18

Core Requirements (9 credits)

• WS 100 Women Today: Contemporary Women's Issues (3)
• WS 247 Women's Studies: Perspectives and Intersections (3)
• WS 324 Feminist Theory (3)

Restricted Electives (9 credits)

Students must take nine credits. Only two courses may be from the same disciplinary area.

• WS 246/ENGL 246 Women in Literature (3)
• WS 300/BIOL 300 Biology of Women (3)
• WS 305/ECON 305 The Economics of Poverty, Discrimination and Inequality (3)
• WS 310/SOC 310 Dominant-Subordinate Group Relations (3)
• WS 312 Rhetorics of Resistance: Feminist Responses from the Humanities (3)
• WS 330 Gender, Justice and the Environment (3)
• WS 333/SOC 333 Sociology of Gender (3)
• WS 345/MUS 345 Women in Musical Culture (3)
• WS 346/MUS 346 Sex and Sexuality in Music (3)
• WS 350/HIST 350 Women in European History (3)
• WS 390 Topics in Women's Studies (1-4)
• WS 406/BIOL 406 DNA as Destiny: Genetics and Society (3)
• WS 408/ART 408 Women and Art (4)
• WS 412 Seminar in Women’s Studies (3)
• WS 415 Media and Diverse Identities (3)
• WS 420 Feminism in Global Perspective (3)
• WS 470 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (1)
• AMCS 372 Dynamics of Prejudice and Oppression (3)
• ART 345 Art of Social & Environmental Justice (3)
• CJ 400 Seminar in Criminal Justice (only when the topic is "Women and Crime") (3)
• FILM 371 History of LGBT Representation in Film (4)
• HIST 375 Women in United States History (3)
• PSY 310 Psychology of Women (3)

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