Women and Gender Studies Minor

This is an interdisciplinary minor designed to enhance any degree program. Women and Gender Studies seeks to recognize the diversity of human experience and examine the interplay of gender, race, class and sexuality by focusing on the experience of women, the concept of gender, and the cultural productions by and about women within different contexts and across various identities and academic disciplines.

Program Features

18 credits

Required courses:

WMST 150Intro Women's Studies

3 credits

WMST 495Seminar Women's Studies

3 credits

Co-requisites:

12 credits of Women and Gender Studies electives:
ART 412WS: Women Artists: From the Middle Ages to the Present

3 credits

CMST 220GE: WS: Gender Differences and Human Communication

3 credits

ENGL 183GN: WS: Women In Literature

3 credits

ENGL 393Major Writers

3 credits

HIST 253GE: Women in American History

3 credits

HLTH 408Women's Health Concerns

3 credits

SMGT 403WS: Women Sport and the Body

3 credits

PHIL 260WS: Women And Religion

3 credits

POLS 243GE: Women And Politics

3 credits

PSY 292Psychology Of Women

3 credits

RECR 241WS: Leisure and Gender

3 credits

SOC 345Sociology of Sexuality

3 credits

SOC 377GE: WS: Sociology of Women

3 credits

SOSW 325Crisis Intervention

3 credits

THTR 320GE: WS: Women in Theatre

3 credits

WMST 200Women of the African Diaspora

3 credits

WMST 310Queer Topics: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

3 credits

WMST 350Feminist Theories

3 credits

or other courses in Women and Gender Studies as approved by Coordinator of Women’s Studies.

 

Additional Requirements

  • At least 6 of the required 18 credits for the minor must be at 300 or 400 level courses.
  • Required Seminar: A field experience option, WMST 487, is available as an enhancement to the Women and Gender Studies minor. These credits are in addition to the required 18 credits indicated above.