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Women's and Gender Studies

This is an 18-credit hour cross disciplinary program that explores the scholarship related to gender and equity issues affecting women. In particular, women’s and gender studies is concerned with gender as it intersects with multiple categories such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, economic class and age. This concern is framed by recognition of increased globalization and technological growth impacting social institutions and gendered identities. Students in women’s and gender studies will develop academic frameworks for understanding gender, diversity and social justice; they will acquire knowledge and skills that prepare them for careers in advocacy and communications. This minor includes one required course, WGS 200.

Required Course

Credit Hours

WGS 200. Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

            3

Choose five of the following:

            15

ANTH 370. Topics in the Anthropology of Gender

           

ENG 327. The Gothic

           

ENG/WGS 368. Women's Literature

           

ENG/WGS 369. Feminist Literary Theory

           

ENG/WGS 370. Queer Literature

           

ENG 423. Advanced Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Literature

           

ENG/WGS 466. Studies in Women's Literature

           

HIST 320. Women in United States History

           

HIST 321. European Women's History

           

HIST 327. Technology in America1

           

HIST 448. Gender in Colonial Latin America

           

HIST 449. Women and Fascism

           

HIST 466. The Family, 1400-1800

           

ISAT/WGS 485. Gender Issues in Science

           

JUST/WGS 341. Gender and Justice

           

MSCI/WGS 355. American Women at War

           

PHIL/WGS 350. The Philosophy of Feminism

           

POSC/WGS 383. Women and Politics in Comparative Perspective

           

PSYC 310. The Psychology of Women and Gender

           

REL 306. Women and Gender in Islam

           

REL 315. Women and Religion

           

SCOM/WGS 302. Third Wave Ecofeminism

           

SCOM/WGS 348. Communication and Gender

           

SOCI 336. Race and Ethnicity1

           

SOCI 337. Sociology of Gender

           

SCOM/WRTC/WGS 420. Feminist Rhetorics

           

SPAN 455. Women in Hispanic Literatures

           

WGS 300. Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies

           

WGS 325. Gender and Violence

           

WGS 400. Issues and Research in Women's and Gender Studies

           

WGS 490. Independent Studies in Women's and Gender Studies

           

WGS 492. Internship in Women's and Gender Studies

           

WGS 495. Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies

           

 

            18

1 If research project addresses issue of gender.