Women's Studies

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Minor Requirements — 18 Credits

Women’s Studies is devoted to the critical interrogation of gender’s role in structuring individual experience. Women’s Studies also examines gender’s impact on the global distribution of economic and political opportunity in specific historical and social contexts. Women’s Studies’ students will be able to engage with a variety of different theoretical and political feminist positions, and demonstrate an awareness of feminist scholarship in at least two disciplines, as well as the relationship between Women’s Studies and feminist scholarship in other disciplines. Students will learn the theories underlying feminism(s) as well as the skills necessary to effectively communicate them.

Degree Requirements

Take all of the following courses:

WS 101	Women in Contemporary Society	3
WS 240	Women, Race and Class	3
WS 285	Global and Cross Cultural Perspectives of Women	3
WS 350	Feminist Theory	3

Choose six credits from the following courses:

Courses should be chosen from among the following and other courses approved by the Women's Studies Committee:

WS 300	History of Feminism	3
WS 320	Representations of Women in Popular Culture	3
WS 380	Histories and Politics of Homosexuality	3
WS 395	Topics in Women's Studies	3
WS 422	Directed Studies	1 - 3
WS 448	Women's Studies Seminar	3
WS 460	Feminist Legal Studies	3
WS 492	Internship	2 - 10
AFS 102	The Black Woman in America	3
AFS 230	Black Women in Literature	3
ANT 314	Anthropology of Sex and Gender Diversity	3
APCE 468	Psychology of Women	2
ART 390	Women Artists	3
ECON 304	Economics of Gender	3
ENG 239	Topics in Women's Literature	3
ENG 335	World Literature By and About Women	3
HIST 347	United States Women's History to 1877	3
HIST 348	United States Women's History Since 1877	3
HIST 391	Women in Europe to 1700	3
HUM 231	Images of Women in Literature and the Arts	3
MAS 395	Topics in Gender Issues	3
NURS 200	Women's Health Care	3
PSCI 207	Women and Politics	3
SOC 221	Sociology of Gender	3
SOC 322	Women and Aging	3
SOC 423	Violence and the Family	3

NOTES: In all cases, a student's program in Women's Studies will be developed individually with each student by the coordinator or other members of the Women's Studies faculty. Each student's program must include at least 6 hours of coursework at the 300-400 level.

Each student should register with the coordinator to receive bulletins about general meetings, special programs scheduled and new courses approved by the Women's Studies Committee.