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, Men, and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe | 3 |
| HIST 392 | Women, Men and Gender in Modern Europe | 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.