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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog

Gender Studies

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Minor Requirements — 18 Credits

Gender Studies is committed to the critical interrogation of gender's role in structuring individual experience and the global distribution of economic and political opportunity in specific historical and social contexts. Gender Studies students will be able to engage with a variety of different theoretical and political feminist positions, demonstrate an interdisciplinary awareness of feminist scholarship, and show an understanding of the relationship between Gender Studies and feminist scholarship in other disciplines.

Minor requirements

Take all of the following courses:

GNDR 101Gender and Society

3

GNDR 240Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality

3

GNDR 285Gender in Global and Cross Cultural Perspectives

3

GNDR 350Feminist Theories

3

Choose six credits from the following courses:

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

GNDR 300History of Feminism

3

GNDR 320Gender in Popular Culture

3

GNDR 380Queer Studies

3

GNDR 395Topics in Gender Studies

3

GNDR 414Masculinities

3

GNDR 422Directed Studies

1-3

GNDR 492Internship

3-10

AFS 102The Black Woman in America

3

AFS 230Black Women in Literature

3

ANT 314Anthropology of Sex and Gender Diversity

3

APCE 468Psychology of Women

2

ART 390Women Artists

3

ECON 304Economics of Gender

3

ENG 239Topics in Women's Literature

3

ENG 335World Literature By and About Women

3

HIST 347United States Women's History to 1877

3

HIST 348United States Women's History Since 1877

3

HIST 391Women, Men, and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe

3

HIST 392Women, Men and Gender in Modern Europe

3

HUM 231Images of Women in Literature and the Arts

3

MAS 395Topics in Gender Issues

3

NURS 200Women's Health Care

3

PSCI 207Women and Politics

3

SOC 221Sociology of Gender

3

SOC 423Violence and the Family

3

NOTES: In all cases, a student's program in Gender Studies will be developed individually with each student by the coordinator or other members of the Gender 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 Gender Studies Committee.