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: analyze and critique how gender operates as both an identity and a structure; explain and analyze the impact of the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality on systems of inequality; identify and compare the implications of gender across global cultural contexts; and describe and evaluate various feminists paradigms; and situate contemporary feminisms in historical contexts.

Minor requirements

Take all of the following courses:

GNDR 101	Gender and Society	3
GNDR 240	Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality	3
GNDR 285	Gender in Global and Cross Cultural Perspectives	3
GNDR 350	Feminist 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 300	History of Feminism	3
GNDR 320	Gender in Popular Culture	3
GNDR 380	Queer Studies	3
GNDR 395	Topics in Gender Studies	3
GNDR 414	Masculinities	3
GNDR 422	Directed Studies	1-3
GNDR 492	Internship	3-10
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 423	Violence 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.