Gender Studies

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Minor Requirements — 18 Credits

The Gender Studies program (GNDR) offers interdisciplinary courses that explore the making and meaning of gender - femininity and masculinity - across cultures and social formations, past and present. The purpose of the UNC Gender Studies program is to enable participants, as students and lifelong learners, to investigate gender issues through interdisciplinary approaches. We examine various ways in which race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, age, and ability affect how cultures create structures of gender, power, and inequality.  The program equips participants to understand complexities of identity in the ever-changing context of their personal, political, and social lives. Gender influences human options, conditions, and experiences. Legal, political, economic, cultural, and kinship systems are all profoundly gendered. Deep understanding of gender patterns, dynamics, and biases can enhance the accuracy and scope of work in many fields and gender awareness benefits individuals, communities, and organizations. Our professors are collectively engaged in original, cutting-edge research which they often discuss in class. This makes any course you take well worth it.

Minor requirements

Take all of the following courses:

GNDR 240	Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality	3
GNDR 285	Gender in the Contemporary Global Order	3
GNDR 350	Feminist Theories	3

Choose 3 -9 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 372	Bodies and Power	3
GNDR 380	Queer Studies	3
GNDR 414	Masculinities	3

Choose the remaining credits (up to 6 hours) from the following courses:

GNDR 101	Gender and Society	3
GNDR 395	Topics in Gender Studies	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
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	Sex 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.