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