Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Minor
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an academic, interdisciplinary program. Students select courses cross-listed in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and other disciplines, including: Communications, English, History, Literature, Media Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Work and Sociology. The minor in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies also provides students with the opportunity to pursue independent study courses, with the approval of the program director, to complete the minor.
The program draws on new scholarship about women from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds to examine and analyze traditional models of thinking and to develop creative ways to explore the roles of women and their experiences. Theoretical and critical debates that have influenced modern gender and sexuality studies (including scholarship about queer identities, LGBTQIA+) are also an integral part of the curriculum.
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies provide students with the opportunity to enrich their academic experience by examining the impact of gender and sexuality as organizing forces and cultural constructs in society. Students explore the meaning and application of such understanding to their own lives.
Minor Requirements
Required Courses
| WS 101 | Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| or | |
| SO 263 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
| or | |
| PS 275 | Psychology of Women and Gender | 3 |
Choose five elective courses from at least three disciplines below.
Elective Courses
The following courses have been preapproved.
Art & Design
| AR 107 | Art, Activism, and Social Justice | 3 |
Catholic Intellectual Tradition
| CIT 209 | Religion & Revolution | 3 |
| CIT 216 | Just Beauty: Can Beauty Save the World? | 3 |
Communication & Media
| CM 256 | Magazines & Body Image | 3 |
| CM 257 | Women & Advertising | 3 |
| CM 351 | Women in Film & Television | 3 |
| CM 357 | Studies in Advertising and PR | 3 |
Dance
| DA 310 | Social Issues Through Dance | 3 |
English
| ENG 231 | Black and Latinx Literature | 3 |
| ENG 242 | American Women of Color | 3 |
| ENG 263 | Postcolonial Women Writers | 3 |
| ENG 271 | Writing Social Fiction | 3 |
| ENG 279 | Trauma in Contemporary Literature | 3 |
Foreign Languages
History
| HI 205 | Religion and Revolution | 3 |
| HI 235 | Women in American Society | 3 |
| HI 239 | Women in the Middle East | 3 |
Management
| MGT 378 | Women in the Workforce | 3.00 Credit(s) |
Music
Philosophy
| PH 208 | Feminism, Gender & Sexuality | 3 |
Psychology
| PS 211 | Human Sexuality | 3 |
| PS 236 | Psychology of Diversity | 3 |
| PS 275 | Psychology of Women and Gender | 3 |
Social Work
| SW 140 | Perspectives on Family Violence | 3 |
| SW 224 | Human Diversity & Social Justice | 3 |
Sociology, Criminology & Criminal Justice
| CJ 224 | Women & the Criminal Justice System | 3 |
| CJ 306 | Victimology | 3 |
| SO 123 | Human Rights & Social Justice | 3 |
| SO 202 | Sociology of the Body | 3 |
| SO 216 | Changing Families | 3 |
| SO 239 | Diversity & Oppression in Contemporary Society | 3 |
| SO 263 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
Theology & Religious Studies
Women's Studies
| WS 101 | Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies | 3 |