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Women's and Gender Studies
Are you interested in learning about women's experiences, struggles, and accomplishments throughout history? Dream of a world where equality is the standard? Want to strengthen your understanding and awareness of gender as it applies to your own experiences? Then you may want to minor in women's and gender studies.
Throughout your coursework you will have the opportunity to:
- Focus on women or gender as the central area of inquiry
- Recognize gender as a primary source for learning, and lens through which we experience the world
- Articulate the complex ways in which gender is socially and culturally constructed
- Explore data and research about contemporary issues related to gender and their impact both locally and globally
- Analyze interlocking systems of oppression and privilege across lives of gender, race, class, and sexuality
- Recognize women as significant actors in society in both public and private spheres
- Recognize women's struggles and accomplishments, in their efforts, both individual and collective, to achieve personal and social change
- Apply Women's and Gender Studies scholarship to personal experiences within the framework of our diverse cultural backgrounds
The Women's and Gender Studies program is interdisciplinary in nature, with courses and faculty drawn from throughout the College. Courses are open to all students, whether or not they are pursuing a Women's and Gender Studies minor. You may obtain a minor in Women's and Gender Studies in conjunction with a major in any area of study.
Requirements for Women's and Gender Studies Minor:| WGS 2000 | Women's Lives: Gendered Realities | 3 |
| WGS 3900 | Women's and Gender Studies Senior Seminar: Selected Topics | 3 |
Choose three from the following list of electives*: 9 credits
(Electives must be from a minimum of two different disciplines)
Total Credits Required Women's and Gender Studies Minor: 15
| BIOL/PSY/WGS 2450 | Human Sexuality |
| BIOL/SOC/WGS 2452 | Sex and Gender: Biological and Sociological Perspectives |
| COM 2850 | Women in Media |
| COM 3652 | Gender Communication |
| ENG 1330 | Feminine and Masculine in Literature |
| ENG/WGS 2110 | American Literature |
| ENG 2632 | Women in 19th Century World Literature |
| ENG 2635 | Banned Books |
| ENG 2850 | Women in Film |
| ENG 3300 | Shameless Women's Literature |
| ENG 3340 | Women in Modern Literature |
| ENG/WGS 3620 | Victorian Literature |
| HE/AFAM/WGS 3050 | Race, Class, Gender and Health |
| NSG 3063 |
Maternity Nursing |
| P&H/WGS 1090 | American First Ladies |
| P&H/WGS 2292 | Social History of Women |
| P&H/WGS 2440 | Women, Power and Politics |
| P&H/WGS 2420 | Gay Politics in the United States |
| PHIL 3500 | Virtue and Feminist Ethics |
| PSY/WGS 2106 | Psychology of Women |
| PSY/SOC/WGS 2115 | Men, Self and Society |
| SOC/PSY/WGS 2060 | Aging and the Life Cycle |
| SOC/CJ/WGS 2300 | Women, Minorities, and Social Justice |
| SOC/ED/WGS 2162 | Sociology of Education |
| SOC/CJ/WGS 2402 | Domestic Violence |
| SOC/WGS 2230 | Women, Health and Health Care |
| SOC/WGS 2410 | Working with Individuals |
| SOC/WGS 2480 | Sports & Society |
| SOC/WGS 2620 | Diversity in Families |
| SOC/WGS 2650 | Sociology of Health Care |
| SOC/WGS 2680 | Sociology of Work: From Corporate Suites to Cleaning Streets |
| SOC/CJ/WGS 3404 | Sociology of Violence |
| SOC/CJ/WGS 3640 | Deviance & Social Control |
| SOC 2660 | Sociology of Women |
| SOC/WGS 3760 | Wealth, Poverty and Social Class in America |
| VA 2930 | Contemporary Art |
| WGS 3450 | Field Experience |
| WGS 4000 | Independent Study |
| WGS 4100 | Independent Readings |
| WGS 4560 | Independent Research |
*Students may petition the Women's Studies Committee to receive credit for course(s) or coursework not listed above.
Learning Outcomes
- Focus on women or gender as the central area of inquiry
- Recognize gender as a primary source for learning, and lens through which we experience the world.
- Articulate the complex ways in which gender is socially and culturally constructed.
- Explore data and research about contemporary issues related to gender and their impact both locally and globally.
- Analyze interlocking forms of oppression and privilege across lines of gender, race, class, and sexuality.
- Recognize women as significant actors in society in both public and private spheres.
- Recognize women's struggles and accomplishments, and their efforts, both individual and collective, to achieve personal and social change.
- Apply women's and gender studies scholarship to personal experiences within the framework of our diverse cultural backgrounds.
