Minor/Concentration

Requirements

The Women’s Studies Minor requires five upper-division courses, the foundation course and four electives.  The electives may be chosen from the list of Electives and Affiliated courses below.  Only one course from the Affiliated list can be used for credit toward the minor.  

The Women's Studies Concentration requires any three courses from the following list.

Required course:  

Foundations of Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies 0522-400)

Electives: 

History of American Women: Plymouth Rock to Seneca Falls (Women’s Studies 0522-401 and History 0507-401)

History of American Women: Seneca Falls to NOW (Women’s Studies 0522-402 and History 0507-402)

Women in Literature (Women’s Studies 0522-481 and Literature 0504-480)

Toni Morrison (Women’s Studies 0522-459 and Literature 0504-459) 

Outlaw Narrative: Autobiography (Women’s Studies 0522-484 and Literature 0504-490)

Native American Women’s Experience (Women’s Studies 0522-492 and Literature 0504-492)

Women, Work, and Culture (Women’s Studies 0522-447 and Sociology 0515-447)

Women and the Visual Arts (Women’s Studies 0522-480 and Fine Arts 0505-480)

Women’s Stories, Women’s Films (Fine Arts 0505-436)

Women and Crime (Women’s Studies 0522-446 and Criminal Justice 0501-446)

Seminar in Gender Violence (Criminal Justice 0501-450)

Women in Politics (Political Science 0513-481)

Women and Science (Women’s Studies 0522-405)

Feminist Approaches to Science and Technology (Women’s Studies 0522-450 and STS 0508-447)

History of Women in Science and Engineering (Women’s Studies 0522-449 and STS 0508-449) 

Feminist Theory (Women’s Studies 0522-406 and Philosophy 0509-454)

Affiliated Electives (only one course may be chosen from this list): 

American Film (Fine Arts 0505-446)