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Women's and Gender Studies Minor

Semester Requirements

College of Liberal Arts, Office of Student Services
(585) 475-2444, libarts@rit.edu

The women's and gender studies minor provides a critical framework to explore the significance of gender (along with race, sexuality, and class) in the construction of knowledge within academic disciplines and in the shaping of women’s and men’s lives. Courses engage a critical pedagogy focused on the recovery of women’s contributions in a variety of fields, on women’s and men’s roles in society across cultures, and especially on critical questions about gender neutrality in the shaping of culture.

Required Course:
WGST-400 Foundations of Women's and Gender Studies

Electives—Choose four of the following:
WGST-235 Women, Work, Culture
WGST-237 Psychology of Gender
WGST-245 Prostitution and Vice
WGST-246 History of Women in Science and Engineering
WGST-250 Domestic Violence
WGST-255 Seminar on Sexual Violence
WGST-265 Women and Crime
WGST-306 Feminist Theory
WGST-314 Topics in WGST
WGST-335 Women and the Deaf Community
WGST-342 Gender, Science, and Technology
WGST-351 Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Studies
WGST-361 Queering Gender
WGST-375 Women, Gender, Art
WGST-383 Traumatic Images
WGST-384 Art of Dying
WGST-385 Queer Looks
WGST-410 Introduction to LGBT Studies
WGST-451 Economics of Women and the Family
WGST-481 Women in Politics
ANTH-425 Global Sexualities
ANTH-325 Bodies and Culture

 

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The women's and gender studies minor provides a critical framework to explore the significance of gender (along with race, sexuality, and class) in the construction of knowledge within academic disciplines and in the shaping of women’s and men’s lives. Courses engage a critical pedagogy focused on the recovery of women’s contributions in a variety of fields, on women’s and men’s roles in society across cultures, and especially on critical questions about gender neutrality in the shaping of culture.

Required Course:
0522-400 Foundations of Women's and Gender Studies

Electives—Choose four of the following:
0505-491 Traumatic Images
0505-480 Women/Gender/Art
0505-516 Queer Looks
0522-401 American Women: Colonial Era to 1848
0522-402 American Women: 1848 to Now
0522-405 Women and Science
0522-406 Feminist Theory
0522-407 Seminar on Sexual Violence
0522-410 Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
0522-415 Domestic Violence
0522-436 Women’s Stories, Women’s Films
0522-439 Queer Looks I
0522-446 Women and Crime
0522-447 Women, Work, and Culture
0522-449 History of Women in Science and Engineering
0522-450 Gender, Science, and Technology
0522-451 Global Sexualities
0522-452 Bodies and Culture
0522-453 Economic Role of Women
0522-454 Hispanic Women in the World
0522-459 Toni Morrison
0522-460 Special Topics*
0522-480 Women/Gender/Art
0522-481 Women’s Studies in Language and Literature
0522-482 Women in Politics
0522-483 Psychology of Gender
0522-484 Auto/Biography
0522-492 Native American Women’s Experience
0525-543 Women in the Hispanic World: Politics of Identity Formation

Electives—Students may choose three of the above and one of the following:
0504-455 Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories
0504-467 Black Writers Today
0505-446 American Film in the Studio Era

* Special Topics (0522-460) may include the following: Traumatic Images, Queer Looks II, Art of Dying, Contemporary Women’s History, Prostitution and Vice, and Queering Gender.