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The women's and gender studies minor provides a critical framework to explore the significance of gender—as it intersects with racial, ethnic, religious, national, class, sexuality, and disability-based identities, past and present. Course builds knowledge about the personal, social, cultural, economic, and historical dynamics that inform gender and intersecting social categories. The minor builds fluency with critical analysis and knowledge-building methods drawn from women's and gender studies, feminist theories, critical race studies, queer studies, social justice work, and activism. The minor also provides valuable skills and experience applying these different lenses to real-world interactions with diverse individuals and communities to current social challenges that impact multiple parties, and with an eye to improving equity and fair outcomes for everyone concerned. Students will learn how to analyze and question power relations in all their rich complexities, locally, and globally.
| Course | |
|---|---|
| Required Course | |
| WGST-200 | Foundations in Women's and Gender Studies |
| Electives | |
| Choose four of the following: | |
| ANTH-325 | Bodies and Culture |
| ANTH-425 | Global Sexualities |
| WGST-206 | Queer Looks |
| WGST-210 | Introduction to LGBT Studies |
| WGST-235 | Women, Work, and Culture |
| WGST-237 | Psychology of Women |
| WGST-240 | Human Sexuality |
| 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-290 | American Women's and Gender History |
| WGST-291 | History of Family and Children in the U.S. |
| WGST-309 | Feminist Theory |
| 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-383 | Traumatic Images |
| WGST-384 | Art of Dying |
| WGST-388 | Gender and Contemporary Art |
| WGST-414 | Topics in Women's and Gender Studies |
| WGST-451 | Economics of Women and the Family |
Quarter Curriculum - For Reference Only
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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.