Women’s and Gender Studies Minor

Faculty: Professor Hayden, Director; Professors Hidalgo-Calle, Plays, Tillson, N. Winston; Associate Professors Davis, Tillman.

Women’s and gender studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor integrating academic departments across the University. The program encourages students to engage fully in the major activities of a liberal arts education — reading, writing, thinking and discussing with others — to consider how women’s lives are differently experienced. A women’s and gender studies minor celebrates diversity, comparing or fusing Eastern and Western perspectives.

The women’s and gender studies minor draws on numerous disciplines, including communication, history, languages, literature, psychology and sociology, to explore such topics as women’s accomplishments, their depictions of themselves and others, their depiction in popular culture, theories of gender roles and stereotyping, and the social and economic forces that continue to shape women’s lives.

Degree Requirements

Select four from these courses:

COM 370	Women, Film and Popular Culture	4
COM 435	Women Directors: Theory and Criticism	4
HIS 212	Witchcraft and Magic in the Early Modern Atlantic World	4
HIS 215	Women in American History	4
LIT 238	Women's Literature	4
PHL 205	Feminist Philosophy	4
PHL 399	Philosophy of Sex	4
SOC 307	Families in Global Perspective	4
SOC 320	Sociology of Gender	4
SPA 441	Hispanic Women Writers	4
WST 125	Introduction to Women's Studies	4
WST 290-299	Special Topics	4
WST 383	Women's Studies	4
WST 360-369	Special Topics
Total Credit Hours:		20

(Eight of the 20 credit hours must be at the 300 and 400 levels, including WST 383, which is a required course for this minor.)

Requirements for the minor in Women’s and Gender Studies:

WST 383

Women's Studies

4

Total Credit Hours: 20

Additional courses approved by the program director of women’s and gender studies and by the Curriculum Committee may be used to satisfy the women’s and gender studies minor.