Women & Gender Studies
Dr. Jordan Pascoe
Program Coordinator
Women and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary minor that encourages students to explore the complex ways in which gender and sexuality shape who we are and how we live. Students study social identities, such as gender, race, class, ability, and sexual orientation, and explore how these identities intersect with related systems of oppression, domination and discrimination through history and geographies, and across institutions and cultures. The Women and Gender Studies Minor teaches students to recognize the patriarchal, heteronormative, and racial bias in the construction of knowledge; use intersectional and decolonial approaches to understand the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality operate together to shape relations of power and lived experiences in diverse global contexts; and apply feminist and queer theories and approaches to academic studies, social justice advocacy, and gender and sexual equity in our everyday lives. As an interdisciplinary minor, it ensures that students understand the variety of disciplines that inform gender and sexuality studies, as well as how gender and sexuality studies transforms modes of analysis across the disciplines. Through courses, invited speakers, and faculty and student research, the minor seeks to promote women’s issues and gender and sexuality awareness in order to help students create a more equitable world.
Minor
Minors will take 5 approved courses (15 credits) from the following list. One of these courses must be WAGS 101 and at least two courses must be at the 300-level or higher. No more than two courses from any one department will apply to the minor.
WAGS 101 | Introduction to Women and Gender Studies | 3 |
ENGL 256 | Types of Film Experience * | 3 |
ENGL 262 | Gender and Literature | 3 |
ENGL 323 | Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature * | 3 |
ENGL 334 | Romantic Matter(s): Subjects & Objects * | 3 |
ENGL 337 | Gender, Sexuality, and Literature | 3 |
ENGL 374 | Lust, Passion, and the Body: The American Novel to 1914 | 3 |
ENGL 387 | Queering the Text | 3 |
ENGL 389 | Gothic Fictions | 3 |
ENGL 388 | Feminism & Film | 3 |
HIST 220 | Race & Gender in Medieval Europe | 3 |
HIST 308 | Premodern Women and Gender History | 3 |
HIST 360 | Women in the United States | 3 |
HIST 388 | Women in Modern Europe | 3 |
HIST 389 | Gender and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East | 3 |
HIST 393 | Global Feminisms | 3 |
MGMT 460 | Special Topics in Management | 3 |
MUSC 400 | Special Topics: in Music * | 3 |
PHIL 230 | Philosophy of Law * | 3 |
PHIL 332 | Africana Philosophy | 3 |
PHIL 335 | 20th Century Philosophy * | 3 |
PHIL 341 | Global & Feminist Epistemologies | 3 |
PHIL 350 | Philosophers on Race, Class, and Gender | 3 |
PHIL 352 | Philosophers on Sex, Love, and Friendship | 3 |
POSC 310 | Special Topics: in Comparative Politics * | 3 |
POSC 412 | Senior Seminar: Women in Politics | 3 |
PSYC 342 | Psychology of Family Relationships | 3 |
PSYC 343 | Psychology of Women | 3 |
RELS 238 | Theologies Of Liberation | 3 |
RELS 300 | Special Topic * | 3 |
RELS 318 | Womanist Visions of Justice | 3 |
RELS 323 | Womanist Ethics | 3 |
RELS 349 | Women and Islam | 3 |
RELS 374 | Women in Western Religion | 3 |
RELS 375 | Religion and the Body | 3 |
RELS 390 | Sexuality and the Sacred | 3 |
RELS 470 | Religious Studies Seminar * | 3 |
SOC 220 | Social Problems | 3 |
SOC 290 | Codes of Gender | 3 |
SOC 302 | Race and Resistance | 3 |
SOC 304 | Social Inequalities | 3 |
SOC 306 | The Family | 3 |
SOC 315 | Special Topics: in Sociology * | 3 |
SPAN 320 | Special Topics: in Hispanic Culture Studies * | 3 |
SPAN 420 | Spanish Seminar * | 3 |
SPAN 429 | The Spanish Golden Age * | 3 |
SPAN 440 | Women in Hispanic Literature | 3 |
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When these “topics” courses focus on a subject relevant to women and gender studies. Special topics courses are also occasionally offered in education, the humanities, business, and the social sciences and may count toward the minor with permission of the Women and Gender Studies coordinator.
A minimum grade of C is required for credit toward the minor.