Women's and Gender Studies Minor

• Requirements
• Residency Requirement Policy
• Minor Programs Policy

Requirements

Minor Requirements: 5 courses, 20 credits

Core Requirement (1 course, 4 credits)

Choose one of the following:

WGS-111	Women, History, and Culture	4
WGS-113	Women, Science, and Society	4
WGS-115	Introduction to Gender Studies	4

Electives (4 courses, 16 credits)

Choose four of the following courses, with no more than two from any single department except Women's and Gender Studies (WGS). Students who have taken WGS-111 or WGS-113 may take WGS-115 (Introduction to Gender Studies) as one of their four elective courses for the WGS minor.

ADPR-217	Gay and Lesbian Studies	4
ARH-205	Gender, Class and Alterity in Ancient and Medieval Art	4
ARH-321	Women, Art and Society	4
CJU-230	Bad Girls?	4
CJU-275	Women and Crime	4
CJU-331	Violence Against Women	4
ENG-158	Nasty Women and Unruly Voices in American Literature	4
ENG-161	Writing the American West	4
ENG-348	Jane Austen	4
ENG-356	Whitman and Dickinson	4
ENG-387	Writing Women	4
HST-274	Women in 19th-Century Europe	4
HST-275	Women in 20th-Century Europe	4
HST-371	U.S. Women's History Colonial to 1865	4
HST-465	Monumental Women: Female Public Space	4
HST-484	History of the Emotions	4
LAWU-280	Domestic Violence, Abuse and Neglect	4
LAWU-310	Gender, Sexuality, and the Law	4
MUH-221	History of Women in Music	4
PHIL-228	Feminist Philosophy	4
PHIL-265	Women in Spirituality	4
POLS-306	Women & Public Policy	4
POLS-307	Globalization of Gender Politics	4
PSYCH-222	Human Sexuality	4
SOC-273	Women in Contemporary Society	4
SOC-276	Sex and Society	4
SOC-355	Women and Health	4
WGS-211	Heroines, Hotties & Hubris: Adolescent Girl's Books	4
WGS-220	Other Worlds, Other Genders: Women and Science Fiction	4
WGS-230	Bad Boys: Representations of Masculinity In Popular Culture	4
WGS-235	Gender and Sexuality in Visual Culture	4
WGS-240	Feminist Literature	4
WGS-311	Engendering Entertainment: Feminism and Popular Culture	4
WGS-315	Feminist Thought	4
WGS-325	Global Women's Fiction	4
WGS-330	Furies to Femi-Nazis: A History of Modern Anti-Feminism	4
WGS-335	Queer Narratives	4
WGS-340	Women on Stage	4

WGS Track Courses

Some CAS courses can be taken to fulfill the WGS minor by registering for the optional WGS track of that course. Students who register for this track and complete the required WGS readings and assignments may count a maximum number of one of these courses toward the minor in Women's and Gender Studies. In order to register for the WGS track of a listed course, students should consult the instructor and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies program by the the second week of class.

BLKST-250	Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique	4
CJN-255	Introduction to Media	4
ENG-266	"Mad Men:" Reading Visual Narratives	4
ENG-327	Studies in Shakespeare	4
ENG-340	Readings in Decadent Literature	4
ENG-392	Readings in Post-Colonial Literature	4
ENG-409	Literary Bloomsbury: Woolf and Forster	4
HST-426	Politics and Culture in Europe, 1919-1939	4
HST-489	Germany: Film, Politics, Memory Since 1945	4
PSYCH-219	SL-Psychology of Trauma	4
SOC-256	Sociology of Aging	4

Advanced Topics

Students may wish to include specialized research and/or an internship as part of their minor program. They may do so by completing the following course under the supervision of the program director or a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Committee:

WGS-510

Independent Study

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Residency Requirement Policy

In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.

Minor Programs Policy

A student declaring a minor may use no more than two courses from a major or double major combination to fulfill the requirements for the minor. No more than one course from one minor may count toward the fulfillment of a second minor. Students may not minor in a subject in which they are also completing a major. For more information, see the Minor Programs section of the CAS Degree Requirements page.