Women's and Gender Studies 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 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 |
| CJU-230 | Bad Girls? | 4 |
| CJN-232 | Gender, Sexuality, and Communication | 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-313 | Sex and Power in the Middle Ages | 4 |
| ENG-348 | Jane Austen | 4 |
| ENG-356 | Whitman and Dickinson | 4 |
| ENG-387 | Writing Women | 4 |
| ENG-412 | Women in Classical Antiquity | 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 |
| LAWU-280 | Domestic Violence, Abuse and Neglect | 4 |
| LAWU-310 | Gender, Sexuality, and the Law | 4 |
| PHIL-228 | Feminist Philosophy | 4 |
| PHIL-229 | Eco-Feminism | 4 |
| PHIL-251 | Philosophy of Race & Gender | 4 |
| PHIL-265 | Women in Spirituality | 4 |
| POLS-306 | Public Policy and Marginalized Groups | 4 |
| POLS-307 | Globalization of Gender Politics | 4 |
| PSYCH-222 | Human Sexuality | 4 |
| SF-1180 | Rebel Girls and Nasty Women | 4 |
| SOC-273 | Women in Contemporary Society | 4 |
| SOC-276 | Sex and Society | 4 |
| SOC-303 | Native Women's Health | 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-225 | From Prophetess to Poetess: African Women Since 1800 | 4 |
| WGS-228 | Feminism in Film & 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-338 | Re-Imagine the World: Transnational Feminism in Film | 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 second week of class.
| CJN-255 | Introduction to Media | 4 |
| ENG-162 | Shakespeare From Stage to Screen | 4 |
| ENG-266 | "Mad Men:" Reading Visual Narratives | 4 |
| ENG-340 | Readings in Decadent Literature | 4 |
| ENG-392 | Readings in Post-Colonial Literature | 4 |
| ENG-409 | Literary Bloomsbury: Woolf and Forster | 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:
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.
About the Women's and Gender Studies Minor
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