Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor
For an 18-credit minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, students complete the following:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select five courses from the list below, including: 1 | 15 | |
at least three gender-focused courses | ||
two additional gender-focused or gender-component courses | ||
| WGSS 4999 | Capstone Seminar 2 | 3 |
| Total Credits | 18 | |
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Courses must be chosen from at least two disciplines.
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With permission of the director(s), other capstone experiences that focus on women, gender and sexuality topics may be counted in place of WGSS 4999. If another capstone experience is substituted, then a sixth WGSS course must be completed from the list of approved courses.
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Electives
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AETH 2283 | Environmental Justice | 3 |
| ANTH 1125 | Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation | 3 |
| BIOL 1071 | Identity and the Human Genome | 3 |
| COMM 2236 | Gender, Sexuality, and Media | 3 |
| COMM 2246 | Family Communication | 3 |
| COMM 3245 | Identities, Discourse, and Social Change | 3 |
| COMM 3323 | Gender and Organizing | 3 |
| ECON 2114 | Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the American Workplace | 3 |
| ENGL 1100 | Greco-Roman Gender & Sexuality | 3 |
| ENGL 1200 | American Women Playwrights | 3 |
| ENGL 1300 | Literature by Women: Vision and Revision | 3 |
| ENGL 1310 | Contemporary Women Writers of Color | 3 |
| ENGL 1620 | Irish Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 1710 | Literature and the Visual Arts 1 | 3 |
| ENGL 2016 | Victorian Poetry and Poetics 1 | 3 |
| ENGL 2033 | American Women Writers of the 19th Century | 3 |
| ENGL 2045 | Edith Wharton and Her Circle | 3 |
| ENGL 2063 | African American Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 2075 | Modern Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 2083 | Asian Diasporas: Challenges to Citizenship | 3 |
| ENGL 2091 | Gender and Sexuality in Film and Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 3014 | Renaissance Eros | 3 |
| ENGL 3036 | Seminar on Toni Morrison | 3 |
| ENGL 3072 | All About Eve | 3 |
| ENGL 3074 | The Woman Question: Early Feminism and 19th Century Transatlantic Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 3075 | Caribbean Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 3076 | Global Women's Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 3077 | Nonstop Metropolis: Literature and Culture in NYC | 3 |
| ENGL 3078 | People, Power, Politics: Postcolonial Adaptations | 3 |
| ENGL 3310 | Queer Rhetorics and Theories | 3 |
| ENGL 3315 | Feminist Rhetorics | 3 |
| FTMA 2201 | Filmmaker Studies (Women Directors) | 3 |
| FTMA 2209 | Gender, Sexuality, and Cinema | 3 |
| HIST 1146 | Women's History as U.S. History | 3 |
| HIST 2240 | The Personal Is Political: Women's Activism in the 1960s | 3 |
| HIST 2245 | Feminism in the United States | 3 |
| HIST 2246 | Women and Gender in U.S. History | 3 |
| HIST 2247 | Family and Sexuality in U.S. History | 3 |
| HIST 2257 | Who Built America? Working People in America | 3 |
| HIST 2263 | Inventing Themselves: African-American Women in U.S. History | 3 |
| HIST 3346 | Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Women and Religion in American History | 3 |
| HIST 3366 | Gender, Culture, and Representation: Women in China and Japan, 1600 to Present | 3 |
| ITLN 2291 | Boccaccio’s Decameron in Translation | 3 |
| ITLN 3257 | Theatre in Italy: Comedy | 3 |
| NURS 3314 | Maternal and Newborn Nursing | 4 |
| PHIL 2206 | Philosophical Perspectives on Women in Classical Literature | 3 |
| PHIL 2281 | Philosophies of Love and Sex | 3 |
| PHIL 2282 | Violence and the Sacred | 3 |
| PHIL 2283 | Philosophy and Pornography | 3 |
| POLI 2334 | Sex, Sexuality, and Gender | 3 |
| POLI 2336 | Politics of Race, Class, and Gender | 3 |
| POLI 4301 | The Battle Over Family Values in American Politics | 3 |
| POLI 4302 | Seminar on Feminist Theory | 3 |
| POLI/INTL 4303 | Gender, War, and Peace | 3 |
| PSYC 2330 | Gender and Mental Health | 3 |
| RLST 2115 | Women in Judaism | 3 |
| RLST 2205 | Women in the Bible | 3 |
| RLST 2210 | A Feminist, Gender, and Queer Reading of the Hebrew Bible: Finding New Voices | 3 |
| RLST 2336 | Catholicism and Gender | 3 |
| SOCI 1115 | Sociology of the Family 1 | 3 |
| SOCI 1120 | Sociology of Sexuality | 3 |
| SOCI 1130 | Feminism, Gender, and Everyday Life | 3 |
| SOCI 1135 | Race, Gender, and Ethnic Relations 1 | 3 |
| SOCI 2115 | Women: Work and Sport | 3 |
| THTR 1200 | American Women Playwrights | 3 |
| WGSS 1101 | Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3980 | Internship | 3 |
| WGSS 4999 | Capstone Seminar | 3 |
| WGSS 4990 | Independent Study | 1-3 |
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Indicates gender-component course.