Minor & Requirements

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES:

A total of twenty-four (24) credits as follows:

  1. Gender and Sexuality Studies 200. Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies.
  2. Gender and Sexuality Studies 400. Seminar in Contemporary Feminist Theory.
  3. Four courses selected from the Gender and Sexuality Studies curriculum. Two of these courses must come from fields outside of one’s major. For one of these four GS courses, students are encouraged to consider an Internship or a Directed Inquiry. An Internship or Directed Inquiry must be approved by the Gender and Sexuality Studies Committee.

Gender and Sexuality Studies courses regularly offered include, but are not limited to:

  • Anthropology/Sociology 210: Gender and Society
  • Anthropology/Sociology 211: Women in Prehistory
  • Art 265: Women in the Ancient World
  • English 220: Topics in Women and Literature
  • English 221: The Novel of Manners
  • English 320: Women Writers in the Middle Ages
  • French 441: Women Writers, Women’s Writing
  • History 205: Selected Topics in Women’s History
  • History 245: Women in United States History
  • History 249: Black and White Women in the South
  • History 345: Gender in the American West
  • History 405: Topics in American Women’s History
  • Psychology 232: Psychology of Women
  • Religious Studies 232: Religion and Sexuality
  • Religious Studies 258: Women in World Religions
  • Spanish 350: Short Fiction by Spanish Women Writers
  • Spanish 365: Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Women Writers