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. Feminist and Queer 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 courses, students are encouraged to consider an Internship or a Directed Inquiry. In order to receive academic credit for either the Internship or the Directed Inquiry, students must write a proposal, in consultation with a faculty mentor and submit the proposal for approval by the director of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
   
   Gender and Sexuality Studies courses regularly offered include, but are not limited to:

   Anthropology/Sociology 207: Women in Prehistory
   Anthropology/Sociology 231: Gender and Society
   English 190: The New Woman in American Literature 1880-1930
   French 441: Women Writers, Women’s Writing
   History 349: Black and White Women in the South
   History 445: Gender in the American West
   International Studies 432: Women in World Politics
   Music 105: Women in Music
   Psychology 232: Psychology of Gender and Sexuality
   Religious Studies 220: Feminist Theology
   Religious Studies 232: Religion and Sexuality
   Religious Studies 258: Women in World Religions
   Spanish 350: Short Fiction by Spanish Women Writers