Request to revise courses in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Date: October 30, 2009
To: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
From: Clarence Greene, Faculty Governance Assistant
Approved On: October 6, 2009
Implementation Date: 2009

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DELETE PHIL 3050 (No longer being taught)

MINOR IN WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES

The Women’s and Gender Studies minor is open to all students regardless of gender and requires completion of at least 18 hours in approved courses. A maximum of nine hours may be earned from any one department or program outside of Women’s and Gender Studies. Students minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies must complete the following requirements:

  1. WGST 1101 Introduction to Women’s Studies (3) OR WGST 3102 Changing Realities of Women’s Lives (3)

  2. WGST 3220/3221 Feminist Thought (3) OR WGST 3820 3227 Feminist Philosophy (3) OR Another Approved WGST topics course (to be determined by coordinator)

  3. Any WGST at the 4000 level

  4. Nine hours of electives

Elective courses can be chosen from any department’s or program’s offerings, as long as (a) the course deals substantially with gender, women, feminism, sexuality, or related social movements and (b) the courses are approved by the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. Students minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies should check their choices of electives with the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, both when they are planning their minor and when they are reviewing it in preparation for graduation.

Examples of regularly taught courses in other departments that count as Women’s and Gender Studies electives include, but are not limited to:

  • AFRS 2215 Black Families in the U.S.
  • ANTH 2090 Gender, Culture, and Communication
  • ANTH 2123 Women in Crosscultural Perspective
  • ANTH 4131 Culture, Pregnancy and Birth
  • CJUS 4000 Gender, Race, and Justice
  • COMM 2110 Women and the Media
  • COMM 3110 Gender and Communication
  • ENGL 4002 Women in and Literature
  • GRNT 4260 Women: Middle Age and Beyond
  • HIST 2150 U.S. Women’s History to 1877
  • HIST 2151 U.S. Women’s History Since 1877
  • HIST 2152 European Women’s History
  • HIST 3000/AMST 3050 Southern Women’s History
  • NURS 4191 Women’s Health Issues
  • PHIL 3820 3227 Feminist Philosophy
  • PSYC 3126 Psychology of Women
  • SOCY 2132 Marriage and Family
  • SOCY 2163 Sociology of Gender
  • SOCY 3261 Human Sexuality
  • SOCY 4090 New Theoretical Approaches to Gender
  • SOCY 4165 Sociology of Women
  • SPAN 3019 Hispanic Women Writers in English Translation

Courses approved for the minor that are taught infrequently:

  • AFRS 4106/ENGL 4156 Gender in African-American Literature
  • ANTH 2090/AAAS 3050 Gender in a Transforming Africa
  • ARTS 3001 Women in Art
  • CJUS 4162 Seminar on Sexual Assault
  • ENGL 4050 Native American Women
  • ENGL 4050 Gender and Shakespeare
  • HIST 3131 History of Sexuality
  • HIST 3168 Women and Family in Modern East Asia
  • PHIL 3050 Philosophy of Sex
  • RELS 3050 Religion and Gender
  • RELS 3111 Women and Judaism
  • THEA 4001 Women’s Writings Onscreen
  • THEA 4001 Violent Film Females

A complete list of courses approved for the minor in Women’s and Gender Studies is available in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program Office.