Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Minor)

Minor Requirements

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor consists of five courses (20 credit hours) of coursework. Students in the minor are required to complete the program of study as described below.

Note: Each course can only fulfill one requirement and cannot be double-counted in more than one required category.

Minor Core Requirements

Students complete a core of two courses (8 credit hours).

RGS 101/WGSS 101	Identity and Power	4
WGSS 204/HIST 200	What is Feminism? Origins of Feminist Thought	4

Race, Ethnicity, and Global South Perspectives

Students complete one Race, Ethnicity, and Global South Perspectives course (4 credit hours).

WGSS 207/HIST 207	Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Chinese History	4
WGSS 210/AST 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
WGSS 214/ECON 214	Gender, Globalization, and Development	4
WGSS 232/AST 232/SOCI 232	Race, Gender & Health	4
WGSS 241/AST 241/LTWR 241	Contemporary Black Women Writers	4
WGSS 344/AST 344/SOCI 344	Poetry for the People: Black Queer Poets	4
WGSS 356/POLS 356	Feminist International Relations	4
WGSS 365/AST 365/SOCI 365	Intimate Family Violence: A Multicultural Perspective	4
WGSS 375/AST 375/HIST 354	Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project	4

Electives

Students complete two electives (8 credit hours) from the list of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality courses (with a WGSS prefix) or chosen from the list of approved classes. At least one of the elective courses needs to be at the advanced 300-level.

WGSS 101/RGS 101	Identity and Power	4
WGSS 111	Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies	4
WGSS 125	Gender, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Work	4
WGSS 193/LTWR 193	Gender and Power in Literature	4
WGSS 204/HIST 200	What is Feminism? Origins of Feminist Thought	4
WGSS 207/HIST 207	Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Chinese History	4
WGSS 210/AST 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
WGSS 212/LTWR 212	Queer Literature and Film	4
WGSS 214/ECON 214	Gender, Globalization, and Development	4
WGSS 215/HIST 215	Women and Gender in U.S. History Before 1890	4
WGSS 216/HIST 216	Women and Gender in U.S. History: Since 1890	4
WGSS 219	Gender and Politics	4
WGSS 220	Feminism and Literature	4
WGSS 232/AST 232/SOCI 232	Race, Gender & Health	4
WGSS 233/POLS 233	Feminism and Capitalism	4
WGSS 235/POLS 235	Transgender Politics and Freedom	4
WGSS 239/HIST 239	History of Sexuality and the Family	4
WGSS 241/AST 241/LTWR 241	Contemporary Black Women Writers	4
WGSS 248/ART 248	Gender and Art	4
WGSS 258/RGS 258	Special Topics in Gender & Sexuality Studies	4
WGSS 344/AST 344/SOCI 344	Poetry for the People: Black Queer Poets	4
WGSS 350	Independent Study	4
WGSS 354	The Future is Feminist: Comparative Feminist Theories	4
WGSS 355	Thesis	4
WGSS 356/POLS 356	Feminist International Relations	4
WGSS 360/HIST 360	Seminar in the History of Women and Gender	4
WGSS 365/AST 365/SOCI 365	Intimate Family Violence: A Multicultural Perspective	4
WGSS 375/AST 375/HIST 354	Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project	4
WGSS 398/LTWR 398	Feminist Media Studies	4
ART 247	Eighteenth Century Art: The Age of Revolutions	4
BIOL 109	Sex, Gender, and Biology	4
HIST 213	Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History	4
HUM 370	Humanities Internship	4
LTWR 254	The Rise of the Novel: English Literature Before 1900	4
LTWR 320	American Women Poets	4
LTWR 354	Studies in Film: Melodrama	4
PSYC 220	The Psychology of Gender	4
RGS 355	Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies Capstone Project
SOCI 220	Working for Social Justice	4
SOCI 249/AST 249	Inequalities	4
SOCI 330	Global and Transnational Studies	4
SOCI 347	Antiracism and Social Justice	4
SPAN 336	Latin American Women Writers	4