Gender Studies Minor
Overview
Gender studies explores how history, colonialism, the media, and other social institutions create and normalize gendered and sexual identities. Students study how gender, sexuality, and their intersections link to big issues of our time, including poverty, violence, health, and social inequality.
The Gender Studies Minor is available to students in eligible degree programs and requires 18 senior-level credits, including a minimum of 6 credits at the 300- or 400-level.
To maintain the interdisciplinary nature of the minor, no more than 2 courses from a single discipline or 3 GEND courses may be applied toward the minor.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Specific Minor Requirements | ||
| GEND 219 | Feminist Theories and Foundations | 3 |
| GEND 319 | Indigenous and Anti-Colonial Feminisms | 3 |
| Choose 12 credits from the following: | 12 | |
| Gender, Age and Culture | ||
| Language, Gender, and Sexuality | ||
| Archaeology of Gender | ||
| Art History: Gender and Sexuality in Art | ||
| Pandora's Daughters: Women in the Ancient World | ||
| The Economics of Gender | ||
| Reading Gender | ||
| Topics in Race and Gender | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Special Topics in Gender Studies | ||
| Advanced Independent Study | ||
| Women's History | ||
| Human Sexuality | ||
| Human Experience & Gender | ||
| Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Children and Youth | ||
| Beaded Sexualities | ||
| Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality | ||
| Human Sexuality | ||
| Sociology of Gender and Sexuality | ||
| Gender, Crime, and Social Justice | ||
| Social Work Practice with Gender and Sexual Diversity | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |
Program Learning Outcomes
- Differentiate historical and contemporary issues relating to gender.
- Demonstrate the ways in which gender inequality intersects with other forms of social marginalization including but not limited to sexuality, race, class, and ability.
- Explain how gender is shaped, enabled, and constrained by wider social forces.
- Outline the work of key thinkers and theorists in the discipline.
- Analyze the ways in which gender and sexuality are linked.