Women's Studies Minor

The Women's Studies minor offers flexible and diverse coursework across a variety of disciplines. Distinct in its commitments—born of women’s struggles, movements, lives and work—it invites students to revise perspectives, make fresh inquiries, broaden and deepen understandings by means of a simple but radical shift: the re-rendering of the female half of the human race not as "the second sex," but as primary, fundamental, essential and real. The program emphases are  inclusiveness, criticality, academic freedom and responsibility.

WOMEN'S STUDIES MINOR REQUIREMENTS (21 credits)
Course	Title	Credits
Choose from the following: Course not chosen may be applied to the 15 credit hours below	3
WMST	30000	Colloquium in Women's Studies (3)
	30001	Feminist Theory (3)
Choose from the following:	15
COMM	35912	Gender Communication (3)
ENG	21002	Introduction to Women's Literature (3)
	34021	Women's Literature (3)
HDFS	44022	Changing Roles of Men and Women (3)
HED	32544	Human Sexuality (3)
	44025	Women's Health Issues (3)
JUS	37411	Women in Crime and Justice (3)
PAS	33110	The Black Woman: Historical Perspectives (3)
PEP	25059	Sport in Society (3)
PHIL	31040	Women and Philosophy (3)
	32091	Seminar: Women's Ways (3)
	32091	Seminar: Ethics of Sex and Gender (3)
POL	40470	Women, Politics and Policy (3)
PSYC	40625	Development of Gender Role and Identity (3)
RPTM	36085	Leisure and Culture (3)
SOC	42315	Sociology of Changing Gender Roles (3)
WMST	20095	Special Topics in Women's Studies (1-5)
	30095	Special Topics in Women's Studies (1-5)
	40095	Special Topics in Women's Studies (1-5)
	40992	Practicum in Women's Studies (3)
Guided Independent Study*	3
TOTAL	21

 

*Students register for WMST 30196 Individual Investigation, a guided independent project with a
written and oral report. Admission controlled. See Women's Studies coordinator for further information.

Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.