Gender Studies Minor

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The minor requires a total of 18 credit hours from the courses listed below, with credit accumulated from at least three different departmental prefixes. Up to four of those 18 credit hours can be substituted with an approved Independent Study or Internship coordinated with a faculty member working within the Gender Studies minor. Completion of the minor requires a not-for-credit reflection paper that summarizes the student’s experience across the minor courses.

Questions about the minor should be addressed to Dr. Ana de Freitas Boe, Director of the Gender Studies minor, in the Department of English.

Requirements:

Choose 18 credits from at least 3 different prefixes from the following course listings. Student can also take up to 4 credits of independent study or internship for Gender Studies credit through one of the participating departments. (Gender Studies minors who have taken ENG 131 but who do not have the prerequisites to take a 300 level English course can ask to have the prerequisites waived by the professor of the class.)

ASW 330W - Human Sexuality Education, 3 credit hours
ENG 220 - Literature for Adolescents, 3 credit hours
ENG 335 - Literature and Film of the South Asian Diaspora, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(D) - Early American Women’s Narratives, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(D) - Men Behaving Badly: Performing Masculinity, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(D) - Children’s Literature, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(D) - Dystopia & Contemporary Fiction, 3 credit hours
HIS 235 - Women in Western Civilization, 3 credit hours
HIS 236I - Women in Asian Civilizations, 3 credit hours
HIS 260 - Topics in History, 3-4 credit hours
HIS 360 - An In-depth Study of Topics in History, 3-4 credit hours
MUC 363 D - Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, 2 credit hours
PHL 314 - The Work of Judith Butler, 3 credit hours
PHT 240D - Gender, Sex, and Health, 3 credit hours
POL 305 - Women, Politics, and Law, 3 credit hours
PSY 215D - Psychology of Women, 4 credit hours
REL 216I - Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, 3 credit hours
SOC 290D - Gender Roles, 3 credit hours
SOC 320X - Victimology, 4 credit hours