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.)

CAS 328(D) - Gender Communications, 3 credit hours
ENG 335I - Studies in World Literature, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(I,D) - Gender and Travel in the 18th Century, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(I,D) - Early American Women’s Narratives, 3 credit hours
ENG 336(I,D) - Men Behaving Badly: Performing Masculinity, 3 credit hours
HIS 235I - Women in Western Civilization, 3 credit hours
HIS 236I - Women in Asian Civilizations, 3 credit hours
HIS 260(I,D) - Topics in History, 3-4 credit hours
HIS 360(I) - An In-depth Study of Topics in History, 3-4 credit hours
HPE 263 - The History of Women in Sports, 3 credit hours
HPE 263 - Gender, Health, and Equity, 3 credit hours
HPE 377W - LGBT Health and Wellness, 3 credit hours
MUC 363 D - Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, 2 credit hours
PHL 270D - Feminist Philosophy, 4 credit hours
PHL 271D - Philosophy of Sexuality, 3 or 4 credit hours
POL 305D - Women, Politics, and the Media, 3 credit hours
PSY 215D - Psychology of Women, 4 credit hours
REL 216I - Women and Religion, 3 credit hours
REL 293(D) - Race, Religion & Gender in Movies, 3 credit hours
REL 393 - Religion, the Body, and Gender, 4 credit hours
SOC 290D - Gender Roles, 3 credit hours
SOC 320 - Victimology, 3 credit hours crosslisted as
CRJ 320 - Victimology, 3 credit hours
SOC 330D - Protests, Movements and Social Change, 3 credit hours