Diversity Studies Minor

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15 hours will be selected from a menu of existing courses (Gender Studies and Diversity Studies lists below), and students will also take a 3 credit capstone seminar (DST 463 ) that will provide students with theoretical tools to integrate the knowledge from the various classes they have taken into a final research project.

Minimum Credits Required: 18

Required Course: 3 credits

DST 463 - Seminar in Diversity Studies, 3 credit hours

Elective courses:

Choose 15 credits from the following course listing. Choose at least one course from the Gender Studies course list and one from the Diversity Studies course list. To foster an interdisciplinary perspective on diversity, no more than two courses from a single department and no more than two Gender Studies courses may count toward the minor.

Gender Studies courses:

CAS 328 - Special Topics in Communication and Ethics, 3 credit hours (when taught as Gender Communications)
ENG 336(I,D) - Studies in Specific Genres, Themes or Modes, 3 credit hours Early American Women’s Narratives
HPE 263 - Special Topic Seminar, Credit hours to be arranged The History of Women in Sport
HPE 263 - Special Topic Seminar, Credit hours to be arranged
Gender, Health, and Equity
MUC 363 - Seminar, Variable credit Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship
POL 208 - Special Legal Studies, 1-3 credit hours when offered as “Women & Law” or “Sex and the Law”
POL 305D - Women, Politics, and Law, 3 credit hours
PHL 207(D) - Topics in Philosophy, 3-4 credit hours Feminist Philosophy
PHL 271D - Philosophy of Sexuality, 3-4 credit hours
PSY 215D - Psychology of Women, 4 credit hours
REL 293(I,D) - Topics in Religion, 2-4 credit hours Race, Religion & Gender in Movies
REL 393 - Religion, the Body, and Gender, 4 credit hours
SOC 290D - Gender Roles, 3 credit hours
Seminar and Topics courses as deemed appropriate

Diversity Studies courses:

MGT 409D - Behavioral Theories of Management, 3 credit hours
CAS 277D - Media and Diversity, 3 credit hours
CAS 278D - Diversity in America, 3 credit hours
CAS 285D - Introduction to Intercultural Communication, 3 credit hours
ECN 341 - US Economic History, 3 credit hours
ECN 356D - Urban & Regional Economics, 3 credit hours
HIS 170D - Diversity in America, 3 credit hours
HIS 260(I,D) - Topics in History, 3-4 credit hours (when taught as African-American History)
MUL 224D - History of Jazz, 2 credit hours
POL 202 - Major Policy Issues, 1-3 credit hours
POL 263(I, D) - Seminar in Political Science, 1-3 credit hours (when topic is Civil Rights)
POL 304D - Urban Policy and Politics, 3 credit hours
POL 333D - Contemporary Political Voices at the Margins, 3 credit hours
PSY 245D - Multicultural Psychology, 3-4 credit hours
REL 108I - Islam, 2 credit hours
REL 110 - Judaism, 3 credit hours
REL 115D - African-American Religious Experience, 3 credit hours
REL 193(I,D) - Topics in Religion, 2-4 credit hours (when taught as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or King and American Racism)
REL 218D - American Religious Pluralism, 4 credit hours
REL 293(I,D) - Topics in Religion, 2-4 credit hours (when taught as History of Gospel Music)
SOC 201D - Social Problems, 4 credit hours
SOC 301D - Social Inequalities, 3 credit hours
SOC 302I - Racial and Cultural Minorities, 3 credit hours
SOC 330D - Protests, Movements and Social Change, 3 credit hours
Seminars and Topics courses as deemed appropriate.