Women's & Gender Studies Minor

Minor Requirements: 5 courses, 20 credits

Core Requirement (1 course, 4 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• WGS-111 Women, History, and Culture
• WGS-113 Women, Science, and Society
• WGS-115 Introduction to Gender Studies

Electives (4 courses, 16 credits)

Choose four of the following courses, with no more than two from any single department except Women's and Gender Studies (WGS). Students who have taken WGS-111 or WGS-113 may take WGS-115 (Introduction to Gender Studies) as one of their four elective courses for the WGS minor.

• ADPR-217 Gay and Lesbian Studies
• ARH-205 Gender, Class and Alterity in Ancient and Medieval Art
• ARH-321 Women, Art and Society
• ENG-158 Nasty Women and Unruly Voices in American Literature
• ENG-161 Writing the American West
• ENG-348 Jane Austen
• ENG-356 Whitman and Dickinson
• ENG-387 Writing Women
• GVT-306 Women & Public Policy
• GVT-307 Globalization of Gender Politics
• HST-274 Women in 19th-Century Europe
• HST-275 Women in 20th-Century Europe
• HST-371 U.S. Women's History Colonial to 1865
• HST-484 History of the Emotions
• LAWU-280 Domestic Violence, Abuse and Neglect
• MUH-221 History of Women in Music
• PHIL-228 Feminist Philosophy
• PHIL-265 Women in Spirituality
• PSYCH-222 Human Sexuality
• SF-1135 Women Warriors: Stories of Captivity, Conversion, and Confession
• SF-1163 Spellbound! Witches, Wizards and Spirits In American Literature
• SOC-230 Bad Girls?
• SOC-273 Women in Contemporary Society
• SOC-275 Women and Crime
• SOC-276 Sex and Society
• SOC-331 Violence Against Women
• SOC-355 Women and Health
• SPAN-405 Women's Voices in Latin America
• WGS-211 Heroines, Hotties & Hubris: Adolescent Girl's Books
• WGS-220 Other Worlds, Other Genders: Women and Science Fiction
• WGS-230 Bad Boys: Representations of Masculinity In Popular Culture
• WGS-235 Gender and Sexuality in Visual Culture
• WGS-240 Feminist Literature
• WGS-311 Engendering Entertainment: Feminism and Popular Culture
• WGS-315 Feminist Thought
• WGS-325 Global Women's Fiction
• WGS-330 Furies to Femi-Nazis: A History of Modern Anti-Feminism
• WGS-335 Queer Narratives
• WGS-340 Women on Stage

WGS Track Courses

Some CAS courses can be taken to fulfill the WGS minor by registering for the optional WGS track of that course. Students who register for this track and complete the required WGS readings and assignments may count a maximum number of one of these courses toward the minor in Women's and Gender Studies. In order to register for the WGS track of a listed course, students should consult the instructor and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies program no later than the first week of class.

• CJN-255 Introduction to Media
• SOC-256 Sociology of Aging
• ENG-266 Mad Men: Reading Visual Narratives
• ENG-340 Readings in Decadent Literature
• ENG-353 Dwelling in American Realism
• CJN-385 Globalization of Media and Telecommunications
• ENG-392 Readings in Post-Colonial Literature
• ENG-409 Literary Bloomsbury: Woolf and Forster
• HST-426 Politics and Culture in Europe, 1919-1939
• HST-489 Germany: Film, Politics, Memory Since 1945

For the most current list of courses with an option WGS track, or for more information, contact the director of Women's and Gender Studies.

Advanced Topics

Students may wish to include specialized research and/or an internship as part of their minor program. They may do so by completing the following course under the supervision of the program director or a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Committee:

• WGS-510 Independent Study

Residency Requirement Policy: In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.

Minor Programs Policy: A student declaring a minor may use no more than two courses from a major or double major combination to fulfill the requirements for the minor. No more than one course from one minor may count toward the fulfillment of a second minor. Students may not minor in a subject in which they are also completing a major. For more information, see the Minor Programs section of the CAS Degree Requirements page.