Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor
Minor Requirements
Completion of 20 credits, including1:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GENS/SOAN 205 | GENDER AND SOCIETY | 4 |
| or GENS 200 | INTRO TO GENDER STUDIES | |
| GENS 485 | SENIOR SEMINAR | 2 |
| One Arts/Humanities Elective (taken from the following): | 3-4 | |
| WOMEN WRITERS | ||
| GENDERED COMMUNICATION | ||
| WOMEN IN RELIGION | ||
| SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES AND HISTORIES: PERFORMING GENDER & SEXUALITY | ||
| TOPICS IN WOMEN'S RHETORIC | ||
| MUSIC, GENDER, AND DISSENT | ||
| One Social/Behavioral Sciences Elective (taken from the following): | 4 | |
| INTRODUCTION TO US WOMEN'S HISTORY | ||
| HISTORY OF WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA | ||
| GENDER AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA | ||
| GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY | ||
| PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN AND GENDER | ||
| Additional electives taken from the above lists, to reach 20 credits total for the minor. 2 | 8-6 | |
| Total Credits | 21-20 | |
- 1
Because of its interdisciplinary character, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses are offered in departments across the curriculum. Related courses from other departments that do not appear on this list may also be included with coordinator consent.
- 2
Additional courses from the above lists or INDEPENDENT STUDY (GENS 480), INTERNSHIP (GENS 487), HUMAN SEXUALITY (HHPA 242), or GENDER ISSUES IN EDUCATION & SPORT (HHPA 410).
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Explain gender as an intellectual frame of analysis that has significantly changed disciplinary paradigms across the academy, including their own primary fields, and thus become a crucial site of knowledge-construction in its own right;
- Participate in the cross-disciplinary conversations that informed gender analysis demands, culminating in a synthesizing capstone seminar that draws together upper division minors from a wide variety of fields to compare their respective intellectual paradigms in terms of gender theory; and
- Recognize the aesthetic and spiritual as well as academic dimensions of gender as a means of constructing meaning through experience.