2024-2025 Undergraduate General Catalog


Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Minor

19 credit hours

Required courses: 4 credit hours

GSWS 400Capstone

1

SOCI 260Gender, Sex and Sexuality

3

Electives

Students will take five elective courses from the list or four courses and an internship or individual honors project. Course credit for internships and honors projects may vary; hence the 19-20 credits for the minor. No more than three courses from a specific department, including the student’s major and/or cross listed courses will count toward the minor, including internships/honors projects; students must take courses in at least two disciplines and preferably more.

BIOL 205/HIST 205Life Cycles: Birth, Death and the History of Medicine (SI)

3

ENGL 175 Images of US Women and Girls During WWII

ENGL 200The Literary Experience (W) & (LT)

3

ENGL 207Literary Bodies: Symptoms and Prescriptions (LT)

3

ENGL 289Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory

3

ENGL 310Seminar in Later British Literature

3

HIST 121America Engages the World: US History Since 1877 (US)

3

HIST 245Ireland North and South: From Revolutionary Era to Troubled Times 1798-1998

3

MDST 390Critical Media Studies

3

RELI 219God, Suffering, and Evil (E) (RT)

3

RELI 235Gender, Sexuality, & Religion (RT)(E)

3

RELI 242Liberation Theologies (RT)

3

RELI 245After Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Christian Faith (E) (RT)

3

SOCI 210Sociology of Families (SS)

3

SOCI 330Race and Gender in Medicine and Health

3

SOCI 340Social Inequality

4

SPAN 396Topics in Hispanic Literature (LT)

3

CIVT 202Pertinence

3

ENGL 200: Women's Literature or Women and Ecology sections only.

MDST 297: Gender, Race and Class in Media section only.

SPAN 396: Rewriting the Self section only

CIVT 202: Women in Science section only

PSYC 297: Psychology of Gender section only