Women’s and Gender Studies Minor (WOST)

Course Requirements

The minor in Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary minor designed to introduce students to the perspectives and experience of women and the analysis of gender and sexualities in intersection with other important categories including race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability, and nationality. This minor degree is intended to complement progress toward completion of a bachelor’s degree in the student’s major field of study by incorporating contemporary theories of gender and sexuality and the complex relations between education, theory, and practice for social justice as approaches to the student’s major and related academic fields. A minor in Women’s and Gender Studies requires 18 credit hours.

Courses may be selected from

ENG 301	Topics in Cultural Rhetorics	3
ENG 362	Literature and Gender	3
ENG 485	Rhetoric and Power	1-3
HIST 107	World History to 1500	3
HIST 108	World History since 1500	3
HIST 354	Manhood and Womanhood in Modern America	3
HIST 355	Childhood and Youth in American History	3
PSYC 270/SOC 270	Dynamics of Gender	3
PSYC 345	Human Sexuality	3
PSYC 353	Social Psychology	3
PSYC 364	Stereotyping and Prejudice	3
RS 372	Women and Christianity	3
SOC 351	Sociology of the Family	3
RS 250	Religion and Environment	3

Note: the Religion and Philosophy Department has oversight of the Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. Additional “Special Topics” courses will be designated as giving credit hours for this minor. Course substitutions for the minor require prior approval by the department’s director of the minor in Women’s and Gender Studies.