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Morris Campus
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies B.A.Division of Social Sciences - Adm
Division of Social Sciences
This is an interdisciplinary program housed in the Division of Social Sciences. The program is administered by the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) coordinator who is a faculty member of any of the four divisions.
Gender and sexuality are urgent contemporary issues that impact the culture, politics, and economics of American and international societies. Because such issues affect nearly every professional field and avenue of inquiry, GWSS students engage critically with theoretical and practical models from across the disciplines.
Learning objectives and outcomes include:
1) Students are introduced to the study of gender and sexuality across a diverse range of contexts.
(2) Students gain exposure to a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches used by gender studies, women’s studies, and sexuality studies scholars.
(3) Through diverse methodologies and critical paradigms, students comprehend the impact of gender and sexuality in their own lives and in the world around them.
(4) Students learn to think critically and reflexively through analysis of their own experiences as well as through a variety of primary and secondary source materials.
(5) Students learn to communicate their ideas effectively in writing and through oral presentation.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
General Requirements
All students are required to complete general University and college requirements. For more
information, see the general education requirements.
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 2 semester(s) of
any second language.
with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department
or college.
Students interested in the major should meet with their advisor before the beginning of their junior year.
Students develop a coherent program of study in consultation with their advisor. In developing an elective plan, students are also strongly encouraged to consult with faculty who teach within the GWSS program.
No grades below C- are allowed. Courses may not be taken S-N, unless offered S-N only.
A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in the major to graduate. The GPA includes all, and only, University of Minnesota coursework. Grades of "F" are included in GPA calculation until they are replaced.
Elective Requirements
Students must fill the remaining 31 credits with courses from the following lists. These courses must come from at least three different disciplines. A course not listed below may be applied to the elective requirement with the consent of the instructor and GWSS coordinator. With the approval of the GWSS coordinator, up to 8 credits can be supplied by internship experiences.
Primarily Gender, Women, and Sexuality Content
Take 23 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
ARTH 3281 - Women and Art
[FA]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3155 - 20th-Century British Fiction
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3332 - African American Women Writers
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3414 - Feminist Theory
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3607 - Francophone Studies: Sex and Gender in Francophone Literature and Film
(4.0 cr)
·
GER 3501 {Inactive}
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
GWSS 2001 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
GWSS 3414 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
GWSS 3993 - Directed Study
(1.0-5.0 cr)
·
HIST 1402 - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in American History
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2704 {Inactive}
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2708W - Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3021 - Gender and Sexuality in African History
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3304 - Race, Class, and Gender in American History
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
PHIL 2141 {Inactive}
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
POL 3303 - Gender, Sexuality, and Political Theory
[SS]
(2.0 cr)
·
PSY 3221 {Inactive}
[SCI]
(4.0 cr)
·
PSY 3261 - Human Sexuality
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3252 {Inactive}
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3654 - Seminar: Sex, Love, and Marriage in Golden Age Spanish Literature
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3688 - Seminar: Literature and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
SSA 2403 - Sport, Gender, and Sexuality
[SS]
(2.0 cr)
Partial Gender, Women, and Sexuality Content
Take at most 8 credit(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 3251 {Inactive}
[ENVT]
(2.0 cr)
·
ARTS 3014 - Media Studies: Fabric as Form
[ART/P]
(2.0-4.0 cr)
·
ECON 4101 - Labor Economics I
[HDIV]
(2.0 cr)
·
ENGL 2253 {Inactive}
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 2411 - Representations of American Indians in Popular and Academic Culture
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3142 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3153 - Gothic Literature
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3154 - 19th-Century British Fiction
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3165 - Seventeenth-Century Revolutions
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3168 - Victorian Literature and Culture
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3301 - U.S. Multicultural Literature
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3311 - American Indian Literature
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3411 - Critical Approaches to Literature
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3444 {Inactive}
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3522 - Harlem Renaissance
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 4027 - Research Seminar: Dickens and Criticism
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 4031 - Research Seminar: Renaissance Romance
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 4034 - Research Seminar: The Adventure Novel in American and British Literature
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 1031 - Modern Studies: The Modern Body in France
[SS]
(2.0 cr)
·
FREN 1302 {Inactive}
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 1311 - Sub-Saharan Francophone Cinema
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3402 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Pre-Enlightenment Culture in France
(2.0-4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3406 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Emotional Extremes in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3407 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The "East" and its Marvels
(2.0-4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3408 - Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Quests, Quails, and Custards--Food in Life and Literature
(2.0-4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3603 - Francophone Studies: Witches, Wilderness, and Words in African Folktales
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3605 - Francophone Studies: Maghrebian Cinema
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2103 - Medieval Europe
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2132W - History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2151 - Modern Europe
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3008 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3204 - Nazi Germany
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3207 - The Crusades
[IP]
(2.0-4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2152 - Modern Germany
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3212 - The French Revolution
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3214 - History of Childhood
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3465 - History of the American Family
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
PHIL 2112 - Professional Ethics
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
PSY 3404 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
PSY 3542 - Multicultural Psychology
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 2101 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 2201 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development
[ENVT]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3123 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3685 - Seminar: Slavery and Abolition in Cuban Literature and Culture
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3686 - Seminar: Writing History in Spanish American Literature
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3687 - Seminar: Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3690 - Seminar: Mexican Cultural Production
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
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