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Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Minor

Gender, Women and Sexuality
College of Liberal Arts
  • Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2015
  • Required credits in this minor: 18 to 19
Gender, women, and sexuality studies offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that looks at issues of gender and sexuality in the United States and around the world, taking into account the intersections and interrelations of generation, economic status, race, geographic location, and other social and historical variables. Gender, women, and sexuality studies also seeks to transform traditional fields of study by incorporating new data, methods, theories, and frameworks developed by feminist scholars.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
Students may earn a B.A. or a minor in gender, women and sexuality studies, but not both.
Required Course
Take one of the following courses.
GLBT 1001 - Introduction to GLBT Studies [DSJ, SOCS] (3.0 cr)
or GWSS 1002 - Politics of Sex [SOCS, DSJ] (3.0 cr)
or GWSS 1003W - Women Write the World [LITR, GP, WI] (3.0 cr)
or GWSS 1004 - Screening Sex: Visual and Popular Culture [AH] (3.0 cr)
or GWSS 1005 - Engaging Justice [CIV] (3.0 cr)
or GWSS 1006 - Skin, Sex, and Genes [SOCS, TS] (3.0 cr)
Upper-Division Electives
Take 15 or more credit(s) from the following:
· GWSS 3xxx
· GWSS 4xxx
· GWSS 5xxx
 
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GLBT 1001 - Introduction to GLBT Studies (DSJ, SOCS)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: GLBT 1001/GWSS 1007
Typically offered: Every Fall
History of contemporary GLBT-identified communities. Terms of theoretical debates regarding sexual orientation, identity, and experience. Analyzes problems produced and insights gained by incorporating GLBT issues into specific academic, social, cultural, and political discourses.
GWSS 1002 - Politics of Sex (SOCS, DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Introductory survey of historical, cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical dimensions of analyzing gender/sexuality. Norms/deviances pertaining to gender/sexuality as differently enacted/understood by social groups in different time-/place-specific locations. GWSS / Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies / Gender Studies
GWSS 1003W - Women Write the World (LITR, GP, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: EngL 1003W/GWSS 1003W
Typically offered: Every Fall
Concepts in literary studies. Poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, letters by women from different parts of world. Focuses on lives, experiences, and literary expression of women, including basic concepts of women's studies.
GWSS 1004 - Screening Sex: Visual and Popular Culture (AH)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Film history and theory; feminist critique of popular culture.
GWSS 1005 - Engaging Justice (CIV)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
U.S./cross-cultural studies of social movements/political organizing around justice/equality.
GWSS 1006 - Skin, Sex, and Genes (SOCS, TS)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Interdisciplinary course that explores the tense relationships between science, medicine, and gender and sexuality.