Women’s and Gender Studies Minor
Faculty: Professor Hayden, Director; Professors Geisz, Hidalgo-Calle, McGraw Groh, Plays; Associate Professors Bacci, Davis, Tillman; Assistant Professors Kane, Sumerau
Women’s and gender studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor integrating academic departments across the University. The program encourages students to engage fully in the major activities of a liberal arts education — reading, writing, thinking and discussing with others — to consider how women’s lives and gender identities are differently experienced. A women’s and gender studies minor celebrates diversity, comparing or fusing Eastern and Western perspectives.
The women’s and gender studies minor draws on numerous disciplines, including communication, history, languages, literature, psychology and sociology, to explore such topics as women’s accomplishments, their depictions of themselves and others, their depiction in popular culture, theories of gender roles and stereotyping, and the social and economic forces that continue to shape lives.
Degree Requirements
Requirements for Women’s and Gender Studies Minor
Select Four from the Following Courses
(Eight of the 20 credit hours must be at the 300 and 400 levels, including WST 383, which is a required course for this minor.)
Total Credit Hours: 20
Additional courses approved by the program director of women’s and gender studies and by the Curriculum Committee may be used to satisfy the women’s and gender studies minor.