Women’s Studies Minor

Faculty: Associate Professor Hayden, Director; Professors Plays, Tillson, VanSpanckeren, E. Winston, N. Winston; Associate Professors Davis, Hidalgo-Calle; Assistant Professor Tillman.

Women’s 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 are differently experienced. A women’s studies minor celebrates diversity, comparing or fusing Eastern and Western perspectives.

The women’s 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 women’s lives.

Degree Requirements

Requirements for the minor in Women’s Studies:

Twenty credit hours from the following:

WST 125	Introduction to Women's Studies	4
WST 212	Witchcraft and Magic in the Early Modern Atlantic World	4
WST 215	Women in American History	4
WST 216	Mothers and Daughters in Literature and Film	4
WST 238	Women's Literature	4
WST 290-299	Special Topics	4
WST 307/SOC 307	Families in Global Perspective	4
WST 320/SOC 320	Sociology of Gender	4
WST 322	Hispanic Women Writers
WST 370/COM 370	Women, Film and Popular Culture	4
WST 383	Women's Studies	4
WST 390-399	Special Topics
WST 404	Human Sexual Behavior: Seminar	4
WST 435/COM 435	Women Directors: Theory and Criticism	4
Total Credit Hours:		20

(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 studies and by the Curriculum Committee may be used to satisfy the women’s studies minor.