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