Catalog 2013-2014

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 370Women, Film and Popular Culture

4

COM 435Women Directors: Theory and Criticism

4

ENG 216Mothers and Daughters in Literature and Film

4

ENG 238Women's Literature

4

HIS 212Witchcraft and Magic in the Early Modern Atlantic World

4

HIS 215Women in American History

4

SOC 320Sociology of Gender

4

PSY 404Human Sexual Behavior: Seminar

4

WST 125Introduction to Women's Studies

4

WST 290-299Special Topics

4

WST 307Families in Global Perspective

4

WST 322Hispanic Women Writers

WST 383Women's Studies

4

WST 390-399Special 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.