Gender and Sexuality Studies, Minor

About the Minor

Coordinator: Dr. Dina Pinsky, Associate Professor

A minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies offers an in-depth study of gender, sexuality, and women’s issues from the perspective of different disciplines. Informed by varied feminist paradigms, the minor provides the opportunity to analyze and integrate knowledge using gender as an analytic category. Along with core courses in the social sciences and humanities, students can concentrate on how gender and sexuality affect our everyday lives, such as the intersection of race, class and gender.

Requirements

The interdisciplinary goal is achieved by taking courses that offer knowledge about aspects of gender and sexuality from the perspectives of different disciplines.  Students are required to take SO 229: Introduction to Gender Studies in addition to four courses (16 credits) selected from a list of eligible courses that is shared every semester by the Coordinator. A sample of recent courses is listed below. However, new courses that count towards the minor are offered every semester. Please check with Dr. Dina Pinsky for an updated list of GSS courses.

• AN 150 The Family (4 Credits)
• CJ 248 Women and Crime (4 Credits)
• ED 249 Fairy Tales, Princesses, and Superheroes: How Media Shape Children’s Gender and Sexuality, Race and Disability (4 Credits)
• ED 262 Rethinking Gender & Sexuality Education in an Alter Global World (4 Credits)
• EN219 Strong Women: Examining Female Protagonists in Literature
• EN 225 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Fiction (4 Credits)
• EN 344 Special Studies Seminar (4 Credits)  (Women, Writing, and Rhetoric, Black Women Writers, and American Women Writers)
• EN 350 Major Authors Seminar (4 Credits)  (Edith Wharton)
• EN 387 Women, Writing and Rhetoric (4 Credits)
• FY 103 Girl Dective: Fantasy or Feminist Icon
• FY 103 M,F or Other? Questioning Gender
• FY 103 Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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• HS 265 Women in American Politics (4 Credits)

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• PS 265 Women in American Politics (4 Credits)

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• PBH 374 Sexual and Gender Minority Health Disparities (4 Credits)
• PBH 380 International Maternal and Child Health (4 Credits)
• PL385 Sex and Love
• SO 245 LGBTQ+ Identities in America (4 Credits)
• SO 250 Sex and Society (4 Credits)
• SO 325 Women: Local & Global Connections (4 Credits)
• SO 370 Feminist Theory (4 Credits)
• US 262 Sex, Sin & Kin: The Genesis, Evolution and Future of Gender
• US212 Gender Bending and Film 
• US285 Taking Action: Becoming an ABRI and JEDI Ally