Gender and Women’s Studies, Minor

About the Minor

Coordinator: Dr. Dina Pinsky, Assistant Professor

A minor in Gender and Women’s 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 critical aspects of women’s lives, such as the intersection of race, class and gender.

Requirements

Students are required to select five courses (20 credits) from those listed in conjunction with the Coordinator. Additional relevant courses may be counted toward the minor with the permission of the Coordinator. The interdisciplinary goal is achieved by taking courses that offer knowledge about aspects of gender and sexuality from the perspectives of different disciplines.

• AN 150 The Family
• AN 220 Social Issues  (Different offerings each semester) OR
• SO 220 Social Issues  (Different offerings each semester)
• CJ 377 Domestic Violence
• EN 225 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Fiction
• EN 344 Special Studies Seminar  (Women, Writing, and Rhetoric, Black Women Writers, and American Women Writers)
• EN 350 Major Authors Seminar  (Edith Wharton)
• HS 336 Women in Western Society
• PS 215 Gender Roles and Family Policy
• SO 229 Women in Society
• SO 245 Gays and Lesbians in American Society
• SO 250 Sex and Society
• SO 310 Social Movements
• US 262 Sex, Sin & Kin: The Genesis, Evolution and Future of Gender
• SO 370 Feminist Theory