Requirements & courses
The WGS interdisciplinary minor offers a meaningful way for students to group their elective courses in such a way as to focus on issues related to women, gender, and sexuality. To satisfy the requirements for the WGS minor, the student must complete either WGS-230 or WGS-250 and at least three electives from three different departments from the list shown below.
One first year seminar may contribute to the minor when the topic has been deemed appropriate by the WGS oversight committee. A seminar applied to minor requirements will not be considered for disciplinary distribution purposes.
Courses equivalent to WGS offerings completed elsewhere, and independent study on an appropriate topic, may contribute to the minor no more than once each and must be approved by the WGS oversight committee.
For course descriptions, see listings under individual departments. On occasion, special topics courses are offered that also satisfy the requirements for the minor.
ANT-209 Gender in East Asia
ART-252 Women and the Arts
AST-255 Poverty, Gender and Development in India
COM-412 International Women's Rhetoric
COM-435 Race, Gender, Class in the Media
ECN-233 Economics of Gender
ENG-324 Women of Restoration Theater
ENG-369 Gender in South Asian Literature and Film
ENG-374 Stardom and Identity
ENG-405 Studies in Gothic Literature
ENG-452 Literary Feminism
FYS-1134 A Woman's Place: Balancing Work and Family
FYS-1144 Critical Identities Studies
FYS-1172 Queer Economics
FYS-1192 Sex in America 1950-1990
FYW-1148 Southern Women: Black and White
FYW-1159 Veils and Turbans: Genders and Modernities
HST-215 Women and Gender in European History
HST-231 History of Women in America
HST-256 Gender History of South Asia
PHL-312 Philosophy of Gender
PSC-212 Women and Politics
REL-317 Feminist Biblical Interpretation
REL-323 Women, Gender, Islam
REL-325 Women and Power in Hinduism
REL-344 Black Liberation and Womanist Theology
REL-360 Women and Religion in the West
REL-363 Religion and Sexuality
SOC-232 Sociology of Contemporary Families
SOC-242 Sociology of Gender
SPN-445 Latin American Women's Literature
SPN-460A Readings in Spanish American Literature
WGS-230 Issues in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS-240 Women in Science
WGS-250 Introduction to Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies
A student may declare a WGS minor by filling out the
Field of Study Declaration Form [PDF] on the Academic Records site. An advisor for the minor will be assigned to the student after the paperwork has been processed. The form may also be filled out retroactively or after any WGS course has already been taken. Courses for the minor can be taken pass/fail if they are not for major or General Education requirement credit.
For more information about the WGS minor, contact any member of the WGS Oversight Committee:
Sofia Kearns, co-chair (Modern Languages & Literatures)
Karni Bhati, co-chair (English and Asian Studies)
Tami Blumenfield (Asian Studies)
Scott Henderson (Education)
Lisa Knight (Religion and Asian Studies)
Ken Kolb (Sociology)
Nicholas Radel (English)
Marian Strobel (History)
Victoria Turgeon (Biology)