Requirements for the Minor
Students seeking a minor in Gender Studies are required to select and complete six courses from the program's listings with no more than two in any one academic discipline. GEN 201 Seminar in Feminist Theories must be one of the six courses. Students are encouraged, but not required, to take GEN 470 Selected Topics in Gender Studies. Students may select from the following list:
ART 107* Women in Art
ART 207* Race-Gender in American Art and Architecture
ART 266* Women in Modern Theatre
EDU 369 Perspectives of Women in Education
ENG 205* Cultural Diversity
ENG 207 Images of Women in Literature
ENG 329 Black Women Writers
ENG 416* Rebellious Women Writers: Reformers, Slaves and Suffragists (Honors)
ENG 444* Writing Through Race, Class, and Gender
FRE 422 Making Our Voices Heard: French Women Writers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
HIS 351* Gender, Ideology and Revolution in East Asia
HIS 385* History of Women in America Since 1820
ITA 455* Women's Voices in Twentieth Century Italian Fiction
MGT 212* Managing Workforce Diversity
PHL 446* Feminist Epistemology
POL 323* Women and American Politics
POL 368* Global Gender Issues
PSY 121 Child Development
PSY 123* Psychology of Men and Women
PSY 124* Human Sexuality
PSY 150* Gender in the Workplace
PSY 152 Psychology of Violence and Aggression
PSY 233* Adulthood and Aging
REL 342 Women in Muslim Tradition
REL 382* Women and Religion in the Ancient World
SOC 102* Social Problems
SOC 208* Sociology of Gender
SOC 209* Marriage and the Family
SOC 232* The Sociology of Human Sexuality
SOC 254* Violence and Victims
SOC 322* Culture and Politics of Motherhood
SOC 351* Gender and the Law
SOC 356* Gender, Crime, and Criminal Justice
SOC 386* Violence in Intimate Relationships
SPA 443 Staging Gender, Sexuality and Social Conflict in Spain's Golden Age
SPA 446* Romanticism and Realism: Heroes, Angels, and Villains in Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature
SPA 455* Women in Spanish Literature
SPA 456 Women's Voices in 20th Century Spanish and Latin American Fiction
THE 335* Gender and Christian Spirituality
THE 350 Rediscovering Mary
THE 357* Feminist Theologies
THE 364 Sexuality and Catholic Morality
THE 365 Christian Marriage Today
Courses Listed under Gender Studies
GEN 200 Seminar in Feminist Theories (3 credits)
An introduction to new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of gender in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Required of all Gender Studies minors; typically offered once a year in the spring semester.
GEN 470 Selected Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
An independent study, typically undertaken in the Senior year, in which the student develops and presents a research project in her or his major field of study which incorporates gender perspectives and feminist theories. Prerequisites: GEN 2901, the approval of an independent study director in the student's major, and the approval of the Director of Gender Studies .
Courses Cross-Listed with Gender Studies
* Course will also satisfy a GEP requirement