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Women’s Studies Minor

Along with consideration of women’s histories and activism, society’s understandings of gender and identity, comprise the subject matter for Women’s Studies. The student who chooses Women’s Studies as a non-degree minor must select 15 credits from the following:

Required Course

  • WST 260 Introduction to Women’s Studies

Twelve additional credit hours from the following:

  • WST/SOC 208 Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Lives
  • WST/SOC 212 Sociology of Families
  • WST/PSC 227 Women and Politics
  • WST/ENG 228 Poetry by Women
  • WST/FRA 231 Women Writers from French-Speaking Countries
  • WST/SOC 240 Sociology of Gender
  • WST/HIS 244 Immigrant Women
  • WST/ENG 266 Mini-Lit [when the topic is a woman or women]
  • WST/ANT 300 Women and Work
  • WST/GEO 306 Gender, Justice, Environment
  • WST/ENG 307 Medieval Women Mystics
  • WST/SOC 310 Women and Crime
  • WST/PSY 315 Psychology of Gender
  • ENG/HIS 317 Women and Family in Western Society
  • PSY 319          Human Sexuality
  • WST/WLC 324 Literature by Women Authors of Latin America
  • WST/PSC 326 Politics of Race, Class and Gender
  • WST/FRE 331 Global and French Perspectives on Women’s Issues
  • WST/SOC 347 Black Women’s Studies
  • WST/ENG 351 Feminist Theories
  • WST/ENG 352 Lesbian Literature
  • WST/ART 355 Women and the Visual Arts
  • WST/ENG 356 Women Writers to 1900
  • WST/ENG 357 20th Century Women Writers
  • WST/HIS 363 Women in Modern History
  • WST/ANT 370 Sex/Gender in the Ancient World 
  • WST/SOC 465 Studies in Sociology [when the topic is women]
  • WST 480 Independent Study
  • WST 490 Internship in Women’s Studies 

Credit for any other courses related to women or other under-represented groups must be approved through the director of Women’s Studies.