Program Requirements
Requirements for the Minor in Women and Gender Studies
| Required Courses | (6) | |
| WGST 101C | CC Introduction to Women and Gender Studies | |
| WGST 400P | Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies | |
| Course in feminist and/or gender theory | (3) | |
| Choose one: | WGST/ENGL 214D P1 Reading Gender | |
| WGST/AMST 216 P2 Feminist Theory | ||
| Electives | (9) | |
| Three elective courses chosen from at least two different disciplines (see below) | ||
| Total | (18) | |
Courses that satisfy the WGST minor elective requirement include:
| AFAM/REST 282P | Contemporary Black Church Issues |
| ANTH 227 | P3 Anthropology of Sex |
| CLST 210C | P5 Love in the Ancient World |
| ECON 110P | CC Gender and Race in the American Workplace |
| ENGL 230 | P1 Literature of Travel |
| ENGL 261C | Topics in Sexuality and Literature |
| ENGL 348 | Women Writers |
| ENGL 370 | Gender and Writing |
| HIST 201 | Women’s History |
| HIST 202 | P1 Women and Gender in the 19th Century |
| HIST 205D | CC American Social History: The Family |
| HIST 237D | P1 The Female Body: A Problem to Grow Into |
| HIST 242D | P3 Women in American History |
| HIST 244 | Women and War |
| ISPR 270D | CC Global Gender Studies |
| LLIT/LSPN 230P | P1 Hispanic/Latino Vistas: Film and Literature |
| PSJS 210D | Women and Peace |
| REST 255D | P2 Great Women in Christianity |
| REST 340D | P2 Feminism and Religion |
| REST 352D | P5 Marriage and Sexuality: Issues |
| SOCI 195 | P1 Hip-Hop Music and Poetry |
| SOCI 223 | The Sociology of the Family |
| SOCI 314 | U.S. Race Relations |
| SOCI 315 | Our Gendered World |
| SPST 205 | CC Gender and Sport |
| SPST 225P | P3 Sport and American Culture |
| WGST 120 | Visions of Social Change |
| WGST 150 | LC Equity and Access |
| WGST 203P | CC Introduction to Queer Studies |
| WGST/ENGL 214D | P1 Reading Gender |
| WGST/AMST 216 | P2 Feminist Theory |
| WGST 230 | Special Topics in WGST |
| WGST/AMST 237P | P3 Hope, Survival, and the Human Spirit: Theories of Resistance |
| WGST/HIST 240D | CC Women in East Asia |
| WGST/SOCI 257D | Gender Roles and Society |
| WGST 258 | P1 Gender in Popular Media |
| WGST/PSYC 265 | P3 Human Sexuality |
| WGST 270 | P5 Gender and Culture |
| WGST 275 | P5 Life-Giving Women: Indigenous and Indelible |
| WGST 280 | CC Gender and Identity in South Asia |
| WGST/AMST 470 | Senior Research Seminar |
| WGST 496 | Independent Study |
Note: Courses counted toward the student’s major cannot count for the WGST minor. A grade point average of 2.00 is required for all courses taken in residence that may be applied to the minor.
Program Goals and Student Learning Outcomes
Goal #1 Students will understand how gender is socially constructed.
- Demonstrate how cultural objects contribute to an understanding of gender in society.
Goal #2 Students will understand how gender intersects with other social and cultural identities.
- Articulate how concepts of gender can vary when combined with other social and/or cultural identities
- View gender as one part of a complex identity that includes factors such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender expression, ability nationality, religion, geography, age and identity.
Goal #3 Students will know and be able to articulate important aspects of feminist theories.
- Identify and apply at least two important feminist paradigms, methods and/or theoretical perspectives to objects of study.
Goal #4 Students will understand how systems of power affect the individual and society.
- Explain the effects of privilege and oppression on individual experience.
- Explain the dynamics of power and hierarchy within society.