2018-2019 Academic Catalog

Gender Studies Minor

The Minor in Gender Studies is multidisciplinary and as such enriches the traditional liberal arts curriculum by adding new perspectives on gender and how it has affected and continues to affect the lives and accomplishments of individuals. The program will incorporate gender into other basic categories of analysis including the dynamics of social change, the creation and transmission of culture and the arts, the legacy and cultural construction of our physical and intellectual characteristics, and the origins and nature of current theories and social issues. It encourages our students to connect information from a broad disciplinary background that provides them with the academic foundation necessary to understand and evaluate critical issues of gender facing contemporary society.

Core Courses

Students must take the following course (3 credits).

GNDR 206Perspectives on Gender (ND)

3

Students select 4 of these core courses (12 credits).

At least one must be GNDR/SO 225 or GNDR/CO 280:

GNDR 225/SO 225Sociology of Gender

3

GNDR 258/TH 258TH & Gender:ImagesTradition & Discourse

3

GNDR 261/PHIL 261Philosophy & Gender

3

GNDR 280/CO 280Gender Communication (ND)

3

GNDR 309/HI 309Gender History

3

GNDR 310/PSY 310Human Sexuality

3

GNDR 410/ENLT 410Women's Literature (ND)

3

Electives

Students select 2 from the following or above (6 credits).

SO 208/AN 208The Family (ND)

3

TH 212Women Mystics

3

ENLT 215Introduction to Literature

3

ENLT 215NIntroduction to Literature (ND)

3

ENLT 216Introduction to Literature (WI)

3

ENLT 216NIntro to Literature WI ND

3

SO 251Gender, Health and Medicine

3

SO 256Gender & Work

3

ENLT 306Revising Classics (GD)

3

CO 310Mass Media

3

SO 355Sociology of Emotions

3

BA 393/EC 393India: Socioeconomic Issues(GDorND)

3

CO 420Globalization Gender & Communication-GD

3

GNDR 425Gender Studies Internship

1.00 - 6.00

Any Special Topics course in Gender Studies

ENLT 215 and ENLT 216 courses must be chosen from the following topics, or others approved by the Gender Studies faculty: American Literature; Women Authors in the American West; Family in Literature; Gender, Race, and Literature.

Additional Requirements: At least 3 courses must be 300- or 400-level.