Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

KRISTIN BAYER, Ph.D., Director

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is a multidisciplinary academic program that focuses on gender and sexuality as a significant cultural and cognitive category. The minor in WGSS exposes students to the intellectual, political, and aesthetic contributions of women to human culture, and examines how gender and sexuality has influenced the lives, status, and opportunities of all people. Attention is paid to the ways in which gender and sexuality intersects with race, class, and ethnicity to shape social structures and individual experiences. Courses provide students with a critical approach to the study of history, political science, literature, philosophy, religion, economics, communication, social sciences, the natural sciences, and management, incorporating scholarship on women, gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. The program advances the Marist tradition of preparing students to develop a global perspective that recognizes and respects diversity.

Students are required to take an interdisciplinary Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course and five other courses distributed among at least two different disciplines for a total of 18 credits. Courses that may be applied to the minor include the following regular offerings, as well as designated special topics and cross-disciplinary courses.

For further information about WGSS please see the Director.

Requirements for a Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: 18 cr

WMST 130L - Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 3 Credit(s)
OR
HIST 130L - Introduction to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies 3 Credit(s)

Five additional designated courses from at least two different disciplines: 15 cr

Regular offerings (Please see appropriate discipline for full description.)

Other courses to be approved in advance by the Director.

BIOL 232L - Sex, Evolution and Behavior 3 Credit(s)
COM 350L - Sex and the Media 3 Credit(s)
COM 400L - Gender, Culture and Communication 3 Credit(s)
ECON 200L - Economics of Gender 3 Credit(s)
ENG 220L - Literature and Gender 3 Credit(s)
HIST 232L - U.S. Women’s History 3 Credit(s)
HIST 267L - Women In Asia 3 Credit(s)
HIST 314L - Witchcraft and Sorcery in Pre-Modern Europe 3 Credit(s)
HIST 325L - History of American Feminism 3 Credit(s)
HIST 332L - Women & Religion in America 3 Credit(s)
WMST 385L - Gender and Media 3 Credit(s)
OR
MDIA 335L - Gender and Media 3 Credit(s)
POSC 214L - Gender and the Law 3 Credit(s)
POSC 303L - Politics of Prejudice 3 Credit(s)
POSC 320L - Feminist Political Thought 3 Credit(s)
SOC 326L - Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention 3 Credit(s)
SOC 336L - Social Inequality 3 Credit(s)
SOC 341L - Social Change 3 Credit(s)
SPAN 370L - Latin American Women Writers 3 Credit(s)