The Gender Studies Minor

The Gender Studies minor consists of five courses, with at least one from Humanities and one from Social Sciences, drawn from the following:

Humanities Courses

ENGL 250 Women in African Literature
ENGL 258 American War Literature
ENGL 275 American Literature and the Environment
ENGL 305 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
ENGL 343 Sexuality before Sex in Early American Literatures
ENGL 362 Literary Theory
ENGL 432 Jane Austen
ENGL 435 The Brontës
ENGL 454 Lawrence and Woolf
ENGL 465 Hemingway
GEND 268 Introduction to Gender Studies - Humanities focus
PHIL 267 Introduction to Gender Studies - Humanities focus
PHIL 310 Feminist Thought
RELI 327 Race, Gender, Empire, and the Bible
RELI 330 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
SPAN 485 Gender and Power in the Latin American Novel

Social Sciences Courses

ANTH 280 Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 390 Social Inequality and Identity
GEND 267 Introduction to Gender Studies - Social Sciences focus
HIST 140 Leisure, Work & Consumption in the US
HIST 150 Great Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Gatsby, 1914-1945
HIST 226 Renaissance and Reformation Europe
HIST 227 Medicine and Disease in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 307 Gender and Society in East Asia
HIST 318 Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
POLI 100 Issues in Politics: Gender
POLI 300 Feminist Political Thought
POLI 380 Gender, Sexuality, and American Politics
PSYC 260 Human Sexuality
PSYC 400 Psychology of Gender
SOCI 250 Sociology of the Family
SOCI 255 Gender in Film and Television
SOCI 310 Gender and Sexuality
SOCI 390 Social Inequality and Identity

Note: If a course offered at the college has a clear focus on gender but is not listed above, students may petition the Gender Studies chair to have the course count toward the Gender Studies minor.

Students may count one course in their major discipline towards the Gender Studies minor, but this course will not count toward their major.