Catalog 2024-2025

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Catalog Year: 2024-2025

Teaching Faculty

Interdisciplinary Minor Program Chair: Liu

Description

The Gender Studies minor engages students in the study of gender and sexuality across a range of disciplines. Through this minor, students develop their understanding of how gender and sexuality shape important political, economic, cultural, aesthetic, social, ethical, and other contemporary issues. 

Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies

6 of the courses listed below, distributed as follows:

  • Two of which must be humanities courses    
              ENGL 250 Women and African Literature
              ENGL 258 American War Literature
              ENGL 275 American Literature and the Environment
              ENGL 305 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
              ENGL 329 Sense and Sensation in American Literature
              ENGL 343 Sexuality before Sex in Early American Literature
              ENGL 358 Literary Theory: Black Feminism and the Afterlives of Slavery
              ENGL 362 Literary Theory
              ENGL 432 Jane Austen
              ENGL 435 The Brontës
              ENGL 454 Lawrence and Woolf
              ENGL 465 Hemingway
              GEND 251 Topics: Gender and Sexuality-Humanities
              GEND 351 Advanced Topics in Gender and Sexuality-Humanities
              PHIL 310 Feminist Thought
              RELI 327 Race, Gender, Empire, and the Bible
              RELI 330 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
              SPAN 360 Queer Literature in Spain
              SPAN 370 Love in Modern Short Story
              SPAN 485 Gender and Power in the Latin American Novel
  • Two of which must be social science courses   
              ANTH 280 Anthropology of Gender
              ANTH 390 Social Inequality and Identity
              GEND 355: Advanced Topics: Gender and Sexuality - Social Sciences
              HIST 140 Leisure, Work & Consumption in the US
              HIST 150 Great Wars, Depression, and Gatsby
              HIST 227 Medicine and Disease in Pre-Modern Europe
              HIST 230 Native North American  
              HIST 318 Magic and Witchcraft in Europe
              POLI 100 Issues in Politics: Gender
              POLI 242 Feminism and Modern Crime Novel
              POLI 300 Feminist Political Thought
              POLI 322 American Constitutional Law: Individual Rights
              SOCI 205 Gender and Sexuality
              SOCI 250 Sociology of the Family
              SOCI 390 Social Inequality and Identity
  • No more than two courses can count from any single discipline.
  • At least two courses must be at the 300-level or above.

Note(s):

  • If a course offered at the college has a clear focus on gender but is not listed above, students may petition the Interdisciplinary Minors Program Chair in consultation with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program faculty contact to have the course count toward the Gender and Sexuality Studies minor. 

Program Course Listings

The courses for this program are organized into the following categories:

Gender and Sexuality Studies Courses

GEND 251

Topics: Gender& Sexuality-Hum

A course in the humanities devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
GEND 255

Topics: Gender & Sexuality-Soc

A course in the social sciences devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
GEND 351

Adv Topics: Gender & Sexuality-Hum

A seminar or research course in the humanities devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
GEND 355

Adv Topics: Gender & Sexuality-Soc

A course in the social sciences devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
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