Gender Studies

Gender Studies developed from the desire to investigate the numerous ways gender shapes bodies, identities, interactions, language, knowledge, institutions, and the world around us. Gender Studies is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural by design, incorporating insights from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and natural sciences. Drawing on the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools of these diverse disciplines, Gender Studies explores the relationships between gender and other categories of difference such as race, class, sexuality, nation, religion, ability, and species. Essential to the program are efforts to examine the production of knowledge, interrogate systems of power, privilege, and inequality, as well as explore the individual and collective forms of resistance and social activism that occur to bring about social justice. Gender Studies offer students not only a diverse set of perspectives and skills but also the initiative to eradicate social inequality from the local to transnational.

Gender Studies Minor 

Required:
SO 200	Introduction to Gender Studies	3
SO/SW 310	Human Sexuality	3
Choose Three of the Following:		9
BN 360	Business & Society
CJ 365	Diversity and the Criminal Justice System
CJ 380	Sex Offenders
ED 379	Human Relations
EN 112	Writing And Gender Studies
EN 180	Introduction to Literature and Gender
EN 181	Introduction to LGBTQ Literature
GS 115	Women's Health
GS 195	Men's Health
HI 306	20th Century American History of Race and Gender
PS 214	Psychology of the Middle School Student
or PS 215	Adolescent Psychology
SO 202	Marriage & the Family: Intimate Relationships
SO 235	Social Inequalities
SO 330	Global Race Relations
SO 344	Gender & Health
SW 265	Diversity in America
Total Hours		15

Academic Requirements

Of the 3 electives, 2 must be a 200 designation or higher and they must all be from different programs. No more than one course from other institutions or study abroad programs may be transferred toward the minor. Minors are encouraged to include a gender-related Winter term course in their course of study. Students must earn at least a C in all courses applied to the minor.