Women’s Studies Minor

Requirements for Minor in Women’s Studies

Five Units, Including:

WGS 111: Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality (1 Unit)
One unit of either:
WGS 360: Feminist Theory (1 Unit)
OR
WGS 364: Black & Queer Feminist Theory (1 Unit)
One historical contexts course chosen from the WGSS major lists.

Two Others From the Electives Listed Below:

At least one of which must be at the 300 level or higher

ARTH 219: Impressionism: Précis to Prologue (1 Unit)
ARTH 310: Women and Art (1 Unit)
ENGL 233: Writing Women in America 1 unit
ENGL 321P: Redeeming Eve: Renaissance Women’s Writing 1 unit
ENGL 362P: Love in the 19th Century 1 unit
FREN 320: French Women Writers and Feminist Criticism (1 Unit)
HIST 340: History of Women in the U.S., 1877-Present (1 Unit)
SCI 205: Women and Ethnic Minorities in Science (1 Unit)
THEA 210: Women in the American Theatre (1 Unit)

Elective Courses

Elective courses should be selected in consultation with a women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty member and reported to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program chair.