Gender Studies Minor

The minor in Gender Studies gives students the methodological and theoretical tools to analyze how social understandings of masculinity and femininity affect society, politics, economics, and the formation of the human person. Students will explore gender through various lenses, such as the arts, humanities and social and natural sciences. Gender Studies aims to provide its students with a critical framework in which the analysis of gender and all it entails can be imaginatively and empathetically applied to students’ public and private lives.

Minor requirements include:

Students must take five courses to fulfill the interdisciplinary minor in Gender Studies.
At least three of the five courses must be outside their major.
Courses must cover at least three different academic disciplines.
Students who wish can count an internship or service learning experience specifically focused on gender as one of their five courses. This requires advance planning and conversation with the coordinator of the interdisciplinary minor, and an academic paper.
Students who write a course paper or thesis that is specifically focused on gender may submit that paper for review by the Gender Studies Committee for acceptance toward one of their five courses even if that course that is not listed as a Gender Studies course.
Students are eligible to select participation in the Gender Studies interdisciplinary minor at any time. They must, however, register with the certificate coordinator by end of the drop add period in the fall of their senior year. Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.00 at the time they register.
Students need to complete all five courses by the end of their senior year and they must achieve at least a 2.00 grade point average for the courses presented for the interdisciplinary minor.

Additional courses:

Possible courses include those below and any additional courses specifically approved by the Director of the Minor:

CJ 361 - Women and Crime
CJ367 - Special Topics: Women in Prison
CJ367 - Special Topics: Unequal Justice: Race, Gender, and Prisons
BU 222 - Women and Men in Business
FAH 270 - Special Topics: Women Artists
FAH 264 - Special Topics: The Family in Art and Film
FR 371 - Women Writers
HI 359 - American Women’s History
HI 390 - Comparative Women’s History
HI 399 - Special Topics: Special Areas
PH 455-457 - Integrated Studies Seminars
PY 207 - Psychology of Gender
PO 250 - Gender and Politics
PO 353 - Politics of Diversity
SO 205 - The Family
SO 309 - Gender and Society
SO 342 - Social Inequality
SO 351 - Special Topics in Sociology
TH 330 - Women in the Catholic Tradition

Note:

Contact information: Gender Studies Director: Professor Jennifer Thorn.