Womens and Gender Studies :: Undergraduate Minor

Undergraduate Minor

The minor is designed to expose students to multidisciplinary approaches to racially diverse women's lives. Students, therefore, take courses from both the humanities and social sciences, and study issues of racial diversity as well as gender. Eighteen semester hours are required, with courses chosen as follows:

With approval from Interdisciplinary Studies, a special topics course may be substituted for an elective in each group. WMST special topics classes will fulfill requirements in the appropriate area.

Core (9 hours)

WMST	2100	Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
PHIL	3452	Feminist Theory
HIST or SOCI	4853 4460	History of African-American Women Black and White Women in the South

Electives (9 hours)

Select one course from each of the following groups:

Group I: Women's Issues Across Time and Space
ANTH	3511	Culture, Kin and Family
ANTH	4551	Culture, Sex and Childbirth
ANTH	4997	Women, Working and Welfare in the U.S.
CJUS	4460	Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Criminal Justice in America
HIST	4831	History of the American Family
HIST	4851	History of Women in America
SOCI	3432	Sociology of Gender
UNIV	2304	Gender and Society
Group II: Cultural Studies
COMM	4364	Voices of American Women
COMM	4373	Interracial Communication
COMM	4856	Women and Film
ENGL	4372	Major African American Authors Through the Harlem Ren.
ENGL	4373	Major African American Authors Since the Harlem Ren.
ENGL	4451	Studies in Women and Literature
SLS	4125	Gender, Race, and Class Considerations in Urban Sport and Leisure
Group III: Diversity Among Women
HIST	3881	African-American History
HIST	4289	African Women's History
HIST	4882	Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Since 1930
PHIL	3741	African American Philosophy
PHIL	4817	Gender and Sexuality
POLS	3415	Feminist Political Theory
POLS	3320	Human Rights in World Politics
POLS	4415	African American Political Thought to 1900
POLS	4416	African American Political Thought from 1900
SOCI	3401	Social Inequality
SOCI	3420	Sociology of the South
SOCI	3422	Racial and Ethnic Minorities
SOCI	4420	Racial Inequality

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