Diane McPherson, Associate Professor and Coordinator
The central organizing category of analysis in women's studies is the concept of gender, which we understand as a pervasive social construction reflecting and determining differentials of power and opportunity. Women's studies analyzes how this social construction shapes the lives of women. Women's studies is both an innovative approach to traditional subjects and a growing field in its own right. Women's studies courses focus on women in diverse contexts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The courses exist to meet a demand that has come primarily from women to understand more fully the past and present position of their sex.
For the minor in women's studies, students must take 18 credits. Each student must take WMST-10000 Introduction to Women's Studies. Students are also strongly advised to take WMST-41000 Selected Topics: Women's Studies in the spring semester of the junior or senior year. The other 12 credits must be selected from the approved list of courses. At least 6 of the credits for the minor must be level 3 or above, and no more than three courses may be taken from any one of the four categories in the list of approved courses.
Note: No more than two courses in the student's major may be counted toward the minor. Additional courses in which women's lives, women's history, or women's issues are the primary subject may be counted toward the minor if approved by the coordinator of women's studies.
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WMST-10000 |
Introduction to Women's Studies |
3 |
Five courses selected from the following list, with no more than three courses in any one of the four areas (social sciences, humanities/fine arts, professional schools, upper-level women's studies). At least two courses must be level 3 or above.
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POLT-14100 |
Power: Race, Sex, and Class (3) |
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POLT-34300 |
Feminist Theory (3) |
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POLT-40100/ POLT-40200 |
Seminar (topics that focus on feminist issues or theory) (3) |
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POLT-40300/ POLT-40400 |
Tutorial (topics that focus on feminist issues or theory) (3) |
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PSYC-26100 |
Psychology of Women (3) |
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SOCI-20200 |
Contemporary Social Issues: Women in Britain (3) |
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SOCI-21000 |
Women's Lives (3) |
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SOCI-31600 |
Women and Health (3) |
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SOCI-32300 |
Family Violence (3) |
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SOCI-32500 |
Race, Class, and Gender (3) |
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SOCI-41900 |
Seminar: Women in the Third World (3) |
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SOCI-43100 |
Selected Topics in Gender Studies: Feminist Social Theory (3) |
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ANTH-33500 |
Women and Culture (3) |
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SPAN-37400 |
Topics of Women in Latin American Literature: Images of Women in Latin American Literature (3) |
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SPAN-49100 |
Seminar: Latina Writing in the U.S. (3) |
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SPCM-34600 |
Gender and Interpersonal Communication (3) |
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ARTH-34100 |
Women Artists and Cultural Change (3) |
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ARTH-34200 |
Images of Women in Western Art (3) |
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ENGL-22000 |
Black Women Writers (3) |
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ENGL -35000 |
Imagining Herself: Women's Autobiography (3) |
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WRTG-31000 |
Women and Writing (3) |
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MUNM-25500 |
Women and Music (3) |
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MUNM-25600 |
Women in Popular Music from Bessie Smith to MTV (3) |
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HRM-34500 |
Women and Men in Management (3) |
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CNPH-30300 |
Images of Men and Women in Mass Media (3) |
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OCLD-36000 |
Communication in Culturally Diverse Organizations (3) |
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EXSS-29800 |
Gender Issues in Sport (3) |
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WMST-41000 |
Selected Topics: Women's Studies (3) |
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WMST-42000 |
Independent Study in Women's Studies (3) |
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WMST-43000 |
Internship in Women's Studies (3) |
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Total, minor in women's studies |
18 |
Note: No more than two courses in a student's major may be used to meet requirements for the minor.