Vivian Bruce Conger, 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 47400 |
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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STCM 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.