Faculty: Scott (Director), Adams, Browne, Etaugh (emeritus), Fry, Gabor, Glassmeyer, Glover, Guo, Hawkins, Hogan, Keist, Lalama, Lambie, Linn, Marcum, McQuerry, Netzley, Portocarrero, Reed, Russell, San Juan, Toxqui, Ullman, Whetstone, Williams, Worley.

The Women’s and Gender Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program which takes gender as its central category of analysis in the examination of social, cultural, economic, and aesthetic systems. Course work focuses on the social construction of gender identity, gender relations, and gender systems, and helps students to think about how gender intersects with multiple and complex categories of identity, including race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability. It is the mission of the program to provide undergraduate research opportunities in our capstone seminar, to provide both on-campus and off-campus opportunities for advocacy, networking, internships, and professional activities around issues of intersectional gender justice. Finally, the Our community is guided by the following curricular elements and learning objectives, as a pathway to achieving greater equality:

1. to integrate knowledge about women and gender into the scholarship of various disciplines and professions across the university by promoting student engagement with feminist discourses and practices;
2. to understand that gender is foundational to the functioning of social, cultural, economic, and aesthetic systems;
3. to understand that gender always intersects with multiple and complex categories of identity, including race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and ability;
4. to understand representations and realities of gender in local, national, and global contexts;
5. to promote intersectional gender justice in WGS classrooms, on campus, and in the community through internships and other engaged learning opportunities.
6. to learn and practice intergroup dialogue methodologies and facilitation skills.
7. to learn and practice critical social research methodologies.
8. to complete an undergraduate research project in the field of WGS.

Minor Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses
WGS 200	Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies	3.0
WGS 400	Directed Research in Women's and Gender Studies	3.0
Electives
Select three of the following:		9.0
ART 490	Art Seminar (Gender in Art)
ART 490	Art Seminar (Women in Art)
BLW 446	Employment Law
COM 386	Media, Race, & Gender
EHC 381	(Topics: Advocacy, Servant Leadership, or Gender and Leadership)
ENG 129	Introduction to African American Literature
ENG 190	Women in Literature
ENG 331	Women Writers
ENG 347	Shakespeare
HIS 304	Topics in American History
HIS 315	U.S. Social Movements
HIS 317	American Masculinities
HIS 334	Global History: Social
HIS 339	Women in Global Perspective
HIS 382	European Women, Gender, and Sexuality Since 1600
NUR 217	Men's Health Issues
NUR 219	Women and Health
NUR 263
NUR 376	Advanced Concepts in Health
PLS 493	Seminar in Political Theory
PSY 300	Psychology of Women
PSY 309	Human Sexuality
SOC 210
SOC 300	Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SOC 311	Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SOC 313	Race, Ethnicity, and Power
SOC 315	Gender and Society
WGS 300	Internship in Women's and Gender Studies
WLS 345	Women's Voices of Latin America
WLS 346	Women's Voices of Spain
Total Hours		15