School of Undergraduate Studies

Women's Studies Minor

• Program Objectives
• Course Requirements

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Women's Studies

Students may seek an academic minor in women's studies.

Minor in Women's Studies

The women’s studies minor complements the skills the student gains in his or her major discipline by providing an interdisciplinary study of the history, status and experiences of women.

Objectives

The student who graduates with a minor in women's studies will be able to

• Examine historical and contemporary contributions by women and existing data about women.
• Discuss some of the scholarly methodologies used in the study of women, gender, and human societies.
• Explain aspects of scholarship and theory on the history, status, contributions and experiences of women in diverse cultural communities and the significance of gender as a social construct and an analytical category.

Requirements for the Women's StudiesMinor

A minor in women's studies requires the completion of 15 credits of coursework in women's studies, chosen from the following courses:

• WMST Any courses
• BEHS 220 Diversity Awareness
• BEHS 343 Parenting Today
• BEHS 453 Domestic Violence
• BMGT 312 Women in Business
• BMGT 313 Women as Entrepreneurs
• BMGT 314 Women as Leaders
• ENGL 354 American Women Writers Since 1900
• ENGL 358 British Women Writers Since 1900
• GERO 311 Women and Aging
• GVPT 436 The Legal Status of Women
• HIST 375 Modern European Women’s History
• HIST 376 Women and the Family in America to 1870
• HIST 377 Women in America Since 1870
• PHIL 343 Sexual Morality
• PHIL 346 Contemporary Sexual Ethics
• PSYC 334 Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships
• PSYC 338 Psychology of Gender
• SOCY 325 The Sociology of Gender
• SOCY 443 The Family and Society
• SOCY 462 Women in the Military
• SPCH 324 Communication and Gender

Students are recommended to take WMST 200 as the first course for the minor (if they have not already applied the course toward other degree requirements).

Courses may not duplicate those used to satisfy requirements for the major. At least 9 credits must be earned in upper-level courses (numbered 300 or above). Prerequisites apply for all courses.