Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies requires 18 semester credit hours. Drawing on recent scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality, this interdisciplinary minor provides a flexible, coherent program that enables students to consider the significance of gender and sexuality to human society.
A minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offers students the opportunity for exciting intellectual growth. The minor provides a valuable specialty to prepare students for opportunities in a variety of fields, including business, counseling, education, government, health and medicine, human resources, law, politics, psychology, social work, and graduate studies. The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor helps students recognize their opportunities in a rapidly changing society and flexibly complements any major.
The required core courses introduce students to the foundational theories of women's, gender, and sexualities studies. Topics courses, offered on a selective basis, may also count toward the minor with permission from the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Director.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| WS 3376 | Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WS 3377 | Gender, Sex, and Power | 3 |
| or WS 4377 | Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexualities | |
| Electives | ||
| Choose 12 hours from the following: | 12 | |
| Black Queer Experience | ||
| Gender and Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective | ||
| Culture, Medicine and the Body | ||
| Gender and Visual Representation | ||
| Queer Art and Visual Culture | ||
| Biology of Sex and Reproduction | ||
| Women and Criminal Justice | ||
| Communication and Gender | ||
| Queer and Trans Texts | ||
| Gender and Sexualities in Texts | ||
| Women's Writing | ||
| Women Writers of the Middle Ages | ||
FM 2335 | ||
| U.S. Women's History to 1877 | ||
| U.S. Women's History since 1877 | ||
| The History of Rural Women | ||
| History of American Feminisms, 1960-2020 | ||
| Queer Youth History | ||
| Gender in Latin American History | ||
| Gender & Militarization in the Arab World | ||
| Black Women and Black Protest in America | ||
| History of American Sexualities | ||
| Women and Texas Music | ||
| Unpacking the Gaze: Intersectionality and Creative Publication | ||
| The Nature of the Human Experience: Technology & Gender in Film | ||
| From White Slavery to Sex Trafficking | ||
| The Body and Literature | ||
| The Myths of Western Civilization: Decolonizing and Queering European History | ||
| Women and Minorities in the Media | ||
| Women in Jazz | ||
| Inclusion and Diversity in Women's Health | ||
| Issues in Human Sexuality | ||
| Philosophy of Sex and Love | ||
| Feminist Theory | ||
| Women in Politics | ||
| Psychology of Human Sexuality | ||
| Psychology of Women | ||
| Gender and Society | ||
| Sociology of Sexuality | ||
| Diversity and Social Justice in Social Work | ||
| Women, Minorities and Marginal Groups in Medieval Spanish Literature | ||
| Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexualities | ||
| Independent Research in Women’s Studies | ||
| Total Hours | 18 | |
