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 and Sexuality in Comparative Cultural Contexts | 3 |
| or WS 4377 | ||
| Electives | ||
| Choose 12 hours from the following: | 12 | |
AAS 3350 | ||
| Gender and Sexuality in Global Perspective | ||
| Culture, Medicine and the Body | ||
| Gender and Visual Representation | ||
ARTS 2332 | ||
| Biology of Sex and Reproduction | ||
| Employment Law | ||
| Women and Criminal Justice | ||
| Communication and Gender | ||
ENG 3371 | ||
| 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 | ||
HIST 3373C | ||
HIST 3373D | ||
HIST 3375E | ||
HIST 4318W | ||
HIST 4350E | ||
HIST 4350K | ||
| Black Women and Protest in U.S. History | ||
HIST 4374A | ||
| Women and Texas Music | ||
HON 3380D | ||
HON 3392P | ||
| Historical Discourses on Sex Trafficking: From ‘White Slavery’ to the Present | ||
HON 3398J | ||
| The Myths of Western Civilization | ||
| Audience and Representation in Media | ||
| Women in Jazz | ||
PH 3330 | ||
| Issues in Human Sexuality | ||
| Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love | ||
| Philosophical Approaches to Feminist Thought | ||
| Women in Politics | ||
| Psychology of Human Sexuality | ||
| Psychology of Gender | ||
| Issues in Religion | ||
| Gender and Society | ||
| Sociology of Sexuality | ||
| Populations in Social Work | ||
| Women, Minorities and Marginal Groups in Medieval Spanish Literature | ||
WS 4377 | ||
| Independent Research in Women and Gender Studies | ||
| Total Hours | 18 | |
