Women’s and Gender Studies

Requirements for the Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies 

Students who minor in women‘s and gender studies must complete eighteen hours, including SOC 363, WGST 325, and twelve hours selected from ENGL 322, 324, 334; HIST 3241, 3640; PHIL 360; PHIL/WGST 323; PSYC 311, 330; SOC 302, 366; WGST 258, 444, 452, or 458.

Courses

258 Special Topics (1-6) Special topics courses are those that cover subject matter that is not part of the regular curriculum. A special topics course must have the prior approval of the department and the Provost and may be offered twice. Students may enroll in and receive credit for an unlimited number of special topic courses as long as any prerequisites or other requirements are met.

323 Love, Sex, and Philosophy (3) (XL: PHIL 323) Arthur C. Danto writes that ―love is a philosophically unruly being, and the despair of moral epistemologists. We will explore this philosophically unruly being through the writings of classical philosophers, including Plato, Augustine, Rousseau, Hegel, Freud, de Beauvoir, and contemporary philosophers such as Martha Nussbaum, Robert Nozick, Annette Baier, and Robert Solomon. We will also ask whether philosophy helps us to address problems of love and sex, including sexual violence. (Alternate years)

325 Introduction to Women’s Studies: Images and Identities (3) An interdisciplinary course that studies the roles, images, contributions, and experiences of women of various races, classes, and cultures, and concludes with a research or service learning project.