Undergraduate Women's Studies Minor
(21 Semester Hours)

Required Courses: Women's Studies 200 (3 hours), Women's Studies 400 (3 hours)

Electives: 15 semester hours of approved courses, no more than 6 of which may be from any one department (click here to see a current list of approved courses or check the 1996-1998 Undergraduate Catalog)
 
 

Courses

Women's Studies 200: (3 hrs.) Introduction to Women's Studies—Survey of major issues and current research on women from the point of view of various disciplines, primarily the behavioral and social sciences and the humanities. General Education Credits [B1, E2]

Women's Studies 201: (3 hrs.) Issues in Women's Studies—The content of each course offering will relate to significant basic concepts or issues in women's studies. Students may enroll in different offerings of the course for a maximum of 6 hours, with a change in topic. Specific title will be listed when the course is scheduled.

Women's Studies 400: (3 hrs.) Feminist Theories—This course examines the development and directions of various feminist theories. The course will review feminist theories within traditional disciplinary fields and the impact of feminist theories and research on those fields. The course will also explore the dialogue, sometimes conflictual, among feminist theories and theorists.

Women's Studies 401: (3 hrs.) Special Topics in Women's Studies—The content of each course offering will relate to significant and complex concepts or issues in Women's Studies. Courses will involve a substantial research component. Students may enroll in different offerings of the course for a maximum of 6 hours, with a change in topic. Specific title will be listed when the course is scheduled.

Women's Studies 403: (3 hrs.) Independent Study—Directed study of a specialized topic proposed by the student and instructor and approved by the Director of Women's Studies. May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.

Women's Studies 475: (3 hrs.) Fieldwork in Women's Studies—Supervised fieldwork in agency, school, or other appropriate setting. Designed to provide the student with practical experiences in areas of interest while using theories, philosophies, and skills developed in the classroom. Prerequisites: 200 and 400, or approval of Director of Women's Studies.
 
 

(If you don't see a course listed and you think it should be, contact the Program Office.)

Africana Studies 438: (3 hrs.) Africana Womanist Perspectives

Art 373: (3 hrs.) Women Artists

Communication 383: (3 hrs.) Performance of Everyday Life

Communication 445W: (3 hrs.) Film Theory and Criticism: Images of Women

Communication 483: (3 hrs.) Gender Communication

Criminology 416: (3 hrs.) Symposium on Criminology: Women in Crime and Criminal Justice

English 339: (3 hrs.) Women's Poetry

English 340: (3 hrs.) Multicultural American Literature

English 349: (3 hrs.) Women Writers of the United States

English 359: (3 hrs.) Women Writers of Great Britain

English 447B: (3 hrs.) American Literature: Images of Women

General Honors 222: (3 hrs.) Literature, Film, and Modern Thought

General Honors 301D: (3 hrs.) Gender and Sexuality

*History 101: (3 hrs.) World Civilization to 1500 (specially designated sections only)

History 439: (3 hrs.) Women in America

Journalism 427: (3 hrs.) Women and Minorities in the Media

Latin 315: (3 hrs.) Survey of Greek Literature in Translation

Philosophy 490W: (3 hrs.) Ecofeminist Philosophy

Political Science 310: (3 hrs.) Women and the Law

Psychology 290: (3 hrs.) Liking and Loving: The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships

Psychology 338: (3 hrs.) Psychology of Women

Psychology 385: (3 hrs.) Psychology of Prejudice: Problems & Progress - crosslisted with Africana Studies 385

Psychology 490: (3 hrs.) Seminar in Psychology: Women's Issues

Sociology 302: (3 hrs.) Work, Employment, and Society

Sociology 443: (3 hrs.) Sociology of Sex Roles