2025-2026 Academic Catalog

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Minor

Requirements for a Minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Foundations
GSWS 101Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies3
Theory
Select one of the following:3
Seminar in Black Studies
Ancient Sexualities
Feminist Literary Theory
Comparative Feminist Theories
Intersectionality:Theory/Practice
Gender, Sex and Society
Other approved course
Application
Select three of the following:9
Images of Women in Ancient Art
Women in the Arts
Introduction to Black Studies
Ancient Women Writers
Rhetoric of the Body
Special Topics in Criminology (remove)
Human Trafficking
Human Rights:Sanctions & Survivors
Toni Morrison's Communities
Women in French Literature
Writing Women's Lives
Gender and Film
Gender Issues in Communication
T:Special Topics
Protest and Dissent in American History
Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Lives of Wives
The History of Witchcraft
Global Women in WWII
Women & Gender in Chinese History
Women of the Black Freedom Movement
Gender-based Violence in the Ancient World
Identity Politics
Sex, Gender, and the Bible
Women and Religion
Women and Christianity
Sex and Culture
Sociology of the Family
Childhood and Society
Social Inequality
Social Perspectives on Motherhood
Race and Ethnic Relations
Human Rights: Culture and Conflict
Other approved course
Total Hours15