The Women's Studies minor offers an interdisciplinary, 18-hour program which concentrates on the images and realities of women. Drawing on recent scholarship on women and gender, the Women s Studies minor provides a flexible, coherent program that enables students to consider the significance of gender. On a personal level, courses in this program enhance the human potential of both men and women, because knowledge about how societies construct gender relations can encourage students to examine their own attitudes and behavior. On an academic level, a minor in Women s Studies provides study on the ongoing scholarship about women and gender and offers students the opportunity for exciting intellectual growth. On a professional level, 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 Studies minor helps students recognize their opportunities in a rapidly changing society and flexibly complements any major.
Objectives
- Help students consider the significance of gender.
- Encourage students to examine their own attitudes and behavior regarding gender.
- Provide a valuable specialty to prepare students for opportunities in a variety of fields, including business, counseling, and education.
- Help students recognize diverse career opportunities in a rapidly changing society.
The two required core courses are WS 3376: Images of Women and WS 3377: Realities of Women. They examine the images of women that are prevalent in Western culture (with examples being drawn from films, literature, visual arts, and popular music)as well as those topics and issues related to the realities of women's lives.
The four elective courses may be selected from the following:
| Anthropology 3324 - Mexican American Culture
Anthropology 3350 - Sex Roles
Criminal Justice 4326 - Women and Criminal Justice
English 3388 - Women and Literature
English 3392 - Women Writers of the Middle Ages
History 3369Y - Black Women and Protest
History 3373 - American Women's History
Honors 3392A - Gender and Fiction
Honors 3392G - Gender, Family, and the Horror Narrative
Honors 3392P - Technology and Gender in Film | Honors 3393Y - Ethics of Care: East and West
Mass Comm. 4382C - Women and Minorities in the Media
Philosophy 3333 - Feminist Theory
Political Science 4330 - Women in Politics
Psychology 3332 - Psychology of Women
Sociology 3350 - Men, Women, and Societies
Sociology 3370 - Industrial Sociology
Speech Comm. 3328 - Communication and Gender Speech
Comm. 3334 - The Rhetoric of Women s Suffrage |
Fall Courses:
| WS | All Courses | Women's Studies Undergraduate & Graduate Minor, Course Offerings, Fall 2007 | Flyer |
| WS | 3376/5376 | Images of Women | Flyer |
Spring Courses:
| WS | All Courses | Women's Studies Undergraduate Minor, Course Offerings, Spring 2008 | Flyer
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| WS | 3377/5377 | Realities of Women, course description, Spring 2007 | Flyer
Syllabus |
