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Catalog 2025-2026

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Catalog Year: 2025-2026

Teaching Faculty

Faculty Contact: West

Description

The Gender Studies minor engages students in the study of gender and sexuality across a range of disciplines. Through this minor, students develop their understanding of how gender and sexuality shape important political, economic, cultural, aesthetic, social, ethical, and other contemporary issues.听

Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies

6 of the courses listed below, distributed as follows:

  • Two of which must be humanities courses听 听听
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 250 Women and African Literature
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 258 American War Literature
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 275 American Literature and the Environment
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 305 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 329 Sense and Sensation in American Literature
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 343 Sexuality before Sex in Early American Literature
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 358 Literary Theory: Black Feminism and the Afterlives of Slavery
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 362 Literary Theory
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 432 Jane Austen
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 435 The Bront毛s
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 454 Lawrence and Woolf
    听 听 听 听 听 ENGL 465 Hemingway
    听 听 听 听 听 GEND 251 Topics: Gender and Sexuality-Humanities
    听 听 听 听 听 GEND 351 Advanced Topics in Gender and Sexuality-Humanities
    听 听 听 听 听 PHIL 310 Feminist Thought
    听 听 听 听 听 RELI 327 Race, Gender, Empire, and the Bible
    听 听 听 听 听 RELI 330 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
    听 听 听 听 听听SPAN 360 Queer Literature in Spain
    听 听 听 听 听听SPAN 370 Love in Modern Short Story
    听 听 听 听 听听SPAN 485 Gender and Power in the Latin American Novel
  • Two of which must be social science courses听 听
    听 听 听 听 听 ANTH 280 Anthropology of Gender
    听 听 听 听 听 ANTH 390 Social Inequality and Identity
    听 听 听 听 听 GEND 355: Advanced Topics: Gender and Sexuality - Social Sciences
    听 听 听 听 听 HIST 140 Leisure, Work & Consumption in the US
    听 听 听 听 听 HIST 150 Great Wars, Depression, and Gatsby
    听 听 听 听 听 HIST 227 Medicine and Disease in Pre-Modern Europe
    听 听 听 听 听 HIST 230 Native North American 听
    听 听 听 听 听 HIST 318 Magic and Witchcraft in Europe
    听 听 听 听 听 POLI 100 Issues in Politics: Gender
    听 听 听 听 听 POLI 242 Feminism and Modern Crime Novel
    听 听 听 听 听 POLI 300 Feminist Political Thought
    听 听 听 听 听听POLI 322 American Constitutional Law: Individual Rights
    听 听 听 听 听 SOCI 205 Gender and Sexuality
    听 听 听 听 听 SOCI 250 Sociology of the Family
    听 听 听 听 听 SOCI 390 Social Inequality and Identity
  • No more than two courses can count from any single discipline.
  • At least two courses must be at the 300-level or above.

Note(s):

  • If a course offered at the college has a clear focus on gender but is not listed above, students may petition the Interdisciplinary Minors Program Chair in consultation with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program faculty contact to have the course count toward the Gender and Sexuality Studies minor.听

Program Course Listings

The courses for this program are organized into the following categories:

Gender and Sexuality Studies Courses

GEND 251

Topics: Gender& Sexuality-Hum

A course in the humanities devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
GEND 255

Topics: Gender & Sexuality-Soc

A course in the social sciences devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
GEND 351

Adv Topics: Gender & Sexuality-Hum

A seminar or research course in the humanities devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
GEND 355

Adv Topics: Gender & Sexuality-Soc

A course in the social sciences devoted to a particular topic related to gender and sexuality. This course can be repeated for additional credits as long as the section topics are different. Consult the online course schedule for information about the topics currently scheduled to be taught.
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