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Women's and Gender Studies Minor

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Two women's and gender studies minor students at a Curry College diversity eventAre you interested in learning about women's experiences, struggles, and accomplishments throughout history? Dream of a world where equality is the standard? Want to strengthen your understanding and awareness of gender as it applies to your own experiences? Then a women's and gender studies minor is for you.

Throughout your coursework you will have the opportunity to:

  • Focus on women or gender as the central area of inquiry
  • Recognize gender as a primary source for learning, and lens through which we experience the world
  • Articulate the complex ways in which gender is socially and culturally constructed
  • Explore data and research about contemporary issues related to gender and their impact both locally and globally
  • Analyze interlocking systems of oppression and privilege across lives of gender, race, class, and sexuality
  • Recognize women as significant actors in society in both public and private spheres
  • Recognize women's struggles and accomplishments, in their efforts, both individual and collective, to achieve personal and social change
  • Apply Women's and Gender Studies scholarship to personal experiences within the framework of our diverse cultural backgrounds

Course Requirements and Information

Requirements for the Women's and Gender Studies Minor:

WGS 2000 Gendered Lives 3
WGS 3900 Women's and Gender Studies Senior Seminar: Selected Topics 3


Choose three courses (9 credits) from the following list.
(Note: The courses chosen must be from at least two different disciplines):

BIOL/PSY/WGS 2450 Human Sexuality
COM/WGS 3652 Gender Communication
ENG 1330 Feminine and Masculine in Literature
ENG/WGS 2110 American Literature I
ENG 2632 Women in 19th Century World Literature
ENG 2635 Banned Books and Dangerous Ideas
ENG 2850 Women in Film
ENG 3340 Women in Modern Literature
ENG/WGS 3620 Victorian Literature
HE/AFAM/WGS 3050 Race, Class, Gender and Health
NSG 2051 Maternity Nursing
P&H/WGS 2292 Social History of Women
P&H/WGS 2420 Gay Politics in the United States
P&H/WGS 2440 Gender Inequality: Women and Politics
PSY/SOC/WGS 2115 Men, Self and Society
SOC/PSY/WGS 2060 Aging and the Life Cycle
SOC/CJ/WGS 2402 Domestic Violence
SOC/WGS 2410 Working with Individuals
SOC/WGS 2470 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
SOC/WGS 2480 Sport & Society
SOC/WGS 2620 Diversity in Families
SOC/WGS 2650 Sociology of Health and Health Care
SOC/WGS 2680 Sociology of Work
SOC/WGS 2760 Wealth, Poverty and Social Class
SOC/CJ/WGS 3404 Sociology of Violence
SOC/WGS 3640 Deviance and Social Control

Total Credits Required Women's and Gender Studies Minor: 15

*Students may petition the Women's and Gender Studies Committee to receive credit for course(s) or coursework not listed above.

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