Curriculum
Dr. Devin A. Heyward, Director
The Gender and Sexuality Program is an interdisciplinary cross/cultural program and offers a minor and focused courses. It provides interested students with an in-depth knowledge of the social construction of gender, the significance of gender in structuring human social life and women’s contributions to history and culture. The program emphasizes the link between the personal and the political and using knowledge to create community based agendas for social change to eliminate gender based inequality.
Requirements for Minor in Gender and Sexuality
| GS/SO-140 | Introduction to Women's Studies | 3.00 |
| Choose one of the following | 3 | |
GS-310 | Feminist Political Theory | |
GS-340 | Feminist Philosophy | |
| Select four of the following, no more than two with the same prefix: | 12 | |
CU/GS-285 | Gender & Communication | |
ED-428 | Literature of East and West Africa | |
CJ-333 | Gender Crime and Justice | |
SO-345 | Sociology of Intimacy | |
UR/SO-370 | Urban Anthropology | |
UR/AT-309 | Women in Changing Urban World | |
AT/SO-384 | Cultural Anthropology | |
HS-419 | Secret Lives of Ancient Women | |
EL-310 | Gender and Sexuality in Film | |
PL-340 | ||
PO-310 | Feminist Political Theory | |
PS-170 | ||
SO/GS-136 | Intro Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered | |
SO-224 | ||
SO-227 | ||
SO-256 | Sociology of Sports | |
SO-273 | Global Feminisms | |
SO-326 | ||
SO-345 | Sociology of Intimacy | |
SO-368 | Health & Inequalities:RaceClassGender | |
PL-311 | Philosophy and Bob Dylan | |
CJ/SO-253 | Social Deviance | |
HS-453 | ||
PS-455 | Bio Foundations : Human Sexuality | |
PO-498 | Political Poetry & Music | |
UR-460 | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |