Catalog 2015-2016

Gender Studies

Catalog Year: 2015-2016

Teaching Faculty

Professors Barth, Campolo, Harris, Maslin, Templeton, Vernon, and West 
Associate Professors Contreras-Silva, Penner, Pfau, Skok, Stuber, Whelan, and Williamson 
Assistant Professors Jaudon and Sprunger

Description

Minor in Gender Studies

5 of the courses listed below, distributed as follows:

  • 1 of which must be a humanities course
              ENGL 250 Women and African Literature
              ENGL 258 American War Literature
              ENGL 275 American Literature and the Environment
              ENGL 305 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
              ENGL 343 Sexuality before Sex in Early American Literature
              ENGL 362 Literary Theory
              ENGL 432 Jane Austen
              ENGL 435 The Brontës
              ENGL 454 Lawrence and Woolf
              ENGL 465 Hemingway
              GEND 268 Introduction to Gender Studies-Humanities
              PHIL 310 Feminist Thought
              RELI 327 Race, Gender, Empire, and the Bible
              RELI 330 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
              SPAN 485 Gender and Power in the Latin American Novel
  • 1 of which must be a social science course
              ANTH 280 Anthropology of Gender
              ANTH 390 Social Inequality and Identity
              GEND 267 Topics: Introduction to Gender Studies-Social Science
              HIST 140 Leisure in America
              HIST 150 Great Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Gatsby, 1914-1945
              HIST 226 Renaissance and Reformation Europe
              HIST 227 Medicine and Disease in Pre-Modern Europe
              HIST 307 Gender and Society in East Asia
              HIST 318 Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
              POLI 100 Issues in Politics: Gender
              POLI 100 Issues in Politics: HIV/AIDS
              POLI 300 Feminist Political Thought
              POLI 380 Gender, Sexuality, and American Politics
              PSYC 260 Human Sexuality
              PSYC 400 Psychology of Gender
              SOCI 250 Gender and Family
              SOCI 255 Gender in Film and Television
              SOCI 310 Gender and Sexuality
              SOCI 390 Social Inequality and Identity

Note(s):

  • If a course offered at the college has a clear focus on gender but is not listed above, students may petition the Gender Studies chair to have the course count toward the Gender Studies minor. 
  • Students may count one course in their major discipline towards the Gender Studies minor, but this course will not count toward their major.

Program Course Listings

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

Gender Studies Courses

GEND 267

Intro to Gender Studies-Social Sci

An introduction to academic studies of gender, this course aims to help students develop skill at understanding, analyzing, and engaging gender-related issues. Course content may vary.
GEND 268

Intro to Gender Studies-Humanities

An introduction to academic studies of gender, this course aims to help students develop skill at understanding, analyzing, and engaging gender-related issues. Course content may vary. Cross-listed as PHIL 267.
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