Minor Gender and Woman’s Studies
The minor in GWS is an 18 unit minor. Students who declare themselves Gender & Women's Studies minors must take 3 core courses (9 units), plus 3 courses (9 units) of Gender and Women's Studies electives.
Students who have already taken some Gender and Women's Studies electives may apply them retroactively to the minor.
The Gender and Women's Studies minor complements many majors such as Psychology, Sociology, English, Communication, Business, Law, etc. It provides a background for various careers such as law, counseling and healthcare or advanced graduate degrees in fields such as Women's Studies, education, communication, politic, cultural and media studies.
Required Courses (9 units)
- GWS 100 Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies (3) or GWS110 Women, Work and Family (3)
- GWS 301 Feminist Theories (3)
- GWS 351 Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality Capstone Course
Electives (9 units)
Students are required to complete 3 electives for the GWS Minor.
Select a course from the following list. All units must be at the 300- or 400-level with an optional elective course at the 200-level. Upper Division elective courses for majors, as well as experimental and selected topics courses (upon approval of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department Chair or advisor), may fulfill electives requirements for the Gender and Women’s Studies Minor.
List of Courses
- AAS 340 Asian American Women (3)
- AFRS 324 The Black Woman in Contemporary Times (3)
- ANTH 308 Gender and Culture (3)
- ART 468 History of Women in the Visual Arts (3)
- BLAW 391 Women and the Law (3)
- CHS 246 Contemporary Issues of the Chicana (3)
- CHS 346 History of the Chicana/Mexicana (3)
- CHS 365 Third World Women and the Chicana (3)
- COMS 335 Studies in Women’s Rhetoric (3)
- COMS 360 Communication and the Sexes (3)
- COMS 435 Rhetoric of Women (3)
- CTVA 413 Women as Filmmakers (3)
- ENGL 369 Lesbian Writers (3)
- ENGL 431 Images of Women in Literature (3)
- ENGL 433 Women Authors (3)
- ENGL 434 19th Century Women Novelists (3)
- GWS 220 Men, Masculinity and Patriarchy (3)
- GWS 230 Women and Entertainment (3)
- GWS 315 Gender, Sexuality and Islam in the U.S. (3)
- GWS 320 Women and Urban Life/Urban Space (3)
- GWS 340 Women, Gender and Global Development (3)
- GWS 360 Feminist Ethics (3)
- GWS 370 Women and Violence (3)
- GWS 380 Sexual and Reproductive Health (3)
- GWS 410 Sex, Lies and Media (3)
- GWS 420 Women and Gender in Islamic Societies (3)
- GWS 430 Global Sexualities (3)
- HIST 349 Women in American History (3)
- HIST 350 History of Women (3)
- HSCI 231 Women and Health (3)
- JOUR 371 Women, Men and Media (3)
- JS 330 Women in the Jewish Experience (3)
- PHIL 348 Philosophy and Feminism (3)
- POLS 448 Women and Politics in the United States and the World (3)
- RS 304 Women and Religion (3)
- RTM 330 Women, Leisure and Ethnicity in the United States (3)
- SOC 324 Sociology of Sex and Gender (3)
- SOC 325 Sex Roles and Work (3)