Women and Gender Studies (Minor)

Program Learning Outcomes

• Understand the interdisciplinary nature of feminist and gender scholarship.
• Learn major feminist theories, debates, and methodologies.
• Learn to analyze issues pertaining to women and gender issues from multi-cultural, intersectional, and transnational contexts.
• Critically analyze how gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity/cultural background, social class, nationality, and citizenship intersect and create different experiences for different groups of people around the world.
• Recognize the roles and ramifications of human/women agency and activism locally and globally.
• Learn to reflect and interpret everyday lived experiences from feminist and gender perspectives.

Program Information

• All courses must be passed with a “C-” (1.7) or better to be counted in the minor.
• Other courses may be substituted; student should meet with the appropriate faculty, chairs, and/or deans to seek approval for a substitute course.