Gender and Women’s Studies Minor

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Program Director: Derek Bedenbaugh, Ph.D.

Available in the Day College.

The interdisciplinary minor offered through the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Columbia College encourages students to recognize how gender and women’s studies in theory and in practice serve as powerful tools of social transformation on both a local and global scale. As its curriculum demonstrates, the program brings the question of gender formation to the forefront of critical interdisciplinary investigations through the combination of academic study and experiential learning. Gender as it intersects with other crucial components of identity construction - such as sexuality, ethnicity, class, nationality, religion, and age - is explored through such differing and yet complementary perspectives as literature, sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, political science, art, and dance, to name only a few.

Requirements

Minor courses include:

GWS 300 - Issues in Gender Studies Credits: 3
GWS 399LS - Gender Studies Leadership Semester Credits: 1-4

12 Hours Chosen From

ART 364 - History of Art: Women Artists. Credits: 3
COMM 245 - Culture and Power Credits: 3
COMM 320LS - Communication and Work Credits: 3
DAN 320 - Dance in Sociopolitical Contexts Credits: 3
ENG 340 - American Women Writers Credits: 3
ENG 352 - Queer Literature Credits: 3
ENG 355 - British Women Writers Credits: 3
ENG 382 - Women’s Autobiography Credits: 3
LA 201 - Diversity, Gender, and Social Justice Credits: 3
LA 301 - Women, Leadership and Social Change Credits: 3
LEAD 301 - Leadership in Context Credits: 3
POSC 350 - Women and Politics Credits: 3
PSY 210 - Psychology of Sexual Behavior Credits: 3
PSY 235 - Psychology and Sociology of Gender Credits: 3
OR
SOC 235 - Psychology and Sociology of Gender Credits: 3
OR
SOWK 235 - Psychology and Sociology of Gender Credits: 3

Gender and Women’s Studies Minor

Requirements

12 Hours Chosen From

Total Credit Hours: 16