Minor Requirements
The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) minor consists of five course units, including WGSS 101 and four electives. As with other minors, at least two courses must be taken at the 200 or 300 level. Students may also cross-register for women's, gender and sexuality studies courses at other LVAIC institutions.
WGSS 101: Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies
Introduction to issues, topics, and methodologies of women's studies in a global context. Examines the lives of women around the globe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the West, focusing on gender inequality, feminist ethics, gender as a category of analysis, and social construction of gender.
Here are WGSS Courses that are currently offered. You can also view the ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Course Catalog for the latest course offerings.
Courses that are offered on a periodic basis:
| WGSS 136 (REL 136) | Seeing and Believing: Women, Religion, and Film |
| WGSS 188 (MUS 188) | Women and Music |
| WGSS 222 | Women and Health |
| WGSS 232 (IDIS 232) | Ethical Issues in Reproductive Technology |
| WGSS 238 (HIST 238) | Women in Europe 500-1700 |
| WGSS 239 (HIST 239) | Victorian Ladies and Other Women: England and America 1837-1914 |
| WGSS 240 (REL 240) | Jewish and Christian Feminism |
| WGSS 252 (ENGL 252) | Literature & Medical Humanities |
| WGSS 257 (POSC 257) | Politics of Women's Rights in East Asia |
| WGSS 260 (POSC 260) | Critical Gender Studies |
| WGSS 265 (PHIL 265) | Feminist Philosophy |
| WGSS 269 (REL 269) | Sex and Karma |
| WGSS 29X (ENG 29X) | Narrating Blackness: Film & Fiction |
| WGSS 310 (SOC 310) | The Family and the Law |
| WGSS 341 (GERM 341) | Women in German Literature and Culture |
| WGSS 345 (PSYC 345) | Psychology of Women |
| WGSS 355 (SOC 355) | Sociology of Gender |
| WGSS 286, 381-384 | Independent Study |
| WGSS 288, 386-388 | Internship |
| WGSS 400-401 | Honors |