The Gender and Women’s Studies minor consists of 18 units.

Required Courses (9 units)

GWS 100 Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies (3)
or GWS 110 Women, Work and Family (3)
GWS 301 Feminist Theories (3)
GWS 350 Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality (3)

Electives (9 units)

Students are required to complete three 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 Women, Sex Roles 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 300 Women as Agents of Change (3)
GWS 320 Women and Urban Life/Urban Space (3)
GWS 360 Feminist Ethics (3)
GWS 340 Women, Gender and Global Development (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)
RTM 330 Women, Leisure and Ethnicity in the United States (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)
SOC 324 Sociology of Sex and Gender (3)
SOC 325 Sex Roles and Work (3)

Individualized work

Students may, with approval of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department Chair, receive credit for up to 3 units of independent study, which may be counted as an elective in the minor.

Total Units in the Minor: 18