Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> Interdisciplinary Studies 

18 hours; 2.0 minor GPA required

Gender and Sexuality Studies seeks to advance understanding of the meaning and role of gender and sexuality in social life. Doing so requires looking at gender and sexuality against the backdrop of cultural, political, historical, and social institutions, and in relation to other influences such as class, race, and nationality. As such, Gender and Sexuality Studies is inherently interdisciplinary, with courses offered in numerous departments.

Required Courses (6 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
GNDR 111 - Introduction to Gender Studies

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
GNDR 333 - Perspectives on Gender
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3

Directed Electives (12 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
CMST 302 - Gender, Communication, and Culture
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly Offered
Credits: 3
CMST 430 - Seminar in Rhetoric (Approved topic: LGBTQ Rhetorics)
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
CRIM 331 - Gender and Crime
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
CRIM 403 - Violence Against Women
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ECON 351 - Labor Economics
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 288 - Introduction to Women in Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 387 - Women’s Literature and Gender Issues: 19th- and 20th-Century Theory
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
GNDR 112 - Introduction to Queer Studies

USI Core 39:  Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
GNDR 222 - The Body in Art and Culture

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Language and Culture; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
GNDR 399 - Topics in Gender Studies
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
GNDR 449 - Seminar in Gender Studies: Special Topics
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
GNDR 499 - Gender Studies Independent Study
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
HIST 311 - Gender and Sexuality in American History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
MNGT 444 - Managing Diversity in Organizations
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 364 - Gender and Philosophy

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHIL 365 - Sexual Ethics
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
PSY 298 - Human Sexuality
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 381 - Psychology of Gender
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
SOC 261 - Marriage and Family

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Social Science-BS; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
SOC 370 - Seminar in Sociology (Approved topics: Women and Work; Race, Class, and Gender in Popular Culture)
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
SOC 431 - Gender and Society
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
SOCW 400 - Special Topics in Human Service Practice (Approved topic: Women & Social Work)
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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