Minor in Women’s Studies
The women’s studies minor complements the skills the student gains in his or her major discipline by providing interdisciplinary study of the history, status, and experiences of women.

Objectives
The student who graduates with a minor in women’s studies will be able to

• Examine historical and contemporary contributions by women and existing data about women.
• Discuss some of the scholarly methodologies relevant to the study of women, gender, and human societies.
• Understand aspects of scholarship and theory on the history, status, contributions, and experiences of women in diverse cultural communities and on the significance of gender as a social construct and as analytical category.

Requirements for the Major
A minor in women’s studies requires the completion of 15 semester hours of coursework in women’s studies, drawn from various disciplines as appropriate; at least 9 semester hours must be earned in courses numbered 300 or above. Specific course requirements are listed below. If a specific course required for the minor is taken instead to satisfy the requirements for the major, another course in the same discipline should be substituted to fulfill the required minimum number of semester hours. Any course used to replace an upper-level course should also be upper level.

Bachelor's Degree Requirements

Women’s Studies Coursework (15 s.h.)
Required Foundation Course (3 s.h.)
Students must take the following foundation course:

• WMST 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies

Supplemental Minor Courses (12 s.h.)
Students must choose four of the following courses to complete the 15 semester hours required for the minor. No more than 6 semester hours may be taken from any single discipline.

• BEHS 314 The Contemporary Family (3)
• BEHS 343 Parenting Today (3)
• BEHS 363 Human Sexuality and Sexual Experience (3)
• BEHS 454 Domestic and Family Violence (3)
• BEHS 461 Evolving Female and Male Gender Roles (3)
• BMGT 312 Women in Business (3)
• BMGT 313 Women as Entrepreneurs (3)
• BMGT 314 Women as Leaders (3)
• ENGL 250 Introduction to Women’s Literature (3)
• ENGL 354 20th-Century Women Writers (3)
• ENGL 358 20th-Century British Women Writers (3)
• ENGL 379 Language and Gender (3)
• ENGL 444 Feminist Critical Theory (3)
• GVPT 436 Legal Status of Women (3)
• HLTH 377 Human Sexuality (3)
• HLTH 471 Women’s Health (3)
• HIST 375 Modern European Women’s History (3)
• HIST 301 Women and Industrial Development (3)
• HIST 377 U.S. Women’s History Since 1870 (3)
• HIST 376 Legacies: A History of Women and the Family in America to 1870 (3)
• HUMN 442 Contemporary Sexual Ethics (6)
• PSYC 334 Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (3)
• PSYC 336 Psychology of Women (3)
• SOCY 243 Sociology of Marriage and Family (3)
• SOCY 312 Family Demography (3)
• SOCY 325 The Sociology of Gender (3)
• SOCY 425 Gender Roles and Social Institutions (3)
• SOCY 430 Social Structure and Identity (3)
• SOCY 443 The Family and Society (3)
• SOCY 462 Women in the Military (3)
• SPCH 324 Communication and Gender (3)

Special topic courses offered in various disciplines may also be used to fulfill this requirement if approved in advance and appropriately identified in the course description.