Nov 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog

Gender and Feminist Studies Minor


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Students interested in completing a minor in GFS are required to complete the Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist Theory and Intersectionality courses from the Core Courses and one course from each of the three tracks.

Core Courses

(one course from each numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 below):

  1. GWS 026 PO -Intro Gender and Women’s Studies  or
    FGSS 026 SC FGSS 026 SC -Intro Fem+Gndr+Sexuality Studies  or
    FGSS 036 SC FGSS 036 SC -Introduction to Queer Studies  or
    ID 076 JT ID 076 JT -Intersectn:Gender/Race/Sexuality  .
  2. Feminist Theory, such as
    CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology ;
    GWS 180 PO GWS 180 PO -Queer Feminist Theories  ; or
    FGSS 184 SC FGSS 184 SC -Intersectional Feminist Theories  .
  3. Intersectionality of gender/race/class/sexualities, such as
    CHLT 060 CH -Women in the Third World 
    CHLT 061 CH -Contemporary Issues of Chicanas ;
    CHLT 115 CH -Gender, Race & Class ;
    CHLT 154 CH -Latinas in the Garment Industry ;
    CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology ;
    ARHI 178 PO -Black Aesth/Poli (Re)presentatn ;
    ASAM 090 PZ -Community Studies ;
    ENGL 140 PO -Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land  

Tracks

Students should take at least one (1) course from each track that focuses on gender and empowerment; and complete an additional three (3) courses from one of the tracks:

  1. Global, National and Local Communities
  2. Creativity: Art, Literature, Spirituality, Identity
  3. Sciences, Medicine and Technologies

Gender and Feminist Studies Courses

Anthropology

Asian American Studies

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

Critical Global Studies

English and World Literature

Environmental Analysis

Gender & Feminist Studies

History

Interdisciplinary Studies

Linguistics

Political Studies

Psychology

Religious Studies

Sociology

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