Gender and Feminist Studies Minor

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

• •  ANTH 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power
• •  ANTH 050 PZ -Sex, Body and Reproduction
• •  ANTH 088 PZ -China: Gender,Cosmology & State
• •  ANTH 099 PZ -China 21st Century

Asian American Studies

• •  ASAM 105 PZ -Zines, Creativity, Community

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

• •  CHLT 060 CH -Women in the Third World
• •  CHLT 061 CH -Contemporary Issues of Chicanas
• •  CHLT 085 PZ -Gender, Radicalism & Revolution
• •  CHLT 115 CH -Gender, Race & Class
• •  CHLT 154 CH -Latinas in the Garment Industry
• •  CHLT 157 CH -Latina Activism Work & Protest
• •  CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology

Critical Global Studies

• •  CGS 050 PZ -Power and Social Change

English and World Literature

• •  ENGL 128 PZ -Writing the Body
• •  ENGL 140 PO -Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land
• •  ENGL 151 PZ -British Women Writrs Before 1900

Environmental Analysis

• •  EA 162 PZ -Gender, Environment & Developmnt

Gender & Feminist Studies

• •  FGSS 026 SC -Intro Fem+Gndr+Sexuality Studies
• •  FGSS 036 SC -Introduction to Queer Studies
• •  GFS 026 PZ -Introduction to Gender Studies
• •  GFS 036 PZ -Introduction to Queer Studies
• •  GFS 055 PZ -Construction of Masculinity
• •  GFS 069 PZ -Decolonial Queers
• •  GFS 120 PZ -Women and Human Rights Discourse
• •  GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project
• •  GWS 026 PO -Intro Gender and Women’s Studies

History

• •  HIST 074 PZ -Queering the Medieval? Holiness
• •  HIST 148 PZ -Gender and Sexuality in Africa
• •  HIST 175 PZ -Magic, Heresy & Gender
• •  HIST 178 PZ -Queer & Feminst Histories of EME

Interdisciplinary Studies

• •  ID 076 JT -Intersectn:Gender/Race/Sexuality

Linguistics

• •  LGCS 110 PZ -Language & Gender

Political Studies

• •  POST 101 PZ -US Campaigns and Elections

Psychology

• •  PSYC 117 PZ -Children & Families: South Asia

Religious Studies

• •  RLST 106 PZ -Zen Buddhism

Sociology

• •  SOC 108 PZ -Moon Called Blk Wmn Preg&Chldbth
• •  SOC 157 PZ -Gender in American Society