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Gender & Women's studies minor

Resources

Courses

GWS Chair

The Department Chair for Gender & Women's Studies is Dr. Nayereh Tohidi.

Please follow the link to Dr. Tohidi's webpage (below) for her office hours and contact information.

Advising

Dr. Sheena Malhotra will serve as the Advisor for Gender & Women's Studies in Spring 2008.

Please come in and see the GWS Advisor if you have any questions about your class scheduling or if you are considering Gender & Women's Studies as a major or minor.

Helpful Forms for GWS majors
Links to GWS Clubs & Organizations

Gender & Women's Studies Minor Requirements

Part of Mural at Women's Center

Students who declare themselves Gender & Women's Studies minors must take 4 core courses (12 units), plus 3 courses (9 units) of Women's Studies electives.

Students who have already taken some Gender and Women's Studies elective may apply them retroactively to the minor.

The Gender and Women's Studies minor compliments many majors such as Psychology, Sociology, English, Communication, Business, Law, etc. It provides a background for various careers such as law, counseling and healthcare or advanced graduate degrees in fields such as Women's Studies, education, communication, politic, cultural and media studies.

Requirements for the Minor

The minor in Gender & Women's Studies is a 21 unit minor. It consists of 4 required courses (1 lower division and 3 upper division), plus 3 electives.

Required Courses - Lower Division (3 Units)

Students are required to take EITHER GWS 200 or GWS 210 to fulfill lower division requirements

GWS200 - Introduction to Women's Studies (3)

An interdisciplinary study of women in American society, including such topics as social conditions, laws, symbols, values, communication, and power. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies F-3)

OR

GWS210 - Women, Work, and the Family (3)

Focuses on historical and contemporary relationship between home and community work and the marketplace within which women perform.   Examines the differences in experience of work and family as these are shaped by race, class, gender and sexuality. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies.)

Upper Division Requirements (9 Units)

GWS300 - Women as Agents of Change (3)

Prerequisite: GWS200 or GWS210 or consent of the instructor, and completion of the lower-division writing requirement. New definitions and options for women within the family, community, and society. Students study and report on women's resources and organizations for change within the local community as well as on the national and international scene. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies F-3)

GWS 301 - Feminist Theories

Prerequisite: GWS200, GWS210 or GWS300, or consent of the instructor. Course explores many different kinds of feminist theories historical and contemporary (Fall Semester Only).

GWS 400 - Women's Studies Senior Seminar

Prerequisite: GWS301, or consent of the instructor. Variable themes. With emphasis on examination of multiple levels of women's relationship to power cross-culturally (economic, political, social, personal, symbolic), students produce research paper(s) which integrate the multidisciplinary field. (Spring Semester Only).

Upper Division Electives (9 Units)

9 units of electives must be taken from the list below. Select a course from each of the following sections. At least six units of electives must be at the 300- or 400-level. Experimental and Selected Topics Courses, upon approval of the Women's Studies Chair or Advisor, may fulfill electives required for the Women's Studies minor.

I. History, Philosophy, and Institutions - Choose 1 class from this list


ANTH 308 Women, Sex Roles and Culture (3)
BLAW 391 Women and the Law (3)
HSCI 231 Introduction to Public Policy (3)
HIST 349 Women in American History (3)
HIST 350 History of Women (3)
LSRC 330 Women, Leisure, and Ethnicity in the U.S. (3)
PHIL 348 Philosophy and Feminism (3)
POLS 448 Women and Politics (3)
RS 304 Women and Religion (3)
SOC 324 Sociology of Sex Roles (3)
SOC 325 Sex Roles and Work (3)

II. Ethnic Studies and Diversity - Choose 1 class from this list


GWS 350 Intersections of Gender, Race, Class & Sexuality (3)
GWS 420 Women and Gender in Islamic Societies (3)
AAS 340 Asian American Women (3)
CHS 246 Contemporary Issues of the Chicana (3)
CHS 346 History of the Chicana/Mexicana (3)
CHS 365 Third World Women & the Chicana (3)
CHS 366 Women in Latin America (3)
CHS 381 Contemporary Chicana Literature
PAS 324 The Black Woman in Contemporary Times (3)
PAS 3461 Contemporary Black Female Writers (3)
GWS/JS 330 Women in the Jewish Experience (3)

III. Humanities, Communication, and the Arts - Choose 1 class from this list


GWS 410 Sex, Lies & Media (3)
ART 468 Women in the Visual Arts (3)
COMS 335 Studies in Women's Rhetoric (3)
COMS 360 Communication and the Sexes (3)
COMS 435 Rhetoric of Women (3)
ENGL 369   Lesbian Writers (3)
ENGL 431 Images of Women in Literature (3)
ENGL 433   Survey of Women Authors (3)
ENGL 434 Nineteenth Century Women Novelists (3)
JOUR 371 Women and the Media (3)
RTVF 413 Women as Filmmakers (3)

Total Number of Units........21