Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

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The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor at Longwood University offers students an interdisciplinary program that incorporates an understanding of gender and sexual perspectives in all areas of the curriculum. Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies creates a framework for examining the historical, cultural, political, economic, and global conditions central to understanding human beings as gendered and sexual people and the processes of gender and sexual construction for all humans. It recognizes that not only gender, but also race, class, ethnicity, age, ability and sexual orientation are crucial aspects of being human. Because issues of gender and sexuality cut across most areas of knowledge, students can raise similar questions within different disciplines and by using various methodologies achieve a deeper understanding of the complexity and wholeness of human experience.

Minor Requirements (18 credits)

In order to complete a minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, students must:

File a form of intention to pursue the minor at the Office of the Registrar
Earn a grade point average of 2.0 in those courses chosen to meet the minor requirements,
Successfully complete either WGST 110 or WGST 115 , and
Complete 15 hours of course work (including at least 9 hours at the 300 or 400 level) from minor-approved courses listed below.

In addition to the courses below, students are encouraged to participate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies events on campus.

ANTH 325 - Gender and Society 3 credits
ART 360 - Women in the Visual Arts 3 credits
COMM 470 - Gender and Communication 3 credits
CRIM 323 - Gender and Crime 3 credits.
ECON 411 - Economics of Labor and Discrimination 3 credits.
ENGL 358 - Women and Film 3 credits
ENGL 432 - Women and Literature 3 credits
HLTH 430 - Women’s Health and Health Care Issues 3 credits.
HIST 321 - The History of Women in America 3 credits.
PSYC 350 - Psychology of Sex and Gender 3 credits.
SOCL 233 - Introduction to Social Inequality and Difference 3 credits
SOCL 241 - Marriage and the Family 3 credits.
SOCL 325 - Gender and Society 3 credits
SOCL 351 - Sociology of Family Violence 3 credits
SOWK 309 - Human Sexual Adjustment 3 credits.
SOWK 325 - Human Diversity: Populations-at-Risk 3 credits
WGST 295 - Selected topics in Women’s and Gender Studies 1-3 credits.
WGST 390 - Directed or Independent Study. 1-18 credits.
WGST 489 - Directed Study 2-3 credits.
WGST 490 - Directed or Independent Study 1-18 credits.
WGST 492 - Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies 1-6 credits.
WGST 495 - Special Topics 1-6 credits.
(and other courses to be approved by the Women’s and Gender Studies Committee)