Undergraduate Course Catalog 2006-2007

College of Liberal Arts

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The women’s studies minor offers students an interdisciplinary introduction to the status and contributions of women in various cultures and historical eras. (For a more complete description, see Women’s Studies.)

For the women’s studies minor, students must complete 20 credits of women’s studies courses. These must include WS 401, Introduction to Women’s Studies, and WS 798, Colloquium in Women’s Studies, normally taken at the beginning and end of the course sequence, respectively. In between, students should select other women’s studies courses or cross-listed courses from departmental offerings.

Other women’s studies courses are WS 595, Special Topics in Women’s Studies; WS 632, Feminist Thought; WS 795, Independent Study; WS 796, Advanced Topics in Women’s Studies; and WS 797, Internships.

Departmental offerings include the following regularly repeated courses:

ARTS 487, Themes and Images in Art: Major Mythic Images of Women
ARTS 690, Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
CMN 567, Images of Gender in the Media
CMN 583, Gender and Expression
ECON 698, Topics in Economics: Women in Economic Development
ENGL 585, Introduction to Women in Literature
ENGL 586, Introduction to Women Writers
ENGL 685, Women’s Literary Traditions
ENGL 785, Major Women Writers
FS 545, Family Relations
FS 757, Race, Class, Gender, and Families
HIST 565, Women in Modern Europe
HIST 566, Women in American History
NURS 595, Women’s Health
PHIL 510, Philosophy and Feminism
SOC/ANTH 625, Female, Male, and Society
SOC 630, Sociology of Gender

Students may complete the minor requirements by selecting from other courses that are offered as special topics by the departments. In the past, such offerings have included the following: ANTH 697, Women in the Middle East; FREN 525, French Women: Subject and Object.

Students who wish to minor in women’s studies should consult with the coordinator, 203 Huddleston Hall, (603) 862-2194.