Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Minor
Coordinator: Associate Professor Glasco
The Elon Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies program offers an interdisciplinary collection of courses focusing on the study of the ways human lives have been organized around gender, sexualities, and inequality on those bases. Diverse faculty members offer rigorous and compelling courses that incorporate up-to-date scholarship. The extensive course offerings differ from year to year and come from a variety of fields, including upper-level interdisciplinary seminars.
Courses in the WGSS minor raise awareness of how gender and/or sexuality interacts with race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic class, religion, and age to affect human experience. Courses emphasize detailed analysis and reflection about gender and sexualities that encourages critical thinking about the world around us. WGSS minors, who are across the gender spectrum, integrate knowledge across disciplines and seek to connect knowledge through applied experiences. They are educated citizens committed to justice and equality.
A minor in WGSS complements any major and contributes to personal growth as well. Elon WGSS minors go to graduate school; they have careers in social services, business, politics, teaching and many other fields; and they make a distinctive impact on their families and communities.
Minor Requirements
Required courses: 8 sh
| WGS 110 | SEX AND GENDER | 4 sh |
| WGS 300 | CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN FEMINISM | 4 sh |
Select twelve semester hours from the following: 12 sh
| ANT 324 | ANTHROPOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER | 4 sh |
| ANT 329 | GENDER INEQUALITY ACROSS CULTURES | 4 sh |
| ARH 320 | ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART | 4 sh |
| ARH 321 | ISSUES IN AMERICAN ART | 4 sh |
| COR 326 | HUMAN SEXUALITY | 4 sh |
| COR 327 | WOMEN, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT | 4 sh |
| COR 338 | AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE | 4 sh |
| COR 346 | CHILDBIRTH | 4 sh |
| COR 406 | WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES | 4 sh |
| COR 453 | RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY | 4 sh |
| DAN 320 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE | 2-4 sh |
| ECO 317 | GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT | 4 sh |
| ENG 333 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE: FEMINIST APPROACHES | 4 sh |
| GBL 286 | INDIA'S IDENTITIES: RELIGION, CASTE AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH INDIA | 4 sh |
| HST 355 | ORAL HISTORY: NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN | 4 sh |
| HST 364 | HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE U.S. | 4 sh |
| HSS 311 | SOCIAL POLICY AND INEQUALITY | 4 sh |
| HSS 349 | VIOLENCE IN FAMILIES | 4 sh |
| HSS 351 | GLOBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | 4 sh |
| IDS 212 | WOMEN, MEN AND SOCIETY | 4 sh |
| IGS 141/POL 141 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | 4 sh |
| MUS 469 | WOMEN IN MUSIC | 4 sh |
| PHL 320 | RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY | 4 sh |
| PHL 345 | SEX, GENDER, POWER | 4 sh |
| PHL 346 | PHILOSOPHY OF THE BODY | 4 sh |
| PSY 215 | THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS | 4 sh |
| PSY 315 | PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER | 4 sh |
| PSY 367 | PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SEXUALITY | 4 sh |
| REL 201 | BUDDHIST TRADITIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 203 | ISLAMIC TRADITIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 205 | JEWISH TRADITIONS | 4 sh |
| REL 326 | SEX LIVES OF SAINTS: SEX, GENDER AND FAMILY IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY | 4 sh |
| REL 343 | WOMEN, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE | 4 sh |
| REL 360 | HINDU GODDESSES: FROM MYTHS TO MOVIES | 4 sh |
| REL 361 | WOMEN, RELIGION AND ETHNOGRAPHY | 4 sh |
| REL 363 | WOMEN IN ISLAM: VENERATION, VEILS AND VOICES | 4 sh |
| REL 460 | SPECIAL TOPICS | |
| SOC 311 | SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILIES | 4 sh |
| SOC 345 | SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER | 4 sh |
| WGS 371-79 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES | 4 sh |
| WGS 461-69 | SEMINARS ON VARIOUS TOPICS | 4 sh |
| WGS 481 | INTERNSHIP IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES | 1-4 sh |
| WGS 491 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 1-4 sh |
| WGS 499 | INDEPENDENT RESEARCH | 1-4 sh |
WGS 481: (one to four semester hours) or discipline-specific internship cross-listed with WGS
*Other courses cross-listed with disciplines will be offered from time to time with a suffix “WG” or parenthetical phrase indicating that they may be used to fulfill Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies requirements.
Total Credit Hours: 20