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 110SEX AND GENDER

4 sh

WGS 300CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN FEMINISM

4 sh

Select twelve semester hours from the following: 12 sh

ANT 324ANTHROPOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER

4 sh

ANT 329GENDER INEQUALITY ACROSS CULTURES

4 sh

ARH 320ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

4 sh

ARH 321ISSUES IN AMERICAN ART

4 sh

COR 326HUMAN SEXUALITY

4 sh

COR 327WOMEN, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

4 sh

COR 338AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE

4 sh

COR 346CHILDBIRTH

4 sh

COR 406WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES

4 sh

COR 453RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY

4 sh

DAN 320SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE

2-4 sh

ECO 317GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

4 sh

ENG 333WOMEN IN LITERATURE: FEMINIST APPROACHES

4 sh

GBL 286INDIA'S IDENTITIES: RELIGION, CASTE AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH INDIA

4 sh

HST 355ORAL HISTORY: NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN

4 sh

HST 364HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE U.S.

4 sh

HSS 311SOCIAL POLICY AND INEQUALITY

4 sh

HSS 349VIOLENCE IN FAMILIES

4 sh

HSS 351GLOBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

4 sh

IDS 212WOMEN, MEN AND SOCIETY

4 sh

IGS 141/POL 141INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

4 sh

MUS 469WOMEN IN MUSIC

4 sh

PHL 320RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY

4 sh

PHL 345SEX, GENDER, POWER

4 sh

PHL 346PHILOSOPHY OF THE BODY

4 sh

PSY 215THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

4 sh

PSY 315PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER

4 sh

PSY 367PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SEXUALITY

4 sh

REL 201BUDDHIST TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 203ISLAMIC TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 205JEWISH TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 326SEX LIVES OF SAINTS: SEX, GENDER AND FAMILY IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

4 sh

REL 343WOMEN, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE

4 sh

REL 360HINDU GODDESSES: FROM MYTHS TO MOVIES

4 sh

REL 361WOMEN, RELIGION AND ETHNOGRAPHY

4 sh

REL 363WOMEN IN ISLAM: VENERATION, VEILS AND VOICES

4 sh

REL 460SPECIAL TOPICS

SOC 311SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILIES

4 sh

SOC 345SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER

4 sh

WGS 371-79SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES

4 sh

WGS 461-69SEMINARS ON VARIOUS TOPICS

4 sh

WGS 481INTERNSHIP IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES

1-4 sh

WGS 491INDEPENDENT STUDY

1-4 sh

WGS 499INDEPENDENT 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

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