Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Minor
Coordinators: Assistant Professors Guilmette and Savloff
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
| WGS1100 | Sex and Gender | 4 sh |
| WGS3000 | Current Controversies in Feminism | 4 sh |
Select twelve semester hours from the following: 12 sh
| ANT3240 | Anthropology of Sex and Gender | 4 sh |
| ANT3290 | Gender Inequality Across Cultures | 4 sh |
| ARH3200 | Issues in Contemporary Art | 4 sh |
| ARH3210 | Issues in American Art | 4 sh |
| COR3260 | Human Sexuality | 4 sh |
| COR3270 | Women, Culture and Development | 4 sh |
| COR3380 | American Adolescence | 4 sh |
| COR3460 | Childbirth | 4 sh |
| COR4060 | Women's Health Issues | 4 sh |
| COR4530 | Reclaiming Democracy | 4 sh |
| DAN3200 | Special Topics in Dance | 2-4 sh |
| ECO3410 | Gender and Development | 4 sh |
| ENG3920 | Women in Literature: Feminist Approaches | 4 sh |
| GBL2860 | India's Identities: Religion, Caste and Gender in Contemporary South India | 4 sh |
| HST3550 | Oral History: North Carolina Women | 4 sh |
| HST3640 | History of Women in the U.S. | 4 sh |
| HSS3110 | Social Policy and Inequality | 4 sh |
| HSS3490 | Violence in Families | 4 sh |
| HSS3510 | Global Violence Against Women | 4 sh |
| IDS2120 | Women, Men and Society | 4 sh |
| IGS1410/POL1410 | International Relations | 4 sh |
| MUS4400 | Women in Music | 4 sh |
| PHL3200 | Reclaiming Democracy | 4 sh |
| PHL3450 | Sex, Gender, Power | 4 sh |
| PHL3460 | Philosophy of the Body | 4 sh |
| PSY2210 | The Psychology of Personal Relationships | 4 sh |
| PSY3520 | Psychology of Sex and Gender | 4 sh |
| PSY3550 | Psychological Perspectives on Human Sexuality | 4 sh |
| REL1810 | Buddhist Traditions | 4 sh |
| REL1830 | Islamic Traditions | 4 sh |
| REL1850 | Jewish Traditions | 4 sh |
| REL3260 | Sex Lives of Saints: Sex, Gender, and Ancient Mediterranean Religions | 4 sh |
| REL3600 | Hindu Goddesses: From Myths to Movies | 4 sh |
| REL3610 | Women, Religion and Ethnography | 4 sh |
| REL3630 | Women in Islam: Veneration, Veils and Voices | 4 sh |
| REL4600 | Special Topics | |
| SOC3110 | Sociology of Families | 4 sh |
| SOC3450 | Sociocultural Perspectives on Gender | 4 sh |
| WGS3710-3790 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES | 4 sh |
| WGS4610-690 | SEMINARS ON VARIOUS TOPICS | 4 sh |
| WGS4985 | Internship in Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies | 1-4 sh |
| WGS4991 | Independent Study | 1-4 sh |
| WGS4999 | Independent Research | 1-4 sh |
WGS 4985: (one to four semester hours) or discipline-specific internship approved to count in WGS minor.
Total Credit Hours: 20