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Dr. Chad Thomas, Director
The Women's and Gender Studies program brings together courses and faculty from several colleges of the university to provide an interdisciplinary experience leading to a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. As an area of scholarship, the principal focus is on the contributions, perspectives, and experiences of women in all areas of human endeavor, including the status, portrayal, or achievements of women in areas such as art, history, literature, science, business, engineering, and medicine. It also promotes greater understanding of gender as a fundamental category of meaning, examining the pervasive and often unacknowledged ways that gender shapes and changes our social institutions, individual knowledge, and interpersonal relationships. While the classes included as Women's and Gender Studies courses may be offered in various departments, the minor organizes these courses in a coherent structure such that the sum of the experiences offers a more comprehensive insight into the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies than the individual courses provide on their own.
A minor in Women's and Gender Studies consists of 21 semester hours, including one required course (WGS 200), three core courses, and three additional core or elective courses as shown in the following table. Core courses must include at least 3 semester hours of humanities and 3 semester hours of social sciences classes listed below. Students must also complete a portfolio and portfolio conference during their final semester at UAH. A student interested in minoring in Women's and Gender Studies should contact the director of the program for advising.
- 25% of the minor must be earned at UAH
- A minimum 2.0 GPA is required in the minor
- 12 of the 21 semester hours must be at the 300-level or higher
| Code | Title | Semester Hours |
|---|---|---|
| WGS Minor Requirements | 21 | |
| WGS 200 | INTRO WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES | 3 |
| Core Courses 3 courses required from the following, at least 3 hours in each category: 1,2,3 | 9 | |
| Humanities (at least 3 hours) | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART HY (Women in Antiquity OR Modern Women Artists) 3 | ||
| CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING | ||
| REP TEXTS-WOMEN WRITERS | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS ENGLISH STUDIES (Native Women's Literature) 3 | ||
| SHAKESPEARE I | ||
| SHAKESPEARE II | ||
| DRAMATIC LITERATURE | ||
| WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY | ||
| WOMEN IN MODERN EUROPEAN HIS | ||
| WOMEN & GENDER LATIN AMERICA | ||
| FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY | ||
| THEATRE HISTORY II | ||
| MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE | ||
| INTERNATIONAL CINEMA (Performing Gender & Sexuality) 3 | ||
| Social Sciences (at least 3 hours) | ||
| REGIONAL STUDIES (African Politics OR Latin American Politics) 3 | ||
| PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN | ||
| MARRIAGE AND FAMILY | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITY | ||
| WGS Advanced Courses (may substitute for Core courses) | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS 5 | ||
| INDEPENDENT STUDY 5 | ||
| Elective Course 4 | 9 | |
| Select up to 3 additional core courses or up to 3 elective courses from the following: | ||
| ARH SUR: WORLD ART | ||
| CONTEMPORARY ART & ISSUES | ||
| NINETEENTH CENTURY ART | ||
| PSYCHOBIOLOGY STRESS & ILLNESS | ||
| NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION | ||
or PY 330 | NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION | |
| INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| DARK SIDE INTERPERSONAL COMM | ||
| COMMUNICATION & CULTURE | ||
| MYTHOLOGY | ||
| LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY | ||
| THE AMERICAN NOVEL | ||
| SCIENCE FICTION | ||
| AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| ARTHURIAN ROMANCE | ||
| TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICAN HISTORY | ||
| FOOD AND WORLD HISTORY | ||
| U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS | ||
| COMPTV SLAVERY & ABOLITION | ||
| LATIN AMERICAN HIST THRU FILM | ||
| NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST | ||
| INTRO TO ETHICS | ||
| CONTINENTIAL PHILOSOPHY | ||
| PHILOSOPHY OF RACE | ||
| ADV MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Care Ethics) 4 | ||
| CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT | ||
or PHL 438 | CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT | |
| SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | ||
or SOC 375 | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | |
| PSYCHOBIOLOGY STRESS & ILLNESS | ||
or BYS 437 | PSYCHOBIOLOGY STRESS & ILLNESS | |
| RACE AND ETHNICITY | ||
| THEATRE HISTORY I | ||
| 1 | No more than 6 semester hours within a single subject area. |
| 2 | No more than two of the courses applied to the minor can be from the student's major field of study. One course may count towards both the major and the minor. |
| 3 | Approved Special Topics courses may count as "Core" courses toward the minor. Current approved Special Topics "Core" courses are: ARH 320, EH 440, PSC 440, SOC 340, and WLC 204. |
| 4 | Approved Special Topics courses may count as "Elective" courses toward the minor. Current approved Special Topics "Elective" courses are: PHL 403 |
| 5 | WGS 340 or WGS 499 may count as core courses in various subject areas if these courses carry 3 semester hours credit. |
Note:
New courses may be added to this list when approved for inclusion by the Women's and Gender Studies Program Advisory Committee. For current listing of approved Women's and Gender Studies courses and for additional information on the Women's and Gender Studies program, please see our website at www.uah.edu/la/departments/womens-studies/programs/minor