Minor Requirements

The GWSS minor is a five-course (5) program consisting of one (1) required core class and four (4) electives. Note: no more than three courses from one department can be counted toward the minor.

Core coursework

All students minoring in GWSS must take at least one of the following core courses:

CTSJ 140	Critical Theories of Sexuality	4 units
DWA 230	Gender and International Human Rights	4 units
HIST 237	Changing Views of Gender, Women, and Sexualities	4 units
POLS 321	Gender and Politics in the Developing World	4 units
SOC 265	Gender and Society	4 units

All of the core courses examine gender, women, and sexuality, and approach these concepts from an intersectional perspective, emphasizing their interconnections with different bases of identity and multiple systems of oppression, including race and class.

Electives

In addition to completing one core course, students will take four additional courses from the list below to fulfill the minor. Note that the five courses for the minor must be taken in at least three different departments.

AMST 240	African American Women Writers	4 units
AMST 268	American Beauty: Race, Fashion, and the Female Body	4 units
AMST 325	Toni Morrison and African-American Self-Fashioning	4 units
ARTH 250/MAC 251	American Indians in Film	4 units
CTSJ 160	Introduction to Feminist Studies	4 units
CTSJ 210	Mother Goose to Mash-Ups: Children's Literature and Popular Texts	4 units
CTSJ 222	Body Politics	4 units
CTSJ 230	Fundamentals of Queer Theory	4 units
CTSJ 233	Queer Literature and Culture	4 units
CTSJ 234	Materialist Feminism	4 units
CTSJ 255	Women of Color	4 units
CTSJ 261	Race, Gender, Class, and the Media	4 units
CTSJ 311	Children, Poverty, and Public Policies	4 units
CTSJ 332	Psychic Life of Violence	4 units
CTSJ 335	Queer of Color Critique	4 units
CTSJ 337	Queer Los Angeles: Cruising the Archive	4 units
CTSJ 360	Methodologies of Gender and Women’s Studies	4 units
CTSJ 361	Gender, Race, and Nationality in Latin American and Latinx Film	4 units
DWA 230	Gender and International Human Rights	4 units
DWA 231	Gender and International Relations	4 units
DWA 329	Junior Seminar: Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons	4 units
ECON 327	Economics of Gender - Marriage, Motherhood, and Money	4 units
ECON 328	Economics of Race and Gender	4 units
ENGL 159	Lavender Cowboys: Power and Gender in the American Western	4 units
ENGL 248	Money, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century Novel	4 units
ENGL 274	Women Writers	4 units
FREN 365	Seminar in a Literary Theme: French Feminism	4 units
HIST 150/LLAS 150	Colonial Latin America	4 units
HIST 182	The Social and Cultural History of the Modern Middle East	4 units
HIST 206	History of American Women	4 units
HIST 220	Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence	4 units
HIST 237	Changing Views of Gender, Women, and Sexualities	4 units
HIST 258/LLAS 258	Mexican Politics in the Twentieth Century	4 units
HIST 277	Women and Community Health	4 units
HIST 282	The Muslim World in Modern Times	4 units
HIST 353	Catholicism and Social Justice in the Americas	4 units
HIST 359	Mexico-United States Borderlands	4 units
HIST 385	Identity Formation in the Modern Middle East and Africa	4 units
JAPN 273	Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Tokugawa Japan	4 units
MAC 244	Topics in Media Representation	4 units
PHIL 235	Feminism	4 units
PHIL 353	Health and Social Justice	4 units
POLS 321	Gender and Politics in the Developing World	4 units
PSYC 350	Psychology of Gender	4 units
RELS 266	Sexuality and Gender in Buddhism	4 units
RELS 282	"Good" Sex: History of Christian Sexual Ethics	4 units
RELS 305	Islam, Gender and Sexuality	4 units
SOC 225	Masculinities	4 units
SOC 230	Marriage and Family	4 units
SOC 255	Youth Culture in United States Society	4 units
SOC 265	Gender and Society	4 units
SOC 320	Health and Illness	4 units
SOC 355	Power and Sexuality	4 units
WRD 265	Feminist Rhetoric and Social Change	4 units