Introduction

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The Women's and Gender Studies Minor gives students the opportunity to explore gender issues in the humanities and social sciences.

These program requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their major, minor and CLAS advisors to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

For more information about this minor, contact the Women's and Gender Studies Undergraduate Advisor, Lorna Hutchison (Lorna.Hutchison@ucdenver.edu).

Program Delivery

• This is an on-campus program.

Declaring This Minor

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General Requirements

Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the minor. 

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Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 18 WGST-related credit hours.

2. Students must complete a minimum of 12 upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours in the minor, chosen from the approved courses below.

3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the minor and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to minor requirements.

4. Students must complete a minimum of 12 credit hours with CU Denver faculty chosen from the approved courses below.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. All courses for the minor must be approved by a WGST advisor. Students may double count up to six credits being applied to other graduation requirements (major, certificate or general education).

2. Students are strongly urged to take at least one course that focuses on international perspectives on women's and gender issues.

3. Students have the option to complete an internship working in the community around issues related to women and gender. The alternative to this is a WGST capstone course at the 4000 level.

4. Students who major in Sociology and complete the Gender and Society option will automatically earn a Women's and Gender Studies Minor

Women's and Gender Studies Minor Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete the following required course:		3
WGST 1050	Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Complete 12 credit hours of WGST-related courses at the 3000-level or above. Eligible courses include, but are not limited to:		12
HUMANITIES
ENGL 4000	Studies of Major Authors and Directors (depending on author or director being studied; e.g., Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, George Sand, etc.)
ENGL 4290	Rhetoric and the Body
ETST 4768	Chicano/Chicana Narrative and Social History
PHIL 3500	Ideology and Culture: Racism and Sexism
RLST 4000	Religion and Cultural Diversity
WGST 3020	Gender, Sexuality and Race in American Popular Culture
WGST/HIST 3343	Women & Gender in US History
WGST/ENGL 3450	Contemporary Women Writers
WGST 4010	Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies
WGST/HIST 4225/GEOG 4625	Urban America
WGST/HIST 4230	Women in the West
WGST/HIST 4303	Sex and Gender in Modern Britain
WGST/ENGL/HIST 4306	Survey of Feminist Thought
WGST/HIST 4307	History of Sexuality
WGST/ENGL/PHIL 4308	Contemporary Feminist Thought
WGST/HIST 4345	Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present
WGST/RLST 4420	Goddess Traditions
WGST/PHIL 4500	Feminist Philosophy
WGST/ENGL 4510/RLST 4730	Whores and Saints: Medieval Women
WGST 4511/FREN 4510	French Women Writers
WGST 4540/SPAN 4340	Race, Class, and Gender in Spanish Golden Age Literature
WGST/RLST 4710	Women and Religion
WGST/PHIL 4933	Philosophy of Eros
SOCIAL SCIENCES
ANTH 4200	Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH 4260	Human Reproductive Ecology
COMM 3271	Communication and Diversity
COMM 3275	Family Communication
COMM 4265	Gender and Communication
COMM 4268	Communication and Diversity in U.S. History
CRJU 4190	Gender and Crime
ECON 3100	Economics of Race and Gender
ECON 3400	Economics of Sex and Drugs
HDFR 4010	Family and Cultural Diversity
PBHL 3010	Human Sexuality and Public Health
PBHL 4200	The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
PSCI 3034	Race, Gender, Law and Public Policy
PSCI 3035	Political Movements: Race and Gender
PSYC 3235	Human Sexuality
PSYC 3405	Family Psychology
PSYC 3611	Psychology of Women
PSYC 3612	Domestic Abuse
SOCY 4110	Sociology of Health Care
WGST/SOCY 3010	Sociology of Human Sexuality
WGST/SOCY 3080	Sex and Gender
WGST/SOCY 3700	Families and Society
WGST/PSCI 4150	Gender Politics in the Middle East: Beyond Orientalism & Islamism
WGST/PSCI 4215	Women's Rights, Human Rights: Global Perspectives
WGST/PSCI 4248	Gender, Development and Globalization
WGST/SOCY 4270	Social Meanings of Reproduction
WGST/ETST 4305	Women of Color Feminisms
WGST/PSCI 4555	International Women's Resistance
WGST/PSCI 4564	Gender and Politics
WGST/COMM 4610	Communication, Media, and Sex
WGST/COMM 4660	Queer Media Studies
WGST/SOCY 4780	Violence in Relationships
WGST/PSCI 4827	Women and the Law
Complete one of the following Women's and Gender Studies Capstone courses:		3
WGST 3939	Internship
WGST/ENGL/HIST 4306	Survey of Feminist Thought
WGST/PHIL 4308	Contemporary Feminist Thought
Total Hours		18

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