Each student enrolled in the Women's & Gender Studies minor is required to complete 18 credit hours of Women's & Gender Studies courses. Courses should optimally be taken in a sequence from general introductory courses to more specialized, upper division courses.

Each student is required to take the core course, Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies OR Honors Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies (INTR 01.130); and

Fifteen (15) credits of approved Women's and Gender Studies courses (ranked First and Second Tier), of which nine (9) credits must be from the First Tier.

Required Core Course (3 credits)
INTR 01.130 Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies OR Honors Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies

First Tier (minimum of three courses [9 credits] required)
ANTH 02322  Sex and Sex Roles in Cross Cultural Perspective
ARHS 03230  Survey of Women Artists

ARHS 03425  Special Topics:  Art and the Women’s Movement
CMS  04310   Images of Gender in Popular Culture
CMS  04320  Communicating Gender
CMS  04327  Women and Nonbinary Identities in Sports Communication
ENGL 02200  Gender, Sexuality, and Literature
ENGL 02269  Queer Literature
HIST 05417  Women in Islam
HIST 05418  Women in Europe to 1700
HIST 05419  Women in Modern Europe
HIST 05423  Women in Early American History
HIST 05424  Women in Modern American History
HIST 05425  History of Feminisms
HIST 05455  Gender, Sexuality and History
LAWJ 05346  Women, Crime and Criminal Justice
PHIL 09311  Aesthetics:  Feminist Aesthetics
PHIL 09328  Philosophy and Gender
PHIL 09329  Philosophy and Gender (Writing Intensive)
PHIL 09346  Feminist Ethics
PHRE 11269  Introduction to Queer Theory (note:  cannot count both PHRE 11269 and PHRE 01140
            Queer Theory)
PHRE 11469  Topics in Queer Theory
POSC 07311  Women in American Politics
PSY  01200  Psychology of Women and Cultural Experience
REL  10335  Sex and the Bible
RTF  03272  Images of Women in Film
SOC  08370. Sociology of Women in Society
SOC  08440. Selected Topics: Men and Masculinity
SOC  08493  Seminar on Gender Roles
WA   01404  Special Topics:  Reclaiming Our Time:  Empowering Black Women

Second Tier (maximum of two courses [6 credits] counted)

CMS  04323  Images of Athletes in Popular Culture
CMS  04375  Special Topics:  Images of Identity
CMS  04440  Rhetoric of Reality Television (also RTF 10525)
ENGL 02205  Adolescent Literature
ENGL 02212  Native American Literature
ENGL 02123  Topics in Literature:  Adolescent Literature
ENGL 02123  Topics in Literature:  U.S. Latino/a Literature
ENGL 02305  Contemporary Children’s Literature OR
ENGL 02317  Children’s Literature:  Texts and Contexts OR Honors Children’s Literature: Texts
            and Contexts (note:  cannot count both ENGL 02305 and ENGL 02317)
HIST 05429  Special Topics: History of Witchcraft
HIST 05443  Special Topics:  Childhood and Youth in Africa
HIST 05450  History of Childhood and Youth in America
PHIL 09260  Philosophy and Ethics of Love
POSC 07323  The Politics of Poverty:  Class, Gender, and Race in America
PSY  01423  Seminar:  Eating Disorders
PSY  05310  Psychology of Human Sexuality
RTF  01402  Special Topics:  Queer Film
RTF  03485  Deconstructing Disney
SOC  08220  Sociology of the Family
SOC  08281  Sexuality and Society

Special topics courses or thematic seminars in various disciplines may be approved for the minor when appropriate.  Contact the coordinator of the program for more information and pre-approval.

For more information or questions, contact Dr. Melissa R. Klapper at klapper@rowan.edu.