Undergraduate
Minors
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program at IUPUI provides undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue a sequence of courses in a growing academic discipline.
The uniqueness of WGSS lies both in its interdisciplinary approach to learningand in the timely opportunity it offers for the study of issues often neglected by scholarship. Completion of the WGSS minor may provide an additional basis for pursuing further education in law, psychology, history, literature, communication studies, social work, and business administration, among many other fields. For students who do not continue professional or graduate work in an academic discipline, specializing in WGSS may provide a useful background in careers that require understanding of women, gender roles, and sexual identity, such as paralegal and probation work, secondary and elementary school counseling, journalism, and community agency service.
A minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school,
- completion of 16 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course, including WGSS-W 105 and WGSS-W 499
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/admissions/update-major-form.html
- the WGSS minor form and approval of the Director of WGSS
Minor Requirements:
- WGSS-W 105: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 cr.)
- 12 credits in WGSS or cross-listed classes chosen with Director approval (divided among the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and/ or other), see list below
- WGSS-W 499: Senior Colloquium in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1 cr.) This course is an independent study that is arranged with a full-time faculty member and approval of the Director, a semester in advance.
Choose twelve credit hours (12 cr.) from the following courses:
- AFRO-A 303: Topics in African American and African Diaspora Studies*
- AMST-A 303: Topics in American Studies*
- ANTH-E 391: Women in Developing Countries
- ANTH-E 403: Women of Color in the U.S.
- BIOL-N 200: Biology of Women
- COMM-C 299/G391: Communicating Queer Identity
- COMM-C 383: Women and Leadership
- COMM-C 395: Gender and Communication
- COMM-R 350: Women Speak: American Feminist Rhetoric
- ECON-E 307: Current Economic Issues*
- ENG-L 207: Women and Literature
- ENG-L 378: Studies in Women and Literature*
- ENG-L 406: Topics in African American Literature*
- ENG-L 440: Senior Seminar in English and American Literature*
- FILM-C 390: The Film and Society*
- FOLK-F 363 Women’s Folklore, Folklife, and Music
- HER-H 304: Advanced Topics in Art History*
- HER-H 340: Women in Art
- HER-H 400: Topics and Methods in Art History*
- HIST-A 341: U.S. Women's History I
- HIST-A 342: U.S. Women’s History II
- HIST-B 421: Topics in European History*
- HIST-H 421: Topics in History*
- HPER-F 255: Human Sexuality
- HPER-H 305: Women's Health
- HPER-H 317: Teaching Human Sexuality Education
- JOUR-C 201: Topics in Journalism*
- JOUR-J 360: Sex and the Media
- JOUR-J 475: Race, Gender and the Media
- LSTU-L 292: Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- LSTU-L 385: Class, Race, Gender and Work
- LSTU-L 390: Topics in Labor Studies*
- MUS-Z 320: Special Topics in Music*
- OLS 45400: Gender and Diversity in Management
- PHIL-P 367: Philosophy and Art
- PHIL-P 394: Feminist Philosophy
- POLS-Y 324: Women and Politics
- POLS-Y 380: Selected Topics in Democratic Government*
- PSY-B 376: The Psychology of Women
- REL-R 301: Women and Religion
- REL-R 398: Women in American Indian Religions
- SOC-R 320: Sexuality and Society
- SOC-R 321: Women and Health
- SOC-R 325: Gender and Society
- SPEA-V 260: Topics in Public Affairs*
- WLAC-F 360: Women and Islam
- WGSS-W 300: Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
*Only the selected titles approved by the director in these topics courses will be counted toward the minor.
