Gain a new perspective on the world with a minor in women and gender studies.
这门实用辅修很好地补充了我们提供的任何专业, including Spanish, psychology, sociology, 创意写作与人类学. You’ll learn to look at the world from a gender-sensitive perspective — a valuable skill no matter what career path you plan to take.
我们将帮助你为社会工作等领域的职业做好准备, human resources, 刑事司法和保健. 我们的许多未成年人也会继续攻读博士学位.
Inside women & gender studies
Whether you’re a history major wanting to examine our past through a new lens, a psychology major looking to better understand gender roles or a creative writing major seeking to fully develop your characters, 辅修女性与性别研究对你有好处.
你会看到跨学科, personally picking classes in everything from philosophy to biology to politics to art. 你会发现和探索女性生活的各种现实, while striving to understand how cultural attitudes and social structure affect both men and women.
当你在萨斯奎汉纳大学注册时, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. 以下是节选自 完整课程目录. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, 咨询他们的导师和学生 Academic Planning Tool.
Learning Goals
把性别作为分析的工具.
强调性别及其与种族的关系, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, 地理和其他身份标志.
证明理论与实践之间的联系.
Minor Requirements
辅修课程包括20个学时, 包括WGST-100妇女与性别研究概论(4 SH), with the remaining semester hours coming from the array of courses listed under the “Courses” tab, as well as other women’s studies courses offered on occasion by individual departments.
对跨学科未成年人的重复计算限制
Only 4 semester hours of this minor may be double-counted toward the student’s major.
妇女与性别研究导论 focuses on issues relating to women and their lives, 以及性别对他们的影响. 它还考虑了交叉性的主题. Finally, 它反映了理论之间的联系, 女权主义理论和实践/行动主义. 4 SH. CC:多样性，社会互动.
对各种形式的女权主义哲学的考察.g., liberal feminism, radical feminism, existential feminism, 马克思主义/社会主义女权主义, 精神分析女性主义, postmodern feminism, eco-feminism, 多元文化与全球女权主义). 强调女权主义与一般(错误)理解的区别. Some attention is also given to various women in professional philosophy. Same as PHIL-212. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or one course in women and gender studies or completion of the Diversity Central Curriculum requirement or instructor’s permission. 4 SH. CC: Diversity.
An extensive inquiry into women’s stories and images in the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, 以及圣经时期的相关文献. 探讨女性在圣经叙事中扮演的角色范围, the variety of metaphorical/symbolic uses of femininity in biblical traditions, and legal and ethical precepts related to the status of women in the biblical period. 社会科学的方法和途径, history, literary studies, and theology, 受到女权主义理论的影响, 将作为本研究的主要指导. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and one course from the following: a course in religious studies, women’s studies, a course in English, a course in history, or DIVS-100. 同JWST-207和rei -207. 4 SH. CC:多样性强化，跨学科，写作强化.
对妇女在美国社会中所扮演角色的介绍性考察.S. political system. The course includes a theoretical and historical view of the development of women’s political activity in the United States, 以及当代女性作为积极分子的观点, voters, and candidates. 在适当情况下纳入当前的问题. 前提条件:大二. 4 SH. CC:多样性密集，跨学科.
批判性地研究人们如何看待女性, portrayed, 并参与了世界上许多宗教, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, 以及妇女的精神运动. 前提条件:大二. Same as RELI-225. 4 SH. CC:多样性强化，跨学科，写作强化.
This course examines the emergence and development of the female action heroine in film over the course of the last fifty years within the popular “action film” genre. This course critically evaluates visual and thematic markers of femininity, masculinity, sexuality, race, and class with respect to representations of female action heroines in a variety of films. Same as FILM-240. 4 SH. CC:艺术表达，多样性密集.
Through the reading and analysis of various genres of play texts written by a diverse collection of playwrights, this course analyzes theatre’s unique ability to engage with both the agenda and the trauma of violence. Students in this course will learn to consider violence as a tool of oppression that reinforces power structures and as an expression of trauma by those un-empowered by the same societal power structures. Same as THEA-240. 4 SH. CC:多样性强化，道德强化.
检查性别差异的遗传和生物学基础, 女性身体的独特生理特征, 以及妇女保健问题. 主题包括女性生殖解剖学和月经周期, pregnancy and birth, 两性的发育差异, 生殖技术. Also covers problems such as breast cancer, premenstrual syndrome, and osteoporosis. Includes the role of women in the health care system, as well as biology and science in general. 不包括生物主修或辅修学分. Same as BIOL-157. 4 SH. CC:多样性密集.
A study of the historic perception and the social history of the role of women in art: as artist, as subject of art, 作为艺术的赞助人(观众). Emphasizes exploration and debate over issues affecting present day perceptions about the woman artist of the past and the future. Same as ARTH-313. 前提条件:大二. 4 SH. CC:艺术表达，多样性密集, Interdisciplinary, Writing Intensive.
本课程探讨了当地各种类型的基于性别的暴力, 国内和国际视角. Gender based violence is any act that is perpetrated against a person’s will and is based on gender norms and unequal power relationship and is often more prevalent in marginalized communities (ie LGBTQ+ identified persons, women of color, etc). This course analyzes manifestations of gender-based violence through various cultural lenses and ethical theories to better understand the intersectionality of gender-based violence. 4 SH.
Explores current theory and research in the development of gender and consequences of gender roles. Covers evolutionary, biological, psychoanalytic, cognitive, social learning, 以及跨文化的性别视角, as well as approaches that seek to understand interactions among these influences. 先决条件:初级地位和心理101或社会101. Same as PSYC-334. 4 SH. CC:多样性，写作密集.
探讨文学中的女性等主题的课程, literature by women, 文学与性, 文学中的性别建构, 女权主义文学理论. Same as ENGL-365. 4 SH. CC: Writing Intensive.
This course traces the history of American women from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. 它考虑了与性别有关的美国妇女的历史, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and religion. Same as HIST-370. 4 SH.
研究性别和社会性别在组织中的作用. Special attention is given to topics relevant to women working in organizations, 如性别和性别差异在:职业/工作偏好, advancement and pay, teamwork, leadership, 职场中的性行为与工作与家庭的平衡. 其他讨论的话题包括敌意vs. benevolent sexism, as well as practices designed to increase diversity within organizations. 课程以研讨会的形式进行. 前提条件:初级地位或教练的许可. Same as MGMT-468. 2 SH. CC:多样性密集.
Occasional offerings of specialized courses exploring topics of pertinent interest to faculty members and students. 2-4 SH.
Individual work on a focused topic or specialized area in women’s studies/the study of gender. Course requirements may be fulfilled in a variety of ways: library research culminating in a major paper; work at an internship site leading to a report/analysis of that work; some sort of creative activity that includes a written reflective analysis of same. 2-4 SH.
Individual work on a focused topic or specialized area in women’s studies/the study of gender.
