Program of Study

The Women's Studies minor prepares students to gain an awareness of women's issues, to understand how social constructions of gender and sexuality affect and have shaped daily experience, broader social structures, institutions, social relations, and cultural and aesthetic production.

Minor Requirements

The Women's Studies minor requires the following 21 hours:

Choose one of the following courses:

  • WS A100 Women, Society, and Culture
  • SOCI A250 Sociology of Gender
  • PHIL V141 Philosophical Perspectives on Women
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Choose five of the following elective courses:

  • CMMN A453 American Women Journalists
  • CMMN A455 Media and Gender
  • ENGL A371 American Women Directors
  • ENGL A410 Writing Gender
  • ENGL A461 Contemporary Women’s Literature
  • ENGL U287 Martyrs, Minstrels, Mystics
  • ENGL V254 Women in American Literature
  • ENGL V274 Women Writers
  • ENGL V275 Black Women Novelists
  • ENGL V279 Feminist Readings
  • HIST A260 Modern European Women's History
  • HIST A352 Women in African History
  • HIST W240 Between Eve & Mary: Women in Medieval Europe
  • HIST W255 Medieval Sex and Gender
  • HIST X290 Women in American History
  • MUIN U272 Medieval Music and Mysticism
  • PHIL U254 Postmodernism and Feminism
  • PHIL V241 Philosophical Perspectives on Women
  • PSYC A327 Studies in the Psychology of Women
  • PSYC H434 Gender Differences in Cognition
  • RELS A417 Women, Religion, Culture
  • RELS U243 Women in the Christian Tradition
  • RELS U281 Women in World Religions
  • SOCI A240 Sociology of the Family
  • SOCI A250 Sociology of Gender
  • SOCI A255 Human Sexuality
  • SOCI A260 Women in Latin America
  • SOCI A305 Social and Political Inequality
  • SOCI A416 Gender, Law and Social Control
  • SOCI C367 Institution of the Family
  • SPAN V135 Women Writers of Spanish America
  • VISA U236 Images of Women in Arts
  • VISA H295 Images of Masculinity: Questions of Desire
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For more information about the program, students should contact Dr. Sara Butler, director of Women's Studies at sbutler@loyno.edu.