WOMEN'S STUDIES MINOR PROGRAM – 2001-03 Catalog
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The Women’s Studies Minor enables students to explore women’s experiences and to analyze how gender, along with race, class, ethnicity, age, and sexual identity, shapes women’s lives. In addition to providing a body of information, the Minor also teaches students to question knowledge from multiple theoretical perspectives and encourages active student learning through the application of feminist pedagogy. Core (required) and elective courses challenge the academy by putting women at the center of scholarly investigation; by explaining how gender shapes experience; and by revealing the effects of values, beliefs, and the social construction of gender in intellectual inquiry.

The Minor is housed within the College of Liberal Arts, and its courses are offered by Art and Design, English, Ethnic Studies, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Child Development, Social Sciences, Speech Communication, Theatre and Dance, and Women’s Studies.

	Units
Required Courses (20)
WS 301 Introduction to Women's Studies (USCP)	4
WS 311 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (D5)	4
WS 401 Seminar in Women's Studies	4
WS/HIST 434 American Women's History to 1870 or WS/HIST 435 American Women's History from 1870 (USCP)	4
PSY 314 Psychology of Women or SOC 311 Sociology of Gender	4
Elective Courses	8
Students select 8 units from the approved list of elective courses in consultation with their Women’s Studies faculty adviser.
ENGL 345 Women Writers of the Twentieth Century (4) (C4) (USCP)
ENGL The English Department offers topics courses, such as ENGL 439 Significant British Writers: Woman as Hero or the Novel of Female Development (4) and ENGL 459 Significant World Writers: Literature and the Goddess (4) which are approved as electives for the Women’s Studies minor. See a Women’s Studies adviser for topics courses.
ES 300 Chicano/a Non-Fiction Literature (4) (C4) (USCP)
ES 325 African American Women’s Experiences (4) (USCP)
MU 328 Women in Music (4) (C4)
POLS 343 Civil Rights in America (4) (USCP)
PSY 314 Psychology of Women (4)
SCOM 421 Gender and Communication (4)
SOC 311 Sociology of Gender (4)
SOC 351 Women in East Asia (4)
TH 310 Women’s Theatre (4) (C4)
WS/ART 316 Women as Subject and Object in Art History (4)
WS/RELS 336 Religion, Gender and Society (3) (C4) (USCP)
WS 350 Gender, Race, Science and Technology (4)
WS 400 (1-2) Special Problems for Advanced Undergraduates
WS/HIST 434 American Women’s History to 1870 (4)
WS/HIST 435 American Women’s History from 1870 (4) (USCP)
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