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School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The goal of the minor in Gender Studies is to provide undergraduate students with an interdisciplinary examination of the factors that influence our notions of male and female, masculine and feminine and the various forms of gender relations under conditions of social transformation and development. As such, the minor builds on existing curricular strengths by fostering intellectual discourse on the nature and role of gender as an analytical category fundamental to the understanding of self, society, history, politics and social change in a cross disciplinary and comparative perspective.

Minor

The minor in Gender Studies is comprised of five courses taken from different disciplines. Four of the five courses making up the minor should be taken from disciplines outside the student's major. Three of the four courses must be taken from the core undergraduate and graduate courses listed below. One of the three must be the course ANTH 360 Gender and Social Change, which provides the students with the common conceptual background which they will need to pursue other courses in the minor. Up to two courses not regularly offered which deal specifically with gender, or upon special petition, special topics courses in which the students have written research papers on some aspect of gender may be taken. Petitions must include copies of the papers which students wrote and must be submitted through the director of the Institute for Gender and Women's Studies to the executive committee of the Institute for Gender and Women's Studies.

Requirements (15 credits):

ANTH 360 Gender, Society and Social Change, 3 cr.

 

and four of the following:

ANTH 302 Marriage, Family and Kinship, 3 cr.   425 Women, Islam and the State, 3 cr. ANTH/PSYCH 407 Psychological Anthropology: Gender and Identity, 3 cr. ARBS 402 Selected Topics: Arab Women Writing, 3 cr.   423 The Modern Arabic Novel, 3 cr. (When gender is the central concern of the course) ECLT 345 Literature and Gender, 3 cr. FILM 370 Selected Topics: Both Sides of the Camera, 3 cr. PHIL 224 Self and Society, 3 cr. (When gender is the central concern of the course)   390-391 Ethics and Values, 3 cr. (When gender is the central concern of the course) SOC/ANTH 515 Kins, Friends and Neighbors, 3 cr.   520 Sex Roles, Gender and Society, 3 cr.   560 Population Dynamics, 3 cr. THTR 352 Recurrent Themes in Drama , 3 cr. (When gender is the central concern of the course)

 

Selected or special topics courses in any department which have gender as the central concern of the course will be accepted. Some recent offerings include: HIST/MEHT 460 Selected Topics: Gender in Medieval Arab-Muslim Historical Tradition; HIST/MEHT 461 Selected Topics: Marriage and Family in the pre-modern Middle East; HIST/MEHT 462 Selected Topics: Women's History in the Modern Middle East; ANTH 400 Women and Development.