Studies in Women and Gender Minor
Coordinator: Michelle Gricus
The studies in women and gender program at Hood examines the experience of gender and the status of women cross-culturally and historically. Gender categories do not exist in isolation, but intersect with race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexuality, age and other social categories to shape identities and institutions. The program provides an analytical framework for students to examine gender across disciplines and in their own lives.
Requirements for the Minor
Required Course:
| SWAG 200 | Introduction to Studies in Women's and Gender | 3.0 |
| | or | |
| PHIL 203 | Philosophical Issues in Feminism | 3.0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3.0 |
Minimum of 12 credits from the following list, with no more than 6 credits within the same discipline
(with the exception of SWAG 299, SWAG 375 and SWAG 399):
| AFAM 470/AFAM 570 | African American Feminist Thought | 3.0 |
| ECON 320 | The Economics of Gender | 3.0 |
| ENGL 278 | Genre Studies: Women's Poetry | 3.0 |
| ENGL 340 | Writers of Significance: Elizabeth Bishop & Sylvia Plath | 3.0 |
| ENGL 342 | Writers of Significance: Jane Austen | 3.0 |
| ENGL 344 | Writers of Significance: Woolf and Forster | 3.0 |
| ENGL 347 | Writers of Significance: Whitman & Dickinson | 3.0 |
| ENGL 441 | Faulkner and Morrison | 3.0 |
| FREN 313 | Gender and Gaze in Modern French Literature and Film | 3.0 |
| GLBS 345 | Global Perspectives on Women, Power and Politics | 3.0 |
| FREN 320 | Francophone Women Writers | 3.0 |
| HIST 269 | Women in America | 3.0 |
| HIST 306 | Heresy and Society in Europe, 1400-1800 | 3.0 |
| HIST 312 | Women in Medieval Europe | 3.0 |
| HIST 359 | Black Women in America | 3.0 |
| HON 301 | Images of Women | 3.0 |
| PE 227 | Women's Health Issues | 3.0 |
| PHIL 203 | Philosophical Issues in Feminism | 3.0 |
| PSCI 202 | Women & Politics | 3.0 |
| PSCI 336 | Gender and the Law | 3.0 |
| PSY 206 | Psychology of Women | 3.0 |
| PSY 370E | Sem: Psychology of Human Sexuality | 3.0 |
| SOC 300 | Social Inequality | 3.0 |
| SOC 308 | Sociology of Sexuality | 3.0 |
| SOC 310B | Topics in Sociology: Gender and Crime | 3.0 |
| SOC 311 | Sociology of Gender | 3.0 |
| SOC 323 | Ethnicity in the United States | 3.0 |
| SWAG 299 | Special Topics | 3.0 |
| SWAG 312/HON 312 | Revisioning Motherhood in Modern Western Culture | 3.0 |
| SWAG 375 | Independent Study | 1.0 - 3.0 |
| SWAG 397 | Special Topics | 3.0 |
| SWAG 399 | Internship | 3.0 - 6.0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12.0 |
Total Credit Hours: 15.0