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 200Introduction to Studies in Women's and Gender

3.0

or

PHIL 203Philosophical 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 299SWAG 375 and SWAG 399):

AFAM 470/AFAM 570African American Feminist Thought

3.0

ECON 320The Economics of Gender

3.0

ENGL 278Genre Studies: Women's Poetry

3.0

ENGL 340Writers of Significance: Elizabeth Bishop & Sylvia Plath

3.0

ENGL 342Writers of Significance: Jane Austen

3.0

ENGL 344Writers of Significance: Woolf and Forster

3.0

ENGL 347Writers of Significance: Whitman & Dickinson

3.0

ENGL 441Faulkner and Morrison

3.0

FREN 313Gender and Gaze in Modern French Literature and Film

3.0

GLBS 345Global Perspectives on Women, Power and Politics

3.0

FREN 320Francophone Women Writers

3.0

HIST 269Women in America

3.0

HIST 306Heresy and Society in Europe, 1400-1800

3.0

HIST 312Women in Medieval Europe

3.0

HIST 359Black Women in America

3.0

HON 301Images of Women

3.0

PE 227Women's Health Issues

3.0

PHIL 203Philosophical Issues in Feminism

3.0

PSCI 202Women & Politics

3.0

PSCI 336Gender and the Law

3.0

PSY 206Psychology of Women

3.0

PSY 370ESem: Psychology of Human Sexuality

3.0

SOC 300Social Inequality

3.0

SOC 308Sociology of Sexuality

3.0

SOC 310BTopics in Sociology: Gender and Crime

3.0

SOC 311Sociology of Gender

3.0

SOC 323Ethnicity in the United States

3.0

SWAG 299Special Topics

3.0

SWAG 312/HON 312Revisioning Motherhood in Modern Western Culture

3.0

SWAG 375Independent Study

1.0 - 3.0

SWAG 397Special Topics

3.0

SWAG 399Internship

3.0 - 6.0

Total Credit Hours:12.0

Total Credit Hours: 15.0