Studies in Women and Gender Minor
Coordinator: Amy Gottfried
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 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):
| AFEN 265 | African American Voices Before 20th Century | 3.0 |
| AFEN 266 | The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: 20th Century African American Literature | 3.0 |
| AFPS 470/AFPS 570 | African American Feminist Thought | 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 |
| 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 249 | Queer Histories of the United States | 3.0 |
| HIST 269 | Women and Gender in U.S. History | 3.0 |
| HIST 359 | Black Women in America | 3.0 |
| HON 301 | What Good is a Woman? Women in Traditional Societies | 3.0 |
| PHIL 203 | Philosophical Issues in Feminism | 3.0 |
| PHIL 217 | Ethics of Intimacy | 3.0 |
| PSCI 202 | Women & Politics | 3.0 |
| PSCI 336 | Gender and the Law | 3.0 |
| PSY 220 | Psychology of Human Sexuality | 3.0 |
| PSY 306 | Psychology of Gender | 3.0 |
| SOC 300 | Social Inequality | 3.0 |
| SOC 308 | Sociology of Sexuality | 3.0 |
| SOC 311 | Sociology of Gender | 3.0 |
| SOC 323 | Race and 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