Gender Studies (Minor)

As a multidisciplinary minor, Gender Studies provides a framework through which students examine gender as it intersects with race, ethnicity, class, age, disability, and sexuality. Courses employ multicultural and international perspectives and draw from diverse disciplines, including: psychology, history, media, literature, politics, art history, social justice and cultural studies. An emphasis on rigor in critical analysis, writing and social critique are hallmarks of Gender Studies at Dominican.

The minor helps to prepare students for employment in social services, government, private industry and non-profit agencies.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the social construction of gender and the ways in which gender intersects with race, ethnicity, class, age, disability, and sexuality.
2. Apply feminist and gender theory to an analysis of gender, including an examination of the construction of femininity and masculinity.
3. Recognize the global, scientific, cultural, historical, or political issues that have created distinctions and disruptions among women, men, and sexual minorities.
4. Explore theoretical and practical aspects of social justice as they relate to gender, women and sexuality.

Requirements

Upper Division:

Select four of the following courses:

CMS 3608	Gender, Race, and Class	4.00 units
ENGL 3072	Toni Morrison	4.00 units
ENGL 3091	Revisionist Mythmaking: Modern Retellings of Greek Myths	4.00 units
ENGL 3109	Politics of the Body in Motion	3.00 units
GPH 3100	Women's Health	4.00 units
HIST 3207	Special Topics in Women's History	4.00 units
POL 3220/PHIL 3220	Gender: Ethics & Politics	4.00 units
POL 3565	Women in Politics	4.00 units
PSY 4011	Psychology of Women	4.00 units
PSY 4013	Human Sexuality	4.00 units
PHIL 3038	Feminist Disability Ethics in Literature	4.00 units
RLGN 3132	Women, Religion and Sexuality	4.00 units
SOC 3003	Theoretical Images of Crime, Deviance and Social Control	4.00 units

Total Credit Hours: 16