Women’s and Gender Studies Minor
The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies offers a feminist interdisciplinary course of study that expands the process of knowledge production to include considerations of gender, race, class, and sexuality in the United States and globally. Students are exposed to recent scholarship on feminist theory and the intellectual, economic, political, and artistic contributions of women and feminist movements in various historical and cultural contexts.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
The minor consists of 15 credits (five courses).
Code | Title | Hours |
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Core Requirements | ||
WGST 101 | 3 | |
Four courses chosen from at least two of the following three categories. 1 | 12 | |
Total Hours | 15 |
H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
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WGST 202 and WGST 695 are strongly recommended for minors and will count towards the 12 credits taken after WGST 101. An internship in women’s and gender studies (WGST 393) can also count towards the 12 credits.
Historical Studies
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
AAAD 201 | 3 | |
AAAD/WGST 200 | 3 | |
AMST/JWST/WGST 253 | 3 | |
ASIA/HIST/WGST 537 | Women in the Middle East | 3 |
CLAS/WGST 240 | 3 | |
CLAS/WGST 241 | 3 | |
CLAS/WGST 242 | Sex and Gender in Antiquity | 3 |
COMM/FOLK/HIST/WGST 562 | 3 | |
HIST/EURO/WGST 259 | 3 | |
HIST/PWAD 354/WGST 353 | War and Gender in Movies H | 3 |
HIST/PWAD/WGST 517 | Gender, Military, and War | 3 |
HIST 361/WGST 360 | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States | 3 |
HIST/WGST 144 | 3 | |
HIST/WGST 264 | Gender in Russian History | 3 |
HIST/WGST 280 | 3 | |
HIST/WGST 375 | History of Gender in America | 3 |
HIST 385/WGST 382 | 3 | |
HIST/WGST 479 | History of Female Sexualities | 3 |
HIST/WGST 500 | Gender, Empire, and Nation | 3 |
HIST/WGST 568 | Women in the South | 3 |
HIST/WGST 576 | The Ethnohistory of Native American Women | 3 |
WGST/CMPL/KOR 237 | 3 | |
WGST 272 | 3 | |
WGST/HIST 313 | 3 | |
WGST 337 | 3 | |
WGST 360/HIST 361 | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States | 3 |
WGST 370 | 3 | |
WGST 382/HIST 385 | 3 | |
WGST 560 | Women and Religion in United States History | 3 |
WGST 583 | Gender and Imperialism | 3 |
H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
Humanities and Fine Arts
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
AMST/WGST 325 | 3 | |
ANTH/LING/WGST 302 | 3 | |
ANTH/FOLK 537/WGST 438 | Gender and Performance: Constituting Identity | 3 |
ANTH/WGST 222 | 3 | |
ARTH/WGST 254 | Women in the Visual Arts I | 3 |
ARTH/WGST 451 | Women in the Visual Arts II | 3 |
ASIA/CMPL/WGST 380 | 3 | |
CMPL 374/WGST 373 | 3 | |
COMM/WGST 224 | Introduction to Gender and Communication H | 3 |
COMM/WGST 345 | 3 | |
COMM/WGST 524 | 3 | |
COMM/WGST 561 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 140 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 263 | Literature and Gender H | 3 |
ENGL/WGST 361 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 363 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 374 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 446 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 665 | 3 | |
ENGL/WGST 666 | 3 | |
GERM/WGST 220 | Women in the Middle Ages | 3 |
GERM/CMPL/WGST 271 | Women in German Cinema | 3 |
MUSC/WGST 188 | 3 | |
MUSC/WGST 248 | 3 | |
PHIL/WGST 275 | 3 | |
PHIL/WGST 475 | Philosophical Issues in Gender, Race, and Class | 3 |
RELI/WGST 362 | 3 | |
RELI 665/WGST 664 | Body and Suffering in Christian Mysticism | 3 |
RUSS/WGST 486 | 3 | |
SPAN/WGST 620 | Women in Hispanic Literature | 3 |
WGST 64 | 3 | |
WGST 66 | 3 | |
WGST 68 | 3 | |
WGST/ASIA 127 | 3 | |
WGST 202 | 3 | |
WGST 211 | 3 | |
WGST 215 | 3 | |
WGST 230 | 3 | |
WGST 231 | 3 | |
WGST 232 | 3 | |
WGST 233 | 3 | |
WGST 281 | 3 | |
WGST 285 | African American Women in the Media | 3 |
WGST 315 | Sexuality and Salvation | 3 |
WGST/ASIA 329 | 3 | |
WGST 336 | Digitizing the Body | 3 |
WGST 350 | 3 | |
WGST 352 | 3 | |
WGST 402 | Feminist Ways of Knowing | 3 |
WGST 405 | Gender, Sexuality, Empire and Asian Pacific America | 3 |
WGST 415 | Queer Theory and Religion | 3 |
WGST 465 | 3 | |
WGST/ASIA 471 | 3 | |
WGST 555 | Women and Creativity | 3 |
H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
Social Sciences
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
AAAD/WGST 200 | 3 | |
AAAD/WGST 386 | Comparative Studies in Culture, Gender, and Global Forces | 3 |
AAAD 232/WGST 266 | 3 | |
ANTH/WGST 277 | Gender and Culture | 3 |
ANTH/WGST 278 | 3 | |
ANTH/WGST 441 | The Anthropology of Gender, Health, and Illness | 3 |
ANTH/WGST 443 | 3 | |
ANTH/WGST 445 | 3 | |
ANTH/WGST 458 | 3 | |
ANTH 442/WGST 440 | Health and Gender after Socialism | 3 |
ASIA/GEOG/WGST 447 | Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East | 3 |
EXSS/WGST 260 | Women and Sport | 3 |
GEOG/WGST 225 | Space, Place, and Difference | 3 |
JWST/RELI 444/WGST 448 | Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Judaism | 3 |
MEJO/WGST 442 | Gender, Class, Race, and Mass Media | 3 |
PLAN 52/WGST 51 | 3 | |
PLAN/WGST 662 | Gender Issues in Planning and Development | 3 |
POLI/WGST 217 | 3 | |
POLI/WGST 265 | 3 | |
POLI/WGST 477 | Advanced Feminist Political Theory | 3 |
RELI/WGST 244 | 3 | |
RELI/WGST 371 | Women Mystics | 3 |
RELI/WGST 424 | 3 | |
RELI/WGST 450 | 3 | |
SOCI/WGST 124 | 3 | |
SOCI/WGST 444 | Race, Class, and Gender | 3 |
WGST 111 | 3 | |
WGST 270 | 3 | |
WGST 340 | 3 | |
WGST 355 | Youth, Sexuality, and the Law | 3 |
WGST 368 | Women of Color in Contemporary United States Social Movements | 3 |
WGST 388 | 3 | |
WGST 410 | 3 | |
WGST 460 | 3 | |
WGST/ASIA/RELI 482 | Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia | 3 |
WGST 553 | Theorizing Black Feminisms | 3 |
WGST 573 | 3 | |
WGST 610 | 3 | |
WGST 695 | 3 |
H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
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Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
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