Sexualities, Gender, Queer Studies Minor

Requirements for a Minor in Sexuality, Gender

and Queer Studies

A minor in Sexuality, Gender and Queer studies will consist of 32 credits.

The minor in Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies offers students an interdisciplinary course of study focused on sexuality and gender and consists of:

1. Core Curriculum of four courses - 16 credits
2. Four elctive courses from approved list - 16 credits

All courses must be taken with the A-F graded option. All but eight (8) credits must be upper division courses (300 level or above).

Core Course Requirements - 16 credits

Students must take all four of the core courses listed below

• UNST 266 Sexualities (4 credits)
  
• WS 370U History of Sexualities (4 credits)
  
• WS 332U Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality in U.S. (4 credits)
• WS 360U Intro to Queer Studies (4 credits)

Electives -16 credits

Students must take 16 credits from the list of courses below. The faculty advisor for the minor may approve other courses to fulfill the elective credit requirements where appropriate.

• ANTH 103 Intro. to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 432/532 Gender in Cross-Cultural Prsptive
• BST 342 Black Feminism/Womanism
• CFS 490U Sex and the Family
• ENG 399 Queer Theory
• ENG 494 Feminist Film Theory
• ENG 494/594 Queer Theory
• ENG 447 Harlem Renaissance
• ENG 441/541 Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance
• PHE 335 Human Sexuality
• PHE 453/553 Women's Reproductive Health
• PHE 410 Sex Education in America
• PHE 410 Worldview of Sexual HealthPSY 410 Human Sexualities
• PSY 431/531 Psychology of Men and Masculinities
• SOC 344U Gender and Sexualities
• SP 410 Sex and the Media
• SP 452/552 Gender and Race in the Media
• SPAN 410 Transgenderism in South American Literature
• SPAN 436/536 Disease and Literature in the Americas
• WS/ENG 308U Lesbian Literature
• WS/ENG 308U Gay and Lesbian Fiction
• WS/ENG 399 Intro to Queer Theory
• WS 399U Sex and the State

Download an SGQ Minor academic worksheet

SGQ Minor course highlights Fall 2011

For more information or for academic advising contact:

Women's Studies Department at (503)725-3516 or visit our Advising page for more information.

Scholarship resources:

• Sexual and Gender Equality Task Force (SAGE)