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Select the appropriate tab to view classes offered that count as electives for the respective minor degree.
Courses Offered Spring 2024
The Women’s & Gender Studies Minor consists of 18 credit hours: 3 hrs required (WSTD 220) and 15 hrs of approved elective courses from at least two different departments. Up to 6hrs can overlap with a student’s major degree requirements.
See the current undergraduate catalog for the list of electives (including non-WSTD courses) in the Women's Studies minor.
Course | Instructor(s) |
WSTD 220 - Women’s & Gender Studies | Weekley |
WSTD 420 - Research in Women’s & Gender Studies (Independent Study) | Loughrin |
ART 375 - Art, Activism, & Social Movements | Wetherell |
CJUS 370 - Women and Crime | Campbell |
CSP 418 - Introduction to Counseling and Social Advocacy | Florang |
ENG 426 - Literature for Adolescents | Honeyman |
ETHS 101 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies | Loughrin |
FAMS 151 - Human Sexual Behavior | Kennedy, Gestring |
HIST 421 - Women in America | Van Ingen |
JMC 460 - Mass Media and Society | Ziwoya |
SOC 201 - Social Inequality | Maughan Spencer |
SOC 380 - Sociology of Sexuality | Loughrin |
SOWK 170 - Introduction to Social Welfare | Gallup, Vandercoy-Kroeger |
SOWK 410 - Social Policy & Programs | Cook-Fong, Vandercoy-Kroeger |
SOWK 420 - Diversity and Social Justice | VanLaningham |
SPCH 202 - Communication Concepts in Society | Hanson |
Courses Offered Spring 2024
The Ethnic Studies Minor consists of 18 credit hours: 3 hrs required (ETHS 101) and 15 hrs of approved elective courses from at least two different departments. Up to 6hrs can overlap with a student’s major degree requirements.
See the current undergraduate catalog for the list of electives in the Ethnic Studies minor.
Course | Instructor(s) |
ETHS 101 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies | Loughrin |
ETHS 370 - Research in Ethnic Studies (Independent Study) | Loughrin |
ART 375 - Art, Activism, & Social Movements | Wetherell |
HIST 250 - American History | Rohrer, Weaver, Alexander, Anderson, Pocock, Huan |
HIST 251 - American History | Davis, White, Weaver, Alexander, Davis, Pocock |
HIST 405 - The Plains Indians | Steinke |
HIST 421 - Women in America | Van Ingen |
SOC 201 - Social Inequality | Maughan Spencer |
SOC 340 - The Holocaust | Borchard |
SOC 442 - Sociology of Religion | Fitzgerald |
SOWK 410 - Social Policy & Programs | Cook-Fong, Vandercoy-Kroeger |
SOWK 420 - Diversity and Social Justice | VanLaningham |
SPCH 154 - Cross-Cultural Communication | Javidi, Shirandasht-Javidi |
WSTD 220 - Women’s & Gender Studies | Weekley |