Minor in Women's Studies
A student earns an undergraduate minor in women's studies by successful completion of an interdisciplinary program of 15 semester hours. Each student is required to take a women's history course and one interdisciplinary women's studies course, preferably "Introduction to Women's Studies" (IDS 2420 or 2421), as well as nine additional hours, selected from those listed.
Substitutions may be made with the approval of the director; for example, "The American Woman: A Social and Cultural History" may be substituted for "Women in the Western World." All courses counting toward the minor must be at the 2000 level or above.

  
1. Required courses (6 hours)
   a. HIS 3530* (Selected Topics: Topics in Women's History)
      OR
      HIS 3422  Women in History
      OR another women's history course                                  3 s.h.
   b. One interdisciplinary studies course:
      IDS 2420 (Introduction to Women's Studies, Humanities),
      or IDS 2421 (Introduction to Women's Studies, Social Sciences),
      IDS 3530* Selected Topics (recent offerings: Women and Film;
      Appalachian Women; Womanist Theory and Literature; Women and
      Spirituality; Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies; Feminist
      Theories; Women and Leadership; Women's Health; Notorious Women; etc.)
Please note: IDS 2420, IDS 2421 and special topics courses for Women's Studies are now listed as
WS 2420, etc. on the Registar's website

2. Electives (9 hours)
   a. ANT 2420 Gender, Race and Class
      ANT 3420 Women and Gender in Anthropology
   b. ART 2011 Art Introduction (with women's studies emphasis)
      ART 3530* Selected Topics: Women Artist, etc.
   c. ENG 3710 Studies in Women and Literature
      ENG 4710 Advanced Studies in Women and Literature
      ENG 5650 Gender Studies (with permission)
   d. HED 3530* Selected Topics: Women's Health, etc.
   e. HIS 5530* Selected Topics: Historiography of the Woman Question
                (with permission)
   f. HPC 5130 Women's Issues in Counseling (with permission)
   g. IDS 3530* Selected Topics: women's studies courses
   h. P&R 3015 Women in the Biblical Tradition
      P&R 3530* Selected Topics: Feminist Philosophy, etc.
   i. PS 3530*  Selected Topics: Feminist Political Theory, etc.
   j. PSY 2305 Psychology of Gender
   k. SOC 2850 Gender and Society
      SOC 4650 Women: Offenders, Victims, Practitioners

   *Selected topics - as available.

3. Other electives will be added as the program develops.