Coordinator:
Dr. Browyn Conrad
Office: 320 Russ Hall
Telephone: 620-235-4333
email: browyn@pittstate.edu
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary program that places women and gender at the center of academic analysis. Students learn how gender affects social relationships, artistic expression, institutional structures, and national and international political, cultural and economic relations. While centrally concerned with gender dynamics, Women’s Studies also explores the ways other dimensions of diversity, including race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexual orientation, age, and ability shape the experiences of both women and men.
Minor in Women’s Studies
The Women’s Studies minor involves twenty-one credit hours, including a six credit hour core emphasizing collaborative learning and critical thinking in global, activist and feminist contexts. It complements a wide variety of majors, including Business, Communication, Education, English, Family and Consumer Sciences, History, Justice Studies, Psychology and Sociology and is an excellent preparation for careers in the non-profit sector or in private sector fields such as human resources, marketing, management, education, and law.
Minor Requirements |
Hours |
| WOMEN 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies* |
3 |
| WOMEN 399 Global Women's Issues* |
3 |
| Women's Studies Electives** |
15 |
| Elective courses*** |
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| ART 689 Contemporary Issues in Art |
3 |
| BIOL 402 Topics in Biology: Women in Science |
1-3 |
| COMM 795 Issues: Gender Communication |
3 |
| COMM 873 Theatre: Critical Theory and Film |
3 |
| ENGL 555/755 Topics in Literature: Booker Prize Winners |
1-3 |
| ENGL 561 British Theme: Women Writers 1660-1800 |
3 |
| ENGL 771 Authors: Ellison and Morrison |
3 |
| ENGL 875 Seminar: 19th Century American Women's Fiction |
3 |
| FCS 154 Dress and Culture |
3 |
| FCS 455 History of Costume |
3 |
| HIST 608 Women in American History |
3 |
| JUST 480 Women, Crime, and Justice |
3 |
| PSYCH 440 Topics in Psychology: (SART) |
1-3 |
| SOC 512 Social Stratification |
3 |
| SOC 536 The Family and Society |
3 |
| SOC 569 Society and Sexuality |
3 |
| SOC 663 Women, Men and Society |
3 |
| Total |
21 |
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* WOMEN 500 or WOMEN 700 may be substituted with permission of the Women's Studies Director.
**Selected from Women's Studies offerings and/or cross-listed courses from at least three different departments. Students may receive credit toward both their major and the Women's Studies minor for no more than one Women's Studies cross-listed course. Students should refer to the Women's Studies section in the class schedule to see what elective courses are available for the current semester. Minors shold also consult their Women's Studies Advisor or the Director of Women's Studies.
***Courses listed as elective choices here are not exhaustive. Additional offerings will be available as electives when departments add new courses appropriate to Women's Studies to their own curricula. Courses offered at the graduate level are typically only available to those earning the Certificate in Women's Studies as part of graduate or post-graduate studies.
Certificate in Women’s Studies
The requirements for a certificate are 15 hours, including a 6 hour core consisting of Women 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies and Women 399 Global Women’s Issues. Additional Women's Studies courses or courses cross-listed with Women's Studies will supplement this core.
Both Women 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies, and Women 399 Global Women’s Issues can be used to fulfill general education requirements for the social and behavioral sciences.
DESCRIPTION OF COURSES
WOMEN 200. Introduction to Women’s Studies. 3 hours. Interdisciplinary survey focuses on women’s lives and experiences to investigate connections between gender and race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other cultural differences.
WOMEN 399. Global Women’s Issues. 3 hours. Interdisciplinary analysis of feminist theory and global women’s issues.
WOMEN 500. Topics in Women’s Studies. 1-3 hours. Studies in some aspect of feminism; gender, race, class and/or nationality as related to women’s studies; sexuality; feminist theory; or other aspects of women’s studies as viewed from a variety of disciplines. May be repeated if topic varies. Prerequisites: WOMEN 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies or WOMEN 399 Global Women’s Issues or permission of Director of Women’s Studies.
WOMEN 600. Project in Women’s Studies. 3 hours. Individual study and field work in various settings appropriate to the analysis of gender and women’s issues. Includes a two credit hour field-work project. For Women’s Studies minors only. Prerequisites: WOMEN 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies or WOMEN 399 Global Women’s Issues.
WOMEN 700. Topics in Women’s Studies. 1-3 hours. Studies some aspect of feminism; gender, race, class and/or nationality as related to women’s studies; sexuality; feminist theory; or other aspects of women’s studies as viewed from a variety of disciplines. May be repeated if topic varies. Prerequisites: WOMEN 200 Introduction to Women's Studies or WOMEN 399 Global Women's Issues or permission of Director of Women’s Studies.
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