Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor

18 hours distributed as follows:

Either:

9 hours from courses listed below.

At least 3 hours must be in Natural/Social Sciences and 3 hours must be in Humanities.

3 hours of Natural Science/ SocialScience courses:

ANTH 350 - Body, Disability and Culture (3)
ANTH 361 - Writing Gender (3)
ECON 330 - Women, Men and Work (3) (WG)
HWP 154 - Women’s Health (3) (WG)
HWP 155 - Men’s Health (3)
HWP 253 - Health and Sexuality (3) (GS)
POLS 348 - Women and Politics (4) (WG)
PSYC 334 - Psychology of Women (4) (WG)
PSYC 366 - Psychology of Close Relationships (4)
PSYC 367 - Human Sexuality (3) (GS)
SOC 280 - Sociology of Gender (3) (GS)
SOC 359 - Women of Color and Feminism (3) (WG)
SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (3) (GS)

3 hours of Humanities courses:

CLAS 350 - Women in Antiquity (3) (WG)
CLAS 356 - Ancient Sexuality (3) (GS)
HIST 301 - Women in United States History: 1890s to the Present (3) (WG)
HIST 306 - Southern Women’s History (3) (WG)
HIST 307 - Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement (3) (WG)
HIST 357 - Women and Imperialism (3) (WG)
HIST 358 - European Feminisms (3) (WG)
HIST 383 - Women in China (3) (WG)
LIT 346 - Readings in Gender and Sexuality (3) (GS)
LIT 359 - Major Women Writers (3) (WG)
LIT 364 - Postcolonial Literature (3) (WG)
LIT 489 - Seminar in a Major Author (3) (WG)
Author must be Toni Morrison or Virginia Woolf
PHIL 302 - Philosophy of Sex and Gender (3) (GS)
RELS 330 - Religion and Gender (4) (WG)

Additional Information:

Special topics or other courses may be substituted with approval of the program director. Students must earn a minimum 2.00 grade-point-average on all minor courses taken at UNC Asheville. One-half of the hours required for a minor must be completed at UNC Asheville, to include at least 6 semester hours of 300-400 level courses.