2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Women’s and Gender Studies Minor
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Program Director: Dr. Marcia Morgan, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Advisory Board: Dr. Maura Finkelstein, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Margo Hobbs, Associate Professor of Art History
Dr. Beth Schachter, Professor of Theatre
Why do women and men still have wage inequities? How do different societies and cultures define femininity and masculinity in intersection with ethnic histories and mythologies of racial difference? What does the history of medically defined and racially specific gender categories (male, female, and transgender) reveal about the way in which power flows through a society? When we explore ideas about racial otherness and masculinity, for instance, as they are embedded in our world (films we see, sciences we study and practice, etc.), what new visions of societal and global life might we build?
These are just some of the questions that Women’s and Gender Studies asks of the world. The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Muhlenberg offers a six course minor that students can combine with any major. Recent graduates have majored in biology, psychology, media and communication, sociology, history, English, mathematics and religion studies. Some have gone into careers in anthropology, public health, law, publishing, and public policy making; others have gone on to graduate study in teaching and medicine.
By completing the Women’s and Gender Studies program, students learn how gender is shaped by and shapes social structures, everyday practices, conventions of representation, and the production of knowledge. When a student graduates they will have mastered the ability to connect scholarly research to real-world applications. Our graduates bring those problem-solving skills to all of their future endeavors.
The current list of Women’s and Gender Studies electives offers students coursework in 14 different majors, and the program adds new classes every year. All Women’s and Gender Studies minors also have a shared scholarly experience when they complete the program’s single required course, WST 202 - Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies . This core class teaches students the transnational history of Women’s and Gender Studies and, in addition, the latest thinking in these areas: feminism, sexuality studies, masculinity studies, and queer studies.
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Minor Requirements
To complete the Women’s and Gender Studies minor, students must complete WST 202 - Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies (or an equivalent course designated by Director) and five additional courses from the list of approved classes. A WST internship, study abroad, independent study, and special topic courses which are often available on a semester-by-semester basis can also count toward the minor.
With its great variety of courses, the WST program allows students to fulfill many graduation requirements while completing the minor. In general, WST 202 - Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies is offered as a writing-intensive course.
The five additional courses to be chosen in consultation with the Director include, but are not limited to, this list of courses:
- AAS 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies 1 course unit
- AAS 201 - Black Feminist/Queer Theories 1 course unit
- ARH 225 - Women & Art 1 course unit
- COM 316 - Propaganda & Promotional Cultures 1 course unit
- COM 223, 224 - Feminist Media Studies 1 course unit
- COM 372, 373 - Race & Representation 1 course unit
- COM 374 - Gender, Communication, & Culture 1 course unit
- DNC 201 - Dance History 1 course unit
- ENG 202 - Reading Emily Dickinson 1 course unit
- ENG 206 - Reading Austen 1 course unit
- ENG 267 - Literature & Sexuality 1 course unit
- ENG 329, 330 - Nineteenth Century British Fiction: The Marriage Plot 1 course unit
- ENG 397, 398 - Gender, Sensation, & the Novel 1 course unit
- FRN 343 - Family, Sexuality, & Gender in the Francophone World 1 course unit
- FRN 424 - Francophone Women Writers of Africa & the Caribbean 1 course unit
- FRN 430 - Strangers, Foreigners, & Others 1 each course unit
- HST 209, 210 - Africa Since 1800 1 course unit
- HST 327, 328 - Women’s America 1 course unit
- HST 365, 366 - The African American Experience I: to 1896 1 course unit
- HST 367, 368 - The African American Experience II: since 1896 1 course unit
- HST 375, 376 - Race & Ethnicity in Latin America & the Caribbean 1 course unit
- HST 377, 378 - Gender & Sex in European History 1 course unit
- HST 397 - Women in the Middle East 1 course unit
- IGD 150 - Intergroup Dialogue .5 course unit
- MUS 215 - Women in Music 1 course unit
- PHL 227 - Philosophy of Feminism 1 course unit
- PSC 201 - Political Ideologies 1 course unit
- PSC 242, 243 - Introduction to Conflict & Peace Studies 1 course unit
- PSC 303, 304 - Gender, Politics, & Policy 1 course unit
- PSY 221 - Multicultural Psychology 1 course unit
- PSY 322, 323 - Psychology of Women 1 course unit
- REL 104, 105 - Sex, Gender, & Religion 1 course unit
- REL 353 - Gender & Sexuality in Judaism 1 course unit
- REL 365 - Gender & Sexuality in Islam 1 course unit
- SOC 235 - Inequality & Power 1 course unit
- SOC 243 - Sexuality & Gender 1 course unit
- SPN 413 - From the Golden Age to the Silver Age 1 course unit
- SPN 416 - Postcolonial Realities in Spanish American Literature 1 course unit
- SPN 419 - Border Literature 1 course unit
- SPN 420 - Human Rights Literature in the Americas 1 course unit
- THR 301, 302 - Feminist Theories of the Theatre 1 course unit
- WST 960 - Women’s and Gender Studies Internship 1 course unit
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