Coordinator: Sarah Aleshire

Minot State University offers both an undergraduate minor and a concentration in Gender/Women’s Studies. The program is an interdisciplinary academic program of study that takes as its focus the history, development, and consequences of culturally-acquired sex, gender, and sexual identities. Students examine how gender structures our lives, ideas, institutions, society, and cultural practices, and students gain a clearer sense of identity and ways of understanding and navigating the world.

Gender/Women’s Studies pairs well with any academic program and provides essential background for many careers, especially those in human services, education, law, government, law enforcement, clinical work, social work, public relations, advertising, administration, business, healthcare, and journalism.

Gender/Women's Studies Minor

Required Core
GS 225	Intro to Gender/Women's Studies	3
COMM 413	Gender Communication	3
SOC 363	Sociology of Gender	3
HIST 315	History of American Women	3
or HIST 352	Medieval & Early Modern Women
Select three of the following: 1		9
ART 313	Women in the Visual Arts
COMM 219	Mass Media and Society
COMM 317	Rhetorical Theory
CJ 362	Gender Issues in Criminal Justice
CJ 368	Campus Crime
CJ 395	Victims & Victimology
ENGL 270	Introduction to Literary Criticism
HIST 315	History of American Women (If not taken in core.)
HIST 352	Medieval & Early Modern Women (If not taken in core.)
SOC 255	Diversity in Families
SOC 269	Culture and Sexuality
SWK 256	Development of Social Welfare
Additional Electives (must meet prior approval)
ENGL 334	Film Directors
ENGL 435	Major Writers
THEA 450	Contemporary Drama
Total Hours		21

1	Students must take nine credits and only six may be from the same disciplinary area.

Gender/Women's Studies Concentration

Required Core
GS 225	Intro to Gender/Women's Studies	3
Select one of the following:		3
SOC 363	Sociology of Gender
COMM 413	Gender Communication
Select two of the following: 1		6
ART 313	Women in the Visual Arts
COMM 219	Mass Media and Society
COMM 317	Rhetorical Theory
COMM 413	Gender Communication (If not taken in core.)
CJ 362	Gender Issues in Criminal Justice
CJ 368	Campus Crime
CJ 395	Victims & Victimology
ENGL 270	Introduction to Literary Criticism
HIST 315	History of American Women
HIST 352	Medieval & Early Modern Women
SOC 255	Diversity in Families
SOC 269	Culture and Sexuality
SOC 363	Sociology of Gender (If not taken in core.)
SWK 256	Development of Social Welfare
Total Hours		12