The WGSS Minor
The minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies is the academic foundation of the program. Every WILL student completes a minor in WGSS, which includes a supervised internship. The WGSS minor complements all majors and enhances study abroad opportunities.
Required Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses provide students with a common intellectual background and analytical frameworks with which to critically examine gender roles, social institutions and individual beliefs.
Required Courses
WGSS
200 Introduction to Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Introduction to the broad, interdisciplinary field of women, gender and sexuality studies. Special attention will be paid to the meaning and history of the terms "gender" and "sexuality" and to the political movements mobilized around those terms. Students will read both contemporary and historical materials and both primary and secondary sources.
Unit(s): 1
WGSS
201 WILL Colloquium: Gender, Race and Activism
Introductory course of the WILL Program. Examines the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in women's lives with particular focus on an analysis of social justice activism and strategies for social change.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the WILL Program.
Unit(s): 1
WGSS
280 Women and Work
Examines women's work and the struggle to achieve balance between work and personal life from a theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective, focusing on women in the United States, but placing their labor in a global socioeconomic context. Historical studies of women's labor in the past are used to provide a framework for understanding women's challenges in the workplace today.
Unit(s): 1
WGSS
301 WILL Senior Seminar
Capstone course for the WILL program.
Prerequisite(s): WILL program participant.
Unit(s): .5
WGSS
388 Individual Internship
No more than .5 units of internship may be applied to the women, gender, and sexuality studies major or minor. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of internship overall may be counted toward required degree units.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department.
Unit(s): .5-1.5
One Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies elective: 1 unit
