WOMEN’S STUDIES MINOR
A minor in Women’s Studies provides students with a critical perspective on the ways that gender, race, class, and sexuality shape social, cultural, and political institutions in our world. Women’s Studies also focuses a critical lens on the ways that these overarching institutions shape individual experiences and group identities associated with characteristics related to gender, sex, and sexuality. Attention to these sorts of questions is valuable for students no matter what their major or post-graduation plans. As an academic program, Women’s Studies provides a sharp focus on assumptions about the way the world can and does work, offers a conceptual framework to analyze experiences of inequality or discrimination, and asks individuals to become active, engaged, thoughtful participants in their learning and in their lives. Women’s Studies prioritizes learning that is related to helping students understand their “real life” experiences, at the same time that it asks students to reflect on and ask difficult, provocative, and meaningful questions about those experiences. Women’s Studies works with many programs and departments at Drexel to emphasize how sex and sexuality intersect with history, culture, and geography to produce different gendered beliefs and practices in the lives of individuals and the organization of social structures.
Requirements for the minor:
To minor in Women’s Studies, students are required to take:
- WMST 101 :: Introduction to Women’s Studies (3 credits)
- WMST 301 :: Seminar in Feminist Theory (3 credits)
And
Two of the following WMST electives (6 credits total):
- WMST 240 :: Women and Society in a Global Context (3 credits)
- WMST 280 :: Special Topics in Women’s Studies* (3 credits)
- WMST 299 :: Independent Study (3 credits)
- WMST 250 :: African American Herstories: (3 credits, offered every Winter)
- WMST 308 :: Queer Theory: (3 credits, offered every Fall and Spring)
- WMST 275 :: Women’s Health and Human Rights (3 credits)
- WMST 320 :: Masculinities (3 credits)
* Special Topics Courses: WMST 280 :: Students may take it up to three times (9 credits max), as long as the topic is different each time.
Topics offered recently include Arab Women Writers, Gender & Judaism, Women in Sports, Women & Human Rights, and Sexuality & Dictatorship.
And
12 credits from approved departmentally-based courses. Departmentally-based courses include but are not limited to:
- AFAS 295 :: Black Women’s History (3 credits)
- ANTH 215 :: Anthropology of Gender (3 credits)
- HIST 310 :: Women, Crime, & History (3 credits)
- HIST 286 :: Technology and Gender (3 credits)
- ENGL 355 :: Women and Literature (3 credits)
- SOC 230 :: Women and Men in a Changing Society (3 credits)
- PSY 356 :: Women’s Health Psychology (3 credits)
Please see the WMST Academic Coordinator for assistance and advice in choosing departmentally-based courses, or to find out whether a course not listed here qualifies as a WMST elective.
For questions concerning the Women’s Studies Minor, please contact:
Kate Hughes
Women’s Studies
(p) 215.895.1208
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