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College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

105 Bowman Hall
330-672-2062

The Women's Studies minor offers flexible and diverse coursework across a variety of disciplines. Distinct in its commitments—born of women’s struggles, movements, lives and work—it invites students to revise perspectives, make fresh inquiries, broaden and deepen understandings by means of a simple but radical shift: the re-rendering of the female half of the human race not as "the second sex," but as primary, fundamental, essential and real. The program emphases are inclusiveness, criticality, academic freedom and responsibility.

 

Attribute Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

WOMEN'S STUDIES MINOR REQUIREMENTS (21 credits)
Attribute Course Title Credits Min. Grade
  WMST 30196 Women's Studies Individual Investigation (1-3) 1 3  
  Choose from the following: 3  
DD WMST 30000 Colloquium in Women's Studies (3)    
  WMST 30001 Feminist Theory (3)    
  Choose from the following: 15  
DD  COMM 35912 Gender Communication (3)    
DD CRIM 37411 Women in Crime and Justice (3)    
DD  ENG 21002 Introduction to Women's Literature (3)    
DD  ENG 34021 Women's Literature (3)    
  HDFS 44022 Changing Roles of Men and Women (3)    
  HED 32544 Human Sexuality (3)    
  HED 44025 Women's Health Issues (3)    
DD  PAS 33110 The Black Woman: Historical Perspectives (3)    
DD  PHIL 31040 Women and Philosophy (3)    
  PHIL 32091 Seminar: Philosophical Reflections (3) 2    
DD  POL 40470 Women, Politics and Policy (3)    
DD  PSYC 40625 Development of Gender Role and Identity (3)    
DD  RPTM 36085 Leisure and Culture (3)    
DD  SOC 42315 Sociology of Changing Gender Roles (3)    
  WMST 20095 Special Topics in Women's Studies (1-5)    
  WMST 30095 Special Topics in Women's Studies II (1-5)    
  WMST 40095 Special Topics in Women's Studies III (1-5)    
ELR WMST 40992 Practicum in Women's Studies (3)    
  MINIMUM TOTAL 21  
  1. See Women's Studies coordinator for acceptable titles.
  2. A guided independent project with a written and oral report. Admission controlled. See Women's Studies coordinator for further information.

 

Graduation Requirements

  • Minimum overall 2.000 GPA.
  • Students must complete at least two upper-division courses in the minor at Kent State on a graded basis (A-F).