https://www.creighton.edu/academics/programs/women-gender-studies
Program Director: Dr. Britta McEwen
Program Office: Dowling/Humanities 226
The Gender and Sexuality Studies minor combines two interdisciplinary fields to introduce students to a social, cultural, and historical overview of how gender has been lived and understood. The first field, Gender Studies, explores social constructions of gender and how those meanings intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, social class, disability, and age. The second field, Sexuality Studies, invites us to think about both biology and society in dialogue as the human person and self is constructed. Both fields grew out of the inquires initiated by Women’s Studies, but both complicate the early questions posed by that line of inquiry. The program slogan, "a minor that makes a major difference," is two-fold. First, Gender and Sexuality Studies aims to make a difference in the personal, intellectual, and professional lives of students by exposure to new, more inclusive ways of thinking and relating in society. Second, the minor intends to make a difference in a student's major field of study by providing concepts, perspectives, and insights that become "lenses" through which they engage in research and analyses. The Gender and Sexuality Studies minor requires 18 credit hours consisting of one required course WGS 300, Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies and five 3-credit electives. Opportunities for independent study and for internships are also available.
GENDER and Sexuality STUDIES MINOR REQUIREMENTS (18 CREDITS)*:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Introduction Course | ||
| WGS 300 | Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies | 3 |
| Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective Courses | ||
| Select 15 credits from the followring courses: | 15 | |
| Global Perspectives on Medicine in Africa and the African Diaspora | ||
| Gender in American Society | ||
| Crime, Victimization and Public Health | ||
| Race and Justice | ||
| Gender, Society and Culture | ||
| Social Inequality and Stratification | ||
| Bible, Spirituality, & American Public Life | ||
| Magic, Witchcraft and Medicine | ||
| What's for Dinner, Honey?: Food, Culture, Gender, and Health | ||
| Women, Art and Society | ||
| Love, Marriage and the Family in Classical Antiquity | ||
| Princesses, Brides and Mothers | ||
| This is Us: Exploring Complex Communication in Family and Interpersonal Relationships | ||
| Mass Media and Modern Culture | ||
| Family Communication About Health and Well-Being | ||
| Gender, Work, and Organizing | ||
| Discourse of the American Family | ||
| The Dark Side of Personal Relationships | ||
| Perspectives on Work-Life Balance, Wellness and Justice | ||
| Dead Men Tell No Tales: Pirate Literature Through the Ages | ||
| Fiction and the Idea of the Nation | ||
| Literature and Medicine | ||
| Mass Media and Modern Culture | ||
| English Literature III: Romantic/Victorian | ||
| Hysteria: Gender and Health in Literature | ||
| African-American Literature | ||
| Women in Literature | ||
| Adventurous Men and Wild Women: Genre, Gender and Geography in Fin-de-Siecle Literature | ||
| Trauma in Literature | ||
| 18th and/or 19th Century British Novel | ||
| Daughters of Erin: Irish Women Writers | ||
| The Body in Early English Literature | ||
| Global Bollywood | ||
| Special Topics in American Literature | ||
| The Rhetoric of Emotion | ||
| Women Writers In French And Francophone Literature | ||
| Europe's Hubris and Humiliation | ||
| Global Perspectives in History: The Native American Experience | ||
| History and the Holocaust | ||
| History of Sexuality | ||
| History and Gender | ||
| History of Environmental Inequalities | ||
| Women in Science | ||
| Philosophy of Feminism | ||
| Food, Sex, and the Good Life | ||
| The Philosophy of Love and Sex | ||
| Public Policy And Poverty In The United States | ||
| Cross-Cultural Issues in Psychology | ||
| Human Sexuality | ||
| The Psychology of Gender | ||
| Victim Advocacy Policy and Practice | ||
| The Christian Tradition in Women's Voices | ||
| The Biblical Tradition: Gender, Economy, and Violence | ||
| The Biblical Tradition: Perspectives on Suffering and Evil | ||
| Theological Ethics: Sexual and Gender Issues | ||
| Women and the Bible | ||
| Gender, Race and Morality | ||
| Women In The Christian Tradition | ||
| Advocacy and Education Internship (requires director approval) | ||
| Directed Independent Study (requires director approval) | ||
- *
Kingfisher concentration requirements are 9 credits total, chosen from the list of courses in the associated minor. Unless otherwise specified. COM 172, ENG 225, ENG 226, THL 115, THL 230 and THL 272 are not eligible for the Kingfisher concentration.
Courses
WGS 300. Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies. 3 credits. OD
This introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of Women's and Gender Studies presents a historical, sociological, cultural, and theoretical overview of how gender has been lived and understood over the past two hundred years. In addition to providing the basic vocabularies and concepts central to women's, feminist, and gender studies, the course will enable students to analyze the ways in which conceptions of "womanhood" and "manhood" intersect with class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and age to define social categories, shape identities, and form (or re-form) systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
WGS 492. Advocacy and Education Internship. 1-3 credits. FA, SP
The course requires reflection papers and reports throughout the semester. Course may not be repeated. P: IC.
WGS 495. Directed Independent Study. 1-3 credits. OD
May be repeated to a limit of six hours. P: DC.