https://www.creighton.edu/academics/programs/gender-sexuality-studies
Program Director: Sherianne Shuler, Ph.D.
Program Office: Hitchcock Room 308C
The Gender and Sexuality Studies minor combines two interdisciplinary fields to introduce students to a social, cultural, and historical overview of how gender and sexuality have 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 in the identity construction of the human person and self. Both fields grew out of the inquiries initiated by Women’s Studies, but complicate and extend the early questions posed by that field.
The program slogan, "a minor that makes a major difference," is two-fold. First, Gender and Sexuality Studies makes a difference in the personal, intellectual, and professional lives of students by introducing inclusive and empowering ways of thinking and relating in society. Second, pursuing a GSS minor makes a difference in a student's major field of study by providing concepts, questions, and insights that become "lenses" through which to engage in research and analyses. Ultimately, the GSS minor makes a major difference to the way students approach academics, relationships, their eventual vocations, and how they contribute to their communities. The Gender and Sexuality Studies minor requires 18 credit hours consisting of one required course GSS 300 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies and five 3-credit electives. Opportunities for independent study and for advocacy-related internships are also available.
GENDER and Sexuality STUDIES MINOR REQUIREMENTS (18 CREDITS):
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Introduction Course | ||
| GSS 300 | Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective Courses | ||
| Select 15 credits from the following courses: | 15 | |
| Global Perspectives on Medicine in Africa and the African Diaspora | ||
| Gender in American Society | ||
| Crime, Victimization and Public Health | ||
| Public Policy and Poverty in The United States | ||
| Race and Justice | ||
| Gender, Society and Culture | ||
| African-American Literature | ||
| Social Inequality and Stratification | ||
| Bible, Spirituality, & American Public Life | ||
| Global Bollywood | ||
| The History Of Women In The United States | ||
| Discourse of the American Family | ||
| Magic, Witchcraft and Medicine | ||
| What's for Dinner, Honey?: Food, Culture, Gender, and Health | ||
| Women, Art and Society | ||
| Cross-Cultural Issues in Psychology | ||
| Love, Marriage and the Family in Classical Antiquity | ||
| Princesses, Brides and Mothers | ||
| This is Us: Exploring Complex Communication in Family and Interpersonal Relationships | ||
| Now Streaming: Memes, Media, and Mass Communication | ||
| Gender Communication | ||
| Family Communication About Health and Well-Being | ||
| Gender, Work, and Organizing | ||
| The Dark Side of Personal Relationships | ||
| Perspectives on Work-Life Balance, Wellness and Justice | ||
| Victim Advocacy Policy and Practice | ||
| Family Dynamics | ||
| Queer Literature and Cinema | ||
| Dead Men Tell No Tales: Pirate Literature Through the Ages | ||
| Fiction and the Idea of the Nation | ||
| Literature and Medicine | ||
| English Literature III: Romantic/Victorian | ||
| Hysteria: Gender and Health in 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 | ||
| Special Topics in American Literature | ||
| The Rhetoric of Emotion | ||
| History of Environmental Inequalities | ||
| Women Writers In French and Francophone Literature | ||
| Advocacy and Education Internship (requires director approval) | ||
| Directed Independent Study | ||
| Europe's Hubris and Humiliation | ||
| Global Perspectives in History: The Native American Experience | ||
| History and the Holocaust | ||
| History of Sexuality | ||
| History and Gender | ||
| Women in Science | ||
| Philosophy of Feminism | ||
| Food, Sex, and the Good Life | ||
| The Philosophy of Love and Sex | ||
| Gender and Politics | ||
| Human Sexuality | ||
| The Psychology of Gender | ||
| Feminine Voices from Latin America and Spain | ||
| Working with Infants through Adolescents - Human Behavior and the Social Environment 1 | ||
| Working with Adults through the Lifespan - Human Behavior and the Social Environment 2 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Visions of America: The 21st Century Pulitzer Prize for Drama | ||