https://www.creighton.edu/academics/programs/women-gender-studies
Program Director: Dr. Britta McEwen
Program Office: Dowling/Humanities 226
The Women’s and Gender 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, Women’s Studies, highlights the often overlooked experiences and contributions of women, both historically and in contemporary societies around the globe. The second field, Gender Studies, explores social constructions of gender and how those meanings intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, social class, disability, and age. The program slogan "a minor that makes a major difference," is two-fold. First, WGS 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 WGS minor requires 18 credit hours consisting of one required course WGS 300, Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies and five 3-credit electives. Opportunities for independent study and for internships are also available.
Women's and Gender Studies Minor requirements (18 credits)*:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Introduction Course | ||
| WGS 300 | Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies | 3 |
| Women's and Gender Studies Elective Courses | ||
| Select 15 credits from the following: | 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 | ||
| 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 Communication | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Gender and Politics | ||
| 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 | ||
| Theological Ethics: Sexual and Gender Issues | ||
| Women and the Bible | ||
| Gender, Race and Morality | ||
| Women In The Christian Tradition | ||
| Directed Independent Study (requires director approval) | ||
| Advocacy & Education Internship (requires director approval) | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |
| * | 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 495. Directed Independent Study. 1-3 credits. OD
May be repeated to a limit of six hours. P: DC.
WGS 496. Advocacy & Education Internship. 0 credits.
This internship provides opportunities for career exploration and professional development with organizations to gender-related advocacy and education. The internship may be undertaken with a Creighton organization (e.g., Lieben Center for Women, VIP Center) or an organization off-campus. The course is available every semester, including summer. P: Junior or Senior status; Approval of WGS Director.