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Current Undergraduate Students: Declare or change your minor by completing an Undergraduate Program Add/Change form.
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Curriculum
All courses are three credits unless otherwise noted.
Core Courses (6 Credits)
- WGS 201 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies
- Pick one:
- POLSCI 451 - Queer Theory & Politics
- WGS 350 - Topics in Queer & Trans Studies
- WGS 420 - Queer of Color Critique
Electives (12 Credits)
Complete four courses from the list below. At least one course must be 300-level or higher.
- WGS 207L - Queer Visual Culture: Sexuality, Gender, and Visual Representation
- WGS 210G - Gendered Bodies
- WGS 227GL - Gender & Sexuality in South Asia
- WGS 230G - Reproductive Rights and Wrongs
- WGS 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20thCentury US
- WGS 268 - Global Bodies: Sex, Families, and Reproductive Rights in Transnational Perspective
- WGS 302L - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
- WGS 310L - Love, Sex, and Media Effects
- WGS 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture
- WGS 360 - Gender, Culture, and Power
- AMST 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20thCentury US
- AMST 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture
- ART 207L - Queer Visual Culture: Sexuality, Gender, and Visual Representation
- COMM 310L - Love, Sex, and Media Effects
- CSP 302L - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
- ENGL 370 - Reading Sexualities: Queer Theory
- HIST 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20thCentury US
- HONORS 290 - Special Topics Sexuality and Social Change
- WGS 263 - Transgender Studies
- WGS 320 - Sexuality Education
- WGS/AMST 343L - The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS
- WGS/LATSTY 229 - Latinx Sexualities
- WGS 227GL - Gender and Sexuality in South Asia
- CINE 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
- ENGL 179GL - Sexuality in Nature and Culture
- ENGL 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
- ENGL 397 - Queer Romanticism
- WGS 260 - Gender, Sexuality, and Health: Feminist Perspectives
- WGS 179GL - Sexuality in Nature and Culture
- WGS 373 - Sex and the City: The Politics of Race, Sexuality, and Mobility
Completion Requirements
Complete 18 credits from six courses, including three core courses and three electives.
Pass/fail: No more than one course taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.
Residency: No more than three courses from another institution may be applied toward the minor.
Contact
Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wheatley Hall, 5th Floor, Room 4A
617.287.6780
QT.MinorStudies@umb.edu
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