Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Overview

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies:

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor is an eighteen-hour interdisciplinary program designed to offer students a rich, diverse understanding of human behavior, culture, and society through the investigation of issues related to women, gender, and sexuality.

 

What can I do with a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor from EIU?

Our minors have found employment in business, education, women’s resources, government service, writing, healthcare, publishing, law, theology, human rights organizations, environmental and consumer groups, journalism, policy and lobbying organizations, unions, research centers, library science, community agencies, psychology, social work, and countless other fields.

 

WGSS minors are also qualified to work in social service agencies related to women, such as crisis intervention services, homeless and relationship-violence shelters, health clinics, and other non-profit organizations.

 

Furthermore, some of our students pursue graduate degrees in fields such as law, social work, business, film, management, humanities, social sciences, education, counseling, women’s studies, public administration, medicine, and other disciplines.

Completion time: 18 semester hours

Internships:

Because the options for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minors are vast, students are encouraged to enroll in our internship course: WST 4275. In this course, each student completes a required number of hours of field work and creates a resume that reflects the skills learned during that experience.

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First-Year Students

The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Minor consists of 18 credit hours of work in a variety of disciplines of the student's choosing.

CORE COURSES

(WGSS minors take one of the following)

  • WST 2309G Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
  • WST 2310G Introduction to Sexuality Studies

(WGSS minors take one of the following)

  • WST 4309 Feminist Theories
  • WST 4310 Queer Theories

 

Other Available Courses (WGSS minors take at least four)

  • ANT 3960 Anthropology of the Body
  • ART 3685 Women in Art
  • CMN3903 Rhetoric of Gender and the Body
  • ECN 3873 Economics of Race and Gender
  • EIU 4108G The Changing World of Women
  • ENG 3903 Women, Literature, and Language
  • FCS 2831 Women in Contemporary Society
  • FCS 3800 Family Life Sex Education
  • FLE 3025 Women in the Hispanic World
  • HIS 3900 Women in American History
  • HIS 3901 The Family in American History
  • HIS 4845/WST 4845 Women and Gender in Modern Europe
  • HST 3500 Human Sexuality
  • HST 3560 Women’s Health
  • JOU 3970 Race, Gender, and the Media
  • JOU3903 Women and the Media
  • PHI 3012 Philosophy of Sex and Love
  • PLS 3903 Women & Politics
  • PSY 3720 Psychology of Gender Differences
  • SOC 2830 Family and Society
  • SOC 3903 Gender Roles and Social Change
  • WST 2903 Women, Gender, and Violence
  • WST 4275 Internship
  • WST 4800 Non-Western Feminisms

Transfer Students

The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Minor consists of 18 credit hours of work in a variety of disciplines of the student's choosing.

CORE COURSES

(WGSS minors take one of the following)

  • WST 2309G Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
  • WST 2310G Introduction to Sexuality Studies

(WGSS minors take one of the following)

  • WST 4309 Feminist Theories
  • WST 4310 Queer Theories

 

Other Available Courses (WGSS minors take at least four)

  • ANT 3960 Anthropology of the Body
  • ART 3685 Women in Art
  • CMN3903 Rhetoric of Gender and the Body
  • ECN 3873 Economics of Race and Gender
  • EIU 4108G The Changing World of Women
  • ENG 3903 Women, Literature, and Language
  • FCS 2831 Women in Contemporary Society
  • FCS 3800 Family Life Sex Education
  • FLE 3025 Women in the Hispanic World
  • HIS 3900 Women in American History
  • HIS 3901 The Family in American History
  • HIS 4845/WST 4845 Women and Gender in Modern Europe
  • HST 3500 Human Sexuality
  • HST 3560 Women’s Health
  • JOU 3970 Race, Gender, and the Media
  • JOU3903 Women and the Media
  • PHI 3012 Philosophy of Sex and Love
  • PLS 3903 Women & Politics
  • PSY 3720 Psychology of Gender Differences
  • SOC 2830 Family and Society
  • SOC 3903 Gender Roles and Social Change
  • WST 2903 Women, Gender, and Violence
  • WST 4275 Internship
  • WST 4800 Non-Western Feminisms

Dr. Marjorie Worthington

Coleman Hall 3321
Email: mgworthington@eiu.edu
URL: /women/