Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor

BIOL1010 Lectures, discussions and small group work explore all aspects of human sexuality, including the biological, psychologist, and personal aspects. Includes gender, gender role, gender identity and sexual orientation; sexual behaviors based on value systems; communication, consent, responsibility for sexual health, reproductive rights, and freedom; and understanding socio-political influence.

CRIM3301 A comprehensive review of the use and applications of computer and information technologies within the criminal justice and private security fields. Topics will include the use of the computer and related technologies for criminal investigations. intelligence gathering, crime-mapping and analysis, predictions, biological (DNA) identification, personnel management and administration and other areas germane to the criminal justice and security fields.

GOVT2071 This course examines how women are treated by the law with respect to public policies that include but are not limited to, workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, and domestic violence. The work of feminist legal theorists will frame examinations of the historical, current and future development of case law relating to women and gender in American public policies.

HIST2504 This course introduces students to the history of gender and race in Latin America from colonial times to the twenty first century. Topics include the continuities and changes that have affected the lives of women and men from diverse racial, cultural, and class backgrounds over five hundred years since Spanish conquest. This course will focus especially on negotiation, resistance, and agency to explore how gender roles and racial identities have been imposed but also redefined.

LITS2121 Consideration of traditions of women's literature both historical and contemporary; focus on theoretical issues of gender in writing. Works and authors vary.

LITS2122 Students in this course will read and discuss narrative, poetic and dramatic writing about the lives of LGBTQ+ people. In the context of normative representations of gender and desire, these authors challenge expectations of form and aesthetics as well as those of intimacy and embodiment.

LITS2269 A literary and historical tour of medieval Europe and selected global cultures through the twin prisms of sexuality and violence, from the idealized to the obscene to the ridiculous. Addresses religious, legal, and philosophical perspectives of the time and recent theoretical approaches. Primary texts include chivalric romances and fabliaux, troubadour poetry, sagas of bloodfeud, supernatural encounters, saints' lives, personal letters, chronicles and more.

LITS3343 Theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality help us to examine discursive shifts in desire and identity across the modern era. We will discuss philosophical aaproaches to masculinity, femininity and genderqueer and transgender persons as well as a wide variety of sexual identities.

PHIL3026 Studies in an area of Philosophy

SOCI3030 This class will introduce you to issues of gender worldwide, drawing on different disciplines to explore the significance of gender and its construction in different societies. The goal is to enable you to think critically about gender in relations to globalization, the organization of social life on a global scale, and the growth of a global consciousness.

SOCI3314 An analysis of differentiation and stratification on the basis of gender. How definitions of femininity and masculinity are socially created, the relation between sexuality and gender. How gender stratification organizes culture, institutions and social control.