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Oct 13, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor
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This minor offers students the opportunity to think critically and intersectionally about the meaning and expression of gender and sexuality in everyday life, culture, and institutions. Students will develop a historical awareness of the role of feminism and LGBTQIA+ movements in both local and global contexts. These histories and the more contemporary lived practices of sex, gender, and sexual orientation will be contextualized in relation to other categories of difference within different power relations. After completing the minor, students will be more versed in imagining effective ways to combat inequity and foster transformations of identities and social roles.
The minor consists of four courses (16 credits). One core course is required- IN 200 : Feminisms, SO 221 : Gender in a Global Perspective or IN 230 : Evolution of Queer Identity: History, Literature and Theory. The remaining 12 credits are chosen from the following courses, at least two of which must be taken at Emerson and at least one of which must be at the 300 or 400 level.
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Course Requirements:
- HI 227 - Radical Women in Contemporary World History
- IN 152 - First Year Seminar: Cultural Constructions of Identity
- IN 154 - First Year Seminar: Power and Privilege
- IN 200 - Feminisms (if not used as core course)
- IN 214 - Topics in Gender Studies
- IN 230 - Evolution of Queer Identity: History, Literature, and Theory (if not used as the core course)
- IN 307 - Gender, Sexuality, and the Middle East
- IN 310 - Gender, Sexuality, and the American Music Industry
- IN 319 - Feminist Cultural Theory (note prerequisites)
- IN 340 - Ruled by Conviction: Confronting Narratives of White Masculinity
- IN 352 - History of Sex in the US in the 20th Century
- IN 406 - Queer Dreams: Politics, Culture, and Difference (note prerequisites)
- LI 210 - American Women Writers
- LI 396 - International Women Writers (note prerequisites)
- LI 436 - Cultural Criticism (note prerequisites)
- PH 216 - Gender, Race, and Class
- PH 218 - Existentialisms
- PH 219 - Decolonizing the Mind
- PS 306 - Psychology of Prejudice (note prerequisites)
- PS 307 - Psychology of Relationships (note prerequisites)
- SO 306 - Diaspora and Queer Belonging
- SO 221 - Gender in a Global Perspective (if not used as core course)
- TH 205 - Dress Codes: American Clothes in the 20th Century
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