Requirements Overview
If you declared the minor prior to July 1, 2025:
- CAS WS 101 Gender and Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. WS 101 will be offered once annually on an alternating basis between fall and spring semester.
- Five additional WGS courses (two of which need to be Core courses, selected from the list below). Please note that not all courses are offered every year. Please see our Fall 2024 Courses and Spring 2025 Courses for up to date offerings.
If you declared the minor on or after July 1, 2025:
- CAS WS 101 Gender and Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. WS 101 will be offered once annually on an alternating basis between fall and spring semester.
- One WGS Theory course selected from the list below. Additional courses may fill the theory requirement with consent from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
- Four additional WGS courses. Please note that not all courses are offered every year. Please see our Fall 2024 Courses and Spring 2025 Courses for up to date offerings.
Core Courses
*Denotes HUB credits
- *CAS WS 200 Thinking Queerly: An Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
- *CAS WS 213 Resistance, Protest, and Empowerment: Global Women’s Movements
- *CAS WS 317 Gender and Crime
- *CAS WS 325 Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
- *CAS WS 328 Madonnas, Martyrs, and MILFs: Gender and Motherhood
- *CAS WS 329 LGBTQI+ Representation in Film
- *CAS WS 347 Feminist Inquiry
- *CAS WS 352 American Masculinities
- *CAS WS 400 Gender and Healthcare
- *CAS WS 420 Queer Theory
- *CAS WS 425 Sex and the City
- *CAS WS 431 Genders, Sexualities, and Youth Cultures
- CAS WS 450 Internships: Women, Gender, and Social Change
- CAS WS 454 Religion and Sexuality in the US
Theory Courses
*Denotes HUB credits
- *CAS WS 200 Thinking Queerly: An Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (DMM, IIC)
- *CAS WS 241 Sociology of Gender (SI2, IIC, T/C), also offered as CAS SO 241
- *CAS WS 347 Feminist Inquiry (SI1, OSC, C/I)
- *CAS WS 393 Technocultures: Horizons of Race and Gender (IIC, DMM), also offered as CAS EN 393
- *CAS WS 395 Inhuman Cinema: Genders, Animals, Machines (WI, DMM, AE), also offered as CAS CI 395
- *CAS WS 396 Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality (PILM, IIC, CT), also offered as CAS PH 256 and PO 396
- CAS WS 398 Feminist Political Theory, also offered as CAS PO 398
- *CAS WS 420 Queer Theory (IIC, PILM, CT), also offered as CAS XL 420
- CAS WS 442 Philosophy and Feminism, also offered as CAS PH 442
- CAS WS 594 Advanced Feminist Theory, also offered as CAS PO 594