Gender Studies Minor
The minor in Gender Studies allows students to explore what it means to be male or female, or transgendered, gay or straight or bisexual in a world that is largely organized by and around constructions of gender. In the introductory courses students consider where our ideas about how to be a woman and how to be a man come from, what importance gender assumes when it intersects with other identity markers such as class, race, ethnicity, and religion and how notions of gender are produced and represented differently across a variety of visual and written texts, cultural contexts and realms of societies.
No more than one of the following courses may overlap with other major or minor requirements.
Minor Requirements (18 Credits)
Required Courses:
| CLCS 200 | Gender and Sexuality in a Global Context | 3 |
| CLCS 241 | Forbidden Acts: Queer Studies and Performance | 3 |
| CLCS 300 | Masculinities in Literature and Film | 3 |
Three of the following (at least one must be at the 300-level):
| CLCS 242 | Representations of Poverty in Literature | 3 |
| CLCS 243 | The Cultural Politics of Sports | 3 |
| CLCS 330 | The Politics of Mobility: Exile and Immigration | 3 |
| CLCS 371 | Law and Culture | 3 |
| COM 202 | Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication | 3 |
| COM 352 | Environmental Discourses | 3 |
| FAS 100 | Introduction to Fashion Studies | 3 |
| FRE 312 | Travel Writing: France and French-speaking Switzerland | 3 |
| FRE 320 | Writing the Self: French Autobiography and Autofiction | 3 |
| FRE 324 | From Beur to Post-Beur Literature: Exile, Margins, and Re-Territorialization | 3 |
| GER 374 | Strangers in Paradise?: Historical and Cultural Texts on Immigration into Switzerland | 3 |