Women's Studies Minor 
     
Women's Studies Course Listings

Women's Studies Minor Requirements

Women's Studies Minor Application

Women's Studies Faculty

Women's Studies Minors and Friends

In 1989, the Women's Studies program proposed an undergraduate minor in Women's Studies for IUP students. Click here is an excerpt from the program proposal.

Women's Studies as a minor course of study is designed to examine the status and experiences of women from a multidisciplinary perspective. The courses use a variety of methods and disciplinary perspectives to explore the impact of gender. Students are encouraged to challenge traditional theories and research regarding women and to develop a critical, multidisciplinary, multicultural, and gendered view of the world. Courses in women's studies address social equity issues and encourage students to perceive themselves as capable of transforming society.

No longer can education be primarily involved with preparing men and women for traditional, sex role stereotypic or gender segregated roles and careers. Students attending college now and in the future must be prepared for the new family structures and the gender integrated workplace of the new millennium. Women's studies offers a body of courses which explains gender bias and can help women and men challenge and overcome such prejudices in their own minds.

A minor in Women's Studies indicates to the prospective employer an awareness of and sensitivity to gender issues. This awareness may be needed in the following positions:  personnel specialist, affirmative action officer, crisis intervention specialist, family and youth services provider, legal advocate. A minor in Women's Studies can contribute to success in a variety of fields including communication, counseling, criminology, education, health, journalism, law, politics, psychology, and applied sociology.

 

Women's Studies Minor Requirements

A total of 15 credits is required. These fifteen credits must include WMST 200 Introduction to Women's Studies. (Follow the underlined links to read descriptions of the courses.)

Required:
WMST 200     Introduction to Women's Studies      3 credit hours

Students receive approval for a specified course of study from the following list of courses:

ANTH 350 Anthropology of Women    3 cr
CRIM 450 Women and Crime 3 cr
ENGL 225 Introduction to Literature by Women  3 cr
ENGL 336 Language, Gender, and Society 3 cr
ENGL 385 Advanced Women's Literature 3 cr
FRNC 301 Portraits of Women in the French Novel 3 cr
HIST 366 African American Women 3 cr
HIST 369 Women in America 3 cr
HIST 390 History of Women--World Cultures 3 cr
JRNL 250 Women and the Press 3 cr
PHIL 232 Philosophical Perspectives on Love, Marriage and Divorce 3 cr
PSYC 379 Psychology of Human Sexuality 3 cr
PSYC 411 Psychology of Women 3 cr
RLST 245 Women and Religion 3 cr
RLST 345 Women in the Bible 3 cr
RLST 485 Special Topics in Feminist Studies of Religion 3 cr
SOC 251 Sociology of Human Sexuality 3 cr
SOC 363 Sociology of Gender 3 cr
SOC 427 Spouse Abuse 3 cr
WMST 400 Feminist Theory 3 cr
WMST 430 Gender, Sexuality, and Sporty: A Feminist Perspective 3 cr
WMST 482 Independent Study 1-3 cr
XXX 481 Special Topics (Offered within department) * 1-3 cr
XXX 493 Internships ** 1-3 cr

*Examples of XXX 481 Offered:   

HIST 481 Women's Protest Movement in the United States and Great Britain (Spring 02)
WMST 481 Special Topics About Women - History of Women in Sport (Fall 01)

**Internships (up to 3 credits) may be counted towards the minor.

 

Women's Studies Minor Application

You may fill out the application below, print out the filled-in form, and bring or mail to Women's Studies Program in the Women's Studies Office, 103 Stabley, 429 S. 11th St., IUP, Indiana, PA  15705-1087.

 
   

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I am formally applying to minor in Women's Studies.  I understand that a total of 15 credits is required. These fifteen credits must include WMST 200 Introduction to Women's Studies, and the remaining 12 credits from approved Women's Studies minor courses. I understand that I must visit with the director of the Women's Studies Program after submitting this form via email.
 

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Note:  Exceptions may be granted, or other courses substituted in exceptional circumstances. Such exceptions must be approved by the Director of Women's Studies.