Undergraduate Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Choosing to pursue a minor allows you to shape a disciplinary or interdisciplinary plan of study that will provide a competence in gender and sexuality studies. Such a minor requires a total of six courses: the two required introductory Problems in Gender and Sexuality Studies courses (GNDR 10100 and 10200) and four additional courses in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Summary of Requirements
- 2 Problems in Gender and Sexuality Studies (GNDR 10100-10200)
- 4 Elective courses
Total requirements: 6
Students who elect the minor program in Gender and Sexuality Studies must meet with the Director of Studies before the end of Spring Quarter of their third year to declare their intention to complete the minor. Students choose courses in consultation with the director of undergraduate studies. The director's approval for the minor program should be submitted to each student's College adviser by the deadline on a form obtained from the adviser.
Students should take the two courses of the sequence GNSE 15002-15003, Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations as part of the minor or to meet the general education requirement in civilization studies
Courses in the minor (1) may not be double counted with the student's major(s) or with other minors and (2) may not be counted toward general education requirements. Courses in the minor must be taken for quality grades, and at least four of the requirements for the minor must be met by registering for courses bearing University of Chicago course numbers.
Sample Minors
Nonmajors are encouraged to use these samples as a resource for the purpose of designing programs within disciplines, as an aid for the allocation of electives, or for the pursuit of a BA project. For further work in gender and sexuality studies, students are encouraged to investigate other courses taught by resource faculty.
Disciplinary Minor
- GNDR 10100-10200 Problems in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- GNDR 21300 Victorian Wives, Mothers, and Daughers (=ENGL 21100)
- GNDR 22401 Chicana/o Intellectual Thought (=ENGL 2804)
- GNDR 24702 When and Where They Entered: Black Women Writers of the 1940s and 1950s (=ENGL 25103)
- GNDR 25900 Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion (=FNDL 25500)
Interdisciplinary Minor
- GNDR 10100-10200 Problems in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- GNDR 20800 Sexual Identity/Life Course/Life Story (=HUDV 24600)
- GNDR 22701 Sexuality and Censorship in Pre-Stonewall Film (=CMST 20901)
- GNDR 24001 Love and Eros in Japanese History (=HIST 24001)
- GNDR 24900 Foucault and The History of Sexuality (=PHIL 24800)