2011-12 Academic Year - Bad Request - Humboldt State University

Women’s Studies Minor
Minor in Women’s Studies
Certificate of study in Women’s Studies
(see Certificates of Study)
Also see Women’s Studies Pathway within
the Interdisciplinary Studies major option
Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies
(CRGS).
CRGS Chair
Kim Berry, Ph.D.
Women’s Studies Office, BSS 154A
Department of Critical Race, Gender
and Sexuality Studies
Behavioral & Social Sciences 246
707-826-4329, fax 826-4320
www.humboldt.edu/crgs
The Program
Students completing this minor will have
demonstrated the ability to:
use intersectional analysis to examine
social issues from a social justice perspective
understand prominent debates in critical
social theory
use postcolonial analysis to examine
gendered, racialized, and/or sexualized relations
in a trans-national context
understand the importance of history to
social justice movements.
As the academic branch of the wom en’s
move ment, Wom en’s Studies challenges
assump tions up on which the Western
tradition of schol ar ship has been based
and seeks to inte grate the diverse ex pe riences
and perspectives of women into the
curric ulum.
Our core curriculum offers students the
analytical tools for understanding gender
as it is constructed with in and through differences
of ethnic ity, class, sexuality, and nationality.
It enables students to interpret the
diverse lives, issues, and voices of women in
our multicultural and trans national world.
Women’s Studies faculty, from departments
campuswide, work close ly with the program
leader to offer a dynamic and studentcentered
minor, certificate of study, as well
as the pathway in Women’s Studies within
the IS Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality
Studies major. Our program also works with
the student-run Wom en’s Resource Center
and other wom en’s groups on campus to
provide a network of resources, support,
and referral on women-centered issues,
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organizations, and events. We sponsor
programs of in ter est to wom en, including
workshops and speakers.
This pro gram is useful in the follow ing
careers: administrator of nonprofit women’s
organization, affir ma tive action offi cer,
attorney, community organizer, computer
software designer, coordinator of women’s
programs in government and business,
counselor, editor, environmental activist,
international development worker, journalist,
legal assistant, lobbyist for women’s issues,
political advocate, psychologist, rape crisis
specialist, re search er on wom en’s projects,
social work er, teacher, union organizer, urban
planner, women’s center director, wom en’s
health care specialist, writer.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR
The minor consists of 16 units: 10 required
units plus six elective units. At least one
course (3 units minimum) must have
significant international content.
Required (10 units)
WS 106 Introduction to Women’s
Studies
WS 107 Women, Culture, History
CRGS 390 Theory & Methods
Electives (minimum 6 upper division units)
At least one course (3 units minimum) must
have significant international content (these
courses are marked with an asterisk).
WS 300/PSYC 300 Psychology of Women
WS 301/ART 301 The Artist [only when
topic is “Women Artists”]
WS 302/RS 300 Living Myths
WS 303* Third World Women’s
Movements
WS 306/FREN 306/GERM 306/SPAN 306*
Sex, Class & Culture:
Gender & Ethnic Issues in
International Short Stories
WS 308B/ENGL 308B Women in Literature
WS 308C/ENGL 308C* Women in Literature
WS 309B/COMM 309B Gender &
Communication
CRGS 313/EDUC 313 Community Activism
WS 315* Sex, Gender & Globalization
WS 316/SOC 316 Gender & Society
WS 317/ANTH 317* Women in
Development
WS 318/EDUC 318 Gay & Lesbian Issues
in Schools
WS 319 Ecology of Family Violence
WS 320 Act to End Violence Seminar
CRGS 330 Women of Color Feminisms
WS 336/ENGL 336/ES 336 American Ethnic
Literature
WS 340* Ecofeminism
WS 350* Women’s Health & Body
Politics
CRGS 360 Race, Gender & US Law
WS 370 Queer Women’s Lives, or
ENGL 360 Queer Women’s Literature
(when offered)
WS 389/HIST 389 Women in US History
WS 419/PSYC 419 Family Violence
WS 430/ANTH 430 “Queer” Across Cultures
WS 436/PSYC 436 Human Sexuality
WS 465B-C Multicultural Issues in
Language and Literature
WS 480 Special Topics
And other advisor-approved courses
*When subject matter of the course
focuses on women writers.
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