Statements of Policy - UMUC Europe

Sociology Coursework (15 s.h.)
Foundation Course (3 s.h.)
Students must take one of the following foundation courses:
SOCY 100 Introduction to Sociology (3)
SOCY 105 Introduction to Contemporary Social
Problems (3)
Statistics Course (3 s.h.)
Students must take one of the following statistics courses:
BMGT 230 Business Statistics (3)
PSYC 200 Introduction to Statistical Methods in
Psychology (3)
STAT 200 Introduction to Statistics (3)
Supplemental Minor Courses (9 s.h.)
Students must take three of the following courses:
ANTH 417 Peoples and Cultures of East Asia (3)
ASTD 300 The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the
Future (3)
ASTD 301 The Japanese: Adapting the Past, Building
the Future (3)
ASTD 302 The Two Koreas: Problems and Prospects (3)
ASTD 303 India: The Weight of Tradition in the Modern
World (3)
ASTD 304 Southeast Asia: Development Amid
Diversity (3)
CCJS 330 Contemporary Criminological Issues (3)
CCJS 454 Contemporary Criminological Theory (3)
SOCY All courses not otherwise listed as a
requirement for the minor
Spanish
(see Foreign Language Area Studies)
Women’s Studies
Students may seek an academic minor in women’s studies.
Minor in Women’s Studies
The women’s studies minor complements the skills the student
gains in his or her major discipline by providing an
interdisciplinary study of the history, status, and experiences of
women.
Objectives
The student who graduates with a minor in women’s studies
will be able to:
• Examine historical and contemporary contributions by
women and existing data about women.
• Discuss some of the scholarly methodologies used in the
study of women, gender, and human societies.
• Explain aspects of scholarship and theory on the history,
status, contributions, and experiences of women in diverse
cultural communities and on the significance of gender as a
social construct and an analytical category.
UMUC Bachelor’s Degrees
Requirements for the Minor
A minor in women’s studies requires the completion of 15 semester
hours in women’s studies, drawn from various disciplines as
appropriate; at least 9 of which must be earned in courses
numbered 300 or above. Specific course requirements are listed
below. If a specific course required for the minor is taken instead
to satisfy the requirements for the major, another course in the
same discipline should be substituted to fulfill the required
minimum number of semester hours. Any course used to replace
an upper-level course should also be classified as upper level.
Women’s Studies Coursework (15 s.h.)
Required Foundation Course (3 s.h.)
Students must take the following foundation course:
WMST 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies:
Women and Society (3)
Supplemental Minor Courses (12 s.h.)
Students must take four or more of the following courses. No more
than 6 semester hours may be taken from any single discipline.
BEHS 343 Parenting Today (3)
BEHS 453 Domestic Violence (3)
BMGT 312 Women in Business (3)
BMGT 313 Women as Entrepreneurs (3)
BMGT 314 Women as Leaders (3)
ENGL 250 Introduction to Literature by Women (3)
ENGL 354 American Women Writers Since 1900 (3)
ENGL 358 British Women Writers Since 1900 (3)
ENGL 444 Feminist Critical Theory (3)
GVPT 436 The Legal Status of Women (3)
HLTH 377 Human Sexuality (3)
HLTH 471 Women’s Health (3)
HIST 375 Modern European Women’s History (3)
HIST 376 Women and the Family in
America to 1870 (3)
HIST 377 Women in America Since 1870 (3)
HUMN 442 Contemporary Sexual Ethics (3)
PSYC 334 Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (3)
PSYC 336 Psychology of Women (3)
SOCY 243 Sociology of Marriage and Family (3)
SOCY 312 Family Demography (3)
SOCY 325 The Sociology of Gender (3)
SOCY 425 Gender Roles and Social Institutions (3)
SOCY 430 Social Structure and Identity (3)
SOCY 443 The Family and Society (3)
SOCY 462 Women in the Military (3)
SPCH 324 Communication and Gender (3)
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