Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Minor

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Delivery Area: Augusta, Bangor

Coordinator: Sarah Hentges (207) 262-7762 sarah.hentges@maine.edu

Minor Requirements (18 credit hours):

WGS 101W - Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 3 CR
WGS 305 - Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality 3 CR

Complete any four women and gender studies courses; the following are the UMA course options (12):

WGS 190 - Women, Music, and Culture 3 CR
WGS 289 - Topics in Women’s Studies 1-6 CR
WGS 294 - Independent Study in Women’s Studies 3 CR
WGS 301W - Classic and Contemporary Feminisms 3 CR
WGS 303 - Hip-Hop America: Culture, Consciousness and Movement 3 CR
WGS 304W - Girls on Fire: Feminism, Activism, and the Future 3 CR
WGS 306 - American Fitness: Culture, Community, and Transformation 3 CR
WGS 309 - Cinema in the French-Speaking World: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change 3 CR
WGS 311W - Queer Literature 3 CR
WGS 318 - Cultural Criticism and Theory: The Arts of Social Change 3 CR
WGS 330W - Rebels, Renegades, Revolutionaries-Women in US History 3 CR
WGS 337 - American Masculinities 3 CR
WGS 340 - Queer History in the United States 3 CR
WGS 350W - Major Women Writers 3 CR
WGS 389 - Topics in Women’s Studies 3 CR
WGS 394 - Independent Study in Women’s Studies 1-6 CR
WGS 489 - Topics in Women’s Studies 1-6 CR
WGS 494 - Independent Study in Women’s Studies 1-6 CR
JUS 305 - Women in Criminal Justice 3 CR
JUS 307 - Violence in the Family 3 CR
SOC 353 - Sociology of Gender 3 CR

Advising Notes:

● A minimum of 25% of the credits required for a minor needs to be earned at UMA for it to be awarded.
● A student may be awarded any minor as long as no more than six credits of the minor can be used to fulfill the requirements of the student’s major or concentration.