Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study that examines the intricate ways in which gender relations shape the world in which we live. Courses in this program analyze how categories such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation intersect and inform our social experiences. This program places emphasis on feminist perspectives for achieving social justice and gender equity.
The WGS minor prepares students for various employment and professional opportunities. This minor does not prepare students for employment in one particular job, but for many different types of employment that emphasize or require strong: writing skills, analytical and critical thinking, research skills, reading comprehension, and oral communication. This minor compliments any major degree in which students’ anticipate working in diverse environments and/or in which they serve the public. The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor is particularly useful for those who will major in: Business Management, Criminal Justice, Dental Hygiene, Engineering, Nursing, Professional Communications, Psychology, Sport Management, and Science, Technology, and Society.
Consisting of 15 credits, students enrolled in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor program must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5 in their qualified WGS courses.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Students will show how critical analysis of gender and sexuality contributes to an understanding of the historical and contemporary formations of patriarchy, heteronormativity, and gender normativity.
- Students will demonstrate familiarity with major concepts and vocabulary in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Students will demonstrate a knowledge base about women’s and LGBTQ+ people’s role in history — their contributions, oppression, and resistance.
- Students will describe the manner in which race, class, gender, and sexuality intersect.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of women’s and LGBTQ+ people’s experience in historical and cultural contexts, both nationally and globally.
- Students will define and describe a range of theories that underlie feminist and queer analysis, understanding their similarities and differences.
About Academic Minors
Farmingdale State College students are invited to enhance their studies with an "Academic Minor." A minor is a cluster of thematically related courses drawn from one or more departments. In addition to department based minors (e.g. computer programming & info systems), interdisciplinary minors are also available (e.g. legal studies).
Academic minors are approved by the College-Wide Curriculum Committee and the Provost. Students must make application for an academic minor through the department offering the minor in conjunction with the Registrar's Office Specific course work must be determined in consultation with a faculty member in the department offering the minor. A statement of successful completion of the academic minor will appear on the student's transcript at the time of graduation.
- A minor is considered to be an optional supplement to a student's major program of study.
- Completion of a minor is not a graduation requirement and is subject to the availability of the courses selected. However, if the requirements for a minor are not completed prior to certification of graduation in the major, it will be assumed that the minor has been dropped. Consequently, the student will only be certified for graduation in their primary major.
- Only students in 4 year baccalaureate programs can apply for a minor.
- A minor should consist of 15 to 21 credits.
- At least 12 credits must be in courses at the 200 level or higher.
- At least 9 credits must be residency credits.
- Specific requirements for each minor are determined by the department granting the minor.
- Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 in their minor. Some minors may require a higher GPA.
- Students are prohibited from declaring a minor in the same discipline as their major (e.g. one cannot combine an applied math minor with an applied math major). Academic minors may not apply to all curricula.
- Students are permitted to double-count courses.
- Students are only permitted to take more than one minor with appropriate written approval of their department chair or curriculum Dean.
Admission to Farmingdale State College - State University of New York is based on the qualifications of the applicant without regard to age, sex, marital or military status, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.
Contact Information
Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Evan Cooper
Memorial Hall, Room 131
934-420-2669
sociologyandanthropology@farmingdale.edu
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Fall 2022
Subject to revision
| Required: (6 credits) |
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| SOC 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies |
OR
| SOC 282 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Studies | 3 |
| SOC 361 Gender Theory | 3 |
| Three courses from the following: (9 credits) | |
|---|---|
| ANT/SOC 240 Women, Men, and Social Change | 3 |
| SOC 283 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality | 3 |
| EGL 222 Women in Literature | 3 |
| EGL 225 Images of Women in Drama | 3 |
| EGL 316 Women in Modern American Literature | 3 |
| ECO 441 Economics of Gender | 3 |
| HIS 222 Women in U.S. History | 3 |
| HIS 335 Gender and Technology in Historical Perspective | 3 |
| MLG 310 Latin American Women Writers | 3 |
| POL 360 Women in Comparative Development | 3 |
| PSY 230 Gender Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 238 Human Sexuality | 3 |
| PSY 307 Psychology of Women | 3 |
| RAM 303 Research Experience | 3 |