Minor in Women's Studies
(16 hours)

Program Requirements

1. Complete the following:
   WS 222 : (WS-Soc) Introduction to Women's Studies. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 222 : (WS-Soc) Introduction to Women's Studies. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Survey of scholarship about women's lives; new historical, sociological, psychological, and literary approaches that inform our understanding of women's experience.
   
   
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2. Complete two enrollments of the following:
   WS 392R : Women's Studies Colloquium. (1:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 392R : Women's Studies Colloquium. (1:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   RECOMMENDED:	WS 222.
   DESCRIPTION:	Scholarly findings presented by researchers on topics relating to women's lives and experiences throughout history, across the world, and within ethnic, educational, and economic segments of society.
   
   
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3. Complete nine hours from the following (Note: only two courses from any one department can be taken towards the minor requirements):
   ANTHR 431 : Kinship and Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 431 : Kinship and Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Kinship theory and analysis, 1920-present. Recent issues in anthropological treatment of gender, marriage, and family structure.
   
   
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   ARTHC 301 : Women in Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ARTHC 301 : Women in Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   History of women artists, critics, and patrons, along with women in representation in Western art. Consideration of theories and methodologies of feminist art history.
   
   
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   COMMS 481 : Gender, Race, and Class in the Media. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   COMMS 481 : Gender, Race, and Class in the Media. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	Major or minor status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Applying critical theory to the interaction between media and underrepresented groups in society. Approaches may include stereotypes and portrayals, access to media, participation, and media ownership.
   
   
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   ENGL 396 : Studies in Women's Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 396 : Studies in Women's Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Female-authored literary texts and literary theory concerning women.
   NOTE:	A core class for the women's studies minor.
   
   
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   HIST 318 : European Women's History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 318 : European Women's History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Even Yrs.
   RECOMMENDED:	Hist 200.
   DESCRIPTION:	European women and gender from 1400 to the present.
   
   
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   HIST 319 : The Family in Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 319 : The Family in Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Even Yrs.
   DESCRIPTION:	Nature and development of marriage and family life and structure from the ancient to modern era.
   NOTE:	Independent Study also.
   
   
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   HIST 358 : Gender and History in Latin America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 358 : Gender and History in Latin America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Even Yrs.
   DESCRIPTION:	How gender roles have been defined legally, socially, and culturally in Latin America from the colonial period to the present, emphasizing the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
   
   
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   HIST 378 : American Family History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 378 : American Family History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   History of American families from colonial period to the present.
   
   
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   HIST 384 : United States Women's History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 384 : United States Women's History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
   DESCRIPTION:	Survey course of women's experience in American culture and society from the Puritans to the present.
   
   
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   HLTH 450 : Women's Health Issues. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HLTH 450 : Women's Health Issues. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Overview of selected health topics affecting women's health status. Primary emphasis on steps to enhance personal health and fulfill divine roles from childhood through adulthood.
   
   
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   PL SC 472 : International Political Economy of Women. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PL SC 472 : International Political Economy of Women. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   DESCRIPTION:	Effects upon national, international, and developmental policies when women are rendered visible and valued.
   NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.
   
   
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   PSYCH 306 : Psychology of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   PSYCH 306 : Psychology of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Psych 302, 303, 304; or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Biological and social contributions to sex role development, sexual self-concept, and complementarity of sex roles.
   NOTE:	Contains content featured in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Subject Test.
   
   
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   SFL 461 : The Family and the Law. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   SFL 461 : The Family and the Law. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	SFL 160
   DESCRIPTION:	Legal environment of the family system, with emphasis on husband-wife and parent-child relationships, rights, and responsibilities.
   
   
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   SFL 471 : Philosophies of Family Work and Relationships. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   SFL 471 : Philosophies of Family Work and Relationships. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	SFL 160
   DESCRIPTION:	Changes in household labor across time, current issues around gender and household labor, and philosophical perspectives of family work and family relationships.
   
   
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   SOC 323 : Racial and Minority-Group Relations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   SOC 323 : Racial and Minority-Group Relations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   DESCRIPTION:	Social psychological and social structural analysis of racial and ethnic relations; prejudice, discrimination, responses, protests, current issues.
   
   
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   SOC 360 : Introduction to Family Sociology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   SOC 360 : Introduction to Family Sociology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
   DESCRIPTION:	Definitions of "family"; surveying the family as a context for sex, marriage, work, social reproduction, and violence in Western societies.
   
   
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   SOC 367 : Sociology of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   SOC 367 : Sociology of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Gender in social institutions: family, social hierarchies, economics, education, organizations, religion, and science.
   
   
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   WS 332 : Mormon Women's History. (3:Arr:Arr)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 332 : Mormon Women's History. (3:Arr:Arr)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
   RECOMMENDED:	WS 222.
   DESCRIPTION:	The religious, domestic, economic, political, social and familial lives of Latter-day Saint women within the broader contexts of American women's history and Latter-day Saint history. Mormon women's relationship to national trends and their association with national women's organizations.
   
   
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   WS 351 : Early Modern European Women Writers. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 351 : Early Modern European Women Writers. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   RECOMMENDED:	WS 222.
   DESCRIPTION:	Readings in European literature by women prior to 1700.
   
   
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   WS 352 : Modern European Women Writers. (3:3.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 352 : Modern European Women Writers. (3:3.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   RECOMMENDED:	WS 222.
   DESCRIPTION:	Readings in European literature by women after 1700.
   
   
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   WS 390R : Women's Studies Special Topics. (1-3:ARR:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 390R : Women's Studies Special Topics. (1-3:ARR:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Subjects related to women's studies, including anthropology of gender, women in the scriptures, British colonial writers, women's health care concepts, European women's history, Mormon women's history, women entrepreneurs, etc.
   
   
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   WS 422 : Theories of Women's Studies. (3:3.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 422 : Theories of Women's Studies. (3:3.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	Women's Studies or instructor permission.
   DESCRIPTION:	Introduction to theoretical approaches to women's studies.
   
   
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4. Complete the following:
   WS 492 : Women's Studies Capstone. (2:2.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WS 492 : Women's Studies Capstone. (2:2.0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	WS 222 & WS 392R
   DESCRIPTION:	Synthesis of interdisciplinary studies of women; knowledge and skills necessary for advanced study or work in the field; mentored research and senior capstone project required.
   
   
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