2025-2026 Academic Catalog

Gender, Race, and Sexuality Studies Minor 15 credits

The Gender, Race, and Sexualities Studies minor introduces an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational understanding of gendered and racialized experiences. It examines how women’s, men’s, non-binary, and trans experiences are locally and globally constituted at the intersection of race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, religion, (dis)ability, and other forms of differences. This interdisciplinary minor incorporates a diverse range of courses in the areas of sociology, history, literature, psychology, anthropology,  political science, and other fields of study.

The specialization bridges the gap between theory and activism by connecting historical and contemporary feminist and critical race theories with local, regional, and transnational feminist and anti-racist organizing. It trains students for advanced graduate studies as well as social-justice oriented non-profit, government, and international professions and transformative activism.

Requirements

Required Core (6 Credits)

CSOCL 2115Politicizing Sex, Gender & Race: Transnational Perspectives

3

CSOCL 3445Sociological Lens on Systemic Inequities

3

Choose THREE (9 Credits):

Course selections should be from at least two disciplines.
CANTH 2502Film, Culture and Society

3

CANTH 3301Global Lives in a Transnational Age

3

CEDUC 3550Disability Studies

3

CEDUC 4350Embracing Diversity in Classroom Communities

3

CHUMS 3315Rebel Stories: Latina Writers

3

CPOLS 2401Drug Wars

3

CPSYC 1201Cross-Cultural Psychology

3

CPSYC 3413Psychology of Women

3

CSOCL 2402Sociology of Family

3

CSWRK 2401Allyship for Disability Justice

3

CSWRK 3301Challenging Racism

3

IAHIS 3310Women in Art

3