Director: Dawne Moon, Ph.D.
The interdisciplinary Gender and Sexualities Studies (INGS) major and minor promote a critical, feminist, and intersectional understanding of gender, sexuality, and power in a global context and across disciplinary boundaries. In addition to fostering human understanding, they provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for just and equitable leadership in professional, civic and religious roles.
Students gain the knowledge and skills for understanding and recognizing:
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How gender has shaped the world around us and the ways we make sense of it.
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How gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, ethnicity, disability, religion, region and other societal markers.
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How sexism and heterosexism have operated in a dynamic with other systems of structural oppression in historical and contemporary contexts.
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The various meanings and categories that different societies assign sex and sexuality in different historical eras and how they shape people’s lives.
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The diversity of gendered experiences, accomplishments and perspectives within the categories of woman, man, intersex, transgender, nonbinary, Two-Spirit and others throughout the gender spectrum.
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How to embrace gender and sexual diversity and work for justice in any sector of society.
Gender and Sexualities Studies Minor
The interdisciplinary minor in Gender and Sexualities Studies consists of an introductory course (3 credit hours) and five elective courses (15 credit hours).
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 3 |
| Introduction to Gender and Sexualities Studies | |
| 15 |
| Gender and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
| Sex, Gender and Evolution | |
| Culture, Law and Violence | |
| Culture and Civilization of the Middle East | |
| Arab and Muslim Women in the United States | |
| Gendered Communication | |
| Race and Gender Issues in Mass Media | |
| Media and the Other | |
| Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice | |
| Domestic Violence in the United States | |
| Sex Offenses and Offenders | |
| Family Violence and Public Intervention | |
| Jane Austen | |
| Disability and Literature | |
| LGBTQ+ Narratives: Literature, Film, Theory | |
| Feminist Rhetorics | |
| Legal Fictions of the Enlightenment | |
| British Literature since 1900 | |
| Children's Literature | |
| Law and Literature | |
| Gender, Sexuality, Literature | |
| Women Writers | |
| Francophone Studies in Gender or Sexuality | |
| Women's Health | |
| Latinx Civil Rights Movements | |
| A History of Women in America | |
| Childhood in America | |
| Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Europe | |
| Gender and Sexualities Studies Capstone | |
| Leading for Inclusion | |
| Narrating Freedom: Gender, Race and Mass Incarceration | |
| The Ethics of Intimacy | |
| Global Justice | |
| Caribbean Philosophy | |
| Philosophy of Disability | |
| Feminist Philosophy | |
| Africana Philosophy | |
| The Politics of Civil Rights and Liberties | |
| Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender | |
| Human Trafficking | |
| Human Sexuality | |
| Psychology of Gender and Health | |
| Health Disparities: A Biopsychological Perspective | |
| Psychology of Gender Roles | |
| Psychology of Marriage and Family | |
| The Family | |
| Culture, Health and Illness | |
| Race, Gender and Medicine | |
| Men, Masculinities and Health | |
| Social Movements, Protest and Change | |
| Christianity and Sexuality in the U.S. | |
| Sociology of Sex and Gender | |
| Arabs and Muslims in Global Context | |
| Women and Theology Across Cultures | |
| Theology and Economics | |
| The Many Faces of U.S. Catholicism | |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Notes:
- Other courses relevant to the study of gender or sexualities may be approved as electives by the program director. Students are advised to seek approval for substitutions before completing the courses in question.
- INGS 4997 Gender and Sexualities Studies Capstoneis typically offered in the spring term.
