Discover the women's and gender studies curriculum
Women's and Gender Studies at USD provides students with a range of knowledge, perspectives, methodologies and skills that will equip them well to make positive social change and to be engaged, active members of their communities.
18 units
Minor
Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary academic minor that takes as its focus the history, development and consequences of culturally acquired sexual identities. It is a field of study as complex as the many disciplines it weaves together.
Minor
The Women's and Gender Studies minor is an 18 unit program that includes the following requirements:
GNDS 101 Introduction to Gender Studies
Two lower- or upper division elective courses to be selected from a list generated each semester by the program coordinators or from the courses listed below in this course catalog.
Two elective upper division courses to be selected from a list generated each semester by the program coordinators or from the courses listed below in this course catalog. Thus 3-9 units of lower-division work, and 9-15 units of upper division coursework are required.
Two of the four elective courses listed in items 2 and 3 above must be in the humanities and two must be in the social sciences.
GNDS 495 Advanced Women's and Gender Studies
Interdisciplinary Courses
Courses in this edition of the undergraduate catalog that count toward the Women’s and Gender Studies minor are listed below. Other courses that will count toward the minor will be provided on a semester-by-semester basis. Students should select their courses in consultation with one of the program coordinators. Please see the full course descriptions under the appropriate departmental listings.
Social Sciences | ||
COMM 325 | Interpersonal Communication | 3 |
COMM 326 | Nonverbal Communication | 3 |
COMM 432 | Film and Cultural Politics | 3 |
COMM 445 | Gender Communication | 3 |
COMM 475 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
COMM 482 | Children and Media | 3 |
COMM 483 | Teens and Popular Culture | 3 |
ETHN 321C | African American Panethnicity | 3 |
ETHN 331 | Gender in Native America | 3 |
ETHN 355 | Asian American Social Movements | 3 |
ETHN 361 | Immigration at US-Mexico Border: Ethnicity, Race & Gender | 3 |
ETHN 364 | Race, Class and Gender | 3 |
ETHN 365 | U.S. Women Of Color Theory And Activism | 3 |
ETHN 367 | Race and Globalization | 3 |
LEAD 349 | Women in Leadership | 3 |
MGMT 306 | Women in Management | 3 |
POLS 307 | Feminist Political Theories | 3 |
POLS 309 | Sex, Power, and Politics | 3 |
PSYC 328 | Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination | 3 |
PSYC 330 | Psychology of Gender | 3 |
PSYC 359 | Health Psychology of Women and Ethnic Groups | 3 |
PSYC 378 | Explorations in Human Sexuality | 3 |
SOCI 101 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
SOCI 310 | U.S. Society | 3 |
SOCI 311 | Sociology of Families | 3 |
SOCI 312 | Gendered Lives | 3 |
SOCI 313 | Sexualities | 3-4 |
SOCI 372 | Politics and Society | 3 |
SOCI 470 | Sexuality and Borders | 3 |
Humanities | ||
ARTH 356 | Race, Ethnicity, Art and Film | 3 |
ENGL 215 | Children's Literature | 3 |
ENGL 321 | Literature of Race, Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
ENGL 342 | Romanticism | 3 |
ENGL 358 | United States Ethnic Literature | 3 |
ENGL 374 | Gender and Literature | 3 |
FREN 414 | French Women Writers | 3 |
HIST 126 | American Women in History | 3 |
HIST 331 | The Global Renaissance | 3 |
HIST 335 | The Victorians in Literature & Film | 3 |
HIST 341 | World War II | 3 |
HIST 367 | Women's Lives in East Asia | 3 |
HIST 383 | Chicano/a/x History | 3 |
HIST 385 | African American Women's History | 3 |
PHIL 111 | Philosophy of Human Nature | 3 |
PHIL 343 | Gender and Economic Justice | 3 |
SPAN 302 | Cultural History of Spain | 3 |
SPAN 426 | Studies in 18th and 19th Century Peninsular Literature and Culture | 3 |
THEA 370 | Performance Studies | 3 |
THRS 318 | Islam, Women and Literature | 3 |
THRS 331 | Sexual Ethics in the Catholic Tradition | 3 |
THRS 332 | HIV/AIDS and Christian Ethics | 3 |
THRS 333 | LGBTQ+ and Christianity | 3 |
THRS 334 | Christian Social Ethics | 3 |
THRS 358 | Latinoa Catholicism | 3 |
THRS 365 | Black and Womanist Theologies | 3 |
THRS 367 | Feminist Theology and Ethics | 3 |