Program Overview

Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexualities Studies

The Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexualities Studies (INGS) major and minor promote a critical, feminist, intersectional, and cultural understanding of gender, sexuality, and power in a global context and across disciplinary boundaries. They can help students better understand the world around them and provide the knowledge and skills necessary to be a leader for justice and equity in their career as well as the rest of their life.

About

In Gender/Sexualities Studies, students gain the knowledge and skills for understanding and recognizing:

• How gender has shaped the world around us and the ways we make sense of it
• The diversity of gendered experiences, accomplishments, and perspectives within the categories of woman, man, intersex, transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, and other categories throughout the gender spectrum
• The various meanings and categories that different societies assign sex and sexuality in different historical eras and how they shape people's lives
• How gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, ethnicity, disability, religion, region, and other societal markers
• How sexism and heterosexism have operated in a dynamic with other systems of structural oppression, in both historical and contemporary contexts
• How to embrace gender and sexual diversity and work for justice

Major Requirements

The major in INGS requires 10 classes:

• INGS 1001: Introduction to Gender and Sexualities Studies
• INGS 4997: Gender and Sexualities Studies Capstone + Internship
• 8 Electives (at least two from the Humanities and at least two from the Social Sciences)

Minor Requirements

The minor in INGS requires 6 classes:

• INGS 1001: Introduction to Gender and Sexualities Studies
• 5 Electives

Course Options

There are various classes to choose from, including:

Humanities Electives

• ARBC 3200: Culture and Civilization of the Middle East
• ARBC 3220: Arab and Muslim Women in the United States
• ENGL 3762: Disability and Literature
• ENGL 3785: LGBTQ+ Narratives: Literature, Film, Theory
• ENGL 4222: Feminist Rhetorics
• ENGL 4423: Legal Fictions of the Enlightenment
• ENGL 4503: British Literature since 1900
• ENGL 4715: Children's Literature
• ENGL 4755: Law and Literature
• ENGL 4785: Gender, Sexuality, Literature
• ENGL 4786: Women Writers
• FREN 4340: Francophone Studies in Gender or Sexuality
• HIST 4125: Latinx Civil Rights Movements
• HIST 4145: A History of Women in America
• HIST 4150: Childhood in America
• HIST 4245: Women in Western Civilization
• PHIL 3502: Narrating Freedom: Gender, Race and Mass Incarceration
• PHIL 3503: The Ethics of Intimacy
• PHIL 3507: Global Justice
• PHIL 3508: Caribbean Philosophy
• PHIL 3509: Philosophy of Disability
• PHIL 3770: Feminist Philosophy
• PHIL 3780: Africana Philosophy
• THEO 3470: Women and Theology Across Cultures
• THEO 3530: Theology and Economics
• THEO 4270: The Many Faces of U.S. Catholicism

Social Sciences Electives

• ANTH 3330: Gender and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• ANTH 4255: Sex, Gender and Evolution
• ANTH 4320: Culture, Law and Violence
• CRLS 3640: Domestic Violence in the United States
• CRLS 3660: Sex Offenses and Offenders
• CRLS 3130: Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice
• CRLS 3680: Family Violence and Public Intervention
• POSC 4251: The Politics of Civil Rights and Liberties
• POSC 4361: Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
• POSC 4643: Human Trafficking
• PSYC 3220: Human Sexuality
• PSYC 3430: Psychology of Gender and Health
• PSYC 3550: Psychology of Gender Roles
• PSYC 4720: Psychology of Marriage and Family
• SOCI 2200: The Family
• SOCI 3500: Culture, Health and Illness
• SOCI 3550: Race, Gender and Medicine
• SOCI 3570: Men, Masculinities and Health
• SOCI 3700: Social Movements, Protest and Change
• SOCI 4430: Christianity and Sexuality in the U.S.
• SOCI 4450: Sociology of Sex and Gender
• SOWJ 3450: Arabs and Muslims in Global Context

Additional Electives

• CMST 4120: Gendered Communication
• COMM 4500: Race and Gender Issues in Mass Media
• COMM 4550: Media and the Other
• HEAL 1200: Women's Health
• MANA 3035: Diversity in Organizations