The Women's and Sexuality Studies Program at The College of St. Scholastica offers a minor designed to cultivate critical thinking about women and sexuality as it engages with topics of immediate social and political concern. These issues include objectification of women in media and advertising, tensions and intersectional challenges within historical feminist movements, and trafficking of women and girls.
To introduce students to the history and complexity of these political, intellectual, and cultural issues, the program stresses the critical importance of feminist theory, intersectionality, and global engagement with women's and other liberation movements in the United States and around the world. In this sense, the program turns on a debate that remains central to Women's and Sexuality Studies - the relationship between academics and activism, between theory and practice.
Students graduating from St. Scholastica with a minor in Women's and Sexuality Studies have pursued careers in healthcare, midwifery, advocacy, publishing, and have completed graduate study in the humanities, social work, and management.
The program offers both research and internship opportunities. Practicums have been completed at Safe Haven, PAVSA, the YWCA, and the Duluth Building for Women.
Contact Information
wgs@css.edu
Learning Outcomes
Through the Women's and Sexuality Studies minor, students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of feminist theory within its historical and cultural contexts.
- Connect the feminist principle of intersectionality of sex and other social categories, such as social class, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation with people’s differing individual and institutional experiences.
- Apply key concepts and methods from the WSS minor and student’s discipline to the understanding of issues related to women and sexuality.
Requirements
Students must achieve the following program requirements for all courses listed under Program Requirements and Program Required Courses for the Women's and Sexuality Studies minor.
Program Requirements
Minor Credits: 20
Program Required Courses
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| WGS 1010 | Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 4 |
| WGS 4555 | Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Fieldwork/Scholarship Capstone | 4 |
| 12 |
| Art and Protest | |
| Media, Race, Gender, Sexuality | |
| Dance, Gender and Culture | |
| Cultural Anthropology | |
| Issues in United States History | |
| Islam and the Modern World | |
| Psychology of Human Sexuality | |
| Philosophies of Feminism | |
| Psychology of Gender | |
| Topics in Philosophy | |
| General Sociology | |
| Sociology of Health | |
| Understanding Systems of Privilege and Oppression | |
| Women and Religion | |
| Feminism & Globalization: Women, Religion and the Body | |
| Total Credits | 20 |
