Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Minor

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Program of Study
Humanities & Arts
Degree Type
Minor

The minor in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (GSWS) offers WPI students the opportunity to interrogate interlocking systems of oppression, including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ethnocentrism, and colonialism, and their impact on people’s lives on campus and across the world. This interdisciplinary minor combines course work from the Humanities and Arts and other departments and programs to examine issues relating to the study of gender, sexuality, and women. Interested students should speak with one of the GSWS affiliated faculty, add the GSWS minor on Workday, and select a minor advisor.
 

The Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (GSWS) minor consists of two units of work distributed as follows:

Three of the following GSWS core courses (3/3 Units)

Minimum Units
1/3

GSWS-affiliated courses (3/3 Units)

A student may opt to complete an independent study as part of their GSWS minor sequence of courses. The topic and project should be developed in collaboration with the student’s GSWS advisor and build upon the student’s previous coursework. The ISU may be taken last and cannot be double counted.