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, social science and policy studies, and other areas to examine issues relating to the study of gender, sexuality, and women. Interested students should speak with one of the GSWS-affiliated faculty in the Department of Humanities and Arts and/or Department of Social Science and Policy Studies, complete a minor designation form, and select a minor advisor.

The GSWS minor consists of a total of two units of course work (6/3) distributed in the following way:

Program Distribution Requirements for the Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Minor

Core Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Courses (Minimum 2/3 Units)

Minimum Units
2/3

Humanities and Arts Courses (Minimum 2/3 Units)

Minimum Units
2/3

Other courses, including applicable experimental courses, can be substituted with the approval of a GSWS advisor.

Minimum Units
2/3

SSPS Courses (Minimum 1/3 Units)

Minimum Units
2/3

Note: 

WPI policy requires that no more than one unit of course work can be doubled counted toward other degree requirements. In other words, students must take three courses for this minor that do not count for another degree requirement.