Department of Gender Studies
Minor in Gender Studies
Students on Summer 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023 requirements GNDRMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Introductory. Three (3) credit hours:
- Any GNDR-G 100–199
- Intermediate. Three (3) credit hours:
- Any GNDR-G 200–299
- Any GNDR-G 300–399
- Advanced.
- 300–499 Level. Six (6) credit hours:
- Any GNDR-G 300–399
- Any GNDR-G 400–499
- 400–499 Level. Three (3) additional credit hours:
- Any GNDR-G 400–499 except GNDR-X 474
- 300–499 Level. Six (6) credit hours:
- International/Non-Western Emphasis. One (1) course:
- GNDR-G 102 Sexual Politics
- GNDR-G 215 Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- GNDR-G 320 Sexual Violence: Transcultural Perspectives
- GNDR-G 410 International Feminist Debates
GNDR-G 102 Sexual Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigation of cross-cultural meaning for the term “sexual politics,” from Kate Millet’s classic 1970 text to those offered by historians, social scientists, and other critics analyzing political structures, processes and mobilizations around sex, sex differences and sexual practices and statuses, including the inextricable links between sexual politics and “other/ mainstream” politics.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
GNDR-G 215 Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigation of forms in which gender, gender markings, gender meanings, and gender relations are arranged in different cultures of the world. Assessment of debates concerning the global salience of feminist claims about women’s “oppression,” political mobilization around gender, body rituals marking masculinity and femininity, indigenous women, and resistance to gender formations beyond Euro-American borders.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
GNDR-G 320 Sexual Violence: Transcultural Perspectives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores historical, transnational, and current aspects of sexual violence in order to highlight important aspects of this global problem and better understand how our interactions in the world as students and citizens. Students will be empowered to become agents of knowledge, care, and responsibility in this process.
GNDR-G 410 International Feminist Debates
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigation of debates among feminists as to whether aspirations towards global feminism are possible and desirable. The course compares concerns about the global situation of women, as articulated by international bodies such as the United Nations, with concerns articulated by feminists in different parts of the world.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Minor Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
GNDR-G
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies (GNDRBA)
Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.