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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Global Gender Studies Minor


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Course Requirements


Two GGS Electives (6 credits)


Total Credits Required for Minor: 18


Total Credit Hours Required represents the minimum credits needed to complete this program, and may vary based on a number of circumstances. This chart should not be used for financial aid purposes.

Notes


*UB Seminar cannot count towards electives.

Departmental Honors


Please see the Academic Honors page.

Learning Outcomes


Upon successful completion of all requirements, the student will have knowledge of:

  • Broad thematic periodizations and chronology (from the perspectives of identity; oppression and resistance; and democracy and social justice) of the socio-economic, political, and cultural history of women in the Americas, and their role in the broader history of the Americas up to the present.
  • Major descriptive and analytical themes in the current socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of the women and men in the Americas.
  • The major literary and audiovisual texts - both fiction and non-fiction - that document aspects of past and/or present socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of women and men in the Americas, from the perspective of gender.
  • Major descriptive and analytical themes, from the perspective of gender, in the current socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of women and men elsewhere in the world.
  • Major descriptive and analytical themes, from the perspective of gender, in the sociology of knowledge.
  • The role of women in the evolution of U.S. constitutional democracy through their struggles for democratic participation and inclusion.

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