Global Gender Studies Minor

Admission Criteria

Current UB students seeking admission to the Global Gender Studies minor should complete the College of Arts and Sciences Major/Minor Change Request Form.

Course Requirements

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.