Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies

Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies Minor

The minor in Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies offers students an interdisciplinary course of study focused on sexuality and gender. The minor consists of four core courses and sixteen credits of electives from an approved list of courses. All courses must be taken with the A-F graded option. All but eight (8) credits must be upper division courses (300 level or above).

Core Course Requirements (16 credits) Students must take all four of the core courses listed below.

UNST 266 Sexualities 4 cr.
WS 370U History of Sexualities 4 cr.
WS 332U Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality 4 cr.
WS 360U Intro to Queer Studies 4 cr.

Electives (16 credits) Students must take 16 credits from the list of courses below. The faculty advisor for the minor may approve other courses to fulfill the elective credit requirements where appropriate.

ANTH 103 Intro. to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 432/532 Gender in Cross-Cultural Prsptive
BST 342 Black Feminism/Womanism
CFS 490U Sex and the Family
ENG 494 Feminist Film Theory
ENG 494/594 Queer Theory
ENG 447 Harlem Renaissance
ENG 441/541 Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance
PHE 335 Human Sexuality
PHE 453/553 Women's Reproductive Health
PHE 410 Sex Education in America
PHE 410 Worldview of Sexual Health
PSY 410 Human Sexualities
PSY 431/531 Psychology of Men and Masculinities
SOC 344U Gender and Sexualities
SP 410 Sex and the Media
SP 452/552 Gender and Race in the Media
SPAN 410 Transgenderism in South American Literature
SPAN 436/536 Disease and Literature in the Americas
WS/ENG 308U Lesbian Literature
WS/ENG 308U Gay and Lesbian Fiction
WS 399U Sex and the State

Download an SGQ Minor academic worksheet (pdf)

For advising questions, please contact:
Hillary Reno, 503-725-3516, hreno@pdx.edu
Ann Mussey, 503-725-8441, musseya@pdx.edu