Women and Gender Studies, Minor

The Women and Gender Studies Minor is an interdisciplinary minor that introduces students to the importance of women’s perspectives on culture and society. Students will examine and focus on the construction of gender as it intersects with race, ability, nationality, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation.

The following requirements below are intended for students declared after Fall 2022. If you have already declared your minor, please speak to your academic advisor for assistance.

Minor Coordinator:
Melissa Tombro
melissa_tombro@fitnyc.edu

Required:
EN 279	Women's Writing: 1900 - Present	3
Choose Four (4) Courses:
EN 202	Women Write New York City	3
EN 234	Gay and Lesbian Literature	3
EN 302	Gender and Nationalism in World Fiction (Honors)	3
EN 304	Writing as Activism (Honors)	3
EN 305	Arab Women and the War Story (Honors)	3
EN 335	Working Women in the United States: 1865 to Present	3
EN 368	Intentional Objects: Writing About Things	3
FI 223	Women Make Movies: A History of Women’s Filmmaking	3
HA 202	Feminist Art Histories, Theories, and Practices	3
HA 215	History of Menswear *	3
HA 236	Queering Art History and Western Visual Culture	3
HA 308	Goddesses, Women, Power and Patronage in the Ancient World (Honors)	3
HA 382	Beauty: The Human Ideal in Visual Culture (Honors)	3
HE 201	Human Sexuality	3
HI 200	Queer Work: A Research Seminar in LGBTQ Business and Labor History	3
MC 203	Gender as Performance: Representation of Masculinities in Latin American/Latinx Theatre	3
MC 313	Writing Women of the Italian Renaissance	3
MC 351	From Modern to Contemporary Latin American Women Writers	3
SS 272	Sex Roles, Marriage, and Family in Transition	3
SS 303	LGBTQ in Society: A Global Perspective	3
SS 340	The Psychology of Gender, Perception and Self-Expression	3
SS 341	Women and Global Politics	3