Women's Studies

Exploring Society and Culture from an Intersectional, Multicultural Women's Perspective

Program Overview
Curriculum
Program Coordinator

Program Overview

Women's Studies Seminar

The Minor in Women‘s Studies is open to any degree-seeking student at Tennessee State University. An 18-hour undergraduate minor, the Women‘s Studies Program brings together and integrates courses from across many departments of the University. The Women‘s Studies Program is expressly multidisciplinary and interdepartmental, and its purpose is to provide a framework for new scholarship about women — multiculturally, multidimensionally, and multinationally. The Women‘s Studies Program at TSU promotes integrative thinking, reevaluation, and new ideas about women, as a local contribution toward expanded global understanding and respect for women.

Participating students may major in any area or program leading to a bachelor‘s degree at the University while taking the minor (18 semester hours).

Because of its implicit multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, the Women‘s Studies Program borrows substantively from all fields of study, and Women‘s Studies paradigms will concomitantly serve to strengthen both the investigations and goals of students‘ major fields of study and their materials, and to deepen students' appreciation of their own major fields.

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Curriculum

Core (6 hours)

WMST 2000 Introduction to Women‘s Studies (3 hours)
WMST 4000 Independent Study/Capstone (3 hours)

Electives (12 hours)*

AFAS 3000 African Male (3 hours)
AFAS 3050 African Female (3 hours)
AFAS 3600 African Extended Family (3 hours)
AFAS 3620 African American Family (3 hours)
ANTH 2300 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 hours)
ECFS 4630 Family Relationships (3 hours)
ENGL 3010 Critical Approaches to Literature (3 hours)
ENGL 3860 Women in Literature (3 hours)
ENGL 4600 African-American Women Writers (3 hours)
HIST 3100 American Women‘s History to 1890 (3 hours)
HIST 3110 American Women‘s History 1890 to the Present (3 hours)
HIST 4240 History of Feminism (3 hours)
PSYC 3310 Principles of Human Sexuality (3 hours)
SOCI 2400 Courtship and Marriage (3 hours)
SOCI 3101 Sex, Gender, & Social Interaction (3 hours)
SOCI 3200 Anthropology (3 hours)
SOCI 3600 The Family (3 hours)
WMST 4100 Special Topics in Women‘s Studies (3 hours)

*Only one 2000-level course from the list above may be applied toward the minor.

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Program Faculty

Dr. Rebecca Dixon, Program Coordinator
(615) 963-5726
rdixonk@tnstate.edu

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