Declaring the minor

If you would like to declare WGSS as a minor or would like to learn more about the program, please contact the following advisor or visit the CLS Advising Center. 

WGSS Minor Advising

Students that declared a minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies select a faculty advisor who helps them plan their program. Students should choose either a WGSS affiliated faculty member in their own department or the WGSS Committee Chair, Tomomi Yamaguchi. 

Click here for a printable worksheet with required courses and approved elective courses that are listed below.

Minor requirements 

To successfully complete the minor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies minor, students need to complete 21 semester hours. Further information can be found in the catalog: http://catalog.montana.edu/undergraduate/letters-science/womens-gender-studies/

Take one of the following:

  • WGSS 201IH: Feminist Theories & Methodologies
  • WGSS 120D: Why Diversity Matters 
  • Other approved feminist theory course

  Take one of the following:

  • WGSS 301R: Seminar in Women & Gender Studies
  • WGSS 492 Capstone Senior Project
  • An approved 490R or 492 course (any department)

 Take five of the following:

  • AMST 301: Reproduction in America
  • ANTY 337: Sex, Gender, & Sexuality in Japan                                       
  • ANTY 343: Popular Culture, Japan                                           
  • ANTY 427: Anthropology of Gender                                       
  • ANTY 441: Social Movements in Japan
  • ANTY 494: Contemporary Africa                                   
  • HDFS 263: Relationships & Family Systems                                         
  • HDSF 464: Gender, Race, Class & Family Diversity                                             
  • HDFS 465R: Family Law and Public Policy                                             
  • HSTA: 402: Sex and Sexuality in America
  • HSTA 407: Gender in US/Canadian West                                               
  • HSTA 408: Gender in America                                   
  • HSTA 409: Food in America                                         
  • HSTR 346: Modern India: Women in Literature and Film                                 
  • HSTR 415: Gender & Technology                                             
  • HSTR 430: Latin American Social History                               
  • HSTR 431: Race in Latin America                                               
  • HSTR 432: Colonial Latin America                                             
  • HSTR 434: Gender in Latin America                                         
  • HSTR 443: Gender in Asia
  • HSTR 491: Witches & Witchcraft                                             
  • HTH 220: Human Sexuality                                          

  • HTH 455: The Ethic of Care                                          

  • JPNS 325: The Other in Japanese Literature and Culture                                 

  • LIT 335: Women and Literature   

  • LIT 438: LGBTQ                              

  • LS 402: Contraception Through the Ages

  • NASX 405: Gender Issues in Native American Studies                                         

  • PHL 351: Philosophy & Feminism                                             

  • PSCI 354: Contemporary Political Theory

  • PSCI 439: International Human Rights                                    

  • PSYX 235D: Contemporary Issues in Human Sexuality                                      

  • PSYX 335: Psychology of Gender                                               

  • PSYX 462: Psychology of Prejudice                                           

  • RLST 321: Gender and Religion                                  

  • SOCI 326: Sociology of Gender                                  

  • SOCI 332: Sociology of the Family                                             

  • SOCI 344: Sociology of Race & Ethnicity                                 

  • SOCI 370: Sociology of Globalization 

  • SOCI 425: Victims and Society                                      

  • SOCI 434: Sociology of Human Sexuality  

  • SOCI 455: Classical Sociological Theory                             

  • SPNS 350: US Latino Cultures                                     

  • SPNS 351: US Latino Literature                                  

  • WGSS 378: LGBTQ Studies                                           

  • WGSS 454: Men & Masculinity                                 

  • WGSS 494: Seminar in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

 **Additional courses may be counted toward the minor with approval of WGSS Chair(s) *dependent on instructor