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FGSS-MIN - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Minor)

Overview

Program Overview

The interdepartmental Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provides students with knowledge and skills to investigate the significance of gender and sexuality in all areas of human life. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies examines how societies structure gender roles, relations, and identities, and how these intersect with other hierarchies of power, such as class, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and age. The program coordinates courses offered across the University in feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies. Students learn to employ critical gender and sexuality studies methodologies to analyze the assumptions about gender and sexuality that inform the study of individuals, cultures, social institutions, policy, and areas of scholarly inquiry. The program prepares majors for graduate study in humanities and social sciences and for professional schools.

Free Form Requisites

A student wishing to minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies should apply to the minor via Axess, preferably by Winter Quarter of the junior year. The student then develops an individualized proposal outlining a course of study to be approved by the Associate Director. The approved proposal is then submitted to the program office (Bldg. 460, Room 216) or via email to antnguyn@stanford.edu

The minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies consists of at least six courses for a minimum of 30 units. None of the units for the FGSS minor may count towards the student’s major

  1. Introductory Course: course

  2. course or one of the feminist, gender, or sexuality theory courses from the approved course list

  3. Focus Courses At least 4 courses of 3 or more units each

Program Policies

External Credit Policies

Units from courses taken from other Departments/Programs within Stanford may count for Major/Minor requirements if course equivalence is petitioned and approved by the Associate Director. Units from courses taken at institutions that are not Stanford may count for Major/Minor requirements if course equivalence is petitioned and approved by the Associate Director.

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

The program expects undergraduate minors in the program to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes. These learning outcomes are used in evaluating students and the undergraduate minor program. Students are expected to demonstrate:

  1. understanding of how social hierarchies related to gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity have developed historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally.

  2. knowledge of the histories of feminist, gender, sexuality, and/or LGBT/queer social movements and their intersections with other social movements.

  3. knowledge and comprehension of feminist, gender, sexuality, and/or LGBT/queer theories and methods for social, historical, literary and cultural analysis.

  4. skill in making and communicating feminist, gender, sexuality, and/or LGBT/queer analyses of data, texts, and arguments.

  5. competence in applying theory to practical experience for social transformation and citizenship.

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