Minor Requirements

• Minimum Requirements:

  • A minimum of 12 hours of C or higher grade
  • At least 9 hours of the minor must be taken at UNC-Chapel Hill and not at other academic institutions
  • All courses in the minor must be taken for a grade
  • Students who plan to declare a minor in Sexuality Studies will be encouraged to do so early in their Junior year
  • Courses used to satisfy the core requirements of a major will not count toward this minor

  Core courses:

  The minor consists of five courses of which at least two must be chosen from among the “core courses”, which are courses designated by the LGBTQ Advisory Board as being especially central to a student’s understanding of the field. Up to three courses may come from the list of additional courses approved for the program. These five courses must involve work in at least three departments or curricula.

  • CLAS 42/WMST 42: Sex and Gender in Antiquity
  • COMM 549: Sexuality and Visual Culture
  • COMM 545: Pornography, Sexuality and American Culture
  • ENGL 22q/WMST22q: Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Culture and Literature
  • ENGL 91c: Another Country: Homoeroticism in British Literature
  • ENGL 55/WMST 152: Queer Latina/o: Literature, Performance,
    and Visual Art
  • ENGL 180/WMST 180: Queer Latina/o Photography & Literature
  • ENGL 190q: The Challenge of Queer Theory to Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and the Humanities
  • FREN 199: Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Sexual-Transexual Readings prior to 1900
  • HIST 79/WMST 79: History of Female Sexualities in the West
  • HIST 149: The History of Sexuality in America
  • POLI 73/WMST 74: The Politics of Sexuality
  • WMST 88/INTS 88: The International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • WMST102/INTS102: Comparative Queer Politics

  Additional courses:

  • ANTH 158: Archaeology of Sex and Gender
  • ANTH 173: Anthropology of the Body and the Subject
  • CMPL 181: Aestheticism
  • CMPL 190: Literature and the Arts of Love
  • HIST 55: Women and Marriage in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
  • HIST 111: Women and Men in the Renaissance
  • HIST 127A: Society and Family in Early Modern Europe
  • HIST 182 /AFRI 182: Women and Gender in African History
  • LING 72/ANTH 84/WMST 71: Language and Power
  • POLI 67/WMST 67: Feminism and Political Theory
  • PSYC 183/WMST 183: Contemporary Sex Roles
  • RECR 112: Leisure in a Diverse Society
  • RELI 81/WMST 83: Gender and Sexuality in the Western Christian Tradition
  • RELI 154: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Judaism
  • RUSS 73: Russian Culture and Society: 1890 - 1917
  • SOCI 24/WMST 24: Sex and Gender in Society
  • WMST 50: Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • WMST/AFAM 85: African American Women in the Media
  • WMST 131: Gender and Popular Culture