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College of Arts & Sciences

Gender Studies Minor

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Amy Sneegas

Assistant, Department of Humanities & University Ministry

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Identify, evaluate, understand, and analyze our world.

Students pursuing this minor gain a better understanding of gender identity creation and reproduction, the channels by which individuals and society communicate values, normative frameworks of gender and gender-specific acts, and theories of power dynamics inherent in gender definitions.

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Program Objectives

  • Critically evaluate the social construction of gender roles within a variety of contexts
  • Explain gender studies concepts, including the roles of theory and praxis
  • Understand the historical and contemporary intersectionality of gender identities with racial, class, religious, and relational identities
  • Analyze the values, traditions, and practices that create and re-create gender identities
  • Identify the political, social, and economic consequences of gender (students will recognize positions of privilege, disenfranchisement/alienation, and the effects of such power dynamics)

Gender Studies Courses

Meet the Faculty 

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Dr. Michelle Deming

Assistant Professor of Sociology

M.A. University of North Carolina in Wilmington; Ph.D. University of South Carolina; Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Carolina

Office: Parmenter Hall 23

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Dr. Ryan Gibb

Associate Professor of International Studies, Political Science

B.A., M.A. Marquette; Ph.D. University of Kansas

Office: Case 105C

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Dr. Tamara Slankard

Professor of English

B.A. Belmont University, M.A. University of Tulsa, Ph.D. and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Expertise: American literature, modernism, women’s and gender studies, cultural studies

Office: Case 305E

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