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Current Undergraduate Students: Declare or change your minor by completing an Undergraduate Program Add/Change form.

Prospective Undergraduate Students:Apply for admission to UMass Boston by completing an application. Start by reviewing the first-year and transfer application pages for important information about requirements, deadlines, and application status checks. Use the links below to apply:

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Core Courses (9 Credits)

• WGS 110 - Gender in Global Context 3 Credit(s)
  or
• ENGL 293L - Literature and Human Rights 3 Credit(s)

• WGS 295L - Introduction to Human Right 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 401 - Advanced Topics in Human Rights 3 Credit(s)

Electives (9 Credits)

Take three electives from the list below. At least two courses must be 300-level or higher.

• CINE 412L - Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema 3 Credit(s)
• ENGL 293L - Literature and Human Rights 3 Credit(s)
• HIST 346 - Women & Gender in African History 3 Credit(s)
• LABOR 315 - Labor, Community, and Social Justice Organizing 3 Credit(s)
• LABOR 335 - Globalization and Labor 3 Credit(s)
• LATAM 270 - Human Rights in Latin America 3 Credit(s)
• PHIL 450 - Rights 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 252 - Modern Political Thought (D) 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 265L - World War II Internment of Japanese Americans (A) 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 332 - Civil Liberties in the United States (A) 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 369 - Politics of the Middle East (C 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 404 - The Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 406 - Politics of Food Security 3 Credit(s)
• POLSCI 451 - Queer Theory & Politics 3 Credit(s)
• SOCIOL 230 - Race, Incarceration, and Deportation 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 268 - Global Bodies: Sex, Families, and Reproductive Rights in Transnational Perspective 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 270 - Native American Women in North America 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 345 - Gender, Religion and Politics in South Asia 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 355L - Gender, Development, & Globalization 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 360 - Gender, Culture, and Power 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 412L - Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema 3 Credit(s)

Both WGS 490 and WGS 491 count as 3 credits:

• WGS 490 - Internship in Women's Studies 3 Credit(s)
• WGS 491 - Internship Placement 3 Credit(s)

For more information on curriculum, including course descriptions and degree requirements, visit the Academic Catalog.

Complete 18 credits from six courses, including three core courses and three electives.

Pass/fail: No more than one course taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.

Residency: At least three courses applied toward the minor must be completed at UMass Boston.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
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