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How to Apply/Declare
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:
Curriculum
Core Courses (9 Credits)
- WGS 110 - Gender in Global Context 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 295L - Introduction to Human Rights 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)
- 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)
- PSYCH 403 - Gender, Culture, and Health 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)
Completion Requirements
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 six courses applied toward the minor must be completed at UMass Boston.
Contact
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
Wheatley Hall, 5th Floor, Room 4A
617.287.6780
Womens.Studies [@] umb.edu
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