UMass Boston

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: 

Apply as a First-Year Student

Apply as a Transfer Student

All courses are three credits unless otherwise noted.

Core Courses (6 Credits)

• WGS 201 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies
• Pick one:
  • POLSCI 451 - Queer Theory & Politics
  • WGS 350 - Topics in Queer & Trans Studies
  • WGS 420 - Queer of Color Critique

Electives (12 Credits)

Complete four courses from the list below. At least one course must be 300-level or higher.

• WGS 207L - Queer Visual Culture: Sexuality, Gender, and Visual Representation
• WGS 210G - Gendered Bodies
• WGS 227GL - Gender & Sexuality in South Asia
• WGS 230G - Reproductive Rights and Wrongs
• WGS 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20thCentury US
• WGS 268 - Global Bodies: Sex, Families, and Reproductive Rights in Transnational Perspective
• WGS 302L - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
• WGS 310L - Love, Sex, and Media Effects
• WGS 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture
• WGS 360 - Gender, Culture, and Power
• AMST 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20thCentury US
• AMST 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture
• ART 207L - Queer Visual Culture: Sexuality, Gender, and Visual Representation
• COMM 310L - Love, Sex, and Media Effects
• CSP 302L - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
• ENGL 370 - Reading Sexualities: Queer Theory
• HIST 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20thCentury US
• HONORS 290 - Special Topics Sexuality and Social Change
• WGS 263 - Transgender Studies
• WGS 320 - Sexuality Education
• WGS/AMST 343L - The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS
• WGS/LATSTY 229 - Latinx Sexualities
• WGS 227GL - Gender and Sexuality in South Asia
• CINE 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
• ENGL 179GL - Sexuality in Nature and Culture
• ENGL 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
• ENGL 397 - Queer Romanticism
• WGS 260 - Gender, Sexuality, and Health: Feminist Perspectives
• WGS 179GL - Sexuality in Nature and Culture
• WGS 373 - Sex and the City: The Politics of Race, Sexuality, and Mobility

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: No more than three courses from another institution may be applied toward the minor.

Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wheatley Hall, 5th Floor, Room 4A
617.287.6780
QT.MinorStudies@umb.edu