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General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) three units of the minor be taken in residence at the University of Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for the minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.
Completion of at least 5.5 units to include:
Notes
For Requirement 4, students may choose to take both courses in the same department or select courses across departments. Students are encouraged to take more than two courses from the list as a way of broadening their perspectives on educational issues.
AFAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies
AFAM 205 Survey of Race and Culture in Ethnic Literature
AFAM 305 Black Fictions and Feminisms
AFAM 346 African Americans and American Law
AFAM/COMM 370 Communication and Diversity
AFAM 375 The Harlem Renaissance
AFAM 398 Methods in African American Studies
AFAM 401 Narratives of Race
CLJ/REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education
ENGL 248 Children's and Young Adult Literature
GQS 201 Introduction to Gender, Queer, and Feminist Studies
LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
PG 304 Race and American Politics
PG 314 United States Public Policy
PG 346 Race in the American Political Imagination
PSYC 220 Developmental Psychology: Prenatal through Childhood
PSYC 221 Developmental Psychology: Adolescence Through the End of Life
PSYC 222 Lifespan Development (cannot be taken with PSYC 220 or 221)
PSYC 225 Social Psychology
PSYC 240 Counseling in Educational Settings
REL 211 Islam in America
SOAN 202 Families in Society
SOAN 301 Power and Inequality
SOAN 305 Heritage Languages and Language Policies
SOAN 310 Critiquing Education
SOAN 370 Disability, Identity, and Power
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