Gender and Diversity Studies Minor

The Gender and Diversity Studies (GDST) Minor is an 18-hour interdisciplinary minor open to all Xavier undergraduates and compatible with any major.  The minor acquaints students with scholarship on gender and diversity in their broadest, most inclusive sense.  Courses in the minor facilitate the development of students’ critical thinking skills, knowledge base, and intellectual frameworks for analyzing and exploring the nature of diversity including socioeconomic, political, psychological, and cultural experiences and positions between and among individuals and groups defined by gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, religious beliefs, and physical/mental abilities.  Students in the minor examine the individual and collective experiences of traditionally disenfranchised as well as privileged social groups, investigating the conceptual roots of identity as well as similarities and differences among them.