Jan 30, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Interdisciplinary Programs Major, BA - Women, Gender, and Sexuality Concentration

Nora Berenstain, Department of Philosophy, Chair

Women, Gender, and Sexuality is a major dedicated to the study of how gender and sexuality shape the past, present, and future of human cultures and societies. Our interdisciplinary curriculum trains students in critical studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with race, ethnicity, nationality, dis/ability, and other dimensions of social inequality. Our courses provide students with a wide variety of methodological skills and perspectives with which to conduct their own research, creative activity, and activism.

College Requirements

Arts and Sciences

Concentration Requirements

The concentration consists of 30 hours.

Complete:

WGS 200 - Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 499 - Capstone Seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours

Select one course in History:

CHIN 430 - Women in China 3 Credit Hours
WGS 319 - Gender and Religion in Asia 3 Credit Hours
WGS 326 - Gay American History 3 Credit Hours
WGS 376 - African American Women’s History from Slavery to the Present 3 Credit Hours
WGS 384 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 419 - Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Western Philosophy 3 Credit Hours
WGS 436 - History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States 3 Credit Hours
WGS 465 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Latin America 3 Credit Hours

Select one course in Arts and Literature:

FREN 433 - French and Francophone Women Writers 3 Credit Hours *
GERM 370 - Witches: Myth, Reality, and Representation 3 Credit Hours *
GERM 434 - Extraordinary Wo(Men)―Outcasts, Rebels, Martyrs, and Saints 3 Credit Hours
SPAN 433 - Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours
WGS 314 - Food, Fiction, and Film in Modern Japan 3 Credit Hours
WGS 330 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 332 - Women in American Literature 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 412 - Gender, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde 3 Credit Hours
WGS 422 - Women Writers in Britain 3 Credit Hours
WGS 469 - Sexuality and Cinema 3 Credit Hours

Select two courses in Social Sciences:

ANTH 423 - Feminist Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 424 - Queer Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 426 - Decolonization 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 435 - Multicultural Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 476 - African American Psychology 3 Credit Hours
WGS 340 - Gender, Politics, and the Law 3 Credit Hours
WGS 370 - Gender and Globalization 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 375 - Gender in Society 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 434 - Psychology of Gender 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 453 - Gender and Crime 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 463 - Race, Science, and Medicine 3 Credit Hours
WGS 464 - Feminist Philosophy of Science 3 Credit Hours

Select four additional courses:

ANTH 423 - Feminist Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 424 - Queer Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 426 - Decolonization 3 Credit Hours
CHIN 430 - Women in China 3 Credit Hours
ENGL 425 - Black Feminist Theory 3 Credit Hours
FREN 433 - French and Francophone Women Writers 3 Credit Hours *
GERM 370 - Witches: Myth, Reality, and Representation 3 Credit Hours *
GERM 434 - Extraordinary Wo(Men)―Outcasts, Rebels, Martyrs, and Saints 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 435 - Multicultural Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 476 - African American Psychology 3 Credit Hours
SPAN 433 - Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours
WGS 314 - Food, Fiction, and Film in Modern Japan 3 Credit Hours
WGS 320 - Gender, Sexuality, and Religion 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 325 - Women in American History 3 Credit Hours
WGS 326 - Gay American History 3 Credit Hours
WGS 330 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 332 - Women in American Literature 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 340 - Gender, Politics, and the Law 3 Credit Hours
WGS 370 - Gender and Globalization 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 375 - Gender in Society 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 376 - African American Women’s History from Slavery to the Present 3 Credit Hours
WGS 382 - Philosophy of Feminism 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 383 - Feminism and the Environment 3 Credit Hours
WGS 384 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 400 - Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours
WGS 412 - Gender, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde 3 Credit Hours
WGS 422 - Women Writers in Britain 3 Credit Hours
WGS 434 - Psychology of Gender 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 436 - History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States 3 Credit Hours
WGS 453 - Gender and Crime 3 Credit Hours *
WGS 463 - Race, Science, and Medicine 3 Credit Hours
WGS 464 - Feminist Philosophy of Science 3 Credit Hours
WGS 465 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Latin America 3 Credit Hours
WGS 469 - Sexuality and Cinema 3 Credit Hours
WGS 484 - African American Women in American Society 3 Credit Hours
WGS 490 - Internship 1-15 Credit Hours
WGS 491 - Foreign Study 1-15 Credit Hours
WGS 492 - Off-Campus Study 1-15 Credit Hours
WGS 493 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .