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Women's and Gender Studies (BA)

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Women's and Gender Studies

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Learning Outcomes

Requirements

Requirements for the Women's and Gender Studies Program Major (36 semester hours)

There are 36 semester hours required for the WGS major [prerequisites are listed in brackets behind each course]

1. Students must take at least one of the following courses: (4 semester hours)

  • course Thinking Sex (4)

  • course Feminism, Gender, and Society (4)

2. Students must take the following three required courses: (12 semester hours)

  • course Feminist Theory (4) [course or course]

  • One disciplinary methods/theory course (should be chosen in consultation with an advisor and dependent on WGS interests and proposed senior thesis) [course or course--NOTE: Some courses also require course]

    • Courses that will count (additional courses considered by petition):

      • course Theory and Methods of American Ethnic Studies (4) [course; junior or senior standing; and at least one elective course in AES]

      • course Theories and Methodologies of Art History (4) [A 200-level art history course]

      • course Analyzing Public Discourse (4) [no prerequisites]

      • course History through Biography: Women in World History (4) [no prerequisites]

      • course History, Sexuality, and Power (4) [One Philosophy course or consent of instructor; closed to first year students]

      • course Research Methods and Analysis 1 (4) [course or consent of instructor]

      • course Qualitative Methods in Social Research (4) [course or course]

  • course Senior Thesis [course and at least one disciplinary methods course plus senior standing]

3. Five additional courses chosen from the following: (20 semester hours)

  • course Gender and Mass Media in Asia (4)

  • course Feminist Media Before 1920 (4)

  • course Feminist Media Since 1920 (4)

  • course Citizenship and the Public Sphere (4) [course, course or course or consent of instructor]

  • course Women in Roman Literature and Life (4) [no prerequisites]

  • course Gender and Sexuality in Greek Society (4) [no prerequisites]

  • course Feminist Film Criticism (4) [Previous course in ENGL, FILM, or WGS, or consent of instructor]

  • course Latinx Literature and Culture (4) [course or other]

  • course Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Cinema (4)

  • course Culture, Power, Society (topic dependent) (4) [first and second-year students only]

  • course Gender and Women's History in the United States (4) [no prerequisites]

  • course History through Biography: Women in World History (4) (may count as methods/theory course instead) [no prerequisites]

  • course Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (4) [no prerequisites]

  • course History, Sexuality and Power (4) (may count as methods/theory course instead) [One philosophy course or consent of instructor; closed to first-year students]

  • course Sex, Gender and American Politics (4) [course or consent of instructor]

  • course From Russia with Love: Family and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (4) [no prerequisites]

  • course Topics in Sociology: (topic depending) (2-4) [course or any 100-level Sociology course)

  • course Contemporary Latin American Women Writers (4)

  • course Contemporary Spanish Women Writers (4) [course, course, course, course, course, or consent of instructor]

  • course Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature (topic dependent) (1) [course, course, course, course, course, or consent of instructor]

  • course Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies (4) [WGS major or minor and consent of instructor]

  • course Internship in Women's and Gender Studies (2-4) [course, junior or senior standing, or consent of department chair]

  • No more than 4 total courses at the 100-200 level and no more than 3 courses with same departmental prefix (other than WGS) can count toward the WGS major.