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Major Requirements

A minimum of eight courses, four of which are required as follows:

Required Courses

• WGSS 202Ìý-ÌýWomen's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies A student must receive a minimum grade of C in WGSS 202Ìýin order to be admitted to the major program.
• One of WGSS 260,ÌýWGSS 279,ÌýWGSS 341/ALST 341Ìýas a required theory course
• WGSS 301Ìý-ÌýFeminist Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
• WGSS 490Ìý-ÌýWomen's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Senior Seminar
• One course in LGBTQ Studies with either an LGBT prefix or counts toward LGBQT credit (WGSS 202Ìýdoes not fulfill this requirement).

Feminist Methodology

• WGSS 301Ìý-ÌýFeminist Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
• WGSS 302Ìý-ÌýSpecial Topics: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Feminist Theory

A course in feminist theory:

• WGSS 260Ìý-ÌýIntersectionality in Theory and Practice
• WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
• WGSS 341Ìý-ÌýCorridors of Black Girlhood

Divisions

At least fourÌýmore courses from the following lists.ÌýMust have two courses from each list and at least one must count towards LGBTQ Studies.

List A

• ALST 242/LGBT 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean ÌýÌý
• FMST 350Ìý-ÌýHollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
• LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo & the Latin Lover
• LGBT 303Ìý-ÌýQueer Identities and Global Discourses
• WRIT 242Ìý-ÌýStand and Speak: Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change
• WRIT 345Ìý-ÌýCrafting Bodies: Movement, Gender, and Performance
• WGSS 260Ìý-ÌýIntersectionality in Theory and Practice
• WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
• CLAS 232Ìý-ÌýSexuality and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
• ENGL 208Ìý-ÌýSex and the Global City
• ENGL 305Ìý-ÌýThe Female Protagonist
• ENGL 333Ìý-ÌýAfrican/Diaspora Women's Narrative
• ENGL 405Ìý-ÌýThe Brontës
• ENGL 408Ìý-ÌýLiterature of Medieval Women
• FREN 353Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Literature in French: Literary Innovations in the 20th to 21st Centuries
• FREN 453Ìý-ÌýContemporary Literature in French
• FREN 455Ìý-ÌýFrancophone Voices from North Africa
• JWST 213/RELG 213Ìý-ÌýThe Bible as/and Literature Ìý
• JWST 343/RELG 343Ìý-ÌýGender and Judaism ÌýÌýÌý
• PHIL 360Ìý-ÌýFeminist Philosophy
• RELG 234Ìý-ÌýGoddesses, Women and Power
• RELG 253Ìý-ÌýLove, God, and Sex
• SPAN 474Ìý-ÌýShort Fiction in Contemporary Spain
• SPAN 488Ìý-ÌýLatin American Women Dramatists

List B

• ANTH 216Ìý-ÌýMen, Masculinities, and Power
• ANTH 228Ìý-ÌýWomen and Gender in Prehistory
• ANTH 315Ìý-ÌýGender and Culture
• ANTH 371Ìý-ÌýGender and Society in Africa
• ECON 234Ìý-ÌýGender in the Economy
• ECON 410Ìý-ÌýSeminar in Gender and Development
• EDUC 303Ìý-ÌýDecolonizing Development: Gender, Power & Education in International Development
• EDUC 339/ WGSS 339Ìý-ÌýCritical and Feminist Disability Studies ÌýÌý
• GEOG 321Ìý-ÌýTransnational Feminist Geography
• HIST 211Ìý-ÌýWomen's Rights in US History
• HIST 213Ìý-ÌýWomen in the City)
• HIST 304Ìý-ÌýSex and Sexualities in U.S. History
• LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýAn Exploration into LGBTQ Studies: Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry
• LGBT 350Ìý-ÌýSexuality, Gender, and the Law
• NAST 310Ìý-ÌýIndigenous LGBTQ and Feminist Studies
• PCON 160Ìý-ÌýGender (In)Security
• SOCI 212Ìý-ÌýPower, Racism, and Privilege
• SOCI 220Ìý-ÌýGender, Sexuality, and Society
• SOCI 310Ìý-ÌýSociology of the Body
• SOCI 333Ìý-ÌýSociology of the Life Course (RI) andÌýSOCI 333LÌý
• SOCI 367Ìý-ÌýSociology of Gender
• SOCI 369Ìý-ÌýWomen, Health, and Medicine
• WGSS 312/ALST 312Ìý-ÌýGender, Race and Punishment: Toward an Inclusive History of the American Carceral State ÌýÌý
• WGSS 341/ALST 341Ìý-ÌýCorridors of Black Girlhood ÌýÌý

Other Courses

Other courses may countÌýtoward a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesÌýmajor, depending on the orientation of the course, the instructor's choice of syllabus, and/or the direction of the readings and student projects during a particular year. Such courses need the approval of the instructor and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies director to be counted toward a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major.ÌýStudents must check with their WGSS adviser about which of the following courses meet WGSS concentration requirements. WGSS credit cannot be granted once the course isÌýcompleted with a non-approved instructor.

These courses include:

• CORE C166Ìý-ÌýIndia
• CORE S172Ìý-ÌýThe Biology of Women: Sex, Gender, Reproduction, and Disease
• EDUC 204Ìý-ÌýChild and Adolescent Development
• EDUC 310Ìý-ÌýRacial Capitalism and Education Policy
• ENGL 202Ìý-ÌýJustice and Power in Postcolonial Literature
• ENGL 363Ìý-ÌýContemporary Fiction
• ENGL 461Ìý-ÌýStudies in the Renaissance
• JWST 208/RELG 208Ìý-ÌýThe Hebrew Bible in America ÌýÌý
• LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýAn Exploration into LGBTQ Studies: Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry
• RELG 202Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Islam
• SOCI 312Ìý-ÌýSocial Inequality
• SOCI 333Ìý-ÌýSociology of the Life Course (RI) andÌýSOCI 333LÌý
• WGSS 291Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
• WGSS 391Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
• WGSS 491Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
• WGSS 499Ìý-ÌýHonors in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Additional Information

Students' relationships with their advisers are a critical part of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesÌýprogram. Following admission to the program, students, in consultation with their advisers, may develop a sequence of required and elective courses related to a particular topic. Some suggested topics are postcolonial and critical race studies;Ìýfamily studies; women in the United States; global perspectives on women; women, work, and family; women and social change; women and religion; and women, knowledge, and text.

Honors and High Honors

Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesÌýprogram page.

Women's Studies Program

For more information about the department, including Faculty,Ìýtransfer credit, awards, and more,Ìýplease visit theÌýWomen's Studies programÌýcatalogÌýpage.