Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Degree Requirements
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary program that emphasizes:
- Intersectionality, which highlights the diversity of human experience and the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, class, sexuality, nationality, religion, and other social categories.
- Interdisciplinarity, which features the synthesis of theoretical and methodological approaches grounded in multiple disciplines.
- Social justice and feminist perspectives, which facilitate the investigation of power dynamics, oppression, and social change practices across historical and cultural contexts; and the integration of academic approaches, activism, and service.
Major: A minimum of nine and ½ course credits, which include:
- GSS 171, 270, 510 (taken twice over the course of an academic year in subsequent semesters), and 487;
- Six courses selected from the following, at least three of which must be at the 300 level, and which must be chosen from at least two different departments:
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ANT 271 - Women's Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
ART 264 - African American Art & Intersectionality |
ART 266 - American Indian Art: Gender & the Marketplace |
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ART 361 - Saints & She-Devils |
ART 363 - Feminist Art |
BIO 108 - Sex: A Feminist Evolutionary Perspective |
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CLA 264 - Women in Antiquity |
CLA 373 - Love & Sexuality in Greece & Rome |
ECB 320 - Women, Men & Labor Market Seminar |
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EDU 240 - Education and Culture |
ENG 325 - when topic is “Women Writers in the Age of Shakespeare” or focuses on a particular woman writer |
ENG 332 - Queering the Restoration |
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ENG 335 - Virginia Woolf |
ENG 351 - Studies in African-American Literature |
ENG 370 - AIDS Literature, Film, & Social Theory |
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ENG 372 - Film & Criticism- when the topic is “Women Directors” |
FRE 254 - Francophone Women in Translation |
FRE 353 Race & Immigration in French Film |
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FRE 354 - Sporting Identities |
HIS 319 - Women in Medieval Europe |
HIS 320 - Persecution, Tolerance, & Minorities in the Middle Ages |
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HIS 336 - Topic: Women in the Renaissance & Reformation |
HIS 354 - United States Social History Since 1940 |
HIS 358 - Work & Leisure in Modern America |
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KIN 258 - Topic: Women & Sport |
MUS 263 - Women & Music |
PHI 352 - Philosophy of Feminism |
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POL 330 - Women & Politics: A Cross-National Perspective |
POL 331 - Gender & Development |
POL 361 - Race, Sex, & the Constitution |
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PSY 374 - Psychology of Women & Gender |
REL 359 - Issue in Christianity Today: Feminist Theology |
SOC 246 - Gender Diversity |
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SOC 273 - Families & Family Policy |
SOC 317 - Reproductive Practices, Reproductive Policies |
SOC 343 - Women: Oppressions & Resistances |
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SOC 351 - Sociology of the Body |
SOC 365 - Sexualities |
SOC 366 - Gender Differences & Inequalities |
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SOC 367 - Self and Identity |
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- One experiential learning component.
Each student will develop a brief rationale for her or his program of study, which will be approved by the major advisor and a secondary program advisor from a second division of the college. In consultation with these advisors, the student will also: (a) select courses and/or contexts in which she or he will acquire the theoretical and methodological skills to complete a capstone project, and (b) indicate how the proposed course of study provides intersectional, global, and historical perspectives relevant to the study of women, gender, and sexuality.
Minor: A minimum of five and ½ course credits which include:
- GSS 171, 270, 510 (taken twice over the course of an academic year in subsequent semesters);
- Three additional courses selected from Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies courses or other departmental courses approved for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies credit (see list above). Two of these three additional courses may not be counted toward a major in another department or program. At least two courses must be at the 300 level.