Program Requirements: Women's and Gender Studies

All Women's and Gender Studies majors must take ten (10) WGS courses, as well as complete a minor or a second major in another field. The major requirements are distributed as follows:

• Three Core Courses: Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist Theory, and a Senior Capstone seminar or internship
• Three Introductory or 100-Level Courses from three different departments
• Three 200-Level Courses in a chosen theme or area of specialization from at least two different departments. Students will design a specialization in consultation with their adviser and must receive the approval of the women’s and gender studies director.
• One Methods or Skills course related to student’s WGS specialization. This course may overlap with the required minor or second major.

TheWomen’s and Gender Studies director will help students identify an adviser based on WGS specialization, minor field, or second major. Advisers will be drawn from WGS faculty across the university.

Core Courses

WS110 Introduction to Women’s Studies
WS200 Feminist Theory
Senior Capstone WGS299, 296, or other

Students must complete a capstone course taught or supervised by a Women's and Gender Studiesfaculty member andproduce a major research paper or essay. In addition, the capstone may be an individual internship or a special project. Students may also satisfy the capstone requirement with an approved Women’s and Gender Studies Seminar or an Internship Seminar, both of which may be cross-listed with another department.

Appropriate capstone seminars include, but are not limited t

ENG249 Signs and Crossroads: Semiotic Theory and Practice
ENG260 Studies in 18th-Century British Literature
ENG262 Studies in 19th-Century British Literature
ENG263 British Romantic Literature: Race and Imperialism in Romanticism
GEOG237 Feminism, Nature and Culture
GEOG277 Gender, Environment and Development
HIST213 Gender and the American City
HGS236 Gender, War and Genocide in 20th-Century Europe
HIST234 Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)
HIST291 Dangerous Women
ID209 Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Third World Women, Gender and Development
IDCE269 Raced Nature, Gendered Developments: The Political Economy of Environmental Conservation
PSYC265 Psychology of Men
PSYC275 Societal Approaches to Thinking
PSYC295 Advanced Topics on Gender and Society
SOC278 Family Issues in an Aging Society
SOC294 Global Ethnographies: Ethnographers in the Making for the 21st Century
SOC296 Internship Seminar: Gender

Introductory or 100-level courses from a different department:

English
ENG133 Survey of Women Writers I
ENG134 Survey of Women Writers II

Foreign Language and Literature
CMLT109 Human Rights & Literature
CMLT132 Sexuality & Textuality
FREN112 Fairy Tales of the World
JAPN190 Japanese Women Writers

Geography
GEOG136 Gender and Environment

Government and International Relations
GOVT091 Gender Gap and American Politics (First-Year Seminar)
GOVT102 Women and War (First-Year Seminar)
GOVT117 Revolution and Political Violence
GOVT147 World Order and Globalization
GOVT175 Women and U.S. Politics

History
HIST037 19th-Century American Through Women’s Eyes
HIST219 Women in American History*
HIST229 Women in European History*
HIST282 Chinese Women in Literature and Society*

* These selected 200-level courses can count towards the “Introductory/100 level” requirement.

International Development and Social Change
ID120 Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
ID125 Tales from the Far Side
ID131 Local Action Global Change

Psychology
PSYC265 Psychology of Men and Masculinity (First-Year Seminar)

Sociology
SOC090 No Sweat (First-Year Seminar)
SOC176 The Family

Visualand Performing Arts
TA109 Contemporary Women Playwrights

200-Level Courses: Specialization intwo or more departments
The specialization is not within an existing department or discipline, but should cross at least two. Examples could include: Women in Comparative Fiction; Women and Work; Gender and Environment; Gender, War and Militaries; Women and Social Change; Gender, Identity and Sexuality; Gender, Culture and Human Rights; Feminist Critiques of Globalization. Each student will define a specialization (comprising WGScourses intwo or more departments) with their adviser, to be approved by the Women’s and GenderStudies Director. These courses can be developed from among the many courses offered within the following departments/programs:

English
ENG242 Feminist Critical Theory
ENG255 Studies in the Renaissance
ENG260 Studies in 18th-Century British Literature (topic dependent)
ENG262 Studies in 19th-Century British Literature (topic dependent)
ENG263 British Romantic Literature
ENG268 Regendering History: British Women Writing History
ENG277 Race and Gender in African-American Literary Theory
ENG295 Gender and Discourse

Foreign Languages
CMLT208 History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers
CMLT220 Global Freud
FREN211 Coming of Age in the French Novel
SPAN236 Women in Hispanic Literature

Geography
GEOG237 Feminism, Nature, and Culture
GEOG258 Utopian Vision, Urban Reality
GEOG277 Gender, Environment and Development

Government and International Relations
GOVT275 Gender, Politics, and Development in Africa
GOVT268 Peace & War

History
HIST212 History of Sexuality: 1750 to present
HIST213 Gender and the American City
HIST219 History of American Women
HIST229 Women in European History
HIST234 Racial Thought/ Body Politics in Modern Western Societies
HIST236 Gender, War and Genocide: Europe in the 20th Century
HIST282 Chinese Women in Literature and Society

International Development and Social Change
ID209 Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels
ID269 Raced Nature, Gendered Development
ID285 Gender and Global Change
IDCE30207 Alternating between International Feminist Thinking and
Gender, Militarization and Development (Intensive seven-week seminar,1/2 credit; WGS
seniors only)
IDCE30275-Genderand Development Planning (Intensive seven-week
seminar, 1/2 credit; WGS seniors only)

Management
MGMT222 Women in the Health-Care System
MGMT5308 Women in Management (Intensive seven-week seminar, 1/2 credit, WGS seniors only)

Philosophy
PHIL219 Feminist Theory

Psychology
PSYC249 Women in Society
PSYC250 Gender, Families, Close Relationships
PSYC275 Societal Approaches to Thinking
PSYC295 Advanced Topics on Gender and Society
PSYC326 Feminist Perspectives on Mind, Self, Identity and Development

Sociology
SOC258 Women in Jewish Culture
SOC275 Family Issues in an Aging Society
SOC294 Global Ethnographies: Ethnographers in the Making for the 21st Century
SOC296 Internship Seminar on Gender

Visual and Performing Arts
ARTH248 Gender and Representation
SCRN288 Gender and Film
ARTS204 Sacred Space

Methods and Skills:One course relevant to student’s WGS specialization may overlap with second major or minor. Alternative methods or skills classes may be approved as exceptions by the women’s and gender studies chair.

• ENG295 Gender and Discourse
• COMM248 Social Research Process
• GEOG210 Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography
• GOVT107 Research Methods
• HIST120 Writing History
• ID132 Research Methods for International Development and Social Change
• PSYC105 Quantitative Methods
• SOC105 Social Research Process
• TA127 Analysis of Theater Production