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Completing a B.A. in Gender and Women's Studies

To earn a B.A. in Gender and Women's Studies, students must complete 36 credits of Gender and Women's Studies coursework, including the following:

CORE COURSES (15 credits)

  • GWST 100 - Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
  • GWST 200 - Studies in Feminist Activism
  • GWST 300 - Methodologies of Gender and Women’s Studies
  • GWST 480 - Theories of Feminism
  • GWST 495 - Colloquium:  Research and Activism

ELECTIVE COURSES (21 credits)

Twelve (12) credits must be spread across the three content areas as designated below. The additional nine (9) credits may be from any non-Core approved GWST course. Six (6) of the twenty-one (21) credits must be designated “Range of Experience” (RoE) courses. While all GWST courses are designed to explore multiple diversities, Range of Experience (RoE) courses focus specifically on the intersections of gender with race/ethnicity, class, nation, and/or sexual orientation, for example.  

History and Public Policy (6 credits)

  • GWST /AMST 210 - Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies (RoE)
  • GWST/HIST 325 - History of Women in America to 1870
  • GWST/HIST 326 - History of Women in America Since 1870
  • GWST 327/AFST 354/HIST 323 - African-American Women’s History (RoE)
  • GWST/POLI 328 - Women and Politics
  • GWST 330/ANCS 320 - Women and Gender in the Classical World
  • GWST/POLI 338 - Women and Law
  • GWST 340 - Global Perspectives on Gender and Women (RoE)
  • GWST/HIST 374 - European Women’s History 1200-1750
  • GWST/HIST 375 - European Women’s History 1750-1914
  • GWST/HIST 376 - European Women’s History 1914-Present
  • GWST/ SOWK 377 - Women and Social Policy
  • GWST/HIST 380 - History of Women and Gender in Asia (RoE)
  • GWST/AMST 382 - Perspectives on the Family

Representations as/in Culture (3 credits)

  • GWST/PHIL 258 - Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
  • GWST/MLL320 - International Women Directors (RoE)
  • GWST 321 - Queer Representations in Film and TV (RoE)
  • GWST/ENGL/MLL 322/AFST 347 - Women and the Media: Myths, Images and Voices
  • GWST/THTR 349 - Women and Theatre
  • GWST 365/AFST 360 - Black Women Novelists (RoE)
  • GWST/ENGL 364 - Perspectives on Women in Literature
  • GWST/PHIL 391 - The Philosophy of Sex
  • GWST/PHIL 458 - Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy

Material, Social, and Technological Contexts (3 credits)

  • GWST/ECON 250 - Gender Roles in Economic Life
  • GWST/AMST 310 - Gender and Inequality in America
  • GWST/SOCY 332 - Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspective
  • GWST/SOCY 333 - Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • GWST/CMSC/IS 352 - Women, Gender and Information Technology
  • GWST/SOCY 353 - Marriage and the Family
  • GWST/SOCY 355 - The Sociology of Women
  • GWST/PSYC 356 - The Psychology of Sex Differences
  • GWST/PSYC 357 - Psychology of Women
  • GWST/AFST 370 - Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (RoE)
  • GWST/AFST 371 - The Female Offender
  • GWST 378 - Gender, Science and Technology
  • GWST 381 - Cultural Politics of Reproduction
  • GWST/SOCY 433 - Gender Work and Family in Cross-cultural Perspective (RoE)
  • GWST/SOCY 434 - Gender in the Life Course

NOTE:

  • A maximum of six (6) credits of GWST electives may be taken at the 200 level.
  • A maximum of three (3) GWST independent studies may be counted toward the major.
  • A maximum of three (3) GWST internship credits may be counted toward the major.
  • GWST 390 and 490 topics courses may be counted toward the 9 credits in electives not designated by content area.