Women's and Gender Studies Concentration (WGSTc)
The Women's and Gender Studies Concentration offers students the opportunity to complement their major field with an interdisciplinary focus on women and gender.
Requirements for the Concentration
Six courses will be required from the following three groups. The range of courses must include at least two disciplines.
I. Women's and Gender Studies 110: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
II. Core Courses (4 courses or 24 credits): This is a selective and suggestive list. A variety of courses are by visitors or offered only occasionally and may be considered. Contact the director for consideration of other courses to satisfy this requirement.
ARTH 223 Women in Art (Not offered 2013-14)
CAMS 225 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream
CLAS 114 Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity (Not offered 2013-14)
ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit
ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel
ENGL 327 Victorian Novel
HIST 122 U.S. Women's History to 1877
HIST 123 U.S. Women's History Since 1877
HIST 203 Papacy, Church and Empire in the Age of Reform (Not offered 2013-14)
HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History
HIST 236 Women's Lifes in Pre-Modern Europe (Not offered 2013-14)
HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation
HIST 280 Africans in the Arab World (Not offered 2013-14)
HIST 286 Africans in the Arab World: On Site (Not offered 2013-14)
JAPN 236 Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation (Not offered 2013-14)
POSC 355 Identity, Culture, and Rights*
SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender
WGST 200 Gender, Power and the Pursuit of Knowledge
WGST 234 Feminist Theory (Not offered 2013-14)
III. Capstone Seminar: Political Science 355 for 2013-2014. Other advanced seminars may be substituted for the designated capstone seminar only with the approval of both the instructor and the Women's and Gender Studies director.