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.
AMST 225 Beauty and Race in America (not offered in 2015-2016)
ARTH 220 The Origins of Manga: Japanese Prints
ARTH 223 Women in Art (not offered in 2015-2016)
ASST 260 Resistance Struggles & People's Movements in India (not offered in 2015-2016)
BIOL 101 Human Reproduction and Sexuality
CAMS 225 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream
CLAS 214 Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
DANC 266 Reading The Dancing Body: Topics in Dance History (not offered in 2015-2016)
EDUC 338 Multicultural Education
ENGL 217 A Novel Education
ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit
ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel
ENGL 327 Victorian Novel (not offered in 2015-2016)
FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions (not offered in 2015-2016)
HIST 122 U.S. Women's History to 1877
HIST 123 U.S. Women's History Since 1877
HIST 167 History of Modern South Asia 1947-Onward (not offered in 2015-2016)
HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History
HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe (not offered in 2015-2016)
HIST 251 History of Chinese Capitalism (not offered in 2015-2016)
HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation
HIST 280 African in the Arab World
HIST 286 Africans in the Arab World: On Site and Revisited (not offered in 2015-2016)
JAPN 236 Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation (not offered in 2015-2016)
JAPN 238 Individuals and the Family in Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (not offered in 2015-2016)
PHIL 230 Philosophy of Gender
POSC 228 Foucault: Bodies in Politics (not offered in 2015-2016)
POSC 276 Imagination in Politics
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville* (not offered in 2015-2016)
POSC 355 Identity, Culture and Rights* (not offered in 2015-2016)
POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism* (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 161 Making Meaning of the Hebrew Bible (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 221 Judaism and Gender (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 227 Liberation Theologies
RELG 230 Feminist Theologies (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 238 The Sacred Body (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 255 Social Engagement in Asian Religions (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 265 Religion and Violence: Hindus, Muslims, Jews (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 280 The Politics of Sex in Asian Religion (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 281 Performing Tradition: Art, Religion, and Globalization (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 287 Many Marys
RELG 362 Spirit Possession (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 380 Radical Critiques of Christianity (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 114 Modern Families: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Family
SOAN 150 Who Cares and Who Gets Care? Women and Health (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 202 Girls Gone Bad: Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice
SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 227 Masculinities and Gender
SOAN 257 Culture and Politics in India
SOAN 323 Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 325 Sociology of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 340 Topics in Critical Social Theory
SOAN 395 Ethnography of Reproduction
SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film
SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (not offered in 2015-2016)
SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Body and Text (not offered in 2015-2016)
THEA 351 Women Playwrights/Women's Roles
WGST 112 Introduction to LGBT/Queer Studies
WGST 200 Gender, Power and the Pursuit of Knowledge
WGST 234 Feminist Theory
WGST 240 Gender, Globalization and War (not offered in 2015-2016)
III. Capstone Seminar: SOAN 395 Ethnography of Reproduction for 2015-2016. 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.