Women's and Gender Studies Concentration

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 or Women's and Gender Studies 112: Introduction to LGBT/Queer 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
  • BIOL 101 Human Reproduction and Sexuality
  • DANC 266 Reading The Dancing Body: Topics in Dance History
  • ENGL 327 Victorian Novel
  • FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions
  • HIST 122 U.S. Women's History to 1877 (not offered in 2016-17)
  • HIST 142 Women in Modern Europe
  • HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History
  • HIST 236 Women and Gender in Europe before the French Revolution
  • HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives, and Representations
  • HIST 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings
  • HIST 280 African in the Arab World
  • IDSC 203 Talking about Diversity
  • POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism*
  • PSYC 383 The Social Psychology of Gender: Playing by the "Gender" Rules
  • RELG 161 Making Meaning of the Hebrew Bible
  • RELG 221 Judaism and Gender
  • RELG 228 Martyrdom
  • RELG 233 Gender and Power in the Catholic Church
  • RELG 265 Religion and Violence: Hindus, Muslims, Jews
  • RELG 362 Spirit Possession
  • SOAN 114 Modern Families: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Family
  • SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender
  • SOAN 325 Sociology of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction
  • SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film (not offered in 2016-17)
  • SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Body and Text
  • WGST 112 Introduction to LGBT/Queer Studies
  • WGST 200 Gender, Power and the Pursuit of Knowledge
  • WGST 241 India Program: Gender & Sexuality in India
  • WGST 265 Black Feminist Thought: The Everyday World
  • WGST 266 Caribbean Queer Matters: Exploration & Research
  • WGST 285 Gender Violence & Feminist Self-Defense
  • WGST 310 Asian Mystiques Demystified

III. Capstone Seminar: SOAN 325 or WGST 310 for 2016-17. 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.