Women's and Gender Studies Concentration
Director: Professor Clara Hardy, fall, Associate Professor Annette Igra, winter and spring
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):
ARTH 223 Women in Art
CAMS 234 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream
CAMS 235 Film and the Melodramatic Imagination
CAMS 240 European Women Filmmakers
CLAS 114 Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
EDUC 260 Gender, Sexuality and Schooling
ENGL 318 Gothic Spirit
ENGL 319 Eighteenth Century Fiction
HIST 222 U.S. Women's History to 1877
HIST 223 U.S. Women's History Since 1877
HIST 229 Gender and Work in U.S. History
HIST 236 Courtly Queens to Revolutionary Heroines: European Women 1100-1800
HIST 238 The World of Bede (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 238 Topics in Medieval History: Church, Papacy and Empire (not offered in 2005-2006)
HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation
JAPN 236 Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation (not offered in 2005-2006)
LCST 150 Amazons, Valkyries, Naiads, and Dykes: Women Identified and Lesbian Artists in Europe
MUSC 213 Music and Gender
PHIL 235 Feminist Philosophy
POSC 353 Feminist and American Separatist Movements
POSC 354 Feminist Political Theory
POSC 355 Contemporary Feminist Thought: Identity, Culture, and Rights
RELG 224 Women and Christianity
RELG 235 Women and Islamic Constructions of Gender
RELG 258 Women in Buddhist Tradition
RELG 322 Gender and God Talk: Christian Feminist Theologies
SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender
SOAN 395 Ethnography of Reproduction
SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (not offered in 2005-2006)
SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre
THEA 351 Women Playwrights/Women's Roles
WGST 200 Feminist Ways of Knowing
WGST 205 Womens Bodies-Health & Disease
WGST 220 The Politics of Reproduction
WGST 234 Feminist Theory
WGST 340 From Memory to Memoir: The Art of the Personal Narrative
III. Capstone Seminar: WGST 396: Representation and Resistance: Feminist Aesthetics. 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.