Women's Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Professors Dana J. Strand, fall and winter; Clara Hardy, spring
The Women's 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 Studies 110: Introduction to Women's Studies
II. Core Courses (4 courses or 24 credits) NOTE: All cross-listed courses, which include but may not be limited to:
ARTH 223: Women in Art
CLAS 114: Images of Women in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ENGL 338: Rereading the African American Novel (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ENGL 351: Women Playwrights/Women's Roles (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 222: U.S. Women's History to 1900
HIST 223: U.S. Women's History Since 1900
HIST 238: Topics in Medieval History: Gender and Ethics in Medieval France
HIST 280: Women and Work in Africa (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
JAPN 236: Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World
MUSC 213: Music and Gender
PHIL 235: Feminist Philosophy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 354: Feminist Political Theory (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 355: Contemporary Feminist Thought: Identity, Culture and Rights (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
RELG 224: Women and Religion (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
RELG 322: Christian Feminist Theologies
SOAN 226: Anthropology of Gender (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
SPAN 344: Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre
WMST 220: The Politics of Reproduction
WMST 340: Witness Narratives: Memoirs of Survival
III. Final Seminar: For those enrolled in the Women's Studies Concentration, the following may be taken as capstone seminar: Women and War and Sexed Bodies/Sexed Science?. Other advanced seminars may be substituted for the designated capstone seminar only with the approval of both the instructor and the Women's Studies director.