Director: Professor Barbara Allen
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):
ARTH 223 Women in Art
CAMS 225 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Not offered in 2008-2009)
CAMS 226 The Melodramatic Imagination
CAMS 236 European Women Filmmakers (Not offered in 2008-2009)
CLAS 114 Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity (Not offered in 2008-2009)
EDUC 360 Gender, Sexuality and Schooling (Not offered in 2008-2009)
ENGL 318 Gothic Spirit
ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel
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
HIST 238 Topics in Medieval History: Church, Papacy and Empire
HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation
HIST 330/395 Gender, Ethics and Power in Medieval France
JAPN 234 Modern Japanese Novel in Translation: Mothers/Daughters; Fathers/Sons
JAPN 236 Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation (Not offered in 2008-2009)
POSC 275 Identity Politics in America: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion
POSC 353 Feminist and American Separatist Movements (Not offered in 2008-2009)
POSC 355 Contemporary Feminist Thought: Identity, Culture, and Rights (Not offered in 2008-2009)
RELG 224 Women and Christianity
RELG 236 Gender and Religion in the African Diaspora
RELG 244 Prophetesses and Prostitutes, Murderesses and matriarchs: Gender Roles in the Hebrew Bible
RELG 284 The Virgin of Guadalupe
RELG 322 Gender and God Talk: Christian Feminist Theologies (Not offered in 2008-2009)
SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender
SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (Not offered in 2008-2009)
SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre
WGST 200 Feminist Ways of Knowing (Not offered in 2008-2009)
WGST 205 The Politics of Women's Health (Not offered in 2008-2009)
WGST 234 Feminist Theory (Not offered in 2008-2009)
III. Capstone Seminar: WGST 396: Capstone Seminar: Body Politics. 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.