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
CAMS 226 The Melodramatic Imagination (Not offered in 2010-2011)
CLAS 114 Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity (Not offered in 2010-2011)
EDUC 360 Gender, Sexuality and Schooling (Not offered in 2010-2011)
ENGL 218 Gothic Spirit
ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel
ENGL 327 Victorian Novel (Not offered in 2010-2011)
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 Women's Lifes in Pre-modern Europe (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 238 The World of Bede (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 238 Topics in Medieval History: Church, Papacy and Empire (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 330 Gender, Ethics and Power in Medieval France (Not offered in 2010-2011)
JAPN 234 Modern Japanese Novel in Translation: Mothers/Daughters; Fathers/Sons (Not offered in 2010-2011)
JAPN 236 Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation
POSC 275 Identity Politics in America: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion
POSC 355 Identity, Culture, and Rights*
RELG 224 Women and Christianity (Not offered in 2010-2011)
RELG 236 Gender and Religion in the African Diaspora (Not offered in 2010-2011)
RELG 244 Prophetesses and Prostitutes, Murderesses and Matriarchs: Gender Roles in the Hebrew Bible (Not offered in 2010-2011)
RELG 284 The Virgin of Guadalupe (Not offered in 2010-2011)
RELG 322 Gender and God Talk: Christian Feminist Theologies (Not offered in 2010-2011)
SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender (Not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 255 Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts (Not offered in 2010-2011)
SPAN 344 Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre (Not offered in 2010-2011)
WGST 200 Feminist Ways of Knowing
WGST 234 Feminist Theory
III. Capstone Seminar: WGST 396: Capstone Seminar: Rethinking the Sexual Body. 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.