Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, B.A

To fulfill the WGSS major, students must complete at least 36 credit hours, usually nine four-credit classes (although approved two credit courses, including May X, may also count toward the major). The required courses must include:

• WGS-230 Issues in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

• or

• WGS-250 Introduction to Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies

• and

• WGS-502 Directed Research

• or

• WGS-503 Supervised Internship

Additional requirements

At least twenty-eight credit hours of elective courses (equivalent to seven four-credit courses), in at least
three different disciplines. FYW courses may count toward the major but cannot count toward disciplinary
distribution requirements.

• ANT-209 Gender in East Asia
• ART-252 Women and the Arts
• AST-255 Poverty, Gender and Development in India
• CLS-332 Women and Power in Antiquity
• COM-323 Race, Class and Gender in Media
• COM-412 International Women’s Rhetoric
• ECN-233 Economics of Gender
• ENG-390 Gender in South Asian Literature and Film
• ENG-344 Gothic Literature
• ENG-393 Literary Feminisms
• FYW-1126 The Ethics of Sex
• FYW-1148 Southern Women: Black & White
• FYW-1159 Veils and Turbans: Genders and Modernities
• FYW-1236 Thinking Sex: What’s Love Got to Do With It
• HST-215 Women in European History
• HST-231 History of Women in America
• HST-256 Women and Gender in India
• HST-309 Women, War, Resistance
• PHL-212 Philosophy of Gender
• PHL-415 Philosophy of Sex and Love
• POL-212 Women and Politics
• REL-323 Women, Gender, Islam
• REL-325 Women and Power in Hinduism
• REL-344 Black Liberation and Womanist Theologies
• REL-360 Women and Religion in the West
• REL-363 Sexuality and Christian Theologies
• SOC-232 Sociology of Contemporary Families
• SOC-242 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
• SPN-445 Latin American Women’s Literature
• SPN-460 Readings in Spanish Amer Literature
• WGS-230 Issues in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• WGS-240 Women in Science
• WGS-250 Introduction to Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies
• WGS-502 Directed Research
• WGS-503 Supervised Internship
• WGS-504 Directed Independent Study

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• Note:  Pre-requisites for above courses may be waived for WGSS students by instructor permission.

Course Options for First-Year Students

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary major (and minor) that draws from courses with other prefixes. If you are interested in exploring WGSS classes, here are some possibilities: