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Major Requirements
A minimum of eight courses, four of which are required as follows:
Required Courses
- WMST 202Ìý-ÌýWomen's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies A student must receive a minimum grade of C inÌýWMST 202Ìýin order to be admitted to the major program.
- One of WMST 260,ÌýWMST 279,ÌýWMST 341/ALST 341Ìýas a required theory course
- WMST 301Ìý-ÌýFeminist Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
- WMST 490Ìý-ÌýWomen's Studies Senior Seminar
Feminist Methodology
- WMST 301Ìý-ÌýFeminist Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
- WMST 302Ìý-ÌýSpecial Topics: Women's Lives in Text and Context
Feminist Theory
A course in feminist theory:
- WMST 260Ìý-ÌýIntersectionality in Theory and Practice
- WMST 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
- WMST 341Ìý-ÌýCorridors of Black Girlhood
Divisions
At least fourÌýmore courses from the following list, taken from at least two of the divisions:
Division A
- ALST 242/LGBT 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean ÌýÌý
- FMST 350Ìý-ÌýHollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
- LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýLives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry: An Exploration into LGBTQ Studies
- LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo & the Latin Lover
- LGBT 303Ìý-ÌýQueer Identities and Global Discourses
- LGBT 350Ìý-ÌýSexuality, Gender, and the Law
- NAST 301Ìý-ÌýNative American Women
- PCON 260Ìý-ÌýFeminist Security Studies
- WRIT 242Ìý-ÌýStand and Speak: Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change
- WRIT 345Ìý-ÌýCrafting Bodies: Movement, Gender, and Performance
- WMST 205Ìý-ÌýQueer Latina Visualities: Art, Theory, and Resistance
- WMST 260Ìý-ÌýIntersectionality in Theory and Practice
- WMST 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
- WMST 312/ALST 312Ìý-ÌýGender, Race and Punishment: Toward an Inclusive History of the American Carceral State Ìý
- WMST 341/ALST 341Ìý-ÌýCorridors of Black Girlhood Ìý
Division B
- ANTH 228Ìý-ÌýWomen and Gender in Prehistory
- ANTH 315Ìý-ÌýGender and Culture
- ANTH 371Ìý-ÌýGender and Society in Africa
- ECON 234Ìý-ÌýGender in the Economy
- ECON 410Ìý-ÌýSeminar in Gender and Development
- EDUC 303Ìý-ÌýDecolonizing Development: Gender, Power & Education in International Development
- EDUC 339/ WMST 339Ìý-ÌýCritical and Feminist Disability Studies ÌýÌý
- ENGL 208Ìý-ÌýSex and the Global City
- GEOG 321Ìý-ÌýTransnational Feminist Geography
- HIST 211Ìý-ÌýWomen's Rights in US History (US)
- HIST 213Ìý-ÌýWomen in the City (US)
- HIST 304Ìý-ÌýSex and Sexualities in U.S. History (US)
- JWST 343/RELG 343Ìý-ÌýGender and Judaism ÌýÌý
- SOCI 212Ìý-ÌýPower, Racism, and Privilege
- SOCI 220Ìý-ÌýGender, Sexuality, and Society
- SOCI 310Ìý-ÌýSociology of the Body
- SOCI 333Ìý-ÌýSociology of the Life Course (RI) andÌýSOCI 333LÌý
- SOCI 367Ìý-ÌýSociology of Gender
- SOCI 369Ìý-ÌýWomen, Health, and Medicine
Division C
- CLAS 232Ìý-ÌýSexuality and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
- ENGL 202Ìý-ÌýJustice and Power in Postcolonial Literature
- ENGL 207Ìý-ÌýNew Immigrant Voices
- ENGL 208Ìý-ÌýSex and the Global City
- ENGL 305Ìý-ÌýThe Female Protagonist
- ENGL 333Ìý-ÌýAfrican/Diaspora Women's Narrative
- ENGL 335Ìý-ÌýSearching for Home in South Asian Literatures: Gender, Nation, Narration
- ENGL 336Ìý-ÌýNative American Literature
- ENGL 363Ìý-ÌýContemporary Fiction
- ENGL 405Ìý-ÌýThe Brontës
- ENGL 408Ìý-ÌýLiterature of Medieval Women
- ENGL 412Ìý-ÌýJane Austen and the Rise of the Woman Novelist
- FREN 353Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Literature in French: Literary Innovations in the 20th to 21st Centuries
- FREN 453Ìý-ÌýContemporary Literature in French
- FREN 455Ìý-ÌýFrancophone Voices from North Africa
- JWST 213/RELG 213Ìý-ÌýThe Bible as/and Literature ÌýÌý
- JWST 343/RELG 343Ìý-ÌýGender and Judaism ÌýÌý
- PHIL 360Ìý-ÌýFeminist Philosophy
- RELG 234Ìý-ÌýGoddesses, Women and Power
- RELG 253Ìý-ÌýLove, God, and Sexuality
- SPAN 474Ìý-ÌýShort Fiction in Contemporary Spain
- SPAN 477Ìý-ÌýWomen Writing in Latin America
- SPAN 488Ìý-ÌýLatin American Women Dramatists
Other Courses
Other courses may be counted toward a women's studies major, depending on the orientation of the course, and/or the direction of the readings and student projects during a particular year. Such courses need the approval of the instructor and the women's studies director to be counted toward a women's studies major.ÌýStudents must check with their WMST adviser about which of the following courses meet WMST concentration requirements. WMST credit cannot be granted once the course isÌýcompleted with a non-approved instructor.
These courses include:
- EDUC 204Ìý-ÌýChild and Adolescent Development
- EDUC 310Ìý-ÌýRacial Capitalism and Education Policy
- ENGL 208Ìý-ÌýSex and the Global City
- ENGL 336Ìý-ÌýNative American Literature
- ENGL 346Ìý-ÌýVictorian Poets & Essayists
- ENGL 363Ìý-ÌýContemporary Fiction
- ENGL 461Ìý-ÌýStudies in the Renaissance
- JWST 208/RELG 208Ìý-ÌýThe Hebrew Bible in America ÌýÌý
- LGBT 220Ìý-ÌýLives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry: An Exploration into LGBTQ Studies
- RELG 282Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Islam
- SOCI 312Ìý-ÌýSocial Inequality
- SOCI 333Ìý-ÌýSociology of the Life Course (RI) andÌýSOCI 333LÌý
- WMST 291Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
- WMST 391Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
- WMST 491Ìý-ÌýIndependent Study
- WMST 499Ìý-ÌýHonors in Women's Studies
Additional Information
Students' relationships with their advisers are a critical part of the women's studies program. Following admission to the program, students, in consultation with their advisers, may develop a sequence of required and elective courses related to a particular topic. Some suggested topics are postcolonial and critical race studies;Ìýfamily studies; women in the United States; global perspectives on women; women, work, and family; women and social change; women and religion; and women, knowledge, and text.
Honors and High Honors
Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Women's StudiesÌýprogram page.
Women's Studies Program
For more information about the department, including Faculty,Ìýtransfer credit, awards, and more,Ìýplease visit theÌýWomen's Studies programÌýcatalogÌýpage.