General Education (34 hours)

A&S Programmatic Requirements

Gen 101 (1 hour)
9 hours of electives in HUM or NS, 300+ (incorporated into supporting courses requirement)
Foreign Language (12 hours)
WR (incorporated into other degree requirements)

Women’s & Gender Studies core courses

WGST 201 (Women in American Culture-CD1, HUM, 3 hours)
WGST 401 (Community Internship, 3 hours)
WGST 500 or WGST 501 (Senior Seminar: Interdisciplinary Research-WR, 3 hours)

WGST Humanities electives (9 hours)
Choose 3, of which one must meet the departmental diversity requirement, unless met in your concentration, and one must be at the 400+ level:

WGST:
203 – Gender and Public Dialogue
303  – Humanities Perspectives on Sex Roles
325 – Women in Literature
326 – Gender and Children’s Literature
340 – Women and Religion
342* – Black Women Novelists-WR
345* – Women in Hinduism and Buddhism
346* – Women in Africa
360 – Philosophy and Feminism
373 – Women Writers and Filmmakers
380* – African-American Women in Theatre
381 – Speaking of Women
395 – Women, Media, and Culture-CD-2
520 – Women’s Personal Narratives
522 – The Body in Popular Media-WR
560 – Feminist Philosophical Literature
571* – Francophone Women Writers and Critics-WR

WGST Social Science electives (9 hours)
Choose 3, of which one must meet the departmental diversity requirement, unless met in your concentration, and one must be at the 400+ level

WGST:
300* – Sex, Gender, and Culture
312 – Sociology of Women’s Health
313 – Sociology of Gender
331– History of Women-CD-2
332 – History of Childhood in America-WR
333* – Women in Latin American History-CD-1
343* – Faces of Global Poverty-WR
347* – Racism and Sexism-WR CD1
348* – African-American Women-WR
349* – Alternative/Traditional Healing
355 – Women in American Politics
394 – Lectures in WGS
411 – Psychology of Women
414 – Women and Work
415* – Sociology of Disabilities
512* – Gender, Race, Work & Welfare
530 – Feminism in Western Civilization
531 – Women in the 20th Century-WR
532 – History of Sexualities-WR
533 – Women in 19th-Century America-WR
535 – Women’s Health Issues-CD-2
538 – American Women in Sports
540* – Women’s Health in Africa-WR
543* – Black Women’s Voices-WR
556 – Feminist Theory-WR
558* – Women in Developing Countries

Supporting courses (choose one set; 27-33 hours):
1. Minor in SOC discipline (18-21 hours) with electives at 300+in HUM or NS (9 hours)
2. Minor in NS discipline (18-22 hours) with electives at 300+in SOC or HUM (9 hours)
3. Minor in HUM discipline (18-24 hours) with electives at 300+ in SOC or NS (9 hours)

Completion of a WGS concentration, in addition to core (choose one area; 9 hours)

1.  Women’s/Gender History : three WGST courses chosen from the following, at least one at the 500-level:
331– History of Women-CD2
332 – History of Childhood in America-WR
333* – Women in Latin American History-CD1
530 – Feminism in Western Civilization
531 – Women in the 20th Century-WR
532 – History of Sexualities-WR
533 – Women in 19th-Century America-WR

2.  Race, Gender, and Global Feminisms: three WGST courses chosen from the following, at least one at the 500-level:
300* – Sex, Gender, and Culture
333* – Women in Latin American History-CD-1
342* – Black Women Novelists-WR
343* – Faces of Global Poverty-WR
345* – Women in Hinduism and Buddhism
346* – Women in Africa
347* – Racism and Sexism-WR CD1
348* – African-American Women-WR
349* – Alternative/Traditional Healing
380* – African-American Women in Theatre
512* – Gender, Race, Work & Welfare
540* – Women’s Health in Africa-WR
543* – Black Women’s Voices-WR
558* – Women in Developing Countries
571* – Francophone Women Writers and Critics-WR

3. Gender in Literature, Media, and the Arts: three WGST courses chosen from the following, at least one at the 500-level:
325 – Women in Literature
326 – Gender and Children’s Literature
342* – Black Women Novelists-WR
373 – Women Writers and Filmmakers
380* – African-American Women in Theatre
381 – Speaking of Women
395 – Women, Media, and Culture-CD-2
520 – Women’s Personal Narratives
522 – The Body in Popular Media-WR
560 – Feminist Philosophical Literature
571* – Francophone Women Writers and Critics-WR

4.  Humanities Perspectives on Women/Gender: three WGST courses chosen from the following, at least one at the 500-level:
203 – Gender and Public Dialogue
303  – Humanities Perspectives on Sex Roles
325 – Women in Literature
340 – Women and Religion
342* – Black Women Novelists-WR
345* – Women in Hinduism and Buddhism
360 – Philosophy and Feminism
373 – Women Writers and Filmmakers
380* – African-American Women in Theatre
381 – Speaking of Women
395 – Women, Media, and Culture-CD-2
520 – Women’s Personal Narratives
522 – The Body in Popular Media-WR
560 – Feminist Philosophical Literature
571* – Francophone Women Writers and Critics-WR
 

Minimum electives (5-11 hours)

Minimum total  (121 hours)

1.   Consult your WGS advisor about how topics and independent study courses count in your major (WGST 390, 391, 392, 393, 396, 397, 398, 399, 498, 499, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594).

2.   Courses which meet the departmental diversity requirement are marked by an asterisk (*).