Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Concentration in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

I. Required courses in the major—9 hours, including:

II. Additional course requirements—27 hours:

The 27 additional hours are chosen from WGSS 451 and the courses listed below. 9 hours must be chosen from Natural Science/ Social Science courses and 9 hours from Humanities courses. 12 of the additional 27 hours must be at the 300 level or above.

Special topics courses may be substituted with approval of the program director.

9 hours of Natural Science /Social Science courses

ANTH 350 - Body, Disability and Culture (3)
ANTH 361 - Writing Gender (3)
ECON 330 - Women, Men and Work (3) (WG)
HWP 154 - Women’s Health (3) (WG)
HWP 155 - Men’s Health (3)
HWP 253 - Health and Sexuality (3) (GS)
POLS 348 - Women and Politics (4) (WG)
PSYC 333 - Psychology of Women (3) (WG)
PSYC 367 - Human Sexuality (3) (GS)
PSYC 368 - Psychology of Close Relationships (3)
SOC 280 - Sociology of Gender (3) (GS)
SOC 359 - Women of Color and Feminism (3) (WG)
SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (3) (GS)

9 hours of Humanities courses:

CLAS 350 - Women in Antiquity (3) (WG)
CLAS 356 - Ancient Sexuality (3) (GS)
HIST 301 - Women in United States History: 1890s to the Present (3) (WG)
HIST 306 - Southern Women’s History (3) (WG)
HIST 307 - Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement (3) (WG)
HIST 357 - Women and Imperialism (3) (WG)
HIST 358 - European Feminisms (3) (WG)
HIST 383 - Women in China (3) (WG)
LIT 346 - Readings in Gender and Sexuality (3) (GS)
LIT 349 - Studies in Contemporary Literature (3) (WG)
Topic of LIT 349 must be Post-Colonial Literature
LIT 359 - Major Women Writers (3) (WG)
LIT 489 - Seminar in a Major Author (3) (WG)
Author for LIT 489 must be Toni Morrison or Virginia Woolf
PHIL 302 - Philosophy of Sex and Gender (3) (GS)
RELS 330 - Women and Religion (3) (WG)

III. Other departmental requirements:

Major, oral and computer competencies are demonstrated through the completion of WGSS 400 with a grade of C or higher.