Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

I. Required courses in the major—12 hours:

• WGSS 100 - Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (4)
• WGSS 365 - Feminist Theory (PHIL 365) (SOC 380) (4)
• WGSS 400 - Senior Seminar in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (4)

II. Additional course requirements—at least 24 hours:

The 24 additional hours are chosen from WGSS 451   and the courses listed below.  Three courses must be chosen from the Humanities listing and three courses from the Natural Science / Social Sciences listing. 12 of the additional 24 hours must be at the 300-level or above. Special topics courses may be substituted with approval of the program director.

Three courses from the Humanities:

• CLAS 350 - Women in Antiquity (3)
• CLAS 356 - Ancient Sexuality (4)
• HIST 301 - Women in United States History: 1865 to the Present (4)
• HIST 306 - Southern Women’s History (4)
• HIST 307 - Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement (4)
• HIST 357 - Gender and Imperialism (4)
• HIST 358 - European Feminisms (4)
• HIST 383 - Women in China (4)
• LIT 346 - Readings in Gender and Sexuality (4)
• LIT 359 - Major Women Writers (4)
• LIT 364 - Postcolonial Literature (4)
• LIT 488 - Seminar in a Major Author (4)

•                Author for LIT 489 must be Toni Morrison or Virginia Woolf

• PHIL 302 - Philosophy of Sex and Gender (4)
• RELS 330 - Religion and Gender (4)
• RELS 389 - Jewish Women and Religion (4)

Three courses from the Natural Sciences / Social Sciences:

• ANTH 339 - Intersections of Gender in the Americas (4)
• ANTH 350 - Body, Disability and Culture (4)
• ANTH 361 - Writing Gender (4)
• ANTH 420 - Difference and Inequality (SOC 420) (4)
• ECON 330 - Women, Men and Work (3)
• HWP 154 - Women’s Health (3)
• HWP 155 - Men’s Health (3)
• HWP 253 - Health and Sexuality (3)
• POLS 348 - Women and Politics (4)
• PSYC 334 - Psychology of Women (4)
• PSYC 367 - Human Sexuality (3)
• SOC 359 - Women of Color and Feminism (3)
• SOC 368 - Sociology of Gender (4)
• SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (4)
• SOC 420 - Difference and Inequality (ANTH 420) (4)

III. Other departmental requirements:

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

Liberal Arts Core (LAC)

For additional information about the Liberal Arts Core and the specific courses that fulfill the requirements, visit the Office of the Registrar website, https://registrar.unca.edu/liberal-arts-core.

Liberal Arts Core Requirements

The credit hours listed are the minimum required.