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. Methodological Course—4 hours:

Other methodological courses may be substituted with approval of the program director. Students are responsible for completing necessary prerequisites or obtaining permission of the instructor. The methodological course should be completed prior to taking WGSS 400. 

• ANTH 336 - Ethnographic Methods (4)
• HIST 250 - The Historian’s Craft (4)
• LIT 440 - Seminar in Literary Theory and Criticism (4)
• SOC 338 - Social Research Methods (4)

III. Additional course requirements—at least 20 hours:

The 20 hours should be chosen from other WGSS courses and the courses listed below, with at least two courses chosen from the Humanities listing, and at least two courses chosen from the Social Science listing. Other courses with relevant content may be substituted with approval of the program director. 12 of the additional 20 hours must be at the 300-level or above. 

Two courses from the Humanities:

• AMS 325, 326 - Topics in Daily Life and Culture (4, 4)

•   AMS 325, 326 topic must be appropriate for the major

• DAN 306 - Choreographing Gender and Identity (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 383 - Women in China (4)
• LL 320 - Language and Gender (4)
• LIT 346 - Readings in Gender and Sexuality (4)
• LIT 364 - Postcolonial Literature (4)
• LIT 488 - Seminar in a Major Author (4)

•   LIT 488 author must be Toni Morrison or Virginia Woolf

• PHIL 202 - Philosophy of Sex and Gender (4)
• PHIL 323 - Philosophy of Third World Feminism (4)
• RELS 330 - Religion and Gender (4)
• RELS 389 - Jewish Women and Religion (4)

Two courses from the Social Sciences:

• ANTH 339 - Intersections of Gender in the Americas (4)
• ANTH 350 - Body, Disability and Culture (4)
• ANTH 361 - Writing Gender (4)
• ASIA 364 - Gender and Development in South Asia (INTS 364) (4)
• ECON 331 - Feminist Economics (4)
• HS 353 - Sexual Health and Sexuality (4)
• HS 254 - Women’s Health (3)
• HS 381 - Body Fat and Body Image (4)
• INTS 364 - Gender and Development in South Asia (ASIA 364) (4)
• PSYC 334 - Psychology of Women (4)
• PSYC 367 - Human Sexuality (4)
• SOC 330 - Sociology of Families (4)
• SOC 368 - Sociology of Gender (4)
• SOC 387 - Gender, Globalization, and Development (4)
• SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (4)

III. Other departmental requirements:

Major competency is demonstrated in WGSS 400. The course must be completed 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

Courses that satisfy some of the following LAC requirements can be found throughout the curriculum and may be used to fulfill multiple requirements.