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. The additional hours must include four courses from at least two disciplines outside of WGSS. 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.

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

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

• 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 (GS 364) (4)
• ECON 331 - Feminist Economics (4)
• GS 364 - Gender and Development in South Asia (ASIA 364) (4)
• HIST 383 - Women in China (4)
• HIST 357 - Gender and Imperialism (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)
• HS 254 - Women’s Health (3)
• HS 353 - Sexual Health and Sexuality (4)
• HS 381 - Body Fat and Body Image (4)
• LL 320 - Language and Gender (4)
• LIT 488 - Seminar in a Major Author (4)

•    LIT 488 author must be Toni Morrison or Virginia Woolf

• LIT 364 - Postcolonial Literature (4)
• LIT 346 - Readings in Gender and Sexuality (4)
• PHIL 323 - Philosophy of Third World Feminism (4)
• PHIL 202 - Philosophy of Sex and Gender (4)
• PSYC 334 - Psychology of Women (4)
• PSYC 367 - Human Sexuality (4)
• RELS 389 - Jewish Women and Religion (4)
• RELS 330 - Religion and Gender (4)
• SOC 387 - Gender, Globalization, and Development (4)
• SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (4)
• SOC 330 - Sociology of Families (4)
• SOC 368 - Sociology of Gender (4)

III. Major competency:

Demonstrated in WGSS 400. A grade of C or higher is required to graduate.