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

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

• WGSS 100 - Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (3)
• WGSS 400 - Senior Seminar in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (3)
• PHIL 302 - Philosophy of Sex and Gender (3)

•                  or

• SOC 390 - Queer Sociology (3)

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. 15 of the additional hours must be designated as Gender and Sexuality (GS) courses, and 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 334 - Psychology of Women (4) (WG)
• PSYC 366 - Psychology of Close Relationships (4)
• PSYC 367 - Human Sexuality (3) (GS)
• 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.