CONCENTRATION

 

CORE COURSES

9 CREDITS REQUIRED

WS 3/FYS 2 Global Village

WS 4/FYS 31 Space Matters: Readings in Sci Fi and Culture

WS 5/FYS 17 Diversity in the U.S.

WS 6/FYS 1 Health & Re/creation

WS 15/Eng 77 Women and Literature

WS 16/Eng 66 American Multicultural Literature

WS 17/Soc 10 Intro to Sociology: Gender and Culture

WS 23/Phil 33 Intro to Feminist Theory

WS 90/Eng 86 Reading & Writing Sexuality

WS 99 Special Topics

WS 111/Eng164 Latino/a Literature

WS 112/Eng 112 Reading and Writing Autobiography

WS 113/Eng 160 Theories of Language and Discourse

WS 117/Eng 165 Postcolonial Literature

WS 120/Fren 180 Contemporary French Women Writers

WS 122/Honr 122 Fictions of Desire: Masculine/Feminine/Other

WS 124/Ger115 German Cinema

WS 125/Fren 110 Francophone Women Writers

WS 129/Soc 150 Documenting Lives

WS 130/His 108 Introduction to Women’s History

WS 131/His 139 The New Woman: 1890-1945

WS 132/His 156 Women in Revolutionary Europe: 1789-1848

WS 133/His 157 Sex and Power in Peasant Society

WS 140/Rel 155 Liberation Theologies

WS 142/Rel 151 New Voices, New Views

WS 145 Special Topics

WS 150/Pols 112 Women and Politics

WS 151/REL 151 Sexuality and the Sacred

WS 153/Phil 151 Feminist Ethics

WS 159/His 159 American Women's History to 1850

WS 160/Psy 137 Psychology of Gender

WS 170/Soc 183 Gender Inequality

WS 171/His 170 African American Women in U.S. History

WS 172/Soc 137 Women, Madness, and Culture

WS 173/Soc 174 Being and Power: Feminist Theories of Subjectivity

WS 174/Soc 150 Violence, Gender and Family

WS 175/Anth 101 Feminist Anthropologies

WS 176/Pols 176 Gender and World Politics

WS 177/His 170 Race, Sex & Power in the American South

WS 180/ED 199 Adventure, Risk and Thinking

WS 181/Rel 151 Women and the Hebrew Scriptures

 

SENIOR SEMINAR

3 CREDITS REQUIRED

WS 195/Law 330 Sexuality and the Law

WS 195 Space Matteres II

WS 195 Voices of Resistance

WS 195/ED 199 Gender Fair Education for Women and Girls

WS 195/Law 301 Women and the Law

WS 195/Hist 166 Women in Western Intellectual Tradition

WS 195/Eng 197 Global Feminisms

WS 195/Eng 188 Authorizing Self/Life Stories

WS 195/Honr 151 Science, Cyborgs, and Monsters

REQUIREMENTS

 

Women’s Studies Concentrators choose 21 credits from across disciplines to complete their concentration requirements. Only six credits may be selected from the same discipline.

 

 

 

INTRODUCTORY COURSE

REQUIRED

WS 1/Eng75/Soc75 Intro to Women’s Studies

 

 

 

 

RELATED COURSES

3 CREDITS REQUIRED

Anth 93 Representing Cultural Differences

Anth 117 Native America

Anth 125 Traveling Cultures

Eng 67 Intro to Asian-American Literature

Eng 070 Intro to Film Study

Eng 163 Writings From the Border

Eng 168 Storytelling as a Social Practice

Eng 174 Social Difference in Writing

FYS 14 Men & Masculinity in Recent American Film

His 115 From Contact to Removal: American Indian History

His 155 Intro to Marxism

Honr 132 Stereotyping

Pols 119 Feminist Legal Theory

Psy 95 Stereotyping

Rel/Phil 91 Contemporary Ethical Problems

Soc 25 Society, Culture & African Americans

Soc 130 Contemporary Chinese Society

Soc 150 Race, Family & Identity in the U.S.

Soc 161 Race and Ethnicity

Soc 180 Social Movements

Soc 181 The Changing Family

 

 

 

 

 

PRACTICUM/PRAXIS

3 CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED

* independent study (WS 192) and/or internship (WS 191) under the guidance of a women’s studies faculty advisor

* minimum 9 hours of completed WS courses required before enrolling in WS 191 or WS 192

* minimum of 3.0 gpa in WS courses required for WS 191

* see list of potential internship sites in Women’s Studies Office

* forms for internship and independent study available in Women’s Studies office