Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Concentration
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies is a multidisciplinary program that explores the many facets of gender and sexuality. We encourage our students to examine and challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, explore and honor marginalized experiences and perspectives, and question power of personal, interpersonal, social, and structural levels.
Students in the program pursue critical questions from a range of academic disciplines and learn how activism can promote social change. We challenge students to consider how complex social identities such as race, social class, age, and ability intersect with gender and sexuality to shape the world in ways that are all at once personal, political, local and global. Our concentration is an appropriate supplement to any academic major.
For students interested in majoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies please refer to the template major in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies webpage in the Requirements section for details, and can apply through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Requirements
Students must complete GSWS 120 Intro to GSWS, or an equivalent course approved by the GSWS Director. They can choose four electives from the list of approved GSWS courses, one of which should be cross-cultural. For the sixth course, students must complete an optional capstone thesis/project, or one 300-or 400-level seminar. For those who opt to do a capstone, it normally consists of a research paper that is completed during an advanced-level seminar, an Academic Internship program course in a GSWS related field, or by completing a Directed Reading or Tutorial course under the guidance of a GSWS faculty member.
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| Six required courses (one of which may be a senior capstone): | |
| ACIP 380 | Academic Internship (Women and the Law) |
| ANTH 253 | Gender & Development |
| ANTH 255 | Gender & Sexualities |
| ANTH 269 | Fashion & Consumption |
| ANTH 386 | Global Queer Activism |
| BIOL 114 | Biological Principles |
| CISS 255 | Critical Issues/Global Health |
| CISS 350 | HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective |
| CISS 272 | Health and Development |
| CISS 374 | Pop Culture, Race & Sexuality |
| CLAS 101 | Women & Men in Greek Lit & Soc |
| CLAS 221 | Women in Classical Mythology |
| CLAS 222 | Archaeology of Pompeii |
| CRES 374 | Toni Morrison |
| ECON 212 | Gender Economics |
| ENGL 345 | British Women Writers 1770 - 1860 |
| ENGL 368 | African American Literature |
| ENGL 382 | Queer Theory |
| ENGL 383 | Feminist Literary Theory |
| FREN 472 | Race & Gender in French Cinema |
| GSWS 120 | Intro to GSWS |
| GSWS 497 | GSWS Capstone |
| HIST 206 | US in 20C II 1945-Present |
| HIST 247 | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East |
| HIST 292 | Making of the Mod Mid East II |
| MUSC 236 | From Blues to Rap |
| MUSC 390 | Music & Gay Rights |
| PHIL 277 | Feminism |
| POLS 300 | Law, Politics & Society |
| POLS 310 | Democratization and Women's Rights |
| POLS 360 | Women, War, and Violence |
| PSYC 228 | Psychology of Adolescence |
| PSYC 229 | Psychopathology |
| PSYC 244 | Health Psychology |
| PSYC 328 | Adolescent Health |
| PSYC 334 | Eating and Its Disorders |
| PSYC 342 | Seminar: Gender-Role Development |
| Liberation Theology | |
| RELS 118 | New Testament |
| RELS 143 | Social Ethics |
| RELS 221 | Women In Early Christianity |
| RELS 233 | Households& Early Christianity |
| RELS 242 | Sex, Gender & the Hebrew Bible |
| RELS 284 | Sex, Money, Power & the Bible |
| RELS 294 | Sexual Justice:Social Ethics |
| RELS 300 | Ethics of Work & Family |
| RELS 313 | HIV/AIDS and Ethics |
| SOCL 254 | Girls and Violence |
| SOCL 259 | Children & Violence |
| SOCL 271 | Families and Societies |
| SOCL 277 | Gender and Society |
| SPAN 461 | Female Voices in Modern and Contemporary Spain |
| STWL 221 | Coming-of-Age: Writing Women in the 20th Century |
| STWL 234 | Women Make Film |
| THEA 136 | Horror Films, Sex & Gender |
| THEA 145 | Queer Theatre & Film |
| VAHI 136 | Narrative In Art & Film |