Gender, Sexuality & Womens Studies Concentration
The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program is an interdisciplinary concentration dedicated to fostering deeper understandings of women, gender, and sexuality in historical and contemporary contexts. With a wide range of disciplines offering GSWS courses, the program invites students to consider approaches to gender, sexuality, and the experiences and status of women, in concert with race, class, ability, and other intersectional identities, as complex social identities that shape our world in significant ways.
The program provides the intellectual space for students to pursue critical questions related to women, gender, and sexuality from a range of academic disciplines. Courses in the program engage these questions from a variety of methodological approaches, while offering a firm foundation for critical thinking and social awareness. There are also many opportunities for learning outside the classroom, including community-based learning, guest speakers, and events that encourage students to consider issues from a diverse range of perspectives. In addition, students are encouraged to develop their commitment to social action on issues related to gender and sexuality.
Requirements
Students fulfill the six-course requirement either with five electives and an optional capstone thesis/project, or with six elective courses. First and second-year students are encouraged to complete GSWS 120 Intro to GSWS. For those who opt for a capstone, it normally consists of a research paper that is completed during an advanced-level seminar 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): | |
| ANTH 253 | Gender & Development |
| ANTH 255 | Genders & Sexualities |
| ANTH 269 | Fashion & Consumption |
| BIOL 114 | Biological Principles |
| CLAS 221 | Women in Classical Mythology |
| ECON 212 | Gender Economics |
| EDUC 232 | Schools: Surviving & Achieving |
| ENGL 345 | British Women Writers 1770 - 1860 |
| ENGL 368 | African-American Literature |
| ENGL 382 | Queer Theory |
| ENGL 383 | Feminist Literary Theory |
| ENGL 393 | Toni Morrison |
| GSWS 120 | Intro to GSWS |
| FREN 472 | Race & Gender in French Cinema |
| GSWS 220 | Global Feminism |
| GSWS 497 | Capstone: Women&Gender Studies |
| HIST 206 | US in 20C II 1945-Present |
| HIST 290 | Sex and Society in Africa |
| HIST 292 | Making of the Mod Mid East II |
| MUSC 236 | From Blues to Rap |
| MUSC 390 | Music & Gay Rights |
| PHIL 277 | Philosophical Perspectives On Women |
| POLS 300 | Law, Politics & Society |
| POLS 310 | Democratization&Women's Rights |
| POLS 315 | Feminist Political Theory |
| PSYC 228 | Psychology of Adolescence |
| PSYC 229 | Psychopathology |
| PSYC 328 | Adolescent Health |
| PSYC 334 | Eating and Its Disorders |
| PSYC 342 | Seminar: Gender-Role Development |
| PSYC 244 | Health Psychology |
| RELS 221 | Women In Early Christianity |
| RELS 280 | Liberation Theology |
| 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 274 | LGBTQ Studies |
| SOCL 277 | Gender and Society |
| SOCL 376 | Women and Non-Violence |
| SPAN 461 | Contemporary Spanish Female Writers |
| STWL 221 | Coming-of-Age: Writing Women in the 20th Century,Practicum:Writing Women 20th C |
| STWL 234 | Cinema and the Second Sex |
| THEA 136 | Horror Films, Sex & Gender |
| THEA 145 | Gay Theatre & Film |
| VAHI 136 | Narrative In Art & Film |