Kathleen Skerrett, Chair, Rita Alfonso, Heather Lobban-Viravong, Derrick Miller, Daniel Reynolds

This concentration emphasizes the new scholarship on women, men, gender, and gender theory by looking at various cultures and historical periods and by employing diverse methods of inquiry. Core and elective courses encourage disciplined thinking in both the theories and methods employed by scholars of gender.

Required, 24 credits as follows:

1. Gender and Women's Studies 111 Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (4 credits)

2. Gender and Women's Studies 249 Theory in Gender and Women's Studies (4 credits)

3. One four-credit elective course in which gender is a significant category of analysis to be chosen from a list published during each semester's preregistration period. Students may also petition the GWS Concentration Committee to have a course taken off campus serve as a GWS elective. This petition should be filed after completion of the course, and the petition should be accompanied by documentation from the course to indicate its attention to gender issues. Students may also petition to have an independent study serve as a GWS elective or may ask that a course not on the elective list be considered an elective. In such cases, the student must have undertaken a major paper or project that deals with gender or women and must provide the committee with documentation.

4. Senior seminar (4 credits): Gender and Women's Studies 495.

5. Two four-credit core courses required, in which gender is the central category of analysis, chosen from the following list:

• Art 210 Women, Art, and History
• Chinese 230 Chinese Women: Past and Present
• Economics 218 Gender and the Economy
• English 273 Feminisms, Gender and Literary Theory
• *English 330 Studies in American Prose I
• *English 332 The Victorians
• *English 345 Studies in Modern Poetry
• *English 346 Studies in Modern Prose
• Gender and Women's Studies 210 Gender and Science
• History 222 The History of Women in the United States
• *Philosophy 106 Contemporary Ethical Issues
• Philosophy 265 Psychoanalysis and the Intersubjective Constitution of the Self
• Sociology 260 Human Sexuality in the United States
• Sociology 270 Gender and Society
• Sociology 320 The Family
• Sociology 390 Advanced Studies in Sociology
• Theatre 310 Studies in Dance

*Varying content requires the approval of the concentration committee.

See also the list published during each semester's preregistration period for the most current offering of core courses.

Special-topic courses (195, 295, and 395) and other variable content courses may be counted toward core course or elective course requirements with approval from the Gender and Women's Studies Committee.

Additional requirements:

1. All students must have the concentration approved by the committee or designated personnel.

2. Of the two core courses and one elective course the student selects, only one can be in the student's major.

111 Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (Fall or Spring) 4 credits

The way in which gender affects ideas, institutions, and patterns of behavior that determine the place of women in society is considered. Basic assumptions and theories of traditional disciplines are questioned through an interdisciplinary approach. Guest lecturers share research on the effect of feminist scholarship in their disciplines. Prerequisites: none. ALFONSO, MILLER.

210 Gender and Science* (Spring) 4 credits+

An introduction to feminist history and critiques of science, beginning with the definition of science and moving into the history of women in science. An examination of the use of gender as a variable in scientific studies and of the implications of feminist critiques. Prerequisites: Gender and Women's Studies 111 and four credits in science, or permission of instructor. STAFF.

249 Theory in Gender and Women's Studies (Fall or Spring) 4 credits

This courses examines a variety of contemporary theoretical perspectives on gender as these emerge in many disciplines. This course explores the implications for gender theory of recent work in biology, psychology, literary criticism, history, and other fields of inquiry. Prerequisite: Gender and Women's Studies 111 or permission of instructor. ALFONSO, SKERRETT.

495 Senior Seminar (Spring) 4 credits

An interdisciplinary senior seminar for students completing the concentration in Gender and Women's Studies. Topics vary, with broad application of methodological skills. Prerequisites: Gender and Women's Studies 111, one core course from category 2, and four additional credits from core or elective courses (categories 2 or 3); or permission of instructor. ALFONSO.

*Not offered every year.