The major in gender, women’s, and sexuality studies requires the following:
- Introduction to Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 111)
- Theory and Methodology in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 249, offered fall only)
- Five courses (20 credits) from at least three of the four thematic rubrics listed below:
- sexuality and queer studies
- cross-cultural and transnational approaches
- literary criticism and visual culture
- political/philosophical/historical/social analyses
- At least two of these five courses (or 8 credits) must be at the 300-level
- Senior Seminar in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 495, offered spring only; only open to graduating majors)
Please consult the Course Schedule, available online at the Registrar’s page, for complete course information, including course descriptions and days and times of course offerings. Please note that each course can only be used to fulfill a single elective category (ABCD).
| Course # | Title | Professor | Major Category |
|---|---|---|---|
AMS-235-01
|
Anthropology of American Culture | Gibel Mevorach | B/D |
| ANT-210-01 | Illness, Healing and Culture | M. Tapias | D |
| ANT-254-01 | Jews, Diaspora, Anti-Semitism | Gibel Mevorach |
B/D |
|
ART-295-01
|
ST: Film Genres | Nikolopoulou | C |
| ARH-231-01 | Modern Art in Europe, 1900-1940 | J. Anger | C |
EDU-295-01
|
ST: Black Queer Lives & Pedagogies | R. Robinson | A |
| ENG-225-01 | Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures | Sutaria | C |
|
ENG-295-01
|
ST: Race, Gender, Migration, Capitalism | Nikolopoulou | B |
| ENG-332-01 | The Victorians | Jacobson | C |
|
GLS-251-01
|
Thrtcl Apprch to Chldrn’s & Yng Adlt Lit | Herold | C |
| GWSS-211-01 | Foundations of LGBTQ Studies | Allen |
A |
| GWS-295-02 | ST: Chicana Feminist Thought | L. Johnson | B |
| GWS-395-01 | ST: Sex and Enchantment | A. Lewis | D |
HIS-210-01
|
Historical Perspectives on US Education | Michaels | D |
| HIS-266-01 | History of the Modern Middle East | Staff | B/D |
| LAS-221-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies | Petrus | B |
| MUS-201-01 | Intermed Music Stds: Music, Mind, and Brain | Cha | C |
| PHI-265-01 | Psychoanalysis & Intersubjective Const | Meehan | D |
| POL-219-01 | Constitutional Law and Politics | Hanson | D |
| PSY-295-02 | Psychology of Gender with Lab | Ralston | A |
| PSY-370-01 | Multicultural Psychology | Ralston | B/D |
| REL-254-01 | Women and Religion | Chen | B/D |
| SOC-235-01 | Class, Capital and Inequality | Inglis | D |
| SOC-240-01 | Social Movements | Haenfler | B/D |
| SOC-295-01 | Gender and Development | Pandian | B |
| SOC-360-01 | Work in the "New" Economy | Erickson | D |
| SPN-317-01 | Readings in Us Latinx Literature & Cult | Petrus | A |
| Course # | Title | Professor | Major Category |
|---|---|---|---|
AMS-220-01
|
Racing Through Genetics | Gibel Mevorach/Gregg-Jolly | B |
AMS-305-01
|
The Cultural Politics of Fashion | Gibel Mevorach | B/D |
| ANT-365-01 | Fighting Words: Cnflict, Dscrs, and Pwr | French | D |
| ARH-232-01 | Art Since 1945 | Anger | C |
| BIO-240-01 | Animal Behavior w/lab | Queathem | A |
| CLS-395-01 | Gender in Greece and Rome | Mercado | A/B/D |
| EDU-295-02 | Anti-Oppressive Education & Elite Schools: Impossible or Indispensable? | Swalwell | D |
| ENG-229-01 | Traditions in African American Literature | Lavan | C |
| ENG-231-01 | American Literary Traditions III | Phan | C |
| ENG-325-01 | Studies in Ethnic American Literatures | Phan | C |
| ENG-360-01 | Seminar in Postcolonial Literature | Sutaria | C |
| FRN-312-01 | French Literature From Knights to Libertines | Harrison | C |
|
GRM-295-01
|
ST: Feminist Lit German-speaking World | Poetzl | C |
|
GWS-295-01
|
ST: Epistemic Injustices & Resistance | Nyden | D |
| GWS-295-02 | ST: Race, Sexuality, & Protest | A. Lewis | D |
| GWS-295-04 | ST: Trans Film and Media | A. Lewis | A/C |
| GWS-395-02 | ST: Black Feminist Thought | Johnson | B |
GWS-395-03
|
ST: Studies in Film Theory | Nikolopoulou | C |
| HIS-223-01 | Health & Medicine in American History | C. Lewis | D |
| HIS-224-01 | Sex in American History | C. Lewis | A/D |
| HIS-227-01 | African American History | Lacson | B/D |
|
HIS-268-01
|
Islam and Gender | Saba | B/D |
| HIS-371-01 | Human Rights in Asia | Luo | D |
| MUS-201-01 | Intermed Mus Stds: Mus, Gndr, Sexuality | Cha | C |
| PHI-295-03 | Deconl, Ant-Racst, and Fem Prspctv on Revltn | Mulaj | B/D |
| POL-259-01 | Human Rights, Fndtns, Chllngs, Choices | Moyer | D |
| POL-319-01 | Advanced Constitutional Law | Hanson | D |
| SOC-242-01 | Deviance and Social Control | Haenfler | D |
| SOC-265-01 | Sociology of Health and Illness | Ferguson | D |
| SOC-320-01 | The Family | Ferguson | D |
| SPN-312-01 | Women & Gender in Spanish Literature | Perez | C |
| SPN-320-01 | Cult of Spanish Speaking World | Benoist | B |