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-220-01
|
Racing Through Genetics | L. Gregg-Jolly Gibel Mevorach |
B/D |
ANT-254-01
|
Jews, Multiculturalism, Anti-Semitism | Gibel Mevorach |
B/D |
|
ANT-395-01
|
ST: Language and Social Justice | Sweet | C |
| BIO-240-01-01 | Animal Behavior w/lab | E. Queathem | A |
| EDU-295-02 |
Anti-Oppressive Education & Elite Schools: |
D | |
| ENG-210-01 | Studies in Genre | Lavan | |
| ENG-225-01 | Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures | Kapila | C |
| ENG-273-01 | Transnational & Postcolonial Feminisms | Kapila | B |
| ENG-329-01 | Studies in African American Lit | Lavan | C |
|
ENG-395-01
|
ST: Queer & Trans Literatures | Allen | A/C |
| GWS-324-01 | Critical Race Feminisms | Staff |
B |
| HIS-266-01 | History of the Modern Middle East | Almohsen | B/D |
|
HIS-285-01
|
Islamic Law in Theory and Practice | Saba | B |
| HIS-311-01 | Politics in the Early American Republic | Purcell | D |
| LAS-221-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latinx Studies | Petrus | B |
| MUS-201-01 | Intermed Music Stds: Music, Mind, and Brain | Cha | C |
| MUS-205-01 | Music in Africa | Perman | B/C |
| PSY-370-01 | Multicultural Psychology | Zamarron | B/D |
| REL-254-01 | Women and Religion | Chen | B/D |
| SOC-250-01 | Sociology of Religion | Snook | D |
| SOC-270-01 | Gender and Society | Francisco | D |
| SOC-275-01 | Race & Ethnicity in America | Scott | B |
| SOC-295-01 | Sexuality, Gender, Race, and Environment | Bacon | D |
| SOC-360-01 | Work in the "New" Economy | Erickson | D |
| SOC-390-01 | Adv Stds: Men and Masculinities | Haenfler | D |
| SOC-395-01 | Indigenous Environmental Movements | Bacon | B/D |
| Course # | Title | Professor | Major Category |
|---|---|---|---|
|
AMS-295-01
|
ST: Fdnts of US Popular Cultr | Purcell, S | C/D |
| ARH-231-01 | Modern Art in Europe, 1900-1940 | Anger | C |
|
EDU-215-01
|
Reading & Writing Youth Culture | S. Jones | C/D |
|
EDU-357-01
|
Feminist Educators | Beauboeuf | B/D |
|
EDU-395-01
|
ST: Educating Women | T. Beauboeuf | D |
| ENG-210-01 | Studies in Genre | Smith, P | D |
| 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 | Kapila | C |
| FRN-305-01 | Contemporary Francophone Cultures | Tricoire | C |
| FRN-312-01 | French Literature From Knights to Libertines | Harrison | C |
| FRN-350-01 | Adv Tpcs: Masc/Fem French Lit & Film | P. Moisan | A/C |
|
GLS-251-01
|
Thrtcl Apprch to Chldrn's & Yng Adlt Lit | R. Green | C |
| GWS-235-01 | Feminism and Popular Culture | Yang, W | C |
| GWS-295-01 | ST: Queering Digtl Humanities | Montague | A |
| GWS-295-02 | ST: Gndr Post-WWII East Asia | Yang, W | B |
| GWS-357-01 | Feminist Educations | Beauboeuf | D |
| HIS-214-01 | Amer Civil War and Reconstruction | Purcell | D |
| HIS-227-01 | African American History | Lacson | B/D |
| MUS-201-01 | Music in Interdisciplinary Conversations | Cha | C |
| MUS-202-02 | Country Music | Laver | D |
|
PHI-264-01
|
Political Theory II | Meehan | D |
| POL-219-01 | Constitutional Law and Politics | Hanson | D |
| POL-259-01 | Human Rights, Fndtns, Chllngs, Choices | Moyer | D |
| POL-319-01 | Advanced Constitutional Law | Hanson | D |
| PSY-295-01 | ST: Psych of Gender w/Lab | Botello Zamarron | A |
| REL-228-01 | Gods of Bollywood | T. Dobe | B |
| REL-254-01 | Women and Religion | Chen | B/D |
| SOC-195-02 | ST: Critical Race Theory | Erickson | B |
| SOC-255-01 | Sociology of Asian America | Quinsaat | B |
| SOC-295-02 | ST: Sexuality Gndr Race Env | Bacon | A/D |
| SOC-395-03 | ST: Regimes and Resistance | Quinsaat | D |
| SPN-320-01 | Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World | Petrus | A |
| SPN-379-01 | U.S. Latinx Identities and Sexualities | Petrus | A |