Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, B.A.

Requirements

A minimum of nine and ½ course credits, which include:

• GSS 171 - Gender, Power, and Identity (1)
• GSS 270 - Social Justice Perspectives and Practices (1)
• GSS 510 - Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies in Action (1/4) (1/2 credit to be earned over two semesters)
• GSS 487 - Project (1)

Six Courses Selected From the Following

At least three of which must be at the 300 level, and which must be chosen from at least two different departments:

• ANT 271 - Women, Men and Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1)
• ART 264 - African American Art: Intersectionality in the United States (1)
• ART 266 - American Indian Art: Gender and the Marketplace (1)
• ART 361 - Saints and She-Devils (1)
• ART 363 - Feminist Art (1)
• BIO 108 - Introductory topics in Biology (1)
• CLA 264 - Women in Antiquity (1)
• CLA 373 - Love and Sexuality in Greece and Rome (in English) (1)
• ECB 320 - Women, Men, and Labor Market Seminar (1)
• EDU 240 - Education and Culture (1)
• ENG 325 - Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature (1)
• ENG 332 - Queering the Restoration (1)
• ENG 335 - Virginia Woolf (1)
• ENG 351 - Studies in African-American Literature (1)
• ENG 370 - AIDS Literature, Film, and Social Theory (1)
• ENG 372 - Film and Film Studies (1)
• FRE 254 - Bending Boundaries: Francophone Women in Translation (1)
• FRE 353 - Race and Immigration in French Film (1)
• FRE 354 - Sporting Identities (1)
• HIS 319 - Women in Medieval Europe (1)
• HIS 320 - Persecution, Tolerance, and Minorities in Medieval Europe (1)
• HIS 336 - Topics in European History (1)
• HIS 354 - U.S. Social History Since 1940 (1)
• HIS 358 - Work and Leisure in Modern America (1)
• MUS 263 - Women and Music (1)
• PHI 352 - Philosophy of Feminism (1)
• POL 330 - Women and Politics: A Cross-National Perspective (1)
• POL 331 - Gender and Development (1)
• POL 361 - Race, Sex, and the Constitution (1)
• PSY 374 - Psychology of Women and Gender (1)
• SOC 246 - Gender Diversity (1)
• SOC 273 - Families and Family Policy (1)
• SOC 317 - Reproductive Practices, Reproductive Policies (1)
• SOC 343 - Women: Oppressions and Resistances (1)
• SOC 351 - Advanced Topics in Sociology (1)
• SOC 365 - Sexualities (1)
• SOC 366 - Gender Differences and Inequalities (1)
• SOC 367 - Self and Identity (1)
• SOC 368 - Sociology of the Body (1)

One Experiential Learning Component

The experiential learning component may consist of an off-campus course, a service/practicum course, an internship/apprenticeship experience, or substantive activism or service component outside of a course (i.e., alternative spring break), which is selected and approved in consultation with advisers This requirement may be fulfilled for academic credit or through volunteer roles.

Each student will develop a brief rationale for her or his program of study, which will be approved by the major advisor and a secondary program advisor from a second division of the college. In consultation with these advisors, the student will also: (a) select courses and/or contexts in which she or he will acquire the theoretical and methodological skills to complete a capstone project, and (b) indicate how the proposed course of study provides intersectional, global, and historical perspectives relevant to the study of women, gender, and sexuality.