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Major/Minor Requirements

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (33 Credits)

Core Curriculum (12 credits required)
WS 210 Introduction to Women's Studies
POL 272 Politics And Sex
WS 310
Contemporary Feminist Issues
WS 410 Capstone Course In Women's Studies
Electives*(21 credits required)

 

WS 210

WS 150

 

 

Introduction to Women's Studies

Racism and Sexism in the U.S.

WS 207 Women, Sport, and Culture
WS 208 Female Icons in Contemporary U.S. Culture
WS 218 Life Passages: The Female Experience

WS/HIST 290

WS 301

WS 307

 

 

Latinas in U.S. History

Feminist Methodologies

Sex Equity in Education

 

 

WS/CMHL 314

 

WS 325

WS 340

 

WS 348

 

Reproductive Rights

 

Women and the Law

Media Representation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender

 

Ecofeminism

WS 350

WS 355

Lesbian Issues

Women & Gender in Modern South Asia

WS 370

 

WS/URB 398

Feminist Theory: World War II to the Present

 

Women in the City

WS 399 Selected Topics in Women's Studies
WS 410 Capstone Class in Women's Studies
WS 420 Global Perspectives on Women's Lives
WS 465 Field Experience in Women's Studies
   
   

WS 499

Independent Study
CMHL 210 Women's Health
ENG 217 Images of Women In Modern Literature
ENG 219 Nineteenth-Century Women's Voices
AACS 150 Racism and Sexism in the U.S.

 

AACS 262

 

Caribbean Women

AACS 255 The Black Women's Experience
PSY 311 Psychology of Women
HIST 316 American Women's History
HIST 346 Modern European Women's History
HIST 352 Medieval and Early Modern Women's History
HIST 470 Women and Revolution in China

 

 

PHIL/WS 324 Philosophy and Feminism

POL 372

SOC//WS 347

Politics of Sexual Violence

Sociology of Women

 

MINOR REQUIREMENTS (18 credits)

WS 2110 Introduction to Women's Studies
WS 310 Contemporary Feminist Issues
Pol 272 Politics and Sex


Electives (9 credits required)

Select five courses from the major electives list.