To complete the Women's Studies minor, students must successfully complete WS10000 and four elective courses approved by the Women's Studies program director for a total of 15 credits.
Following is a partial list of courses offered by the Women's Studies Program. Please check the current Schedule of Classes for a listing of the courses offered each semester, including new electives.
INTRODUCTORY AND CORE COURSES
Required Courses
WS 10000 - Women's & Gender Roles in Contemporary Society
Fulfills General Education requirement for a Perspectives Course, under the category Self and Society.
An introduction to issues that arise when women's lives and gender roles become the focus of critical inquiry. How do different societies and academic disciplines define women? How do women's experiences vary in relation to factors such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, nationality? How have women resisted, adapted to, and transformed "women's space" in the United States and elsewhere?
This introductory, interdisciplinary course will present and problematize traditional and contemporary perspectives about women's and gender roles in society, both in the United States and abroad. Based on instructor selections, students may analyze and examine the history of women's struggles, oppressions, and resistance through the work force and the economy, education, home and family life, government and other political arenas, and religious life. Other focus topics may include, but are not limited to health and sexuality, law and social control, and constructions of race, nationality, ethnicity, and identity.
Credits: 3
INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED COURSES
31000 - Independent Study
The student will pursue a program of independent study under the direction of a WS faculty member.
Note: With the approval of the Program Director.
Credits: 1-4
Hours: 3-4 hr./wk.
31100-32000: Selected Topics in Women's Studies
Topics not covered in the usual program offerings, which will vary each semester. Credits and hours will be determined by the Program.
Credits: 1-4
Hours: 3-4 hr./wk.
ELECTIVE COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Below is a partial listing of courses accepted for credit in the Women's Studies Program.
Elective Courses (totaling 12 cr.) with approval of Program Director. Please consult an advisor for all applicable courses each semester.
Anthropology
22500: Class, Ethnicity, & Gender
23200: Witchcraft, Magic, & Religion
23600: Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
25500: The Anthropology of Health & Healing
31107: Anthropology for Reproduction
31403: Women and the Violation of Human Rights
32400: Violation of Human Rights
Art
29204: Women & Art II
Asian Studies
20700: Asian Women
Black Studies
31160: Women of the African Diaspora
31706: The Black Woman
English
31713: Latina Writers
31746: Women's Literature
37501: Women Writers of the Middle Ages & the Renaissance
37502: Women Novelists of the 19th Century
37503: 20th Century Women Writers
37517: 19th Century Women Writers
41313: Gender Issues in Victorian Literature
41476: Feminist Theory
Foreign Languages and Literatures
31500: Selected Topics: French Women in Literature (in English)
40103: Women of Antiquity
45300: Gender Issues in Hispanic Letters
History
31129: U.S. Family
31610: History of Childhood in America
31613: Women & Medicine
31706: The Black Woman
31910: Women in the Middle East
35900: Women in World History through the Middle Ages
36000: Women in Modern History
43100: History of Sexuality
44400: Women in U.S. History
48200: Women & Gender in Latin America
48500: Women and Gender in the Middle East
International Studies
31108: Transnational Feminism
31510: Culture, Gender, & Class: Morocco (Study Abroad Course)
Jewish Studies
27300: The Jewish Woman
31500: Jewish Woman in Literature
Latin American and Latino Studies
13100: Urban Hispanic Child
31200: Women/Health: Latinas & Other Women of Color
31304: Gender & Sexuality in the Latino Community
Philosophy
34600: Feminist Philosophy
Political Science
22900: Women & Politics
31108: Feminist Political Theory
31117: Politics, Law, Families
31544: Family Law
Psychology
31823: Psychology of Women and Violence
35100: Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior
36500/36504: Family Psychology
38800: Psychology of Women
B9506: Gender Psychopathy (Graduate level course, requires professor's permission to register)
Sociology
26600: Family Relationships
27700: Ethnic Families in the United States
31701: Work & Family
38207: Sex Roles & Social Change
38209: Sociology of Sexualities
38210: Sociology of Gender
Theater
31126: Queer Theater
