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Approved Courses for Women's & Gender Studies Major and Minor

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  5. Approved Courses for Women's & Gender Studies Major and Minor

Because our program is interdisciplinary, you won't find a listing of all our courses in the catalog. You can always check back here for courses that will fulfill our requirements.


Art

  • ART 4000/8006 - Exploring Women's Issues in Art
  • ART/WGST 4930 - Special Topics in Gender and Art History: Women, Art and Culture; Art of the 18th Century - Gender and Visual Culture
  • ART 4930 - Special Topics Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity

Biology

  • BIOL 4030 - Special Topics: Biology of Women

Black Studies

  • BLST/WGST 1950 - Black Women in America
  • BLST 2210 - The Black Family in the United States
  • BLST 4010 - The Black Woman: A Historical Perspective

Criminal Justice

  • CJUS 3390 - Women, Crime, and Justice
  • CJUS 4800 - Special Topics: Family Violence

English

  • ENGL/WGST 2000 - Topics: Language in the Minority
  • ENGL/WGST 2000 - Topics: Gender Identity in Personal Writing
  • ENGL/WGST 2230 - Ethnic Lit: Cultures of Resistance
  • ENGL/WGST 3000 - Survey of Literature by Women; Contemporary Short Story Writing by Women; American Women Playwrights
  • ENGL/WGST 3000 - Rhetoric and Film--Queer Film
  • ENGL/WGST 3300 - Special topics: Queer American Wests
  • ENGL 3000/WGST 4050 - Special Topics: Women's Leadership in Film
  • ENGL/WGST 4250 - Introduction to Women's Studies in Literature
  • ENGL/WGST 4260 - Women of Color Writers: African, African-American, Caribbean, and Indian
  • ENGL/WGST 4270 - Women Writers of the West
  • ENGL/WGST 4690 - Language, Gender, and Sexuality
  • ENGL/WGST 4940 - Afro-American Women's Novels: Female Identity and History, Commonwealth Writers, Jane Austen in the Female
  • ENGL/WGST 4960 - 19th Century American Women Writers
  • ENGL/WGST 4960 - Exiles, Madwomen, and Witches
  • ENGL/WGST 4960 - Medieval Women
  • ENGL/WGST 4960 - Study Abroad: Artists, Writers, Rebels: the Women of Ireland's Easter Rebellion
  • ENGL/WGST 4960 - Viewing Bollywood
  • ENGL4960/WGST 4050: Writing Women's Lives

Family and Consumer Sciences

  • FCS 4850 - Contemporary Family Issues

French

  • FREN 4960/8966 or WGST 4970/8976 - Exiles, Madwomen, and witches in 20th Century French Literature

Geography

  • GEOG 4150/8156 - Geography, Gender, and Work

Goodrich

  • GRCH 3010 - Men in Feminism Seminar

Public Health

  • PHHB/WGST 3080 - Health Concepts in Human Sexuality
  • PHHB/WGST 4550 - Health Aspects of Aging
  • PHHB/WGST 4700 - Women's Health and Issues of Diversity

History

  • HIST/WGST 2990 - 20th Century United States and Russian Women
  • HIST/WGST 3580 - Topics: Queens and Mistresses in Early Modern Europe
  • HIST/WGST 4060 - History of Women in the United States
  • HIST/WGST 4470 - History of American Medicine and Public Health
  • HIST/WGST 4910 - Topics in History: Latin American Women; Asian Women; Gender and Work in 19th Century America; Gender and Spirituality in the Middle Ages; The Roman Family; Women of the American West

Honors

  • HONR 3000 - Honors Colloquium: Feminism and the Family
  • HONR 3502 - Special Topics: Women in Islam

Philosophy

  • PHIL/WGST 3490 - Problems in Feminist Philosophy

Political Science

  • PSCI/WGST 3130 - Women and Politics
  • PSCI/WGST 3230 - Gender and Global Politics
  • PSCI 3920 - Gender and Global Politics

Psychology

  • PSYC 4920 - Psychology of Native American Women

Religion

  • RELI 3130/WGST 3120 - Women and the Bible
  • RELI/WGST 3250 - The Feminine in Mythology
  • RELI/WGST 3500 - Special Topics: Women in Islam (also counts for Honors credit)
  • RELI 3500/WGST 3600 - Special Topics in Gender and Religion
  • RELI/WGST 3500 - Religious Women Activists
  • RELI/WGST 3500 - Women Mystics
  • RELI/WGST 3500 - Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics
  • RELI/WGST 4040 - Religion and Homosexuality

Russian

  • RUSS/WGST 3055 - Women in Russian Society and Culture

Speech Communication

  • SPCH 3750 - Gender and Communication

Social Work

  • SOWK 2120 - Race, Class, and Gender
  • SOWK/WGST 4880 - Women's Issues in Social Work
  • SOWK 8060 - Institutional Racism and Sexism

Sociology

  • SOC 2150 - Marriage and the Family
  • SOC 2800 - Women of Color in the United States
  • SOC 3630 - Comparative Social Institutions
  • SOC 4150 - American Family Problems
  • SOC 4170 - Sociology of Fatherhood
  • SOC 4300 - Sociology of Gender
  • SOC 4350 - Work and Family
  • SOC 4500 - Law, the Family and Public Policy
  • SOC/PHHB 4700 - Women's Health & Issues of Diversity
  • SOC 4800 - Contemporary Topics: Sociology of Sexualities

Spanish

  • SPAN 4490/8496 - Spanish Literature and Film

Women's Studies

  • WGST 4990 - Independent Study
  • WGST 2010 - Introduction to Women's Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • WGST 2020 - Introduction to Women's Studies: The Humanities
  • WGST 2030 - Jewish Women in the Midwest
  • WGST 3020 - Gender and Leadership
  • WGST 4010 - Senior Seminar

Writers Workshop

  • WRWS 3000 - New Poetry by American Women
  • WRWS 4000 - Women of Fiction

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