Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies B.A.
Bachelor of Arts - Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
College of Humanities & Sciences
Catalog Year: 2022-23
General Education Requirements
Information regarding these requirements can be found in the General Education Section of the catalog.
Summary
Code | Title | Hours |
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Required Courses | 15 | |
Electives | 18 | |
Total Hours | 33 |
Degree Specific Credits: 33
Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0
Required Courses
Note: Students must arrange a WGSS 398 internship with the WGSS Director prior to beginning their senior year. A list of available internships is available in the WGSS Office.
Code | Title | Hours |
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Complete all of the following courses: | ||
WGSS 163L | History and Literature: Perspectives of Women | 3 |
WGSS 263S | Social and Political Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
WGSS 363 | Feminist Theory and Methods | 3 |
WGSS 398 | Coop Education/Internship | 3 |
WGSS 499 | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Capstone | 3 |
Total Hours | 15 |
Electives
Rule: Of the 18 elective credits, 11 credits must be upper-division.
Note: Interdisciplinary courses and courses that appear on the WGSS curriculum list that do not fall within the Humanities and Social Science lists may be substituted with the approval of co-directors. WGSS Internship/Independent Study (392, 398, 492) courses may count for either the Humanities Core or the Social Science Core, depending on the topic. The following is a list of regularly offered courses that would fulfill the WGSS elective credits. Unless indicated, all courses are 3 credits. These courses are offered, in general, every one, two, or three years. Students are advised to check with the WGSS Office for individual semester course listings.
Humanities Electives
Code | Title | Hours |
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Complete 9 credits from the following courses: | 9 | |
Black: From Africa to Hip-Hop | ||
Black Women: Race, Gender and Sexuality | ||
Women in Antiquity | ||
Gender and Communication | ||
Rhetorical Construction of Women | ||
Rhetoric of Women's Activism | ||
Introduction to Western Humanities: Antiquity | ||
African American History to 1865 | ||
African American History Since 1865 | ||
Voodoo, Muslim, Church: Black Religion | ||
The American South | ||
Women in America: Colonial Period to Civil War | ||
Women in America: From the Civil War to the Present | ||
Alcohol in American History | ||
Families & Children in America | ||
The Black Radical Tradition | ||
Prayer & Civil Rights | ||
Writing Women's Lives | ||
U.S. Writers of Color | ||
Gender & Sexuality in English Fiction | ||
Oral and Written Traditions of Native Americans | ||
Native American Beliefs and Philosophy | ||
Mysticism | ||
Media Representations of Women, Men, and Sexuality | ||
Total Hours | 9 |
Social Science Electives
Code | Title | Hours |
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Complete 9 credits from the following courses: | 9 | |
Peoples and Cultures of World | ||
Anthropology of Gender | ||
Intimate Relationships | ||
Environmental Justice Issues & Solutions | ||
Indigenous World View Perspectives | ||
Ecological Perspectives in Native American Traditions | ||
Contemporary Global Issues of Indigenous People | ||
Politics of Social Movements | ||
Psychology of Family Violence | ||
Multicultural Psychology | ||
Women & Social Action in America | ||
Race, Gender & Class | ||
Gender and Society | ||
Social Stratification | ||
Sociology of the Family | ||
Rural Sociology | ||
Population and Society | ||
Capstone: Inequality and Social Justice | ||
Sociology of Poverty | ||
Prostitution & Human Trafficking | ||
Gender and Global Development | ||
Total Hours | 9 |