Dec 11, 2024

2023-2024 Catalogue

2023-2024 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

FACULTY:
Christa Craven, Chair
Ahmet Atay
Jordan Biro-Walters
Sina Lee
Brooke Krause
Zareen Thomas
Zhenyu Tian

The WGSS curriculum is based in feminist scholarship-both within traditional disciplines across the academic divisions and in response to questions that cannot be answered within the framework of a single discipline. To foster this interdisciplinary inquiry, the Women’s Studies Program was established in 1978 and has been built upon the feminist teaching, scholarship, and activism of faculty and students with a wide variety of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives. In the past few decades, the program has grown and evolved, changing its name to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in 2008 to recognize important changes within feminist scholarship.

Acknowledging this important history, WGSS courses retain Women’s Studies’ focus on examining previously unavailable information about the lives and contributions of women and analyzing the effects of cultural attitudes, power and inequality, and social structures on the experiences of women as they intersect with race, nation, ability, class, religion, and other axes of difference. In addition, feminist scholarship has recognized and explored commonalities between women’s oppression and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other sexual minorities worldwide, as well as the varied experiences of masculinity throughout the globe. In this vein, WGSS courses explore the cultural construction of sex, gender, and sexuality in the context of their relationship between theoretical and experiential knowledge, and privileging historically marginalized voices. WGSS encourages scholarship and teaching that is committed to the feminist principle of creating a more just world for all.

Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Consists of six courses:

WGSS 12000 - Intro to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Two of the following courses:
WGSS 20200 - History of Feminist Thought
WGSS 20400 - Transnational Feminisms
WGSS 20600 - Queer Lives
or
Core Courses (see below).
One elective from cross-listed courses (see below) accepted for WGSS credit or additional core course.
At least one core or cross-listed course must be from a different division than the others.
WGSS 33000 - Doing Feminist Research: Theory & Practi
WGSS 35000 - Sr. Seminar:Feminist Pedagogy in Action

Special Notes

Majors and minors may substitute one WGSS 40000 or WGSS 40500 for one of the cross-listed courses.
WGSS 40500 is strongly recommended.
Only grades of C- or better are accepted for the major or minor.

Cross-listed Courses Accepted for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Credit

Africana Studies

AFST 20035. Black Feminist Ethnography

AFST 24000. Black Wmn America 1619-1960’S [C, HSS]

AFST 24100. Black Women in Contemporary Society [C, HSS, D]

ARTH 21600. Gender and Modern Art [AH]

Art and Art History

ARTH 21400. Nineteenth Century Art [AH, W]

ARTH 21600. Gender and Modern Art [AH]

Chinese

CHIN 22200. Women in Chinese Literature [AH, C]

Communications

COMM 22300. Communication, Gender, and Sexuality [AH, D]

COMM 22800. Communication and Queer Studies [AH, D, SJ]

COMM 23300. Mediated Gender, Race, and Sexuality [HSS, D]

Economics

ECON 24500. Economics of Gender [HSS]

English

ENGL 12045. Queer Literatures

ENGL 21002. Black Women Writers [AH]

ENGL 21004. Empire Boys (pre 1900) [AH]

ENGL 22011. James Baldwin & Toni Morrison [AH]

ENGL 24018. Fidelity and Betrayal [AH]

ENGL 29901. Serials and Social Justice/ Digital Age [AH, C]

German

GRMN 22700. German Literature in Translation [AH, C]

GRMN 22800. Studies in German Society & Culture [AH, C]

Global Queer Studies

GQST 12000. Introduction to Global Queer Studies

History

HIST 10183. Family in Chinese History [C, HSS]

HIST 10191. History of Sexualities [C, HSS, D]

HIST 20115. Body in Chinese Tradition [C, HSS, W]

HIST 27500. Modern Brazil

HIST 27514. Queer America: LGBTQ in 20th C America [C, HSS, D]

HIST 30151. The Body and Chinese Nation [C, HSS]

Music

MUSC 21900. Women in Music [AH, C]

Philosophy

PHIL 21200. Race, Gender, and Justice [AH, C, D, SJ]

Physical Education

PHED 20000. Women in Sport

Political Science

PSCI 20724. LGBTQIA+ Politics and Policies

PSCI 21000. Women, Power, Politics [C, HSS, D]

PSCI 24730. Sex and War [C, HSS]

Psychology

PSYC 21500. Psychology of Women & Gender [HSS]

Religious Studies

RELS 22200. Islam [AH, C, R]

RELS 26748. Sex and the Bible

RELS 26937. Religion, Race, Gender, Class in America [R]

Sociology and Anthropology

ANTH 29901. Gbl Politics of Reproduction [HSS]

SOCI 20700. Sociology of Gender [D, HSS]

Spanish

SPAN 30900. Spanish American Women Writers [AH, C]

Theatre & Dance

THTD 29908. Black American Theatre and Performance

THTD 30301. Theatre for Social Change [AH, D, SJ]

Core Courses Accepted for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Credit

Communication

COMM 22300. Communication, Gender and Sexuality [AH, D]

COMM 22800. Communication and Queer Studies [AH, D, SJ]

COMM 23300.  Mediated Gender, Race & Sexuality [HSS, D]

English

ENGL 21002. Black Women Writers [AH]

ENGL 21018. Sex and Gender in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature [AH]