Our Courses

Introduces a selected interdisciplinary subject or focus. Topic will vary by semester. May be repeated with a different topic.

Designed to inform and enlighten students about the lives and history of diverse women and the social construction of gender. Areas of study may include work, the family, health, sexuality, violence in women's lives, images of women, and feminist activism. Required for all Women's and Gender Studies minors.

TBC: Human Society and Social Relationships (Discovery)

An exploration of the concepts of leadership and followership through historical, contemporary, and personal perspectives as they apply to women. Provides an opportunity to examine, evaluate, and enhance personal leadership skills. WGST 2100 is recommended as a prerequisite but not required.

Interdisciplinary study of sexuality within a global context, including theories of sex and sexuality and consideration of sexual identities, institutions, regulation, activism, and commerce.

A selected interdisciplinary subject or focus. Topic will vary by semester. May be repeated with a different topic.

A selected interdisciplinary subject or focus. Topics will vary each time course is taught.

A multicultural approach to the study of women's self-expression, emphasizing intersectionality and issues of difference. Explores women's experience across diverse forms of expression, such as literature, political speech, music, scholarship, and/or the visual arts.

Women in popular/mass media. Emphases include images of women in the media; women as producers and consumers of media; the intersections of gender, race, and class in the media; comparative global images and issues; and feminist approaches to media study.

Introduces the most relevant issues affecting women globally. Focused survey of the experiences of women around the world. Exposes students to transnational examples and critical ways of thinking about poverty, violence, and resistance. Seeks to further understanding of the global dimensions of gender, race, class, and sexuality.

A seminar-style exploration of an interdisciplinary subject or focus. Symposium title and topic will vary by semester. May be repeated with a different topic.

(Same as RS 4201.) Additional prerequisites may apply to individual courses within the series. Examines changing conceptions of women's roles in various religious traditions with particular attention to the ways religious beliefs and practices have influenced and are influenced by feminism and struggles for gender equality both within and outside religious institutions.

Additional prerequisites may apply to individual courses within the series. A variable-content course highlighting contributions of women to various fields and disciplines and exploring special problems which may be encountered by women.

Prerequisites: WGST 2100 and junior standing or permission of instructor. Major voices, texts, and ideas in the field of feminist theory from the early seventeenth century through the present within the contexts of a variety of critical discourses and emergent critical fields. Intended as a capstone for the minor. Required for all Women's and Gender Studies minors.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. A variable-content course examining a topic within the study of women and gender not covered in depth in other Women's and Gender Studies courses. Student develops project, conducts research, and confers regularly with the instructor. Student must submit a formal project proposal to be approved by the Women's and Gender Studies Program's Independent Studies Committee at least one semester prior to enrolling for WGST 4900. (Not offered during Summer terms. Please consult the Women's and Gender Studies website for more information.) May be taken for credit no more than twice.