Introductory Courses (6 credit hours)

• WGST 1101 - Introduction to Women’s Studies (3)

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• WGST 3220 - Feminist Thought (3) (W)
• or  WGST 3221 - Feminist Thought (3)

Research Methods Course (3 credit hours)

• IDST 3100 - Interdisciplinary Research Methods (3) (O,W)

Capstone/Practicum Course (3 credit hours)

Select one of the following:

• WGST 4401 - Internship in Women’s Studies (3)
• WGST 4601 - Senior Colloquium (3)

Elective Courses (6 credit hours)

Elective courses can be chosen from any WGST prefix course or any other department’s or program’s offerings, as long as (a) the course deals substantially with gender, women, feminism, sexuality, or related social movements and (b) the courses are approved by the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies.  Students concentrating in Women’s and Gender Studies should check their choices of electives with the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, both when they are planning their schedule and when they are reviewing it in preparation for graduation.

Examples of regularly taught courses in other departments that count as Women’s and Gender Studies elective courses include, but are not limited to:

• AFRS 2215 - Black Families in the United States (3) (W)
• AFRS 3050 - Topics in Africana Studies (3) (Gender in a Transforming Africa)
• AFRS 3158 - Gender and African American Literature (3)
• ENGL 3158 - Gender and African American Literature (3) or
• ANTH 2090 - Topics in Anthropology (1 to 3) (Gender, Culture, and Communication; or Gender in a Transforming Africa)
• ANTH 2123 - Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3)
• ANTH 4131 - Culture, Pregnancy, and Birth (3)
• CJUS 4340 - Seminar on Sexual Assault (3) (O)
• CJUS 4363 - Gender, Race, and Justice (3) (O)
• COMM 2110 - Women and the Media (3)
• COMM 3110 - Gender and Communication (3)
• ENGL 4002 - Women and Literature (3)
• ENGL 4050 - Topics in English (3) (Native American Women; or Gender and Shakespeare)
• GRNT 4260 - Women: Middle Age and Beyond (3)
• HIST 2150 - U.S. Women’s History to 1877 (3)
• HIST 2151 - U.S. Women’s History Since 1877 (3)
• HIST 2152 - European Women’s and Gender History (3)
• HIST 2155 - Southern Women’s History (3)
• or  AMST 3050 - Topics in American Studies (3) (Southern Women’s History)
• HIST 3131 - History of Sexuality (3)
• NURS 4191 - Women’s Health Issues (3)
• PHIL 3820 - Feminist Philosophy (3)
• PSYC 2126 - Introduction to the Psychology of Women and Gender (3)
• RELS 3000 - Special Topics in Religious Studies (3) (Religion and Gender)
• RELS 3111 - Women in Judaism (3)
• RELS 3215 - Religion and Sexuality (3)
• SOCY 2132 - Sociology of Marriage and the Family (3)
• SOCY 2163 - Sociology of Gender (3) (W)
• SOCY 3261 - Human Sexuality (3)
• SOCY 4090 - Topics in Sociology (1 to 3) (New Theoretical Approaches to Gender)
• SOCY 4165 - Sociology of Women (3) (W)
• SPAN 3019 - Hispanic Women Writers in English Translation (3) (W)
• THEA 4001 - Topics in Theatre (1 to 6) (W)

• (Women’s Writings Onscreen; or Violent Film Females)