Women's Studies Concentration

Coordinator:
Maria Bobroff, Director of Women's Studies

The Women's Studies concentration is designed to provide the opportunity for students (men and women) to focus on women's experiences from a number of different disciplinary perspectives. This concentration also seeks to study and clarify issues of gender definitions of women and men and to study efforts to foster gender equality.

The concentration should be useful for students who want to explore in more depth women's historical, economic, social, political, religious, and artistic contributions. The concentration provides an opportunity for analyzing and theorizing about an area of important social change.

Requirements

The concentration requires a minimum of 17 credit hours: four of the following courses (including at least one IDS 400 course and a course focused on women of color) plus an internship (which can be one to four credits and can be done off-campus, on-campus, and sometimes as part of study abroad).

Regular courses that count for the women's studies major or concentration: 
 

  • ENGL 151: Black Women's History and Literature
  • ENGL 151: Women in Ancient Greece
  • ENGL 331: Black Women Writers
  • ENGL 332: Black Men Writers
  • ENGL 334: African Women Writers
  • ENGL 374: Living Women Poets
  • HIST 223: Gender & Power in U.S. History
  • HIST 268: History of Chinese Women
  • HIST 343: Women in Modern Africa
  • IDS 407: Sacred Images, Altars & Rituals
  • IDS 409: Readings in Gay & Lesbian Studies
  • IDS 418: Science, Sex, and Nature
  • IDS 432: Drama of Difference
  • IDS 455: Human Sexuality
  • IDS 466: Great Goddess, Dying God
  • JAPN 220: Women in Modern Japan
  • JPS 310: Media, Gender and Nation in Japan
  • JPS 425: Family Violence
  • PHIL 231: Philosophy and Sexuality
  • PHIL 232: Gender, Identity and Experience
  • PSY 213: Class, Race, and Gender
  • REL 222: Feminist Theology
  • SOAN 213: Class, Race, and Gender 
  • SOAN 235: African Families in Transition
  • SOAN 313: Sociology of Sex and Gender
  • SOAN 413: Gender Violence
  • SOAN 415: Gender & Development in Africa 
  • SOAN 429: Gender in Organizations 
  • THEA 262: Gay & Lesbian Cinema
  • THEA 340: Drama of Difference
  • WMST 217: Literacy Seminar
  • WMST 250: Special Topics
  • WMST 260: Independent Study
  • WMST 350: Special Topics
  • WMST 360: Independent Study  
  • WMST 450: Special Topics
  • WMST 460: Independent Study
  • WMST 470: Senior Thesis
  • WMST 490: Departmental Honors

Recent Special Topics Courses that have counted for the major or concentration:

  • FREN 311: The Francophone World
  • FREN 350: The Francophone World
  • PSY 250: Elders
  • PSY 350: Aging Women
  • PSY 350: Fatherhood