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Nov 22, 2024
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2021-22 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, BA or BS
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Requirements for the GSWS Major
1. Fulfill baccalaureate degree requirements.
2. A minimum of 55-56 credits in the major, 41-42 of which must be upper division. All credits earned toward the major must be taken for a letter grade, except GSWS 202.
3. Maintain a minimum 2.7 GPA in courses required for the major. Students must earn a C- or better in all courses required for the major.
4. Complete core requirements outlined below:
I. Foundations (10 credits)
II. Core Theory (select one course from the list below, 4 credits)
III. Core Theme 1: FEMINISM and WOMEN (select one course from the list below, 3-4 credits)
IV. Core Theme 2: QUEER and SEXUALITIES (select one course from the list below, 4 credits)
V. Core Theme 3: TRANSGENDER and MASCULINITIES (select one course from the list below, 4 credits)
VI. Theory in Action (4 credits)
VII. Capstone (6 credits, 2 per term)
VIII. Electives - Choose five courses (20 credits, up to 8 of which may be lower-division)
- ARTH 345 - Activist Artists and Work in the Community 4 credits
- ARTH 399 - Special Studies 1 to 18 credits (as approved by program chair)
- ARTH 450 - Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Art 4 credits
- BI 385 - Women in Science 3 credits
- COMM 460 - Topics in Communication 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
- COMM 460A - Women Transforming Language 4 credits
- EC 340 - Gender Issues in Economics 4 credits
- ENG 240 - Native American Narratives, Fiction, and Poetry 4 credits (when the topic is Native Narratives: Native Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance)
- ENG 341 - Class, Culture, and Feminism in Victorian and Edwardian England 4 credits
- ENG 347 - Slumming in the Nineteenth Century 4 credits
- ENG 367 - British Women Writers 4 credits
- ENG 368 - Women Writers in the U.S. 4 credits
- ENG 381A - Narratives of Captivity 4 credits
- ENG 381B - Slave Narratives 4 credits
- ENG 418 - The British Novel after 1850 4 credits
- ENG 443 - Chicanx Literature 4 credits
- ENG 447 - Major Forces in Literature 4 credits (when the topic is England’s Others: Victorian Literature of Immigration and Empire, or Wilde’s Worlds: 1880s-1890s)
- ENG 447C - The Decadent 1890s 4 credits
- ENG 447D - Trans Literature 4 credits
- ENG 447E - The Harlem Renaissance 4 credits
- ENG 454 - U.S. Ethnic Literature 4 credits
- ENG 498 - Topics in Women’s Writing 4 credits
- GSWS 199 - Special Topics 1-8 credits
- GSWS 202 - Community Building in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2 credits
- GSWS 299 - Special Topics 1-8 credits
- GSWS 301 - Global Gender Movements 4 credits
- GSWS 302 - Contemporary U.S. Women’s Movements 4 credits
- GSWS 311 - Masculinities 4 credits
- GSWS 312 - Trans Histories, Trans Futures 4 credits
- GSWS 313 - Fat Studies: Bodies, Culture, and Politics 4 credits
- GSWS 314 - Trans*forming Institutions 4 credits
- GSWS 315 - Disability Justice 4 credits
- GSWS 321 - Media Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
- GSWS 341 - Thinking Queerly: Exploring Queer Studies 4 credits
- GSWS 342 - LGBT2QIA+ Lives and Communities 4 credits
- GSWS 343 / SOAN 343 - Gender, Race, and the Body 4 credits
- GSWS 344 - LGBT2QIA+ Health 4 credits
- GSWS 399 - Special Studies 1 to 18 credits
- GSWS 401 - Research 1 to 5 credits
- GSWS 405 - Reading and Conference 1 to 4 credits
- GSWS 407 - Seminar 1 to 4 credits
- GSWS 409 - Practicum 1 to 16 credits
- GSWS 411 - Theories in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4 credits
- GSWS 417 - Sexual Politics in U.S. History 4 credits
- NAS 368 - Native American Topics 4 credits (as approved by program chair; approved when topic is Decolonizing Transgender, Indigenous Masculinities, or Queer Indigenous Studies)
- NAS 440 - American Indian Identities 4 credits
- PHL 373 - Philosophy and Sexuality 4 credits
- PHL 399 - Special Studies 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
- GSWS 413 - Feminist Philosophy and Theory 4 credits
- PSY 369 - Human Sexuality 4 credits
- PSY 492 - Psychology of Women 4 credits
- SOAN 304 - Poverty, Family, and Policy 4 credits
- SOAN 340 - Anthropology and Sociology of Gender 4 credits
- SOAN 399 - Special Studies 1 to 18 credits (as approved by program chair)
- SOAN 407 - Seminar 1 to 4 credits (as approved by program chair)
Notes:
- Courses taken to meet requirements I - VI above will not also count toward the elective requirement.
- Other courses may be approved to count toward the elective requirement upon petition to the program chair.
Combining Majors, Certificates, and Minors:
- GSWS majors are ineligible for a GSWS minor.
- Adding majors, minors, and certificates offered by any other program on campus to a GSWS major is also allowed.
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