Major Requirements

The major consists of 36 credits as follows:

1. 12 credits of required core courses:

  21:988:201 or 202  Introduction to Women's Studies (3,3)

  21:988:205  Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies (3)

  21:988:325  Politics of Sexuality (3)

  21:988:301  Feminist History and Theory (3)

  21:988:389 or 390  Topics in Women's Studies (3,3)

2. 9 credits of required elective courses in humanities and social sciences from among the following:

  21:014:255  Race, Gender, and American Film  (3)

  21:014:305  Black Women in the United States (3)

  21:014:370  Women's Literature of the African Diaspora (3)

  21:350:360  Topics in Women and Literature (3)

  21:350:361,362  Women in Literature (3,3)

  21:512:273  History of Women in the United States to 1877 (3)

  21:512:274  History of Women in the United States from 1877 to Present (3)

  21:512:337  History of the Family in the United States (3)

  21:512:473  Topics in Women's History (3)

  21:790:356  Sex, Law, and Public Policy (3)

  21:830:373  Psychology of Women (3)

  21:830:469  Psychology of Sexual Orientation (3)

  21:910:345  Human Diversity (3)

  21:920:306  Marriage and the Family (3)

  21:920:337  Sociology of Sex and Gender (3)

  21:988:401  Individual Research in Women's Studies (3)

  21:988:425  Women's Studies Internship (3)

3. 15 credits of required relevant courses from a minimum of three departments, which include a gender-informed perspective from courses including:

  African American and African Studies
  Anthropology
  Art
  Biological Sciences
  Criminal Justice 
  Economics
  English
  History
  Philosophy and Religion
  Political Science
  Psychology
  Sociology
  Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  Urban Education