Women and Gender Studies

Cross-listed & Elective Courses

Course descriptions are located in the College Catalog.

Electives for a Women's Studies Major: Humanities Designation:

African and African-American Studies

• AAS 315 Contemporary Black Women (A,I,W,D)
• AAS 339 Writings by African-American Women (A,U,W,D)

Art History

• ART 310 Women in Art (A)

Communication

• CMC 410 Speakers, Campaigns, and Movements (A,W)

English

• ENL 244 Women and Courtly Love (A,W)
• ENL 339 Writings by African-American Women (A,U,W,D)
• ENL 378 Women Writers in American Literature (A,J,W,D)
• ENL 427 Women in the English Novel (A,U,W)
• ENL 441 American Literature:19th Century Women's Novel (A,U,W)
• ENL 457 Women and Film (A,J,W,D)
• ENL 470 Women and Popular Culture (A,J,W,D)
• ENL 496 Sex and Censorship (A)

Foreign Language

• FCE 375 Latin-American Women (A)

History

• HST 313 Slavery and the South (A)
• HST 323 History of European and American Women (A,U,W)
• HST 354 American Film Genres (A)
• HST 359 European Women (A,U,W)
• HST 401 Topics in History (Women's Issues)
• HST 429 Women: History and Theory (A)

Philosophy

• PHL 335 Feminism and Philosophy (A,J,W,D)

Women's Studies

• WMS 200 Topics in Women's Studies (W)

Electives for Women's Studies Major: Behavioral/Physical Sciences:

Biology

• BIO 281 Human Biology (A)
• BIO 312 Sex, Evolution, and Behavior (A)

Chemistry

• CHM 121 Chemistry and Scientists (A,W)
• CHM 373 American Women Scientists in Contemporary Science (A,W)

Health Science

• HLS 402 Women's Health (A,W)
• HLS 419 Human Sexuality (A,W)
• HLS 426 HIV/AIDS Issues (A,W)

Nursing

• NUR 380 Issues and Perspectives on Women's Health Care (A,U,W)

Psychology

• PSH 433 Psychology of Gender (A)
• PSH 484 Adolescent Development (A)

Electives for Women's Studies Major: Social Sciences Designation:

African-American Studies

• AAS 271 Gender, Race, and Class (A,W,D)
• AAS 435 Legal Rights of the Disadvantaged (A,I,W,D)

Anthropology

• ANT 307 Gendering the Past (A,J,W)
• ANT 403 Biography and Life History (A)

Art History

• ART 310 Women in Art (A)

Criminal Justice

• CRJ 479 Victimology (A)
• CRJ 481 Women and Criminal Justice (A)

History

• HST 328 Women in America (A,W,D)
• HST 334 Sex, Sin and Sorority: Women in the Early American Republic (A,U,W)
• HST 358 Family and Social Exchange in American History (A,W,D)
• HST 438 Latin American Women's History (A)
• HST 495 Women Gender and Class (A)

Physical Education and Sport

• PES 396 Women in Sport (A)

Political Science

• PLS 313 Gender Politics (A,I,W)
• PLS 362 Women in Western Political Thought (A,J,W,D)
• PLS 435 Legal Rights of the Disadvantaged (A,I,W,D)
• PLS 467 The Politics of Poverty (A,W)

Psychology

• PSH 433 Psychology of Gender (A,W)

Social Work

• SWO 475 Women's Lives (A)

Sociology

• SOC 271 Gender, Race, and Class (A,W,D)
• SOC 361 Sociology of Sex Marriage and the Family (A,W)
• SOC 451 Women and Work (A)
• SOC 452 Women and Health (A)
• SOC 453 Contemporary Women's Issues (A)
• SOC 464 Gender Roles and Social Change (A)
• SOC 465 Sociology of the Aging (A)

Theater

• THE 410 Contemporary Women Playwrights