Our Courses

WGST 2020 – WGST Issues
3 credit hours

Introduces a selected interdisciplinary subject or focus. Topic will vary by semester. May be repeated with a different topic.

WGST 2100 – Introduction to Women’s Studies
3 credit hours

Designed to inform and enlighten students about the lives and history of diverse women and the social construction of gender. Areas of study may include work, the family, health, sexuality, violence in women’s lives, images of women, and feminist activism. Required for all Women’s and Gender Studies minors.

TBC: Human Society and Social Relationships (Discovery)

WGST 2500 – Women and Leadership
3 credit hours

An exploration of the concepts of leadership and followership through historical, contemporary, and personal perspectives as they apply to women. Provides an opportunity to examine, evaluate, and enhance personal leadership skills. WGST 2100 is recommended as a prerequisite but not required.

WGST 3010 – Sexuality Studies
3 credit hours

Interdisciplinary study of sexuality within a global context, including theories of sex and sexuality and consideration of sexual identities, institutions, regulation, activism, and commerce.

WGST 3020 – WGST Topics
3 credit hours

A selected interdisciplinary subject or focus. Topic will vary by semester. May be repeated with a different topic.

WGST 3030 – Topics in Sexuality
3 credit hours

A selected interdisciplinary subject or focus. Topics will vary each time course is taught.

WGST 3400 – Multicultural Women’s Voices
3 credit hours

A multicultural approach to the study of women’s self-expression, emphasizing intersectionality and issues of difference. Explores women’s experience across diverse forms of expression, such as literature, political speech, music, scholarship, and/or the visual arts.

WGST 3500 – Women in the Media
3 credit hours

Women in popular/mass media. Emphases include images of women in the media; women as producers and consumers of media; the intersections of gender, race, and class in the media; comparative global images and issues; and feminist approaches to media study.

WGST 3900 – Women and Globalism
3 credit hours

Introduces the most relevant issues affecting women globally. Focused survey of the experiences of women around the world. Exposes students to transnational examples and critical ways of thinking about poverty, violence, and resistance. Seeks to further understanding of the global dimensions of gender, race, class, and sexuality.

WGST 4020 – WGST Symposium
3 credit hours

A seminar-style exploration of an interdisciplinary subject or focus. Symposium title and topic will vary by semester. May be repeated with a different topic.

WGST 4201 – Symposium in Women’s Studies: Women and Religion
3 credit hours

(Same as RS 4201.) Additional prerequisites may apply to individual courses within the series. Examines changing conceptions of women’s roles in various religious traditions with particular attention to the ways religious beliefs and practices have influenced and are influenced by feminism and struggles for gender equality both within and outside religious institutions.

WGST 4206 – Symposium in Women’s Studies: Women and the Holocaust
3 credit hours

Additional prerequisites may apply to individual courses within the series. A variable-content course highlighting contributions of women to various fields and disciplines and exploring special problems which may be encountered by women.

WGST 4500 – Feminist Theory
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: WGST 2100 and junior standing or permission of instructor. Major voices, texts, and ideas in the field of feminist theory from the early seventeenth century through the present within the contexts of a variety of critical discourses and emergent critical fields. Intended as a capstone for the minor. Required for all Women’s and Gender Studies minors.

WGST 4900 – Independent Study
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. A variable-content course examining a topic within the study of women and gender not covered in depth in other Women’s and Gender Studies courses. Student develops project, conducts research, and confers regularly with the instructor. Student must submit a formal project proposal to be approved by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program’s Independent Studies Committee at least one semester prior to enrolling for WGST 4900. (Not offered during Summer terms. Please consult the Women’s and Gender Studies website for more information.) May be taken for credit no more than twice.

Not all sections of a given course will earn Women’s and Gender Studies credit.
See Women’s and Gender Studies schedule for each term’s approved offerings. 

Course Code	Course Title
ADV 3060	Issues in Advertising: Sexuality and Gender
ANTH 3710	Topics in Anthropology
ANTH 3750	Race, Class, and Gender
ANTH 3752	Cultural Images of Gender
GEO 4270	Special Topics in Geography
HIST 1020	Survey Western Civilization II
HIST 3030	Topics in African-American History
HIST 3070	Topics in World History
HIST 4550	Women and Politics in Modern Africa
HIST 4775	U.S. Women’s History
HIST 4790	Women in Modern Europe
HLTH 4390	Women’s Health
HUM 2610	World Literatures
HUM 4000	Women of the Middle East: Representations and Perceptions
JOUR 4800	Seminar in Media Issues
JOUR 4820	Race, Gender, and Class in Media
MUHL 4810	Women in Music
PHIL 4250	Philosophy of Gender
PHIL 4800	Readings in Philosophy
PS 3010	Women’s Rights in American Law
PS 4260	Women and Public Policy
PSY 4620	Psychology of Women
SOC 3400	Gender and Society
SOC 4140	Violence in the Family
SOC 4150	Topics in Sociology
SOC 4361	Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health
SOC 4400	Sex Trafficking
SW 3050	Women and Poverty
CFDS 4140	Violence in the Family
CDFS 4340	The Contemporary Family
CJA 3700	Women, Crime, and Justice Administration
COMM 3225	Gender Communication
COMM 3245	Women, Leadership, and Communication
COMM 3810	Topics in Culture and Social Influence
COMM 4400	Sexual Communications
COMM 4800	Topics in Communication Studies
DANC 4200	Women in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Dance
EMC 4800	Seminar in Media Issues
EMC 4820	Race, Gender, and Class in Media
ENGL 2020	Themes in Literature and Culture
ENGL 3725	Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
ENGL 3730	Twentieth-Century Women Writers
ENGL 3735	Black Women as Writers
ENG 3770	LGBTQIA+ Literature and Culture
ENGL 3885	Topics in Gender in Film
ENG 4350	American Popular Literature of the 19th Century
ENGL 460	Special Topics in Writing
ENGL 4900	Selected Topics in Literature and Language
ENGL 4950	Special Topics in Contemporary Literature
GEO 4270	Special Topics in Geography
HIST 1020	Survey Western Civilization II
HIST 3030	Topics in African-American History
HIST 3070	Topics in World History
HIST 4550	Women and Politics in Modern Africa
HIST 4775	U.S. Women’s History
HIST 4790	Women in Modern Europe
HLTH 4390	Women’s Health
HUM 2610	World Literatures
HUM 4000	Women of the Middle East: Representations and Perceptions
JOUR 4800	Seminar in Media Issues
JOUR 4820	Race, Gender, and Class in Media
MUHL 4810	Women in Music
PHIL 4250	Philosophy of Gender
PHIL 4800	Readings in Philosophy
PS 3010	Women’s Rights in American Law
PS 4260	Women and Public Policy
PSY 4620	Psychology of Women
SOC 3400	Gender and Society
SOC 4140	Violence in the Family
SOC 4150	Topics in Sociology
SOC 4361	Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health
SOC 4400	Sex Trafficking
SW 3050	Women and Poverty