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Women's and Gender Studies

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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.
 

ADV 3060Issues in Advertising: Sexuality and Gender
ANTH 3710Topics in Anthropology (approved topics only)
ANTH 3750Race, Class, and Gender
ANTH 3752Cultural Images of Gender
CFDS 4140Violence in the Family
CDFS 4340The Contemporary Family
CJA 3700Women, Crime, and Justice Administration
COMM 3225Gender Communication
COMM 4800Topics in Communication Studies (approved topics only)
EMC 4800Seminar in Media Issues (approved topics only)
EMC 4820Race, Gender, and Class in Media
ENGL 2020Themes in Literature and Culture (approved topics only)
ENGL 3720Early Women Writers
ENGL 3725Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
ENGL 3730Twentieth-Century Women Writers
ENGL 3735Black Women as Writers
ENGL 3885Topics in Gender in Film
ENGL 4900Selected Topics in Literature and Language (approved topics only)
ENGL 4950Special Topics in Contemporary Literature (approved topics only)
FREN 3130Twentieth Century Women Writers in French
HIST 1020Survey Western Civilization II: (approved topics only)
HIST 3030Topics in African-American History (approved topics only)
HIST 3070Topics in World History (approved topics only)
HIST 4775U.S. Women’s History
HIST 4790Women in Europe Since 1700
HIST 4810History of Women in the Third World
HLTH 4390Women’s Health
HUM 2610Foreign Literature in Translation (approved topics only)
HUM 3950Women in the Middle Ages
JOUR 4800Seminar in Media Issues (approved topics only)
JOUR 4820Race, Gender, and Class in Media
MUHL 4810Women in Music
PHIL 4800Readings in Philosophy: Feminist Epistemology
PS 3010Women and the Law**
PS 4260The Political Status of Women in the World**
PSY 4620Psychology of Women
SOC 3400Gender and Society
SOC 4140Violence in the Family
SOC 4150Topics in Sociology (approved topics only)
SOC 4361Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health
SW 3050Women and Poverty
**Prerequisites are waived for minors taking the course for WGST credit. Students should contact the Political Science Department for the waiver.

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Women's and Gender Studies  
P.O. Box 498
Office: James Union Building, Room 308
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Email: womenstu@mtsu.edu 
Phone: 615-898-5910
Fax: 615-898-5289

Director:
Dr. Vicky M. MacLean 
E mail: vicky.maclean@mtsu.eduPhone: 615-898-5908