Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Curriculum

In order to help students design their majors and minors, we have developed the following categories: core courses (those reflecting the latest feminist and LGBTQ scholarship and offered directly by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program), cross-listed courses (those reflecting the latest feminist and LGBTQ scholarship and offered by particular academic departments), and affliated courses (courses offered by academic departments with a significant amount of feminist, gender, or sexualities content).

Prospective majors and minors in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are encouraged to discuss their plans with a WGS faculty member as soon as possible in their academic careers.  Also, because there is a preferred sequence of courses, all mandatory courses require careful planning.  Students are strongly advised to take WGS 120 in the first or second year, WGS 300 and WGS 320 in the third year, and WGS 400 in the senior year.

Asterisk (*) = Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Diversity Requirement

Core Courses

• 120 Introduction to Women's Studies
• 210 Special Topics in Women's Studies
• 214 Native American Women*
• 217 Famous French Femmes Fatales
• 218 Pornography and Feminism
• 220 The Pleasures of Looking: Women in Film
• 221 Bridging the Borders: Latina and Latin American Women's Literature*
• 222  Women's Movements in U.S.
• 226  Feminism in Global Perspective*
• 230 Women and Development*
• 231 Gender and Change in Africa and Latin America*
• 251 Women in Nazism 
• 253 Images of Women in Literature*
• 260 Queer Eye on America: Gender and Sexuality* 
• 300 Feminist and LGBTQ Theories
• 301 Methods
• 320 Practicum in Feminist Theory and Collective Action
• 350 Democratic Labors in Athens and America
• 400 Senior Seminar

Approved Cross-listed and Affiliated Course Information