Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS)

Core Faculty:

Professors Radulescu*, Brown, LeBlanc, Mayock, Novack, Senechal, Simpson, L.M. Wheeler
Associate Professors Braunschneider, Goluboff, Miranda, Woodzicka
Assistant Professors M. Bell, Gertz

The Program in Women’s and Gender Studies is an academic program that bridges existing disciplines; that is based in sound, scholarly theory; and that is quintessentially interdisciplinary. The goal is to expand the areas of traditional focus, thereby providing students with a fresh perspective. Students from all majors are exposed to literature of gender and feminism and are prepared to return to their major courses of study ready to contribute differently. Students gain a new perspective into their various disciplines of study and a new view of their world, while acquiring knowledge of a flourishing area of scholarship.

A minor in Women’s and Gender Studies is available. While only certain regular courses are listed below as meeting the requirements of the minor, many other courses across the curriculum study women within the context of the various disciplines and in interdisciplinary ways. Students may petition the program committee to include other relevant courses in the program requirements.

*Head of the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies

Women’s and Gender Studies Courses

Courses relevant to the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies are as follows:

• ANTH 275 - Feminist Anthropology
   
• ARTH 367 - Seminar on Women Artists
   
• BIOL 255 - Reproductive Physiology
   
• ENGL 261 - Reading Gender
   
• ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
   
• ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
   
• ENGL 358 - Literature by Women Before 1800
   
• ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color
   
• HIST 257 - History of Women in America, 1609-1870
   
• HIST 258 - History of Women in America, 1870 to the Present
   
• HIST 285 - Seminar: The Yin and Yang of Gender in Late Imperial China (10th-19th centuries)
   
• PHIL 215 - Social Inequality and Fair Opportunity
   
• PHIL 216 - Feminist Social and Political Philosophy
   
• PHIL 219 - Philosophy of Sex
   
• PHIL 275 - The Unruly Body: Philosophy, Science, and Culture 
• POL 251 - Social Movements
   
• POL 255 - Gender and Politics
   
• PSYC 215 - Seminar in Evolutionary Psychology
   
• PSYC 262 - Gender-Role Development
   
• PSYC 269 - Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
   
• REL 132 - God and Goddess in Hinduism
   
• REL 215 - Female and Male in Western Religious Traditions
   
• SOC 264 - Work, Family, and Community
   
• SOC 280 - Gender and Sexuality
   
• SOC 251 - Social Movements
   
• THTR 250 - Women in Contemporary Theater
   
• WGS 120 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory
   
• WGS 150 - Women in Sport
   
• WGS 295 - Humanities Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
   
• WGS 296 - Social Science Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
   
• WGS 396 - Advanced Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies
   

The following courses may also meet program requirements when the topic is appropriate:

• ENGL 380 - Advanced Seminar
   
• ENGL 291 - Seminar 
• FREN 331 - Etudes thématiques
   
• FREN 343 - La France à travers les siècles 
• FREN 397 - Séminaire avancé
   
• HIST 395 - Advanced Seminar 
• LATN 326 - The Poetry of Ovid
   
• LIT 220 - Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
   
• SPAN 295 - Special Topics in Conversation 
• SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar
   
• SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar
   

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Minor

• •  Women’s and Gender Studies minor

Courses

• •  WGS 120 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory
• •  WGS 150 - Women in Sport
• •  WGS 295 - Humanities Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
• •  WGS 296 - Social Science Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
• •  WGS 396 - Advanced Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies