WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

Women's and gender studies is an interdisciplinary major in human societies, both past and present. It is also an inquiry into women's material, cultural and economic production, their collective undertakings and self descriptions. The women's and gender studies major seeks to provide opportunities for:

• acquiring breadth of learning and integrating knowledge across academic disciplines.
• developing an understanding and respect for the integrity of self and others.
• learning to communicate effectively.
• developing the knowledge, abilities, appreciation and motivations that liberate men and women.
• seriously encountering with the values dimensions of individual growth and social interaction.

Majors develop integrative skill competencies in bibliographic instruction, writing excellence, close reading of texts, creative problem-solving, small group communication, oral communication, and expressive awareness.

Students majoring in women's and gender studies must take a minimum of ten courses, including WG 201H, and then nine courses in three disciplines in consultation with their Mentors. Five of these courses must be at the 300 level or above. Majors must successfully pass a Senior comprehensive examination or, if invited by the faculty, write a Senior thesis.

For a minor in women's and gender studies, students take five courses including WG 201H. Three of the five courses must be at the 300 level or above.

Descriptions of the following courses in the major are found in the disciplinary listings:

AMERICAN STUDIES

AM 307H Rebels with a Cause: Radicals, Reactionaries and Reformers (Directed Study available)
AM 308H Becoming Visible: Sex, Gender and American Culture (Directed Study available)

ANTHROPOLOGY

AN 289S Gender: Cross-cultural Perspective

CHINESE

CN 208G Gender/Sexuality in Asian Literature
CN 228G Chinese Martial Arts in Literature and Film
CN 268A Love & Justice/Chinese Theater
CN 301H Hero/Anti-Hero in Chinese Literature
CN 302H East Meets West: Chinese Cinema

CLASSICS

CL 203H Women and Gender in the Ancient World

COMMUNICATION

CM 221A Media and Society

CO 122 Analytical and Persuasive Writing: Writing and Gender

ECONOMICS

EC 281S Principles of Microeconomics

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

ES 345H Environmental Ethics and Justice

FRENCH

FR 404 Themes in French Literature
FR 406 French Theatre on Stage

HISTORY

HI 206H Making History
HI 210 European Women
HI 321H Women in Modern America: The Hand that Cradles the Rock (Directed Study available)
HI 324G Native American History
HI 366H Inside Nazi Germany
HI 307H Sex and Power: European Thought

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

HD 204 Socialization: A Study of Gender Issues
HD 209 Childhood Roles and Family Systems

LITERATURE

LI 205H Woman as Metaphor
LI 244G Postcolonial Literature
LI 425 Seminar on Shakespeare (with permission

MANAGEMENT

MN 312S Women and Leadership (Directed Study)
MN 371 Organizational Behavior & Leadership
MN 387S Interpersonal Managerial Competencies (Directed Study)

PHILOSOPHY

PL 101H Introduction to Philosophy
PL 243E Environmental Ethics
PL 244H Social and Political Philosophy
PL 246H Philosophy and Film
PL 312H American Philosophy
PL 342H 20th Century Philosophical Movements

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PO 103G Introduction to International Relations
PO 315 Theories of War and Peace
PO 316G Women and Politics Worldwide
PO 342S Hunger, Plenty, and Justice

PSYCHOLOGY

PS 202 Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence
PS 345S Psychology of Male/Female Relations

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

RE 206H The Bible, Gender, and Sexual Politics
RE 220H Bible and Culture: American Film
RE 234H Regional Goddesses in Asia
RE 291H Apostle Paul-Religion and Politics
RE 323 Christianity, Canon and Controversy
RE 329H Liberation Theology
RE 343H Prophets and Justice, Then and Now
RE 345H Jesus in Ancient and Modern Media
RE 361H Contemporary Christian Thought
RE 373H Women and Religion
RE 381E Ecotheology
RE 440 Seminar: Bible, Theory, Method

SOCIOLOGY

SO 210 Social Stratification
SO 326 The Family
SO 335 Social Interaction

SPANISH

SP 407H Hispanic Women Writers