Nov 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog

Gender and Feminist Studies Major


The major requires a minimum of ten (10) courses, distributed among core courses and three tracks.

Core Courses

(one course from each numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 below):

  1. GWS 026 PO -Intro Gender and Women’s Studies  or
    FGSS 026 SC FGSS 026 SC -Intro Fem+Gndr+Sexuality Studies  or
    FGSS 036 SC FGSS 036 SC -Introduction to Queer Studies  or
    ID 076 JT ID 076 JT -Intersectn:Gender/Race/Sexuality  .
  2. Feminist Theory, such as
    CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology ;
    GWS 180 PO GWS 180 PO -Queer Feminist Theories  ; or
    FGSS 184 SC FGSS 184 SC -Intersectional Feminist Theories  .
  3. Intersectionality of gender/race/class/sexualities, such as
    CHLT 060 CH -Women in the Third World 
    CHLT 061 CH -Contemporary Issues of Chicanas ;
    CHLT 115 CH -Gender, Race & Class ;
    CHLT 154 CH -Latinas in the Garment Industry ;
    CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology ;
    ARHI 178 PO -Black Aesth/Poli (Re)presentatn ;
    ASAM 090 PZ -Community Studies ;
    ENGL 140 PO -Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land 
  4. GWS 190 PO -Senior Seminar  or GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project  (Candidates for Honors must complete both the Sr. Seminar and Sr. Project/Thesis)

Tracks

Students should take at least one (1) course from each track that focuses on gender and empowerment; and complete an additional three (3) courses from one of the tracks:

  1. Global, National and Local Communities
  2. Creativity: Art, Literature, Spirituality, Identity
  3. Sciences, Medicine and Technologies

Double Major

If students have two majors, no more than two (2) courses, including a methods course, may be counted toward the completion of both majors.

Gender and Feminist Studies Courses

Anthropology

Asian American Studies

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

Critical Global Studies

English and World Literature

Environmental Analysis

Gender & Feminist Studies

History

Interdisciplinary Studies

Linguistics

Political Studies

Psychology

Religious Studies

Sociology

Gender and Feminist Studies Honors


Students are required to have a cumulative and GFS GPA of 3.5 and the recommendation of the field group based on the quality (A or A-) of the senior project or thesis. In addition, candidates for honors must complete both the Senior Seminar and the Sr. Project/Sr. Thesis. Two advisers are required for the Sr. Thesis/Sr. Project and one must be from the Pitzer GFS field group. The final version of the honors thesis or project to be reviewed by the field group is due two weeks before the end of classes.