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

• •  ANTH 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power
• •  ANTH 050 PZ -Sex, Body and Reproduction
• •  ANTH 088 PZ -China: Gender,Cosmology & State
• •  ANTH 099 PZ -China 21st Century

Asian American Studies

• •  ASAM 105 PZ -Zines, Creativity, Community

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

• •  CHLT 060 CH -Women in the Third World
• •  CHLT 061 CH -Contemporary Issues of Chicanas
• •  CHLT 085 PZ -Gender, Radicalism & Revolution
• •  CHLT 115 CH -Gender, Race & Class
• •  CHLT 154 CH -Latinas in the Garment Industry
• •  CHLT 157 CH -Latina Activism Work & Protest
• •  CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology

Critical Global Studies

• •  CGS 050 PZ -Power and Social Change

English and World Literature

• •  ENGL 128 PZ -Writing the Body
• •  ENGL 140 PO -Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land
• •  ENGL 151 PZ -British Women Writrs Before 1900

Environmental Analysis

• •  EA 162 PZ -Gender, Environment & Developmnt

Gender & Feminist Studies

• •  FGSS 026 SC -Intro Fem+Gndr+Sexuality Studies
• •  FGSS 036 SC -Introduction to Queer Studies
• •  GFS 026 PZ -Introduction to Gender Studies
• •  GFS 036 PZ -Introduction to Queer Studies
• •  GFS 055 PZ -Construction of Masculinity
• •  GFS 069 PZ -Decolonial Queers
• •  GFS 120 PZ -Women and Human Rights Discourse
• •  GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project
• •  GWS 026 PO -Intro Gender and Women’s Studies

History

• •  HIST 074 PZ -Queering the Medieval? Holiness
• •  HIST 148 PZ -Gender and Sexuality in Africa
• •  HIST 175 PZ -Magic, Heresy & Gender
• •  HIST 178 PZ -Queer & Feminst Histories of EME

Interdisciplinary Studies

• •  ID 076 JT -Intersectn:Gender/Race/Sexuality

Linguistics

• •  LGCS 110 PZ -Language & Gender

Political Studies

• •  POST 101 PZ -US Campaigns and Elections

Psychology

• •  PSYC 117 PZ -Children & Families: South Asia

Religious Studies

• •  RLST 106 PZ -Zen Buddhism

Sociology

• •  SOC 108 PZ -Moon Called Blk Wmn Preg&Chldbth
• •  SOC 157 PZ -Gender in American Society