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About the Program

Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines the diversity of women’s experiences as they are informed by gender, class, race/ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, social location, and cultural and national identity. The program is shaped by the theoretical and methodological insights of feminist thought and gender scholarship in many fields. The program curriculum explores women’s involvement in and contributions to such areas as history, society, art, science, culture, and politics

Faculty

• Director: Wendy Kolmar, Professor of English
• Associate Professor: Debra Liebowitz (Political Science)

Programs

• Women’s and Gender Studies Major

• Women’s and Gender Studies Minor

Courses

• WGST 101 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGST 103 - Gender and Literature
• WGST 104 - Sexuality and Literature
• WGST 201 - Global Feminisms
• WGST 207 - Women and Religion
• WGST 211 - Interdisciplinary Topics in Women’s Studies
• WGST 225 - Sociology of Gender
• WGST 235 - Women’s Voices Through the Ages
• WGST 236 - Women in Music
• WGST 253 - Gender, Sexuality and Performance in Spanish Theater
• WGST 265 - Women in Theater
• WGST 300 - Independent Study in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGST 301 - History of Feminist Thought
• WGST 303 - Women’s Literary Tradition
• WGST 304 - Advanced Studies in Sexuality and Literature
• WGST 310 - Contemporary Feminist Theory and Methodology
• WGST 311 - Advanced Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGST 313 - Gender and US Politics
• WGST 314 - Engendering Prisons
• WGST 315 - Political Economy of Race, Class, Gender
• WGST 318 - Gender and Globalization
• WGST 321 - American Women’s History
• WGST 324 - Sociology of Reproduction
• WGST 324H - Sociology of Reproduction - Honors
• WGST 331 - Gender and Culture
• WGST 332 - Reading Nation, Gender, and Ethnicity in Latin American Culture
• WGST 338 - Women in Modern European History
• WGST 354 - Gender in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction and Film
• WGST 361 - Seminar in Gender Violence and Women’s Resistance
• WGST 362 - Seminar in the Psych of Women
• WGST 363 - Women in Asian Traditions
• WGST 367 - Seminar on Gender and International Politics
• WGST 370 - History of Sexuality
• WGST 385 - Applied Performance: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Discrimination through Interactive Performance
• WGST 390 - Advanced Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGST 400 - Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Capstone
• WGST 410 - Specialized Honors I
• WGST 411 - Specialized Honors II

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