Core Classes
WOMEN 200. Introduction to Women’s Studies. 3 hours. Interdisciplinary survey focuses on women’s lives and experiences to investigate connections between gender and race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other cultural differences. Introduction to Women’s Studies. 3 hours. Interdisciplinary survey focuses on women’s lives and experiences to investigate connections between gender and race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other cultural differences.
WOMEN 399. Global Women’s Issues. 3 hours. Interdisciplinary analysis of feminist theory and global women’s issues. Global Women’s Issues. 3 hours. Interdisciplinary analysis of feminist theory and global women’s issues.
WOMEN 500. Topics in Women’s Studies. 1-3 hours. Studies in some aspect of feminism; gender, race, class and/or nationality as related to women’s studies; sexuality; feminist theory; or other aspects of women’s studies as viewed from a variety of disciplines. May be repeated if topic varies.
WOMEN 600. Project in Women’s Studies. 3 hours. Individual study and field work in various settings appropriate to the analysis of gender and women’s issues. Includes a two credit hour field-work project. For Women’s Studies minors only. Can be taken at 700 (Graduate) level.
Past Electives
(Not an exhaustive list)
ART 689 Contemporary Issues in Art
COMM 795 Issues in Communication: Gender Communication
COMM 873 Seminar in Theatre: Critical Theory and Film
ENGL 555/755 Topics in Literature: Booker Prize Winners
ENGL 561 British Theme: Women Writers 1660-1800
ENGL 771 Major Authors: Ellison and Morrison
ENGL 875 Seminar: 19th Century American Women’s Fiction
FCS 154 Dress and Culture
FCS 455 History of Costume
HIST 608 Women in American History
JUST 480 Women, Crime, and Justice
SOC 512 Social Stratification
SOC 536 The Family and Society
SOC 569 Society and Sexuality
SOC 663 Women, Men and Society