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Women’s and Gender Studies Program Handbook 2011-2012
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Women’s and Gender Studies Program Handbook

2011-2012

Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS)

Program Staff

Kristen Williams, Director (Fall 2011) Professor of Political Science

Jefferson 404

508.793.7446

[email protected]

Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Director (Spring 2012) Assistant Research Professor of International Development and

Social Change

Jefferson 4th Floor Tower

508.421.3731

[email protected]

Jennifer McGugan, Program Assistant Jefferson 4

th Floor Tower

508.793.7358

[email protected]

Library & Seminar Room Jefferson 5

th Floor Tower

Table of Contents

What can I do with a WGS Major or Minor?............................................ 1

Undergraduate Academic Program .......................................................... 1

Choosing an Advisor ................................................................................ 1

Major Program Requirements .................................................................. 2

Minor Program Requirements .................................................................. 2

Course Selection ...................................................................................... 3

Internship Opportunities .......................................................................... 8

WGS Program Faculty ............................................................................. 9

All Kinds of Girls ................................................................................... 17

Major Worksheet ................................................................................... 18

Minor Worksheet ................................................................................... 19

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What can I do with a Women’s & Gender Studies

Major or Minor?

Women’s & Gender Studies graduates get jobs in many different fields.

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of Clark’s WGS program, our students

develop critical thinking and collaborative skills in both their major field and

WGS. They gain the marketable skills of analysis, research, writing,

communications, leadership and organization. Graduates enjoy successful

careers in law, politics, government policy, K-12 education, business, and

international and community development. Many students go on to complete

professional and academic advanced degrees.

Undergraduate Academic Program

Clark launched its Women’s and Gender Studies program in 1979. In spring

2006, the university approved the Women’s and Gender Studies major. The

program continues to offer a minor. The WGS major provides students with a

solid foundation in women’s studies and gender analysis, introduces them to a

range of disciplinary approaches to women and gender, and helps them to

develop an area of specialization within the field. Courses stress the importance

of social ideas and relationships, such as those shaped by gender, ethnicity, race,

and class, to better understand individual and collective experiences, past and

present. The major requires a minor in another field (and encourages a double

major) in order to reinforce connections with existing majors.

Choosing an Advisor

When declaring a major or minor in WGS, all students much select an advisor.

You should choose someone in or near your area of specialization. Advisors can

be drawn from WGS faculty across the university. If you do not yet know the

faculty members closest to your area of specialization, the WGS director will

help you identify an advisor based on WGS specialization, minor field or second

major.

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Major Program Requirements

All Women's and Gender Studies majors must take ten (10) WGS courses and

complete a minor or a second major in another field. The major requirements are

distributed as follows:

Three Core Courses: Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist

Theory, and a Senior Capstone seminar, directed study, or

internship.

Three Introductory or 100-Level Courses from three different

departments.

Three 200-Level Courses in a chosen theme or area of

specialization from at least two different departments. Students

will design a specialization in consultation with their advisor and

must receive the approval of the Women’s and Gender Studies

director.

One Methods or Skills course related to the student’s WGS

specialization. This course may overlap with the required minor or

second major.

Minor Program Requirements

Students who wish to obtain a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies must meet

the following requirements that include a minimum of six (6) WGS courses

distributed as follows:

WGS 110 Introduction to Women’s Studies

Four additional courses listed as part of the WGS program. It is

recommended that these include both social sciences and

humanities. Two of these courses must be at the 200 level.

A one-credit internship, special project, or advanced research

seminar in WGS. All internships include readings and a faculty

supervisor.

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Course Selection Core Courses include:

WS 110 Introduction to Women’s Studies

WS 200 Feminist Theory

Senior Capstone WGS 299, 296, or other

Students must complete a capstone course, taught or supervised by a Women's

and Gender Studies faculty member, and produce a major research paper or

essay. In addition, the capstone may be an individual internship or a special

project. Students also may satisfy the capstone requirement with an approved

Women’s and Gender Studies Seminar or an Internship Seminar, both of which

may have an attribute with another department.

Appropriate capstone seminars include, but are not limited to:

ENG 249 Signs and Crossroads: Semiotic Theory and Practice

ENG 260 Making Gender in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

ENG 261 Gender and Genre in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

ENG 262 Jane Austen in Contemporary Culture

ENG 263 National Trauma: Studies in British Romanticism

GEOG 237 Feminism, Nature and Culture

GEOG 277 Gender, Environment and Development

HIST 213 Gender and the American City

HIST 234 Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)

HIST 236 Gender, War and Genocide in 20th-Century Europe

HIST 295 Dangerous Women

ID 209 Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Third World Women, Gender

and Development

IDCE 269 Capitalism, Nature Development

PSYC 265 Psychology of Men

PSYC 275 Societal Approaches to Thinking

SOC 278 Family Issues in an Aging Society

SOC 294 Global Ethnographies: Ethnographers in the Making for the 21st

Century

SOC 296 Internship Seminar: Gender

Introductory or 100-level courses from a different department include:

English ENG 133 Survey of Women Writers I

ENG 134 Survey of Women Writers II

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ENG 184 American Poetry

Foreign Language and Literature

CMLT 109 Human Rights & Literature

CMLT 132 Sexuality & Textuality

CMLT 133 Sexuality & Human Rights

FREN 112 Fairy Tales of the World

JAPN 190 Japanese Women Writers

Geography GEOG 136 Gender and Environment

History HIST 037 19th-Century America through Women’s Eyes (First-Year Seminar)

HIST 040 The Witchcraze: Witch Hunts in Early Modern Europe (First-Year

Seminar)

HIST 219 History of American Women*

HIST 229 Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe*

HIST 282 Chinese Women in Literature and Society*

* These selected 200-level courses can count toward the “Introductory/100

level” requirement.

International Development and Social Change

ID 120 Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology

ID 125 Tales from the Far Side: Third World Development and

Underdevelopment in the Age of Globalization

ID 131 Local Action/Global Change: The Urban Context

Political Science PSCI 091 The Gender Gap and American Politics (First-Year Seminar)

PSCI 092 Women and War (First-Year Seminar)

PSCI 117 Revolution and Political Violence

PSCI 147 World Order and Globalization

PSCI 175 Women and U.S. Politics

Psychology

PSYC 143 Human Sexuality

Sociology

SOC 090 No Sweat! The New Sweatshops in Global Context (First-Year

Seminar)

SOC 175 The Sociology of Families

Visual and Performing Arts

TA 109 Contemporary Women Playwrights

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200-Level Courses: Specialization in two or more departments

The specialization is not within an existing department or discipline, but should

cross at least two. Examples could include: Women in Comparative Fiction;

Women and Work; Gender and Environment; Gender, War and Militaries;

Women and Social Change; Gender, Identity and Sexuality; Gender, Culture and

Human Rights; and Feminist Critiques of Globalization. Each student will

define a specialization (comprising WGS courses in two or more departments)

with their advisor, to be approved by the Women’s and Gender Studies Director.

These courses can be developed from among the many courses offered within

the following departments/programs:

English

ENG 242 Feminist Critical Theory

ENG 255 Studies in the Renaissance

ENG 260 Making Gender in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

ENG 261 Gender and Genre in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

ENG 262 Jane Austen in Contemporary Culture

ENG 263 National Trauma: Studies in British Romanticism

ENG 268 Regendering History: British Women Writing History

ENG 277 Race and Gender in African-American Literary Theory

ENG 293 Special Topics in African American Literature ENG 295 Gender and Discourse

Foreign Languages CMLT 208 Her Story: History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers

FREN 210 Spirited Rebellion: Adolescence French Novel and Film

FREN 215 20th

Century French and Francophone Women Writers

GERM 220 Global Freud

GERM 230 The German Discovery of Sex

SPAN 236 Women in Hispanic Literature

Geography

GEOG 237 Feminism, Nature, and Culture

GEOG 258 Utopian Vision, Urban Realities: Planning Cities for the 21st Century

GEOG 277 Gender, Environment and Development

History

HIST 211 American Consumer Culture

HIST 212 History of Sexuality: 1750 to present

HIST 213 Gender and the American City

HIST 219 History of American Women

HIST 229 Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

HIST 234 Racial Thought/Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)

HIST 236 Gender, War and Genocide in 20th Century Europe

HIST 282 Chinese Women in Literature and Society

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International Development and Social Change ID 209 Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Third World Women, Gender

and Development

ID 248 Gender and Health

ID 269 Capitalism, Nature Development

IDCE 30207 Alternating between International Feminist Thinking and

Gender, Militarization and Development (intensive seven-week seminar, 1/2

credit, WGS seniors only)

IDCE 30275 Gender and Development Planning (intensive seven-week

seminar, 1/2 credit, WGS seniors only)

Management MGMT 222 Women in the Health-Care System

MGMT 5308 Women in Management (intensive seven-week seminar, ½

credit, WGS seniors only)

Philosophy PHIL 219 Feminist Theory

Political Science

PSCI 208 Comparative Politics of Women

PSCI 268 Peace and War

Psychology PSYC 237 Dating and Sexual Violence: Research and Prevention PSYC 249 Women in Society

PSYC 250 Gender, Families and Close Relationships

PSYC 256 The Psychology of Couples and Intimacy

PSYC 268 Contemporary Families

PSYC 275 Societal Approaches to Thinking

PSYC 326 Feminist Perspectives on Self, Mind, Identity and Development

Sociology

SOC 258 Women in Jewish Culture

SOC 275 Family Issues in an Aging Society

SOC 294 Global Ethnographies: Ethnographers in the Making for the 21st

Century

SOC 296 Internship Seminar: Gender

Visual and Performing Arts

ARTH 248 Gender and Representation

ARTS 204 Sacred Space

SCRN 288 Gender and Film

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Methods and Skills: One course relevant to the student’s WGS specialization

may overlap with second major or minor. Alternative methods or skills classes

may be approved as exceptions by the Women’s and Gender Studies director.

COMM 248 Social Research Process

ENG 295 Gender and Discourse

GEOG 210 Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography

HIST 120 Writing History

ID 132 Research Methods for International Development and Social Change

PSCI 107 Research Methods

PSYC 105 Statistics

SOC 105 Social Research Process

TA 127 Analysis of Theater Production

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Internship Opportunities

For Women’s and Gender Studies majors, there are a wide variety of possible

internships. In the recent past, students have completed successful internships

with organizations such as:

The Feminist Majority Foundation,

Planned Parenthood,

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund,

The Center for Women & Enterprise,

Women Unlimited magazine,

Girls Incorporated,

Association for Women in Science,

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research,

The Women’s Sports Foundation,

Mass NARAL – part of the Mass Emergency Contraception Network,

Our Bodies Ourselves,

Teen Voices magazine,

Abby’s House,

Oxfam American,

YWCA,

Mass Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,

Worcester Historical Museum,

AIDS Project Worcester,

The Boston Women’s Fund,

Women’s Initiative (United Way), and

Daybreak Shelter for Women.

Internship opportunities will be posted outside of the WGS office (Jefferson

Tower, 4th

floor) and online at clarku.edu/departments/womensstudies/.

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WGS Program Faculty

María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.,

Associate Professor of Spanish; Chair, Department of Foreign Language and

Literature

Contemporary Latino and Latin American culture

508.793.7677; [email protected]

Michael Addis, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

Men’s mental health, masculinity, help-seeking behavior, lay theories of

psychopathology and treatment

508.793.7266; [email protected]

Margarete Arndt, D.B.A.

Professor, Graduate School of Management

Business practices in hospitals, women in management

508.793.7668; [email protected]

Kiran Asher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of IDCE; Coordinator of the International Development and

Social Change Graduate Program

Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity

conservation, Latin American studies

508.421.3823; [email protected]

Belén Atienza, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish

Relationship between social history and literature in the Spain of the

conquistadors, literary representations of marginal groups, cinema, theater,

pedagogy

508.793.7256; [email protected]

Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor of International Development and Social Change;

Director of Women’s and Gender Studies (Spring 2012)

Socio-environmental movements and conflicts, political ecology, gender and

development, development management

508.421.3731; [email protected]

Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Urban anthropology, immigration, diaspora cultures, nationalism, cultural

identities and global processes, new capitalism and markets

508.793.7599; [email protected]

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Sarah Buie, M.F.A.

Professor of Studio Art; Director of the Alice Coonley Higgins School of

Humanities

Museum exhibition design, graphic design, sacred space, sacred Asian

architecture

508.793.7560; [email protected]

Michael Butler, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Comparative foreign policy, international organizations, the politics of the

European Union, political violence and terrorism, international relations

theory

508.793.7186; [email protected]

Marcia Butzel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Screen Studies; Adjunct Associate Professor of French

and Comparative Literature

International cinema, film criticism and theory, relationships between film and

other arts

508.793.7235; [email protected]

Ya–Chen Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chinese; Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program

Sino-Western comparative literature, Asian Studies, women’s and gender

studies, (multi)cultural studies, film studies

508.793.7352; [email protected]

Nicola Curtin, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Role of social identity and individual differences in commitments to creating

social change, ally and coalitional activism

508.793.7261; [email protected]

Judith DeCew, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy

Theoretical and applied ethics, philosophy of law, social and political

philosophy

508.793.7326; [email protected]

Gino DiIorio, M.F.A.

Professor of Theater; Adjunct Professor of English; Director, Theater Arts

Program

Acting in film and theater, writing plays and screenplays

508.793.7456; [email protected]

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Carol D'Lugo, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish

Latin-American fiction, especially the Mexican and Argentine novel

508.793.7494; [email protected]

Jody Emel, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Director, Graduate School of Geography

Resource/environmental geography, animal geographies, feminist/social theory

508.793.7317; [email protected]

Patricia Ewick, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Research methods, gender, law, deviance

508.793.7529; [email protected]

Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

Modes of reasoning, personal epistemology and social location, thought and

societal discourses of knowledge; feminist perspectives on mind, self, identity

and development

508.793.7262; [email protected]

Odile Ferly, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French

Caribbean literatures, cultures from a comparative perspective, contemporary

writing from the Caribbean and its diaspora

508.793.7723; [email protected]

William Fisher, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, International Development, Community, and

Environment; International Development and Social Change

Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy,

South Asia

508.421.3765; [email protected]

Ellen Foley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development, Community and

Environment; International Development and Social Change

Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical

anthropology and West Africa

508.421.3815; [email protected]

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Beth Gale, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French

Depictions of female adolescence in the French novel from late 19th

and early

20th

centuries

508.421.3781; [email protected]

SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D.

Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies in English; Director, Leir

Center in Luxembourg

Western European literature of the late Middle Ages, semiotics, rhetorical theory

508.793.7126; [email protected]

Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Gender, family, and work, contextual influences on development and mental

health (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class), gay and lesbian families,

risk/resilience in adolescents

508.793.7289; [email protected]

Janette T. Greenwood, Ph.D.

Professor of History

American social history, African-American history, and history of the South

508.793.7286; [email protected]

Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Ethnic and racial identities in twentieth-century American literature, science

fiction

508.793.7145; [email protected]

Fern Johnson, Ph.D.

Professor of English

Sociolinguistics, with a special emphasis on gender, race, and ethnicity in

discourse

508.793.7151; [email protected]

Esther Jones, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of English

Black women writers in the Americas, race, gender, class, nationality and

theorizations of difference, speculative literatures and science fiction by

feminists and writers of color

508.793.7141; [email protected]

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Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature, women’s history writing

508.793.7136; [email protected]

Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science; Andrea B. and

Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professor

U.S. urban politics, suburban politics, women and politics

508.793.7327; [email protected]

Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.

Professor of History; Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History

Modern German and European History, including Nazi Germany and the

Holocaust; racism, gender, war

508.793.7523; [email protected]

Nina Kushner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Early modern European social and cultural history, the history of women and

gender, and the history of sexuality

508.421.3797; [email protected]

Deborah Martin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geography

Urban, social, political geography, law and geography, qualitative methods,

social movements

508.793.7104; [email protected]

Deborah Merrill, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

Research methods, family, aging, medical sociology, social demography

508.793.7284; [email protected]

Meredith Neuman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English

American literature through the Civil War, 17th-century transatlantic literature,

popular vs. elite fiction in 19th-century America, poetry

508.793.7298; [email protected]

Amy Richter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History

U.S. women's history, U.S. urban history

508.793.7216; [email protected]

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Heather L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English, Department of Education

Writing and literature, literacy, school-university partnerships, collaborative

curriculum development, school reform

508.793.7146; [email protected]

Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.

Professor of Geography

Political ecology, gender, forestry/agriculture/land use

508.793.7176; [email protected]

Laurie Ross, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of IDCE

Participatory action techniques, urban community planning, community and

youth development

508.793.7642; [email protected]

Robert Ross, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology; Director, International Studies Stream

Urban studies, political sociology, political economy, social policy

508.793.7376; [email protected]

Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

United Nations and international law, international political economy, and

international relations

508.793.7684; [email protected]

Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

Post-Soviet and East European politics, comparative politics, social movement

and collective action, women’s studies

508.793.7679; [email protected]

Ora Szekely, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Non-state military actors, Middle Eastern politics, mass violence and civilian

protection, new media, propaganda, political mobilization

508.793.7360; [email protected]

Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology; Adjunct Professor of Jewish

Studies; Coordinator of Undergraduate Activities, Strassler Center for

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Jewish studies, race/ethnicity, social stratification, gender, comparative genocide

508.793.7241; [email protected]

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Robert D. Tobin, Ph.D.

Professor of German; Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures

Gender and sexuality, particularly gay and lesbian studies and queer theory

508.793.7353; [email protected]

Alice Valentine, M.A.

Instructor of Japanese

508.793.7726; [email protected]

Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ph.D.

Professor of English

Early modern English literature, especially Shakespeare and his contemporaries

508.793.7144; [email protected]

Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science; Director of Women’s and Gender Studies (Fall

2011); Chair of the Faculty

International relations theory, U.S. national security, nationalism and ethnic

politics, U.S. foreign policy, gender and war

508.793.7446; [email protected]

Kristina Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Art History; Program Director for Art History

Nineteenth and twentieth century painting, modern design and architecture, and

the history of photography

508.793.7639; [email protected]

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Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.

Research Professor of IDCE

Impacts of militarization and globalization upon the lives of women worldwide,

feminist politics

508.793.7201; [email protected]

Susan Hanson, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Geography; Distinguished University Professor Emerita

Urban/social/economic geography, feminist geography

508.793.7323; [email protected]

Paul Ropp, Ph.D.

Research Professor of History

Chinese social and intellectual history

508.793.7288; [email protected]

Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.

Research Professor of IDCE

Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender

issues, non-governmental organizations

508.793.7201; [email protected]

Emeriti Faculty

Serena S. Hilsinger, Ph.D.

Dorothy Kaufmann, Ph.D.

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All Kinds of Girls (AKOG)

Run by Clark undergraduate students, All Kinds of Girls is a mentoring progam

that aims to build self-esteem and self-confidence in girls, age nine to twelve.

The program provides a safe space for the girls to use their expansive

capabilities to express themselves creatively.

The goals of AKOG include:

Helping girls to recognize their own strength by providing them with a

secure environment in which to express and maintain their true voices;

Exposing girls to different life options by building a bridge between

girls from Worcester and young women from the Women’s and Gender

Studies community;

Nurturing the socio-emotional development of girls by supporting the

self-assurance they naturally possess as preadolescents; and

Fostering understanding by bringing together girls and women from

diverse class, ethnic and racial backgrounds.

Many WGS majors and minors participate in AKOG as undergraduate mentors.

Students who take on an additional leadership role can use this experience as a

basis for satisfying the senior capstone/internship requirement. Students seeking

such credit must get the approval of the WGS director in advance.

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Women’s and Gender Studies

Major Worksheet

Theme or Area of Specialization: _____________________________________

Minor or Second Major: ____________________________________________

Three Core Courses:

1. Introduction to Women’s Studies WS 110

2. Feminist Theory WS 200

3. Senior Capstone WS 299, 296 or other

Three Introductory or 100-level WGS courses from three different departments:

4. ______________________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________________

6. ______________________________________________________________

Three 200-level WGS courses in a chosen theme or area of specialization from

at least two different departments:

7. ______________________________________________________________

8. ______________________________________________________________

9. ______________________________________________________________

One Methods or Skills course related to student’s WGS specialization. This

course may overlap with the required minor or second major. Alternative

methods or skills classes may be approved by the WGS Director.

Methods courses include: Communications and Culture 248, English 295,

Geography 210, History 120, ID 132, Political Science 107, Psychology 105,

Sociology 105, Theatre Arts 127

10. _____________________________________________________________

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Women’s and Gender Studies

Minor Worksheet

A minimum of six (6) WGS courses distributed as follows:

1. Introduction to Women’s Studies WS 110

Four additional courses as part of the WGS program (it is recommended that

these include both social sciences and humanities). Two of these courses must

be at the 200 level.

2. ______________________________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________________

One-credit internship, special project, or advanced research seminar in WGS.

All internships include readings and a faculty supervisor.

6. ______________________________________________________________


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