Electives
Electives for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
All courses are subject to approval for the major and the minor. Special Topics courses must be in a relevant area. Additional elective courses may have been approved since publication of this bulletin. The chair of the department maintains a complete list of all official elective courses.
| Courses in the Humanities | ||
| ART 351 | Topics in Gender and Art | 3 |
| EAL 241 | Gender and Sexuality in Modern and Contemporary Japan | 3 |
| ENG 340 | Studies in Women and Literature | 3 |
| ENG 344 | Studies in Poetry (when topic relates to WGS) | 3 |
| ENG/AES 357 | Studies in Chicano/a Literature | 3 |
| ENG 371 | American Ethnic Literature | 3 |
| GES 390 | German Women Writers | 3 |
| HST 324 | Fashion in the Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| HST 336 | Gender and Power in African History | 3 |
| HST 337 | Women and Gender in Early America | 3 |
| HST 348 | Samurai and Geisha: Fact, Film, and Fiction | 3 |
| HST 359 | Trans History, Machismo, and Sex Work in Latin America | 3 |
| HST 372 | Queer Public Histories | 3 |
| HST 388 | Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Middle East | 3 |
| HMN 290 | The Humanities through Film, Literature and Media | 3 |
| ITA 335 | Italian Women Writers | 3 |
| ITA 336 | Italian Women and the City | 3 |
| MSC 109 | Gender, Sexuality, and Music | 3 |
| PHI 379 | Feminist Philosophy | 3 |
| REL 318 | Feminist and Contemporary Interpretations of the Bible | 3 |
| REL 345 | Religion and the Making of Black America | 3 |
| REL 388 | South Asian Women: Religion, Culture and Politics | 3 |
| SPA 348 | Contemporary Women Novelists and their Female Characters | 3 |
| Courses in the Social and Natural Sciences | ||
| ANT/LIN 333 | Language and Gender | 3 |
| COM 318 | Culture and Sitcom | 3 |
| COM 320 | Media Theory and Criticism | 3 |
| COM 340 | Democracy, Slavery and Sex: Emancipation Discourse from the Founding to the Civil War | 3 |
| COM 341 | Class, Race, Sex and War: Emancipation Discourse from the Civil War to the Second Wave of Feminism | 3 |
| COM 370 | Special Topics (when topic is “Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality”) | 1-3 |
| EDU/AES 310/AAS 326 | Race, Class, and Gender in a Color-blind Society | 3 |
| POL 277 | Feminist Political Thought | 3 |
| PSY 265 | Human Sexuality | 3 |
| PSY 244 | Stereotypes, Prejudice, & Discrimination | 3 |
| PSY 330 | Seminar in Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
| SOC 153 | Contemporary Families | 3 |
| SOC 305 | Gender in Society | 3 |
| SOC 309 | Sexuality and Society | 3 |
| SOC 327 | Sociology of Emotion | 3 |
| SOC 347 | Society, Culture, and Sport | 3 |
| SOC 359 | Race and Racism | 3 |
| SOC 360 | Social Inequality | 3 |