Electives
Electives for WGSS
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
AES 357 – Studies in Chicano/a Literature (3)
ART 351 – Topics in Gender and Art (3)
CLA 252 – Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Antiquity (3)
EAL 241 – Gender in Japanese Literature (3)
ENG 340 – Studies in Women and Literature (3)
ENG 344 – Studies in Poetry (when topic relates to WGS) (3)
ENG 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 338 – Sexuality, Race and Class in the United States since 1850 (3)
HST 348 – Samurai and Geisha: Fact, Film, and Fiction (3)
HST 359 – Prostitutes, Machos, and Travesites: Sex and Gender in Latin American History (3)
HST 388 – Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Middle East (3)
HMN 223 – African and Caribbean Literature (3)
HMN 224 – Cross-cultural Encounters in Morocco (3)
HMN 290 – The Humanities though Film, Literature and Media (3)
ITA 335 – Italian Women Writers (3)
ITA 336 – Italian Women and the City (3)
MUS 208 – Women and Music (3)
REL 318 – Feminist and Contemporary Interpretations of the New Testament (3)
REL 345 – The African-American Religious Experience (3)
REL 347 – Religion, Gender, and Sexuality (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
AES 310 – Race, Class, and Gender in a Color-blind Society (3)
ANT 332 – Anthropology of Gender (3)
ANT 333 – Language and Gender (3)
COM 318 – Culture and Sitcom (3)
COM 320 – Media Theory and Criticism (3)
COM 340 – American Public Discourse I (3)
COM 341 – American Public Discourse II (3,4)
COM 370 – Special Topics (when topic is “Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality”) (1-3)
LIN 333 – Language and Gender (3)
POL 229 – Women, Gender, and Politics (3)
POL 277 – Feminist Political Thought (3)
PSY 265 – Human Sexuality (3)
PSY 359 – Psychology of Gender (3)
PSY 364 – Stereotyping and Prejudice (3)
SOC 153 – Contemporary Families (3)
SOC 305 – Gender in Society (3)
SOC 309 – Sexuality and Society (3)
SOC 347 – Society, Culture, and Sport (3)
SOC 359 – Race and Ethnic Relations (3)
SOC 360 – Social Inequality (3)