Women's Studies undergraduate programs

Undergraduate Certificate

The Undergraduate Certificate program has the same core course requirements as the minor. Students select 9 credit hours from the list of electives.

Undergraduate Minor

Core courses

Students must take the following core courses:

  • WMST: 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies (3 credits)
  • WMST: 480 Feminist Theory (3 credits) OR 3600: 455 Philosophy of Feminism (3 credits)

Electives

Select 12 credits of elective courses. At least 9 credits must be at the 300 or 400 level and no more than 2 courses from the same unit.

Women’s Studies

  • WMST: 450 Gender and Popular Culture (3 Credits)
  • WMST: 485 Special Topics in Women’s Studies (can be repeated) (3 credits)
  • WMST: 489 Internship in Women’s Studies (1-3 credits)
  • WMST: 493 Individual Studies on Women (1-3 credits)

Classical Studies and Anthropology

  • CLAS: 363 Women in Ancient Greece and Rome (3 credits)
  • ANTH: 416 Anthropology of Sex and Gender (3 credits)

English

  • ENGL: 364 Women Writers (3 credits)
  • ENGL: 440 Women and Film (3 credits)
  • ENGL: 453 American Women Poets (3 credits)

History

  • HIST: 325 Women in Modern Europe (3 credits)
  • HIST: 350 U.S. Women’s History (3 credits)
  • HIST: 400 Gender and Culture in China (3 credits)
  • HIST: 469 African-American Women’s History (3 credits)
  • HIST: 499 Women and Gender in Middle Eastern Societies (3 credits)

Philosophy

  • PHIL: 455 Philosophy of Feminism (3 credits)

Political Science

  • POLIT: 474 Women in Politics (3 credits)

Psychology

  • PSYC: 474 Psychology of Women (4 credits)

Sociology

  • SOCIO: 325 Sociology of Women in a Global Society (3 credits)
  • SOCIO: 415 Women in Prison (3 credits)
  • SOCIO: 416 Women and Crime (3 credits)
  • SOCIO: 447 Sociology of Sex and Gender (3 credits)
  • SOCIO: 455 Family Violence (3 credits)

Child Development

  • CHFD: 201 Courtship, Marriage and Family Relations (3 credits)
  • CHFD: 265 Child Development (3 credits)
  • CHFD: 442 Human Sexuality (3 credits)
  • CHFD: 446 Culture, Ethnicity, and Family (3 credits)

Social Work

  • SOWK: 265 Women and Addiction (3 credits)
  • SOWK: 411 Women’s Issues in Social Work Practice (3 credits)