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Women's Studies
Degree Requirements
Women's Studies Major  |  Women's Studies Minor

Women's Studies Major
(12 semester course credits)

Required:

WMST 071 Introduction to Women's Studies (1)

WMST 182 Feminist Theories (1)

WMST 187 Fieldwork Study in Women's Studies (1)

Senior Requirement:

WMST 191 Senior Project (1)

Cultural Perspectives (select one):

ANTH 161 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women (1)

ENG 117 20th-Century African American Literature (1)

ETHS 139 Asian/Pacific American Women Writers (1)

ETHS 150 Black Feminist Theory (1)

ETHS 156 Contemporary Queer Writers of Color (1)

LET 142 French and Francophone Women Writers (1)

LET 149 Post-Colonial Conditions: Contemporary Women's Writings from Africa (1)

LET 161 Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and U.S. Latinas (1)


Historical Perspectives (select one):

ARTH 190 Seminar: Contemporary U.S. Women Artists and the Feminist Art Movement (1)

ARTH 192 Seminar: Women in European Art and Society, 1400–1700 (1)

ETHS 052 African American Women's History (1)

ETHS 054 American Indian History to 1900 (1)

ETHS 112 Race, Gender, and the Environment (1)

ETHS 159 History of Latinas/os in the U.S. (1)

ETHS 166 Women of Color in Social Movements (1)

ETHS 172 American Indian Women in the U.S. (1)

HIST 160 History of Women in America (1)

In consultation with advisor, select two courses from two of the following three areas; courses are selected from the list of approved courses (total of 4 course credits):

Arts: ARTH, MUS
Literature: ENG, ETHS, LET, FREN, SPAN
Social Science: ANTH, ETHS, HIST, PSYC, SOC, SOSC

In consultation with advisor, select two additional courses from the list of approved courses (2).

No course may fulfill more than one requirement.

List of Approved Courses:
ANTH 161 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women (1)

ARTH 137 Art of the 20th Century (1)

ARTH 139 History of Performance Art (1)

ARTH 190 Seminar: Contemporary U.S. Women Artists and the Feminist Art Movement (1)

ARTH 192 Seminar: Women in European Art and Society, 1400–1700 (1)

BOOK 126 Women Reading as a Necessity of Life (1)

BOOK 145 The Artist's Book in a Gendered Space (1)

COLL 060C Degas and the Dance (1)

COLL 060D European Women from Antiquity to Early Modern Times (1)

COLL 060G World Religions West (1)

COLL 060J (Dead) Angels: Mothers and Daughters in Fiction and Theory (1)

COLL 060Z Lives of Women Scientists (1)

ECON 117 Women and the Economy (1)

ENG 117 20th-Century African American Literature (1)

ENG 158 Contemporary Fiction by Women (1)

ENG 171 Social Action and the Academic Essay (1)

ETHS 039 Raíces (Roots): Latin America and the Caribbean (1)

ETHS 042 (142) Ethnicity and Environment in California (1)

ETHS 051 Introduction to Ethnic Studies (1)

ETHS 052 African American Women's History (1)

ETHS 054 American Indian History to 1900 (1)

ETHS 064 Mixed-Race Descent in the Americas (1)

ETHS 090 Comparative Ethnic Literature and Cultural Production (1)

ETHS 112 Race, Gender, and the Environment (1)

ETHS 120 Narratives of People of Mixed Race Descent (1)

ETHS 139 Asian/Pacific American Women Writers (1)

ETHS 150 Black Feminist Theory (1)

ETHS 154 Writing the Self: Autobiographies of People of Color (1)

ETHS 156 Contemporary Queer Writers of Color (1)

ETHS 157 Race, Gender, and the Criminal Justice System (1)

ETHS 159 History of Latinas/os in the U.S. (1)

ETHS 166 Women of Color in Social Movements (1)

ETHS 172 American Indian Women in the United States (1)

ETHS 188 Film, Color, and Culture: Images of People of Color in Cinema (1)

FREN 162 Aesthetics of the Body in Literature (1)

FREN 168 Francophone Women's Writing from Martinique, Haiti, and Guadeloupe (1)

FREN 170 Orientalism in the Novel (1)

HIST 069 (169) Men, Women, and Travel: Tourism in Europe since the Renaissance (1)

HIST 111 Cuisine History (1)

HIST 158 Growing Up in America (1)

HIST 160 History of Women in America (1)

LET 115 African and Caribbean Literatures (1)

LET 142 French and Francophone Women Writers (1)

LET 149 Post-Colonial Conditions: Contemporary Women's Writings from Africa (1)

LET 161 Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and U.S. Latinas (1)

LET 166 National Literatures of Latin America (1)

LET 168 Women in the Cinema of Spain (1)

LET 169 Hispanic Cinema (1)

MUS 016 (116) Women and Creative Music (1)

PE 005 Personal Defense for Women (.25)

PE 050 Women's Health Issues (1)

PHIL 142 Epistemology (1)

PPOL 125 Gender and Public Policy (1)

SOC 061 Women in Contemporary Society (1)

SOC 101 Sociology of the Family (1)

SOC 103 Women and Work (1)

SOC 158 Sociology of Gender Roles (1)

SOSC 120 Women and the Law (1)

SPAN 172 Voices in Hispanic Poetry (1)

SPAN 175 The 20th-Century Hispanic Novel (1)

WMST All courses

Women's Studies Minor
(6 semester course credits)

Required:

WMST 071 Introduction to Women's Studies (1)

One course from among the cultural perspectives list above (1)

One course from among the historical perspectives list above (1)


In consultation with your advisor, select three additional courses from the list of approved courses. You are encouraged to select WMST 187 Fieldwork Study as one of your additional courses.

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