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Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS)
Program Staff
Kristen Williams, Director (Fall 2011) Professor of Political Science
Jefferson 404
508.793.7446
Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Director (Spring 2012) Assistant Research Professor of International Development and
Social Change
Jefferson 4th Floor Tower
508.421.3731
Jennifer McGugan, Program Assistant Jefferson 4
th Floor Tower
508.793.7358
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. ______________________________________________________________