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With course offerings from more than fifteen academic disciplines, Women’s and Gender Studies introduces students to exciting ideas, dynamic professors and classmates, and feminist thought and perspectives in small, collaborative communities of learning. Women’s and Gender Studies has a wide variety of popular and innovative courses from introductory to advanced classes.

Service Learning/Internships

Because our program understands that quality education can also take place outside the classroom, many Women’s and Gender Studies classes give students the opportunity to put their learning into practice.

  • Courses like WMNS 210 Activism & Feminist Communities allow students to see the role of Women’s and Gender Studies in the real world.
  • Many students also participate in CASC 395 Internship, gaining valuable hands-on experience while learning about some the career opportunities open to graduates of the program.

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Additional Courses

These courses count towards the Women's and Gender Studies major and minor.

  • WMNS 101 Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies
  • WMNS 201 Introduction to LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies
  • WMNS 202 Women, Gender, and Health
  • WMNS 203 Storytelling as Resistance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality
  • WMNS 210 Activism and Feminist Communities
  • WMNS 250 Sex and Gender Around the Globe
  • WMNS 301 Sexuality and Power
  • WMNS 485 Feminist Theories, Feminists' Perspectives
  • WMNS 489 Senior Seminar
  • ARAB/RELG/WMNS 228 Love, Sexuality, and Femininity in the History of Arabic Culture
  • ARAB/RELG/MRST/WMNS 306 Women in Quran
  • ARCH/IEAS 481 Women in Design
  • CLAS/HIST/WMNS 183 Heroes, Wives, and Slaves
  • CLAS/WMNS 321 Women in Classical Mythology
  • CLAS/WMNS 440 Gender & Sexuality in the Ancient World
  • COMM/WMNS 380 Gender & Communication
  • COMM/WMNS 462 Feminist Media Studies
  • COMM/WMNS 464 Communication and Consent
  • CRIM 339 Women, Crime, & Justice
  • CYAF 493 Global Case Studies in Refugee Health & Wellbeing
  • CZEC/GERM/JUDS/WMNS 387 Women Totalitarian Experience: Culture, Identity, Memory
  • ECON/WMNS 445 Economics of Gender and Race
  • ENGL/WMNS 212 Introduction to LGBTQ Literature
  • ENGL/WMNS 215 Introduction to Women’s Literature
  • ENGL/WMNS 253A Introduction to Poetry Writing: Women’s Poetry
  • ENGL/WMNS 312 LGBTQ Literature and Film
  • ENGL/WMNS 315A Survey of Women’s Literature
  • ENGL/WMNS 315B Women in Popular Culture
  • ENGL/ETHN/WMNS 344B Black Women Authors
  • ENGL/ETHN/WMNS 345N Native American Women Writers
  • ENGL/WMNS 401K LGBTQ Drama and Popular Culture
  • ENGL/WMNS 414 Women’s Literature
  • ENGL/WMNS 414B Modern & Contemporary Women Writers
  • ENGL/WMNS 475A Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric of Women’s Writers
  • FILM/WMNS 211 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Film
  • FILM/WMNS 311 Intermediate Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Film
  • FREN/ENGL/MRST/WMNS 388 Body Language: Love, Politics, and the Self in French Literature
  • FREN/WMNS 386 Historical Highlights of French Queerness
  • GPSP/GEOG/WMNS 377 Women of the Great Plains
  • HIST/WMNS 125 Powerful Queens and Warrior Women in the Premodern World
  • HIST/WMNS 204 Women & Gender in United States History
  • HIST/WMNS 336 Saints, Witches, & Madwomen
  • HIST/ETHN/WMNS 115 And Justice for All: Race, Gender, & Law in US History
  • HIST/ETHN/WMNS 356 African-American Women’s History
  • HIST/ETHN/WMNS 358 Native American Women
  • HIST/WMNS 363 History of Women & Gender in the American West
  • HIST/WMNS 402 Sexuality in America from the 1800s to the Present
  • HIST/WMNS 441 Seminar in U.S. Women’s & Gender History
  • HIST/ETHN/WMNS 459 Women & Gender in African Societies
  • HIST/ETHN/WMNS 476A Gender & Sexuality in Latin America
  • JUDS/RELG/WMNS 340 Women in the Biblical World
  • PHIL/WMNS 218 Philosophy of Feminism
  • POLS/WMNS 338 Women & Politics
  • PSYC 330 Psychology of Diversity    
  • PSYC/WMNS 421 Psychology of Gender
  • PSYC/CYAF/EDPS/SOCI 471 Human Sexuality & Society
  • SOCI/WMNS 200 Gender in Contemporary Society
  • SOCI/WMNS 226 Families & Society
  • SOCI/WMNS 325 Contemporary Family Issues
  • SOCI 411 Sociology and Sexualities
  • SOCI/WMNS 412 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
  • SOCI/WMNS 486 Sociology of Gender 
  • SPAN/WMNS 315 Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Culture (taught in Spanish)
  • SPAN/WMNS 354 Gender and Sexuality in Spain (taught in Spanish)
  • SPAN/LAMS/WMNS 470 Feminisms in Latin America (taught in Spanish)
  • TMFD 410/WMNS 410A Body, Dress, & Identity
  • TMFD/ANTH/WMNS 477 Gender & Material Culture

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