Procedures
Faculty interested in submitting their course syllabi for possible inclusion in the WGSS curriculum are encouraged to do so. Please note:
- Courses may be submitted as a potential core course (which will carry the WGS prefix) or for consideration as a WGSS elective (which will not carry the WGS prefix).
- Faculty wishing to submit a core course that carries the WGS prefix must meet with the WGSS Program Chair before composing/submitting a syllabus.
- Faculty wishing to have a course in their department/program count as a WGSS elective should submit the course syllabus to the WGSS Program Chair (copying their own Department Head/Program Chair) along with a short statement explaining how the the course fulfills the WGSS criteria (below).
WGSS Advisory Committee members will use the short statement provided to evaluate the course and make a recommendation to the Program Chair. The Chair will respond to the faculty member’s proposal in one of 3 ways: by accepting the course, declining the course, or returning the course with suggested changes.
Criteria
WGSS (core and elective) courses must fulfill the following criteria:
Required — Courses must meet all 3 of the following criteria:
- A majority of course content must directly address women, gender and/or sexuality and involve a level of critical feminist analysis.
- Course content must be informed by contemporary approaches in the field.
- The course must demonstrate attentiveness to intersectionality, linking its investigation of gender and sexuality to race, class, ethnicity, global positionality, and/or other salient aspects of identity
Additional — Courses must meet 2 of the following criteria:
- The course is informed by a feminist theoretical framework.
- The course is informed by feminist pedagogy.
- The course has a feminist praxis, community-based learning and research, and/or activism component.