Below is a list of courses offered by departments and programs other than WGSS that serve the WGSS major/minor. Additional relevant departmental courses that explore issues of gender using feminist scholarship and theory may be approved by petition to the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Chair.
ADDITIONAL COURSES THAT COUNT FOR WGSS
*Note that all WGS-listed courses also count for the WGSS major and minor. WGS 101 is required for both the major and the minor. For the Classes of 2024 and 2025, WGS 280: Feminist Theory is required for the major. Beginning with the Class of 2026, both WGS 280: Feminist Theory and WGS 285: Intersectional Feminist Research are required for the major.
- A&S 212: Sex and Gender: A Cross-Cultural View
- A&S 227: The Family
- A&S 229: Sociology of Sex and Gender
- A&S 238: Gender and Popular Culture
- A&S 252: Bodies in Society
- A&S 302: Reproductive Justice [W]
- AFS 320: Black Feminism
- CL 211: Wonder Women: Female Warriors and Knights-Errant from East Asia
- CL 230: Gender, Orientalism, and Transnational Chinese Cinema
- ECON 325: Women and the Economy
- ENG 119: Literary Women
- ENG 274: Taboos: Literary Sexualities
- ENG 326: Gender, Class and Race in English Romantic Poetry [W]
- ENG 356: Queer Literature
- ENG 376: Literary Representations of Queer Urbanism: Sex and the City [W]
- FAMS 245: Queer Film Histories
- FAMS/WGS 255: Women Make Movies/Movies Make Women [W]
- FREN 441: Junior/Senior Seminar: Francophone Women
- HIST 226: Sex in Modern Europe
- HIST 330: Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe
- IA 230: Global Perspectives on Gender and Equality [W]
- IA 320: Gender and Development in the Global South
- PHIL 170: Philosophy of Love and Sex
- PHIL 270: Feminist Philosophy
- PHIL 365: Trans Rights, Law, and the Public Sphere
- PSYC 248: Psychology of Gender
- REL 225: Sex, Gender and Religion
- REL 233: Female Divinities and Demons in East Asia
- REL 312: Religious Body and Sexuality
- SPAN 341: Topics in LGBTQ+ Literature and Cultures
- THTR 369: Theater Artists in Focus: Women in American Theater [W]