Women’s Studies B.A./B.S.
In addition to meeting the general University degree requirements, the student majoring in Women's Studies must complete a required core program of 36 credits and 20 credits of WS electives (with a minimum of 16 upper-division credits) for a total of 56 credits to complete the major.
Each student pursuing a Women's Studies major will select or be assigned an adviser who is knowledgeable in the student’s area(s) of academic interest.
Courses taken under the undifferentiated grading option (pass/no pass) are not acceptable toward fulfilling major requirements with the following exceptions: one Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies elective course, WS 404 Cooperative Education/Internship, or WS 409 Practicum. The minimum grade allowed to pass major requirements will be 1.7 C-.
Requirements
Core courses (28 credits)
| WS 101 | Introduction to Women's Studies | 4 |
| WS 301 | Gender and Critical Inquiry | 4 |
| WS 305 | Women of Color Feminist Theory | 4 |
| WS 307 | Women, Activism and Social Change | 4 |
| WS 315 | Feminist Analysis | 4 |
| WS 412 | Feminist Methodologies | 4 |
| WS 415 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
Experiential learning (8 credits)
Electives (20 credits; with a minimum of 16 upper-division credits)
| WS 306U | Global Gender Issues | 4 |
| WS 308U | Topics in Gender, Literature, and Popular Culture | 4 |
| WS 310U | Psychology of Women | 4 |
| WS 312U | Feminist Philosophy | 4 |
| WS 317U | Writing as Activism | 4 |
| WS 320U | Introduction to Girls' Studies | 4 |
| WS 330U | Women of Color in the United States | 4 |
| WS 331U/Intl 331U | Women in the Middle East | 4 |
| WS 332U | Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States | 4 |
| WS 337U | Communication and Gender | 4 |
| WS 340U | Women and Gender in America to 1848 | 4 |
| WS 341U | Women and Gender in America 1848-1920 | 4 |
| WS 342U | Women and Gender in the U.S. 1920 to the Present | 4 |
| WS 343U | American Family History | 4 |
| WS 346U/Bi 346U | Genes & Society | 4 |
| WS 347U/Sci 347U | Science, Gender, and Social Context | 4 |
| WS 348U/Sci 348U | Science, Gender, and Social Context | 4 |
| WS 351U | Gender and Education | 4 |
| WS 360U | Introduction to Queer Studies | 4 |
| WS 365U/Sci 365U | The Science of Women's Bodies | 4 |
| WS 367U | War, Sexual Violence and Healing | 4 |
| WS 369U | Global Reproductive Justice | 4 |
| WS 370U | History of Sexualities | 4 |
| WS 375U | Topics in Sexuality Studies | 4 |
| WS 372U/Eng 372U | Topics in Literature, Gender, and Sexuality | 4 |
| WS 377U | Topics in Feminist Spirituality | 4 |
| WS 380U | Women and Politics | 4 |
| WS 387 | Feminist Organizations: Theory and Practice | 4 |
| WS 410 | Selected Topics | 1-6 |
| WS 417 | Women in the Economy | 4 |
| WS 424/PS 425 | Women and the Law | 4 |
| WS 425/Soc 425 | Sociology of Gender | 4 |
| WS 426/Soc 426 | Gender & Mental Health | 4 |
| WS 428 | Lesbian History | 4 |
| WS 431U/ArH 431U | Women in the Visual Arts | 4 |
| WS 444 | British Women Writers | 4 |
| WS 445 | American Women Writers | 4 |
| WS 451 | Interrupting Oppression | 4 |
| WS 452/Comm 452 | Gender and Race in the Media | 4 |
| WS 453 | Feminism and Women?s Health | 4 |
| WS 467 | Work and Family | 4 |
| WS 470U | Asian American Women's Studies | 4 |
| WS 471 | Global Feminisms | 4 |
| WS 479 | Women and Organizational Psychology | 4 |
| WS 480 | Introduction to Critical Disability Studies | 4 |
| WS 481 | Disability and Intersectionality | 4 |
| Intl 360U | Bollywood: Communicating Contemporary South Asia through Cinema | 4 |
| JSt 335U | Sex, Love, and Gender in Israel | 4 |
Total Credit Hours: 56