Portland-State-University 2024-2025 Bulletin

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 101Introduction to Women's Studies

4
or
UnSt 231Gender and Sexualities

4
or
WS 332URace, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States

4
 
WS 301Feminisms: Theories and Analyses

4
WS 305Women of Color Feminist Theory

4
WS 307UResistance, Activism, and Social Change

4
WS 412Feminist Methodologies

4
WS 415Senior Seminar

4
WS 471Global Feminisms

4

Experiential learning (8 credits)

WS 409Practicum

6
WS 411Experiential Learning Seminar

2

Electives (20 credits; with a minimum of 16 upper-division credits)

WS 306UGlobal Gender Issues

4
WS 308UTopics in Gender, Literature, and Popular Culture

4
WS 310UPsychology of Women

4
WS 312UFeminist Philosophy

4
WS 317UWriting as Activism

4
WS 320UIntroduction to Girls' Studies

4
WS 330UWomen of Color in the United States

4
WS 331U/Intl 331UWomen and the Middle East

4
WS 332URace, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the United States

4
WS 337UCommunication and Gender

4
WS 340UWomen and Gender in America to 1848

4
WS 341UWomen and Gender in America 1848-1920

4
WS 342UWomen and Gender in the U.S. 1920 to the Present

4
WS 343UAmerican Family History

4
WS 344UQueer Ecologies

4
WS 346U/Bi 346UGenes & Society

4
WS 347U/Sci 347UScience, Gender, and Social Context

4
WS 348U/Sci 348UScience, Gender, and Social Context

4
WS 360UIntroduction to Queer Studies

4
WS 365U/Sci 365UThe Science of Gendered Bodies

4
WS 367UWar, Sexual Violence and Healing

4
WS 369UGlobal Reproductive Justice

4
WS 370UHistory of Sexualities

4
WS 373/Phl 373Queer Philosophy

4
WS 374UMemoir, Gender, and Sexuality

4
WS 375UTopics in Sexuality Studies

4
WS 372U/Eng 372UTopics in Literature, Gender, and Sexuality

4
WS 377UTopics in Feminist Spirituality

4
WS 379U/Phl 379UFeminist Care Ethics

4
WS 380UWomen and Politics

4
WS 382UTransgender Studies

4
WS 387Feminist Organizations: Theory and Practice

4
WS 410Selected Topics

1-6
WS 417/Ec 417Women in the Economy

4
WS 424/PS 425Women and the Law

4
WS 425/Soc 425Sociology of Gender

4
WS 426/Soc 426Gender & Mental Health

4
WS 431U/ArH 431UWomen in the Visual Arts

4
WS 444British Women Writers

4
WS 445American Women Writers

4
WS 451Interrupting Oppression

4
WS 452/Comm 452Gender and Race in the Media

4
WS 467Work and Family

4
WS 470UAsian American Women's Studies

4
WS 479Women and Organizational Psychology

4
WS 480Introduction to Critical Disability Studies

4
WS 481Disability and Intersectionality

4
WS 482Topics in Global Sexuality Studies

4
Anth 432Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Anthropological Perspective

4
BSt 342UBlack Feminism/Womanism

4
BSt 419African American Women in America

4
ChLa 303UChicana/Latina Experience

4
Intl 360UBollywood: Communicating Contemporary South Asia through Cinema

4
JSt 335USex, Love, and Gender: Israeli and Palestinian Experiences

4
NAS 344Indigenous Women Leadership

4
Phl 369UPhilosophy of Sex and Love

4

Total Credit Hours: 56