Director: Barbara Olsen;

Steering Committee: Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld (Italian), Mita Choudhury (History), Colleen Ballerino Cohen (Anthropology), Leslie C. Dunn^ab (English), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Susan Hiner^ab (French and Francophone Studies), Jean M. Kane (English), Lydia Murdoch (History), Barbara A. Olsen (Greek and Roman Studies), Hiram Perez (English), Peipei Qiu (Chinese and Japanese), Jeffrey Schneider (German Studies), Jill S. Schneiderman^a (Earth Science);

Participating Faculty: Abigail A. Baird (Psychology), Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld (Italian), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies), Paulina Bren (International Studies), Light Carruyo (Sociology), Mita Choudhury (History), Colleen Ballerino Cohen (Anthropology), Miriam Cohen^a (History), Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Eve Dunbar^ab (English), Leslie C. Dunn^ab (English), Rebecca Edwards^b (History), Janet Gray (Psychology), Dara Greenwood (Psychology), Maria Hantzopoulos (Education), Diane Harriford (Sociology), Kathleen Hart (French and Francophone Studies), Susan Hiner^ab (French and Francophone Studies), Jean M. Kane (English), Eileen Leonard (Sociology), Kathryn Libin (Music), Molly S. McGlennen (English), Annie Menzel^a (Political Science), Mootacem Mhiri (Africana Studies), Seungsook Moon (Sociology), Jannay Morrow (Psychology), Lydia Murdoch (History), Uma Narayan (Philosophy), Barbara A. Olsen (Greek and Roman Studies), Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert^a (Hispanic Studies), Hiram Perez (English), Nancy Pokrywka (Biology), Peipei Qiu (Chinese and Japanese), Jeffrey Schneider (German Studies), Jill S. Schneiderman^a (Earth Science), Vinay Swamy (French and Francophone Studies), Denise A. Walen (Drama), Eva Woods^ab (Hispanic Studies), Silke von der Emde (German), Susan Zlotnick^ab (English).

^a On leave 2016/17, first semester
^b On leave 2016/17, second semester
^ab On leave 2016/17

Programs

Major

• •  Women’s Studies Major

Correlate Sequence in Women’s Studies

• •  Queer Studies Correlate Sequence
• •  Women’s Studies Correlate Sequence

Approved Courses

• •  Women’s Studies Approved Courses

Courses

Women’s Studies: I. Introductory

• •  WMST 110 - Gender, Social Problems and Social Change
• •  WMST 130 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
• •  WMST 160 - Issues in Feminism: Bodies and Texts
• •  WMST 182 - Centering Black Women and Girls’ Lives
• •  WMST 186 - Meeting Places: Bars, Streets, Cafés

Women’s Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  WMST 201 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• •  WMST 203 - Women in Greek and Roman History and Myth
• •  WMST 204 - Gender and Sexuality in Roman Culture
• •  WMST 205 - Arab Women Writers
• •  WMST 210 - Domestic Violence
• •  WMST 214 - Transnational Perspectives on Women and Work
• •  WMST 215 - Pre-modern Drama: Text and Performance before 1800
• •  WMST 218 - Literature, Gender, and Sexuality
• •  WMST 219 - Queering the Archive
• •  WMST 220 - Medieval and Renaissance Culture
• •  WMST 222 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Islamic Spaces
• •  WMST 230 - Women in Film
• •  WMST 231 - Women Making Music
• •  WMST 234 - Women in American Musical Theater
• •  WMST 240 - Gender in American Popular Media
• •  WMST 241 - Topics in the Construction of Gender
• •  WMST 245 - Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism
• •  WMST 250 - Feminist Theory
• •  WMST 251 - Global Feminism
• •  WMST 254 - Bio-Politics of Breast Cancer
• •  WMST 259 - The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe
• •  WMST 260 - Sex & Reproduction in 19th Century United States: Before Margaret Sanger
• •  WMST 261 - Women in 20th Century America
• •  WMST 262 - Native American Women
• •  WMST 264 - African American Women’s History
• •  WMST 270 - Gender and Social Space
• •  WMST 277 - Feminist Approaches to Science and Technology
• •  WMST 281 - Gender and Science
• •  WMST 283 - Gender, Sexuality and Abolitionist Activism
• •  WMST 285 - Sex, Gender and the History of Medicine
• •  WMST 290 - Field Work
• •  WMST 297 - Reading Courses
• •  WMST 298 - Independent Study
• •  WMST 299 - Thesis Preparation

Women’s Studies: III. Advanced

• •  WMST 301 - Senior Thesis or Project
• •  WMST 302 - Senior Thesis or Project
• •  WMST 306 - Women’s Movements in Asia
• •  WMST 317 - Women, Crime, and Punishment
• •  WMST 318 - Literary Studies in Gender and Sexuality
• •  WMST 321 - Feminism, Knowledge, Practice
• •  WMST 331 - Gender, Resources, and Justice
• •  WMST 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• •  WMST 362 - Senior Seminar: Women in Japanese and Chinese Literature
• •  WMST 366 - Art and Activism in the United States
• •  WMST 367 - Artists’ Books from the Women’s Studio Workshop
• •  WMST 370 - Feminist Perspectives on Environmentalism
• •  WMST 375 - Seminar in Women’s Studies
• •  WMST 380 - Religion, Sex, and the Modern State
• •  WMST 381 - How Queer is That?
• •  WMST 382 - Marie-Antoinette
• •  WMST 384 - Transnational Queer: Genders, Sexualities, Identities
• •  WMST 385 - Women, Culture, and Development
• •  WMST 399 - Senior Independent Study