Dec 06, 2025  
Catalogue 2025-2026 
    
Catalogue 2025-2026

Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Major


Required Units


Total number of units required for major, excluding any required Intensive(s): 10

Required Intensive units, if any: 1

Total units required: 11

Distributional Content Area Units Required


Two additional courses at the 200-300 level in ONE of the following focus areas: Theory and Methods; Historical and Transnational Experiences; Politics and Activism; Culture, Media, and the Arts.

Electives


Two units from the WFQS curriculum (WFQS-originating, cross-listed with WFQS, or on the WFQS Approved Courses List), only one of which may be at the 100-level.

Other


In addition to the Capstone seminar, WFQS majors must have taken TWO units at the 300 level by the time they graduate.

WFQS has a required yearlong capstone project in the senior year, which is directed by the faculty teaching the WFQS 303  & WFQS 304 Senior Capstone: Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Writing Seminar .

WFQS encourages students who wish to combine theory with praxis.  Students interested in pursuing a CEL [Community-Engaged Learning] may, in consultation with their advisor and the Program Director, substitute one of the 2 elective courses for a 1-unit CEL or two .5-unit CELS.

WFQS encourages students to pursue study away if they so wish. Depending on the coursework, majors taking a semester elsewhere may count up to 2 elective units towards their major (at the 200 level).

Recent WFQS Courses Organized by Focus Area