Major Requirements
   
  1. Women's Studies 200:  Introduction to Women's Studies
    • This course counts as a Division II requirement and a U.S. diversity course.
    • No prerequisites. Preference is given to first year students and sophomores.
  2. One course focusing on Feminist Perspectives:
    • Women's Studies 220:  History of American Feminism OR This course counts as a Division II requirement.
    • Women's Studies 210: Philosophy of Feminism OR This course counts as a Division Ia requirement.
    • Women's Studies 230: European Feminism This course counts as a Division II requirement.
  3. Cross Cultural Study of Women
    • Women's Studies 217: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Gender OR This course counts as a Division II requirement.
    • Women's Studies 218: Biosocial Aspects of Female Sexuality OR This course counts as a Division II requirement.
    • Sociology 224: Political Economy of the Family OR This course counts as a Division II requirement.
    • Anthropology 219: Gender, Space & Identity This course counts as a Division II requirement.
  4. Internship 763: Faculty-sponsored Internship in Women's Studies
    • The academic adviser for the internship will be one of the contributing Women's Studies faculty; the academic component will apply some aspect of the history and theory of women's studies to the work experience. Some internships are completed during a semester abroad (such as the Centre de Documentation et d'Information des femmes et familles in France). Recent internships include:
      • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Planned Parenthood Association, National Organization of Women, Stamford Rape and Sexual Abuse Crisis Center, Susquehanna Art Museum, Hillcrest Women's Medical Center, YWCA, and the Pregnant and Parenting Youth Program.
  5. Women's Studies 250: Methods in Women's Studies
  6. Women's Studies 300: Upper level topics course in Women's Studies
    • Prerequisite: One course in Women's Studies or permission of instructor.
    • This course will count as a Division I or Division II requirement dependent upon the topic.
  7. Women's Studies 400: Senior Seminar in Women's Studies
    • Prerequisite: Open to Women's Studies majors and minors, or by permission of instructor
  8. Three Electives
    • Students select three courses from at least two departments which are identified in the preregistration booklet as appropriate for the certificate. These courses reflect multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of gender. Recent electives include:
    • Literature and Humanities Courses:
      • Poetics of Resistance, Women and Difference, Contemporary French Fiction and Film; Images of Chinese Women in Film; British Women Writers; The Gothic Novel; Religious Autobiography;   Violence/Gender in Literature; Southern Women Writers; American Women Writers; Women and Postmodernism; African American Women Writers; Emily Dickinson; Chinese Women Writers; French Novel in 20th Century; Latin American Women Writers; Christa Wolf; Parole Feminine, Women in Music, Saints and Witches, Gender and Creativity; Young Women in 20th Century Literature; and Art of Women
    • Social Science Courses:
      • African Women in Transition; Narratives: African American Experience; Sex and American Ideology; Evolution of Courtship and Mating; Economics of Gender; The Family in America; 1960: Social Movements/Changes; Women and Blacks in American Politics; Gender Issues in Psychology; Sex Disorders/Deviance; Gender, Race and Globalization; The Family Phenomenon; Gender in the Media; Race, Class and Gender; Women in Sport
    • THEMATIC:
      • Students must also develop, in consultation with the Women's Studies Adviser, a three course thematic, drawing from the above courses, focusing on some particular area of Women's Studies. Areas of concentration might include:  Sexuality and Gender; Cross-Cultural Study of Gender; Global Feminism; Diversity and Feminism; Feminist Perspectives on Literature; Race, Ethnicity and Women; Class Issues and Gender.
  9. Other Women's Studies courses include:
    • Women's Studies 101: Topics in Women's Studies
    • Women's Studies 102: Topcis in Women's Studies
    • Women's Studies 201: Topics in Women's Studies
    • Women's Studies 300: Topics in Women's Studies