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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Women Studies Emphasis, B.A.


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Requirements for Major


Eight units and a senior capstone experience (one-half or one unit). The requirements for each emphasis (Women’s Studies and Gender Studies) are described below.

Women Studies Emphasis Required Courses:


Gender Studies Emphasis Required Courses:


Distribution Requirements for Both Emphases


Six courses, at least one from each of the following lists, to be selected in consultation with the program director or the faculty member in the program.

Institutions or Knowledge Systems


This requirement emphasizes the study of the systemic nature of gender or of the critical perspectives brought to a discipline by feminist theory or gender theory.

Representations


This requirement emphasizes feminist approaches or gender study approaches to the examination of gender in representations; this requirement also can involve the recovery and examination of representations that previously had been invisible due to gender bias.

Global Perspectives


This requirement emphasizes the importance of gaining knowledge far from one’s own subject position. For this unit, students must choose a course outside their own cultural and geographical experience.

Self Making


This requirement emphasizes the feminist and gender studies examinations of processes and narratives that transform beings into gendered humans.

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