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2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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


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Requirements for Major


Eight units as well as a senior capstone experience (one-half or one unit). The requirements for each track are described below.

Women Studies Emphasis Required Courses:


Gender Studies Emphasis Required Courses:


Note


A senior exit interview will be used for assessment purposes.

Six different courses, at least one from each of the following lists. The six courses must 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.

For International Students, Some Options:


Historical Contexts


This requirement emphasizes the study of women or gender in specific and detailed historical context(s) or the study of the methodology of women’s or gender history.

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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