Women’s Studies Courses

• WS 501 - Fundamentals of Women’s Studies
• WS 510 - Global Feminisms
• WS 511 - Women and Globalization
• WS 550 - Advanced Feminist Theory
• WS 560 - Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
• WS 561 - Queer Theory
• WS 589 - New Feminist Scholarship: Graduate Capstone Seminar in Women’s Studies
• WS 590 - Independent Reading
• WS 593 - Special Topics

Additional Courses

In addition, the following courses also count for credit toward the certificate in Women’s Studies. Descriptions are listed under the various departments.

• A H 511 - Representation of Gender in the History of Art

• ANTH 549 - Life History: The Individual and Culture

• AAS 582 - The Black Family
• ANTH 545 - Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• ANTH 563 - Gender in Prehistory
• COMS 621 - Gender and Communication
• COMS 622 - Communication in the Family
• COMS 742 - Feminist Rhetorical Theory
• ENG 537 - Critical Theory II
• FILM 572 - Film Topics Seminar

• Primitivism and Film

• HCCF 562A - Diversity in Families
• HIST 520A - Women in American History Before 1877
• HIST 520B - Women in American History Since 1877
• HIST 520C - Women’s Health and Medicine in America
• HIST 532 - History of Women in the Middle East
• HIST 553D-Z - Studies in Medieval History

• 553D - Women in Medieval Society

• HIST 554A - Early Christianity
• HIST 560A - Women in Early Modern European History
• HIST 560B - Women in Modern European History, 1800-present
• HIST 560C - Women Warriors
• HIST 602/802 - Colloquium in U.S. Women’s History
• INST 610A-Z - Seminar in International Studies

• INST 610Y - Women in African Development

• PESS 500 - Women in Sports
• POLS 519 - Gay and Lesbian Politics
• POLS 520 - Women, Law, and Politics
• POLS 521 - The Politics of Law and Sexuality
• POLS 578 - Feminist Political Theories and Movements
• POLS 590 - Studies in Political Science

• POLS 590H - Women and Politics

• POLS 590T - Feminist Legal Theory

• SOC 507 - Feminist Social Theory
• SOC 522 - The American Family System
• SOC 567 - Violence Against Women
• SOC 570 - Sociology of Gender
• SOC 571 - Gender and Justice
• TCOM 581 - Women and Media
• TCOM 586 - Colloquium in Telecommunications

• TCOM 586A Age, Class, Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation in the Media