Upcoming Courses

Fulfill a requirement for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Any of the classes below may be taken to fulfill a requirement for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor. Email usif you have questions.

Upcoming Courses

SPRING 2025

WGSS Courses

Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - WGSS 2010

Introduces this interdisciplinary academic field that has a triple focus: integrating information about women’s contributions to culture and history into the curriculum; uncovering and understanding structures of oppression (gender, sexuality, race, and class), and exploring possibilities for change. Topics for reading and discussion are drawn from material on social structures, law, language, history, religion, philosophy, the healing professions, and the arts. Articulating questions and points of view regarding issues related to gender and sexuality is emphasized.

LATE START - 903 | CRN 11426 | Marsh | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Sex, Gender, and the Body - 11653 - WGSS 2110 - 900 | Russell | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Examines the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between biological sex, culturally formulated discourses of masculinity and femininity, and the sexed body. Combining theoretical and historical texts from the fields of gender, sexuality, and disability studies with memoir, documentary, and visual art, this course investigates how the diverse experiences of embodiment are historically and politically shaped.

Women in Global Perspective - 11427- WGSS 2020 - 001 | Buck | TR 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Rogers-Stout Hall 225 (3.00 hrs)

Emphasizes diversity of women’s experience in non-western, nonindustrialized societies. Concentrates on women’s participation in, interaction with, and resistance to patriarchal structures that inhibit economic, political, and human rights for women.

NEW! Feminist Research Methods - 11430 - WGSS 4200 - 940 | Williams | TR 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Course ONLINE SYNCRONOUS (3.00 hrs)

Explores how interdisciplinary feminist perspectives inform research methods and processes to study feminist issues within and across a range of disciplines.

Special Topics: Black Feminist Thought WGSS | Swindle | TR 10:10 am - 11:30 am | Rogers-Stout Hall 225 (3.00 hrs)

Special Topics: Provides discussion on selected topics of interest in Women’s, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies that are not covered in regular course offerings. Content will vary. May
be repeated for credit when content changes.

WGSS 4957 - 001 (Undergraduate) CRN 12173
WGSS 5957 - 001 (Graduate) CRN 12221

WGSS Internship - 11431 - WGSS 4080 - 001 | Williams (3.00 hrs)

Prerequisites: WGSS 2010, senior standing, and director approval. Provides supervised
experience with a professional, non-profit, civic, or other social justice group work
experience that synthesizes the student’s program of study. A mandatory orientation
meeting is required, and a completed internship permission form must be completed
before working any hours on site.

Independent Study WGSS 4900 | Williams

Offers independent study, under faculty supervision, in an area of Women’s, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies not covered by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies curriculum.
Students desiring to use this option must prepare a proposal, in consultation with the
faculty member, that describes the course objectives, learning outcomes, reading list,
course requirements and their due dates, and method of faculty evaluation of the student’s
work. Proposal must be approved by the program director.

- 001 | CRN 11432 (1 hr)
- 002 | CRN 11906 (2 hrs)
- 003 | CRN 11907 (3 hrs)

Approved Electives

Race, Gender & Crime - 12144 - CJCR 4670 - 901 | O’Quinn | Course ONLINE (3 hrs)

Examines experiences of women and people of color with agencies of social control. Comparisons of crime rates, types of criminal offending, and victimization including discussion of sexual and racial harassment in the workplace are studied.

Gender & Communication - 13759 - COMM 4200 - 001 | Anzur | TR 11:45 am - 1:05 pm | Warf-Pickel Hall 513 (3 hrs)

Studies how communication and gender influence each other. It explores how communication practices reinforce and/or resist ways that gender is defined.

Women Authors - 12982 - ENGL 3500 - 901 | Byington | Course ONLINE (3 hrs)

Prerequisites: ENGL 1020. Study works by women authors and how they address gender issues across genres and modes of production.

Themes in Women's Lit: Identity and Persona - 12930 - ENGL 4087 - 001 | Wright | TR 2:55 pm - 4:15 pm | Sam Wilson Hall 129 (3 hrs)

Prerequisites: ENGL 1020. Studies themes and issues affecting women as portrayed in selected fiction, poetry, and drama.

Understanding Cultural Diversity - HDAL 2340 (3 hrs)

This course is designed for the student to develop competencies that allow her/ him to be
more effective when relating and/or working with individuals of diverse groups in society.
Students will have opportunities to develop awareness of their own cultural values and
biases, to study prevalent beliefs and attitudes of different cultures, and to develop skills
useful for appropriate interactions with particular groups.

Students can count either HDAL 2340 - Understanding Cultural Diversity or SOWK 1030 - Cultural Diversity
toward the minor, but not both.

Organizational Leadership - MGMT 4460 (3 hrs)

Studies leadership theories and concepts in modern organizations from an administrative perspective. Topics include trait, behavior, and contingency theories of leadership, leadership in organizational development, ethical leadership, leadership and diversity, social and emotional intelligence, and followership.

Race, Class, & Gender in Film - 14616 - SOCI 4252 - 001 | Copp | TR 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Rogers-Stout Hall 224 (3 hrs)

Prerequisites: SOCI 1020 or ANTH 1240 or WMST 2010 or FILM 3000 or equivalent.
Provides a sociological examination of film entertainment, the film industry, and how films
represent social life, social problems, and social processes of inequality.

Cultural Diversity - SOWK 1030 (3 hrs)

Introduces the knowledge necessary for social work practice with disadvantaged, marginalized, and oppressed groups and advances a philosophy that people come first and must be treated with dignity and respect. Issues of power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, civil rights, historical and legal heritage, and contemporary news events are central course components. Opportunities are provided for examining personal values and beliefs and their impact on interactions with minority groups. Although several aspects of diversity are examined, the emphasis is on race, class, gender, ethnicity, and affectional orientation. Implications for sensitive, effective, and affirming practice with minority groups are examined.

-900 | CRN 13544 | TBA | Course ONLINE
-901 | CRN 13547 | Boa | Course ONLINE

Students can count either HDAL 2340 - Understanding Cultural Diversity or SOWK 1030 - Cultural Diversity
toward the minor, but not both.

Human Sexuality - 13973 - SOWK 4567 - 900 | Nkwanzi | Course ONLINE (3 hrs)

Surveys human sexuality and introduces students to sexual attitudes, sexual physiology and response, sexual techniques and behavior, reproduction and reproductive control, sexually transmitted diseases, and how sexual behavior is learned and developed, i.e., psychosocial development and cultural impact. It provides the opportunity for value clarification and exploration of personal and social attitudes toward varying forms of sexual behavior and orientations.