Women's and Gender Studies Program (WGST)

Basic Structure of the Department

WGST is an interdisciplinary program that draws from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences.
WGST offers a major, a minor, and a certificate. WGST can also be part of a modified major
Most courses are cross-listed with other departments. The Program's core courses are not cross-listed (and some have been renumbered starting in 2006-2007). These are: WGST 10 (Sex, Gender and Society), WGST 15 (Roots of Feminism), and WGST 16 (Contemporary Issues in Feminism), WGST 18 (Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies) WGST 80 (the senior seminar) and WGST 85 (independent study.)
WGST 10 (Sex, Gender and Society) is the basic introduction to the field. It is offered fall, winter and summer terms.

WGST 10: Sex, Gender and Society
WGST 30 (1): Women, Gender, and Development (=GEOG 26)
WGST 37: Gender, Space, and Islam (=GEOG 41)
WGST 43: Sex, Celibacy and the Problem of Purity: Asceticism and the Human Body in Late Antiquity (=REL 31, CLST 11 in 07F)
WGST 52 (1): Colonial and Postcolonial Masculinities (= AAAS 67, COLT 67)
WGST 53 (2): From Hand to Mouth: Writing, Eating, and the Construction of Gender (=COLT 49)
WGST 56 (5): Women and the Film Industry (=FILM 46)
WGST 59 (1): Inside Out: Prison, Women and Performance (=COCO 8)
WGST 61 (2): Plagues and Politics: The Impact of AIDS on U.S. Society

WGST 10: Sex, Gender and Society
WGST 15: Roots of Feminism: Text and Context
WGST 21 (2): Fictions of Sappho (=COLT 67, CLST 10 in 08W)
WGST 23 (2): American Women’s History Since 1920 (=HIST 28)
WGST 30 (2): Women and the Economy
WGST 33 (1): Constructing Black Womanhood (=AAAS 25, SOCY 46)
WGST 34 (3): The Masculine Mystique
WGST 36 (2) Women in Africa (= AAAS 41)
WGST 42: War and Gender (= ENGL 62)
WGST 51 (6): Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Gendered Images in the Literary Fairy Tale (=COLT 39)
WGST 53 (4): Woofenstein (=ENGL 67.3, consult ORC for suggested background courses)
WGST 65 (5): How Hollywood Films Shaped Post-War GLBT Politics (=FILM 47)

WGST 16: Contemporary Issues in Feminism
WGST 43 (1): Beyond God the Father: An Introduction to Gender and Religion (=REL 13)
WGST 44 (1): Women’s Rituals from Africa and Around the World (= AAAS 66, REL 52)
WGST 50 (2): Gender and Islam in the North African Novel (=COLT 37)
WGST 54 (3): Latina Feminisms: Acts of Intervention (=LACS 54)
WGST 56 (2): Beatniks, Hotrods and the Feminine Mystique: Sex and Gender in 1950’s Hollywood Film (=FILM 47)

WGST 10: Sex, Gender and Society, offered in fall, winter and summer terms, is the recommended introductory course, and is a prerequisite for the major, minor and certificate program.
Note that WGST 15 (Roots of Feminism: Texts and Contexts, offered in winter 2008) and WGST 16 (Contemporary Issues in Feminism: Theory and Practice, offered spring 2008) are each offered only once a year, but are requirements for both the major and minor. Given the D-plan and Foreign Study options, a student is encouraged to plan ahead.