Women’s Studies Major

Required Courses

• WMST 202 - Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies A student must receive a minimum grade of C in
  WMST 202
    in order to be admitted to the major program.
• One of
  WMST 217
   , 
  WMST 260
   , 
  WMST 279
    as a required theory course
• WMST 301 - Feminist Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
• WMST 490 - Women’s Studies Senior Seminar

Feminist Methodology

• WMST 301 - Feminist Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
• WMST 302 - Special Topics: Women’s Lives in Text and Context

Feminist Theory

A course in feminist theory:

• WMST 217
   /
  ALST 217 - Corridors of Black Girlhood
    
• WMST 260 - Intersectionality in Theory and Practice
• WMST 279 - Black Feminist Thinkers

Divisions

At least four more courses from the following list, taken from at least two of the divisions:

Other Courses

Other courses may be counted toward a women’s studies major, depending on the orientation of the course, and/or the direction of the readings and student projects during a particular year. Such courses need the approval of the instructor and the women’s studies director to be counted toward a women’s studies major. Students must check with their WMST adviser about which of the following courses meet WMST concentration requirements. WMST credit cannot be granted once the course is completed with a non-approved instructor.

These courses include:

• EDUC 204 - Child and Adolescent Development
• EDUC 310 - Racial Capitalism and Education Policy
• ENGL 208 - Sex and the Global City
• ENGL 336 - Native American Literature
• ENGL 346 - Victorian Poets & Essayists
• ENGL 363 - Contemporary Fiction
• ENGL 461 - Studies in the Renaissance
• JWST 208
   /
  RELG 208 - The Hebrew Bible in America
     
• LGBT 220 - Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry: An Exploration into LGBTQ Studies
• RELG 282 - Introduction to Islam
• SOCI 312 - Social Inequality
• SOCI 333 - Sociology of the Life Course (RI) and 
  SOCI 333L
    
• WMST 291 - Independent Study
• WMST 391 - Independent Study
• WMST 491 - Independent Study
• WMST 499 - Honors in Women’s Studies

Additional Information

Students’ relationships with their advisers are a critical part of the women’s studies program. Following admission to the program, students, in consultation with their advisers, may develop a sequence of required and elective courses related to a particular topic. Some suggested topics are postcolonial and critical race studies; family studies; women in the United States; global perspectives on women; women, work, and family; women and social change; women and religion; and women, knowledge, and text.

Honors and High Honors

Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Women’s Studies  program page.