Required Credit Hours: 32

Major Computing Requirement:

WMST 375 - Feminist Research Methods , or any of the Computer Science courses designed for this requirement, or by petitioning Women’s Studies to substitute a course offered to meet the requirement by another department. We accept satisfaction of this via other department courses (i.e. if they accept it for the computing requirement, so do we) and also by petition via a computing form that you can find on our webpage. Computing proficiency credits are not counted in the major’s 32 hours or QPA, unless you are using WMST 375  to fulfill the requirement.

Major Writing Requirement:

• WMST 405 - Feminist Theory (3)

Core Requirements:

Because the program’s curriculum offers a wide variety of choices, each major or minor is asked to work closely with a Women’s Studies advisor to select related courses in a content area reflecting a specific interest in Women’s Studies. For example, students might seek out courses in anthropology, Africana Studies, English, history, literary and cultural studies, psychology, sociology and so on, that help them consider issues relating to their interests in women’s roles in a variety of cultures and in women’s history, health, creativity, etc. In other words, majors are asked to select courses according to an organized plan that allows them to build expertise in a subject from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

An interdisciplinary major in Women’s Studies requires a minimum of 32 credit hours. No more than 10 credits of introductory courses, excluding WMST 205 , and 6 credits of independent study may count toward the major. All students must complete at least 32 credit hours distributed across four groups of courses, all meeting approved Women’s Studies criteria, as follows: