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2024 - 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies)


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Required Credit Hours: 32


Major Writing Requirement:


Core Requirements:


An interdisciplinary major in Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies requires a minimum of 32 credit hours. No more than 9 credits of introductory courses, excluding GSWS 205 , and 6 credits of independent study may count toward the major. All students must complete at least 32 credit hours distributed across five groups of courses, all meeting approved Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies criteria, as follows. These courses must be cross-listed in at least three different departments.

Three ‘Core’ Courses (10 Credits), including:


One course in each of the following areas:


  • One course with a focus on gender and international issues (outside of the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain) (list available from major advisor and on the GSWS webpage);
  • One course with a focus on LGBTQ issues (list available from major advisor and on the GSWS webpage);
  • One course with a focus on gender and race/ethnicity issues (list available from major advisor and on the GSWS webpage);

Electives:


Approved electives.

Note:


Students must take courses grounded in three different departments and cross-listed with GSWS.

GSWS 391  courses fulfill the requirement for gender and international issues; GSWS 392  courses fulfill the requirement for LGBTQ issues; and GSWS 393  courses fulfill the requirement for race/ethnicity issues.  Other courses that fulfill these requirements will be designated with “GIN” for gender and international issues; “LGBT” for LGBTQ issues; and “GRE” for gender and race/ethnicity issues.  GSWS 490  (Senior Seminar) courses will be assigned an attribute based on their subject matter.

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