COURSES
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Here are the courses available for Fall 2025:
| WGSS 101 PM | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Study | Wednesday | 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. |
| WGSS 365 A | 20th Century Black Women Writers | Monday and Wednesday | 12:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. |
100-Level Courses
WGSS 101 PM: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Study
Introduction to issues, topics, and methodologies of women's studies in a global context. Examines the lives of women around the globe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the West, focusing on gender inequality, feminist ethics, gender as a category of analysis, and social construction of gender. (M5) Gauthier
300-Level Courses
WGSS 365 A: 20th Century Black Women Writers
This course explores the literature and critical writings of twentieth century Black women writers to analyze depictions of black womanhood, community, resistance and resilience. Possible writers include Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, and others Prerequisites: F1 and Junior/Senior standing. (U2) Waller-Peterson
Courses that are offered on a periodic basis:
| WGSS 136 (REL 136) | Seeing and Believing: Women, Religion, and Film |
| WGSS 188 (MUS 188) | Women and Music |
| WGSS 222 | Women and Health |
| WGSS 232 (IDIS 232) | Ethical Issues in Reproductive Technology |
| WGSS 238 (HIST 238) | Women in Europe 500-1700 |
| WGSS 239 (HIST 239) | Victorian Ladies and Other Women: England and America 1837-1914 |
| WGSS 240 (REL 240) | Jewish and Christian Feminism |
| WGSS 257 (POSC 257) | Politics of Women's Rights in East Asia |
| WGSS 260 (POSC 260) | Critical Gender Studies |
| WGSS 265 (PHIL 265) | Feminist Philosophy |
| WGSS 29X (ENG 29X) | Narrating Blackness: Film & Fiction |
| WGSS 310 (SOC 310) | The Family and the Law |
| WGSS 341 (GERM 341) | Women in German Literature and Culture |
| WGSS 345 (PSYC 345) | Psychology of Women |
| WGSS 355 (SOC 355) | Sociology of Gender |
| WGSS 286, 381-384 | Independent Study |
| WGSS 288, 386-388 | Internship |
| WGSS 400-401 | Honors |