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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A.

Gender + Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that investigates how gender and sexuality operate as organizing axes of social, cultural, economic and political institutions, as well as in the everyday lives and cultural products of people who must live within them. Emphasizing the importance of historical and cross-cultural perspectives, the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at UMBC critically examines the intersections of gender and sexuality with other differences, including, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, and ability to make visible structures of power that otherwise remain hidden.

The Gender + Women’s Studies Department offers a major, undergraduate certificate, and two minors, Gender + Women’s Studies and Critical Sexuality Studies.

The major in gender and women’s studies consists of 36 credits, divided as follows:

Core Courses (15 credits)

Students must complete 15 credits of core courses.

Elective Courses (21 credits)

12 credits must be spread across the three content areas - history and public policy; representations as/in culture; and material, social and technological contexts. The remaining nine (9) credits may be from any non-core approved GWST courses, including topics courses (GWST 290 , GWST 390 , GWST 490 ). Six (6) of the 21 credits must be designated “range of experience” (RoE) courses.

History and Public Policy (6 credits)

GWST 210 - Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 315 - Modern Masculinities (3.00)
GWST 325 - History of Women in America to 1870 (3.00)
GWST 326 - History of Women in America Since 1870 (3.00)
GWST 327 - African American Women’s History (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 328 - Women and Politics (3.00)
GWST 330 - Gender and Women in the Classical World (3.00)
GWST 338 - Women, Gender, and Law (3.00)
GWST 340 - Women, Gender and Globalization (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 366 - Doing It: Case Studies in the History of Western Sexuality (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 374 - European Women’s History 1200-1750 (3.00)
GWST 375 - European Women’s History 1750-Present (3.00)
GWST 377 - Women and Social Policy (3.00)
GWST 380 - Women and Gender in Asia (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 382 - Perspectives on the Family (3.00)
GWST 383 - History and Politics of Sexuality (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 439 - Women in Africa and the Diaspora (3.00) (RoE)

Representations as/in Culture (3 credits)

GWST 258 - Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (3.00)
GWST 320 - Transnational Feminist Film (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 321 - Queer Representation in Film and TV (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 322 - Gender, Race, and Media (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 323 - Gender and Sitcoms (3.00)
GWST 342 - Gender in Modern South Asia (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 343 - Gender, Human Rights, and Political Violence in Latin America (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 348 - Black, Queer, and Feminist Film (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 349 - Gender, Sex and Theatre Performance. (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 364 - Perspectives on Women in Literature (3.00)
GWST 365 - Black Women Novelists (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 391 - The Philosophy of Sex (3.00)
GWST 413 - Language, Gender and Sexuality (3.00)
GWST 458 - Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy (3.00)
GWST 464 - Studies in Women and Literature (3.00)

Material, Social and Technological Contexts (3 credits)

GWST 250 - Gender Roles in Economic Life (3.00)
GWST 255 - Intercultural Paris (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 310 - Gender and Inequality in America (3.00)
GWST 332 - Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspectives (3.00)
GWST 333 - Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3.00)
GWST 345 - Unruly Bodies (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 352 - Women, Gender, and Information Technology (3.00)
GWST 353 - Marriage and the Family (3.00)
GWST 355 - The Sociology of Gender (3.00)
GWST 356 - The Psychology of Sex and Gender (3.00)
GWST 357 - Psychology of Women (3.00)
GWST 367 - The Anthropology of Gender (3.00)
GWST 370 - Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 371 - The Female Offender (3.00)
GWST 378 - Women, Gender and Science (3.00)
GWST 381 - Sexuality and Reproduction in the U.S. (3.00) (RoE)
GWST 433 - Gender, Work, and Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3.00)
GWST 434 - Gender and the Life Course (3.00)
GWST 485 - Sexuality and Queer Theory (3.00) (RoE)

Note:

A maximum of 6 credits of GWST electives may be taken at the 200 level.

A maximum of three credits of GWST independent studies may be counted toward the major, and a maximum of three GWST internship credits may be counted toward the major.

A grade of “C” or better is required in all courses applied toward the major.