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Dec 12, 2024
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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Gender and Women’s Studies, B.A.
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Gender, women’s, and sexuality 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 and transnational perspectives, Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies 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 major empowers students to imagine a more just future and equips them with the tools to collectively enact it.
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Major Requirements
- Minimum 36 credits
- Minimum grade of ‘C’ in courses applied to the major
- Students completing the Critical Sexuality Studies Minor may share a maximum of two courses between programs
Core Courses (15 credits)
Complete the following:
Elective Courses (21 credits)
Complete 21 elective credits: 12 credits must be from the three content areas as listed below, plus an additional 9 credits of GWST courses. Of these 21 elective credits, 6 credits must be designated Range of Experience (RoE) courses and 15 must at the 300 level and above. Students have the option to take up to 3 credits of independent study and 3 credits of internship towards completion of the major. Selected topics courses (CSST 292, CSST 392, CSST 492, GWST 290, GWST 390, GWST 490) may also be counted toward the 21 credits in electives.
History and Public Policy
Complete at least 6 credits from the following:
Representations as/in Culture
Complete at least 3 credits from the following:
- CSST 321 - Queer Representation in Film and TV (3) (RoE)
- GWST 220 - Introduction to Transgender Studies (3) (cross-listed with CSST 220 ) (RoE)
- GWST 245 - Arab and Muslim Experiences in the United States (3) (cross-listed as AMST 245 ) (RoE)
- GWST 258 - Philosophy, Race, and Gender (3) (cross-listed as PHIL 258 )
- GWST 320 - Transnational Feminist Film (3) (cross-listed as MLL 320 ) (RoE)
- GWST 322 - Gender, Race, and Media (3) (cross-listed as AFST 347 and MLL 322 ) (RoE)
- GWST 323 - Gender and Sitcoms (3)
- GWST 334 - Women in Music (3) (cross-listed as MUSC 334 )
- GWST 341 - Indigenous and Decolonial Feminisms (3) (RoE)
- GWST 342 - Gender in Modern South Asia (3) (RoE)
- GWST 343 - Gender, Human Rights, and Political Violence in Latin America (3) (RoE)
- GWST 344 - Transnational Femininities (3) (RoE)
- GWST 348 - Black, Queer, and Feminist Film (3) (RoE)
- GWST 349 - Gender, Sexuality and Theatrical Performance. (3) (cross-listed as THTR 349 ) (RoE)
- GWST 364 - Perspectives on Women in Literature (3) (cross-listed as ENGL 364 )
- GWST 365 - Black Women Novelists (3) (RoE)
- GWST 391 - The Philosophy of Sex (3) (cross-listed as PHIL 391 )
- GWST 413 - Language, Gender and Sexuality (3) (cross-listed as MLL 413 ) (RoE)
- GWST 458 - Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy (3) (cross-listed as PHIL 458 )
- GWST 464 - Studies in Women and Literature (3) (cross-listed as ENGL 464 )
Material, Social and Technological Contexts
Complete at least 3 credits from the following:
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