Electives

Descriptions of courses listed below are available on the Undergraduate Bulletins page. Many departments offer special topics courses that will count as electives. Consult with the Gender & Women's Studies department chair if you wish to take such a course for your major or minor in Women's Studies.

Electives in Gender & Women's Studies

• GWS 120W – Violence and Gender (3)
• GWS 225 – Introduction to LGBT Studies (3)
• GWS 251 – Coming of Age: Gender and Culture (3)
• GWS 260 – Selected Topics (1-4)
• GWS 265 – Women and Spirituality (1)
• GWS 277 – Individual Study (1-6)
• GWS 290 – Workshop (1-4)
• GWS 440 – Feminist Pedagogy (3)
  
• GWS 455 – Politics of Sexuality (3)
• GWS 460 – Selected Topics (1-4)
• GWS 477 – Individual Study (1-6)
• GWS 490 – Workshop (1-4)
• GWS 497 – Internship: College Teaching (1-6)
• GWS 498 – Internship: Community (1-6)

Electives Outside the Department

• ANTH 433 – Anthropology of Gender (3)
• ART 419 – Gender in Art (3)
• BIOL 102 – Biology of Women (3)
• CORR 444 – Women in the Criminal Justice System (3)
• ENG 402 – Gender in Literature (2-4)
• ETHN 470 – Women of Color (3)
• ETHN 480 – Social Justice in Ethnicity & Gender (3)
• HLTH 400 – Women's Health (3)
• HIST 408 – History of Women in Preindustrial Europe (4)
  
• HIST 487 – U.S. Women's History (4)
• LAWE 235 – Women in Law Enforcement (3)
• PHIL 115W – Philosophy of Race, Class, and Gender (3)
• PHIL 450 – Feminist Philosophy (3)
• POL 424 – Women and Politics (3)
  
• PSYC 460 – Psychology of Women (3)
• SOWK 420 – Women's Issues in Social Work (3)
• SOWK 427 – Social Work and Domestic Violence (3)
  
• SOC 209 – Sociology of Human Sexuality (3)
• SOC 307 – Sex and Gender in Contemporary Society (3)
• SOC 409 – Family Violence (3)
• SPEE 403 – Gender and Communication (3)