Program Overview

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Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A.

The program in women’s and gender studies at The University of Tulsa considers how gender and other intersecting factors, such as race, class, culture, sexuality, and age, have worked to shape the life experiences of people from diverse backgrounds. The program analyzes the contemporary and historical factors that underlie the current statuses of diverse individuals from all parts of the world and explores the various means by which people have sought to achieve equality.

The program’s dual emphases on interdisciplinary and intersectionality offer students analytical frameworks and methodological tools with which to understand people’s life experiences, interactions, and economic and social institutions. Courses promote awareness and knowledge of status-based oppression, people’s interrelationships, and the ways in which civil rights movements throughout history have struggled for equity. The program seeks to contribute to changing the attitudes and practices that either silence people’s voices or that work to devalue, marginalize, or subordinate certain people’s choices and life experiences. The Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in this area.

All women’s and gender studies (WGS) courses meet the requirements for human, cultural and gender diversity credit.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the undergraduate program in women’s and gender studies will:

1. Understand and analyze different ways in which genders and sexualities impact individuals and societies.
2. Analyze and evaluate facts and ethical positions regarding real-world women’s issues in local and global contexts.
3. Analyze and evaluate feminist, gender, and sexuality theories, and apply them to historical and contemporary texts and situations.
4. Write and communicate effectively in styles appropriate to the program’s participating disciplines.

Tulsa Curriculum and First Year Experience

• FYE 1001 First Year Experience
• AS 2001 The Liberal Arts and Preparation for Life after Graduation
• ENGL 1033 Exposition and Argumentation or
  • FS 1963 First Seminar I and
  • FS 1900 Writing Studio
• FS 1973 First Seminar II
• Foreign Language (12-14 hours)
• MATH 1083 Contemporary Mathematics (STAT 2013 or a higher MATH course taken for the major requirements will fulfill this requirement)
• 4973 Senior Project (3 hours)

General Curriculum

• Quad I: Creative Arts (6 hours)
• Quad II: Humanities (6 hours)
• Quad III: Social Sciences (6 hours)
• Quad IV: Natural and Applied Sciences (7 hours)

Some major required courses may be double counted to fulfill a quad requirement.

Major Requirements (30 Hours)

The women’s and gender studies major requires a minimum of 30 hours of coursework, six hours in the women’s and gender studies core and 24 hours in women’s and gender studies electives. Courses from at least three disciplines must be included in the elective credits, and 18 hours must be six courses at or above the 3000 level. Special topics courses and other variable content courses may be counted toward elective course requirements with the approval of the women’s and gender studies governing board. The capstone to the major is the senior project (a College requirement).

Women’s and Gender Studies Core (6 hours)

• WS 2013 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• WS 3113 Feminist Theory or
  • WS 4383 Queer Theory/Queer Lives

Women’s and Gender Studies Electives

Majors choose 24 hours. Minors choose 6 hours.

• WS 2033 Harry Potter and American Culture
• WS 2083 Psychology of Trauma
  • PSY 2083 Psychology of Trauma
• WS 2123 Crime, Justice, and Social Order
  • SOC 2123 Crime, Justice, and Social Order
• WS 2133 Inequality in American Society
  • ANSO 2133 Inequality in American Society
• WS 2153 Women and Democracy on Film
  • POL 2153 Women and Democracy on Film
• WS 2193 Literary Genders
  • ENGL 2193 Literary Genders
• WS 2213 Language, Gender and Society
  • LANG 2213 Language, Gender, and Society
• WS 2863 Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WS 2923 Beyond Bella: 21st Century Girls’ Adventure
  • ENGL 2923 Beyond Bella: 21st Century Girls’ Adventure
• WS 3013 Sociology of Work and Occupations
  • SOC 3023 Sociology of Work and Occupations
• WS 3023 French Feminism
  • CPLT 3023 French Feminism
• WS 3033 Masculinities
• WS 3063 Sociology of Education
  • SOC 3063 Sociology of Education
• WS 3093 Sociology of Poverty
  • SOC 3093 Sociology of Poverty
• WS 3123 Sociology of Family
  • SOC 3123 Sociology of Family
• WS 3133 Social Movements
  • SOC 3133 Social Movements
• ENGL 3053 Literature and Film
• WS 3173 Gender Across Cultures
  • ANSO 3173 Gender across Cultures
• WS 3183 The Vampire in American History and Culture
• WS 3223 Media & Identity
  • MSTU 3223 Media & Identity
• WS 3273 History of Women in the United States to 1900
  • HIST 3273 History of Women in the United States to 1900
• WS 3283 History of Women in the United States since 1900
  • HIST 3283 History of Women in the United States since 1900
• WS 3343 Literature after Stonewall
• WS 3473 The Victorian Period in British Literature
  • ENGL 3473 The Victorian Period in British Literature
• WS 3513 Modern Women Writers
  • ENGL 3513 Modern Women Writers
• WS 3523 Gender in Modernism and Postmodernism
  • ENGL 3523 Gender in Modernism and Postmodernism
• WS 3863 Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies I
• WS 4013 Women and Law
• WS 4023 Psychology of Women
  • PSY 4023 Psychology of Women
• WS 4053 Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Art
  • ARTH 4053 Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Art
• WS 4063 Psychology of Diversity or
  • PSY 4063 Psychology of Diversity
• WS 4123 Colloquium in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WS 4153 Women and Health
  • ANSO 4153 Women and Health
• WS 4333 Magnificent Art: Identity at the Renaissance Court
  • ARTH 4333 Magnificent Art: Identity at the Renaissance Court
• WS 4383 Queer Theory/Queer Lives
• WS 4593 Internship
• WS 4863 Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WS 4993 Independent Study

Required Minor (12 hours)

Some minors require more than 12 hours.

General Electives (25-27 hours)

Total: 120 hours

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• Arts & Sciences
• Business
• Engineering & Computer Science
• Health & Natural Sciences
• Graduate School
• Law

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