Program Overview

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Major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

To declare a major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, students must visit the Rutgers myMajor system.

Major Requirements

• Students are required to complete twelve 3-credit courses (with a grade of C or better) in the major, for a total of 36 credits.
• 18 credits must be in required 988 courses, and 18 credits must be in elective 988 courses or in approved cognate courses from other departments.

Requirements for Students Declaring the Major After March 2020

I. Introductory Study

• 988:101 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality (3 credits)
• or
• 988:130 Knowledge and Power (3 credits)

II. Feminist Practices and Methods

• 988:201 Feminist Practices (3 credits)
• or
• 988:284 Feminist Knowledge Production (3 credits)

III. Feminist Theory

• 988:301 Feminist Theory: Historical Perspectives (3 credits)
• or
• 988:302 Feminist Theory: Contemporary Engagements (3 credits)

IV. Transnational Feminisms

• 988:303 Global Feminisms (3 credits)
• or
• One approved WGSS Transnational Feminism Course

V. Intersectionality

• 988:235 Dynamics of Class, Race, and Sex (3 credits)
• or
• One approved WGSS Intersectionality Course

VI. Senior Experience

• Internship (988:422 or 988:426)
• or
• Senior Seminar (988:490)
• or
• 400-level special topics (988:491 or 988:492)
• or
• Honors Seminar (988:497 or 988:498)

VII. 6 Elective Courses

• At least 4 approved electives must be 300 level or above

Requirements for Students Declaring the Major Prior to March 2020

• 988:101 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality (3 credits)
• or
• 988:202 Gender, Culture, and Representation (3 credits)
• or
• 988:235 Dynamics of Class, Race, and Sex (3 credits)
• 988:201 Feminist Practices (3 credits)
• 988:301 Feminist Theory: Historical Perspectives (3 credits)
• (Pre-req: 988:101, 201, 202 or 235, or by special permission)
• or
• 988:302 Feminist Theory: Contemporary Engagements (3 credits)
• (Pre-req: 988:101, 201, 202 or 235, or by special permission)
• 988:303 Global Feminisms (3 credits)
• (Pre-req: 988:101, 201, 202 or 235, or by special permission)
• 988:370 Critical Feminist Investigations (3 credits)
• (Required for all honors students)
• or
• A 300 or 400 level WGS Elective
• 988:422 Internship in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 credits)
• or
• 988:490 Seminar: Women & Contemporary Issues (3 credits)
• or
• 988:491, 492 Special Topics (3 credits)
• (Pre-req: 988:301, 302, or 303)
• or
• 988:426 Internship for IWL Scholars (6 credits)
• (Pre-req: Acceptance into IWL Leadership Scholars Program and 01:988:344, or by permission of instructor)

Six (6) WGS Electives

• Elective courses chosen from either the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies core course list, the approved cognate course list, or other courses approved by a program adviser.
• At least four of these six elective courses must be at the 300-level or above.

Offered Courses

• 01:988:101 Introduction to Race, Gender, and Sexuality (3)
• 01:988:130 Knowledge and Power: Issues in Women's Leadership (3)
• 01:988:160 Women in the Global Economy
• 01:988:201 Feminist Practices (3)
• 01:988:202 Gender, Culture, and Representation (3)
• 01:988:235 Dynamics of Class, Race, and Sex (3)
• 01:988:240 Gender and Science (3)
• 01:988:250 Feminist Perspectives (3)
• 01:988:252 Mentoring, Leadership, and Young Women's Lives (3)
• 01:988:255 Gender, Art, and Society (3)
• 01:988:257 Gender and the Body: Representation and Pornography (3)
• 01:988:258 Gender, Race, and Contemporary Art (3)
• 01:988:259 Homosexuality and Visual Culture (3)
• 01:988:260 The Modern Girl (3)
• 01:988:270 War: Critical Perspectives (3)
• 01:988:280 Introduction to Critical Study of Masculinities (3)
• 01:988:284 Feminist Knowledge Production (3)
• 01:988:285 Lesbians and Gay Men and Society (3)
• 01:988:290 Introduction to Critical Sexualities (3)
• 01:988:299 Mentoring Leadership and Practice (3)
• 01:988:301 Feminist Theory: Historical Perspectives (3)
• 01:988:302 Feminist Theory: Contemporary Engagements (3)
• 01:988:303 Comparative Feminisms (3)
• 01:988:307 Women and the Law (3)
• 01:988:308 Women and Society in the Islamic Middle East (3)
• 01:988:310 South Asian Feminism (3)
• 01:988:311 Gender, Race, and Visual Media (3)
• 01:988:312 African Feminism (3)
• 01:988:317 Gender and Consumption (3)
• 01:988:318 The Gendered Body (3)
• 01:988:321 Queer Contexts (3)
• 01:988:325 Women on the Fringe (3)
• 01:988:326 Psychology of Women (3)
• 01:988:329 Race, Gender, and Nation (3)
• 01:988:330 Memoir and Autobiography (3)
• 01:988:331 Theorizing Sexuality and Gender (3)
• 01:988:332 The Color of AIDS: The Politics of Race During the AIDS Crisis (3)
• 01:988:333 Power, Subjectivity, and Resistance (3)
• 01:988:337 Globalization, Sex, and Families (3)
• 01:988:341 Gender and Popular Culture (3)
• 01:988:344 Women and Leadership (3)
• 01:988:350 Gender and Spirituality (3)
• 01:988:368 Producing Identities: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexualities (3)
• 01:988:369 Feminism, Space, and Visuality (3)
• 01:988:370 Critical Feminist Investigation (3)
• 01:988:371 Making Change (3)
• 01:988:372 Contemporary Feminist Activism (3)
• 01:988:387 Feminism, Signs, and Representation (3)
• 01:988:392 Thinking Bodies (3)
• 01:988:394 Black Women in the United States (3)
• 01:988:395 Race, Gender, Media, and the Law (3)
• 01:988:396 Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3)
• 01:988:397 Freud and Feminism I--Sexuality (3)
• 01:988:398 Freud and Feminism II--The Unconscious (3)
• 01:988:399 CESEP (1)
• 01:988:405 Gender and Human Rights (3)
• 01:988:406 Women, Work, and Social Change (3)
• 01:988:407 Women’s Global Health Movements (3)
• 01:988:408 Gender, Economic Inequality & Health (3)
• 01:988:409 Gender, Environmental Justice & Health (3)
• 01:988:410 Debt, Crisis, and Women's Health (3)
• 01:988:412 Global Food Politics: Health Consequences (3)
• 01:988:413 The Global Pharmaceutical Economy & Health (3)
• 01:988:414 Care Work (3)
• 01:988:416 Women's Global Health: Special Topics (3)
• 01:988:420, 421 Women's Global Health Internship (3, 3)
• 01:988:422 Internship in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3)
• 01:988:425 Internship in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (6)
• 01:988:426 Internship for IWL Scholars (BA)
• 01:988:429 Engendering Development (3)
• 01:988:430 IWL Social Action Project (BA)
• 01:988:480 Ethics and Leadership (3)
• 01:988:481 Feminism and Visual Culture (3)
• 01:988:482 Feminism, Policy, and the Poor (3)
• 01:988:485 Motherhood: Nature and Culture, Policy, and Politics (3)
• 01:988:486 Gender, Development, Environment: Policies, Politics, Perspectives (3)
• 01:988:487 Language of Women's Health and Health Policy (3)
• 01:988:490 Seminar: Women and Contemporary Issues (3)
• 01:988:491 Seminar in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3)
• 01:988:492 Seminar: Special Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3)
• 01:988:493, 494 Independent Study (3, 3)
• 01:988:497-498 Honors Research in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3, 3)