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Nov 27, 2024
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Undergraduate Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
Study of Women and Gender - B.A.
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The study of women and gender major emphasizes critical, feminist, cross-cultural, multiracial, and transnational understandings of the diversity of women’s experiences. It also seeks to reach an understanding of how questions of gender are embedded in the liberal arts and sciences tradition. The major introduces diverse perspectives and understandings concerning the construction of femininity and masculinity, inequality and poverty, violence and crime, race and social class, culture and media, politics and the law, and sexuality and reproductive rights in historical and contemporary contexts.
Major Requirements:
A minimum of 34 semester hours, including:
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Elective Courses:
- ENGL 277 - Women, Gender, and Literature
- HIST 244 - Latin American Women
- HIST 344 - Historical Experience of Women in the United States
- HIST 368 - Gender and Urban Life
- HIST 371 - Work, Family, and Gender 1500-1945
- PSYC 325 - Psychology of Gender
- SWG 107 - Black Women In Society
- SWG 220 - Women In Philosophy
- SWG 222 - Black Women Writers
- SWG 230 - Sociology of Gender
- SWG 235 - Women in Political Philosophy
- SWG 256 - Marriage and Family Life
- SWG 257 - Women and Religion
- SWG 263 - Women of the Italian Renaissance
- SWG 269 - Women Leaders in the World
- SWG 273 - Great Women Mystics
- SWG 277 - Women and Film
- SWG 290 - French Women Writers: Poetry, Theater, Prose
- SWG 297 - Women in Politics
- SWG 320 - Gender and Violence
- SWG 350 - Medieval Women and Gender
- SWG 351 - Women and Development
- SWG 352 - Images of Woman in Drama
- SWG 358 - Gender and Media
- SWG 382 - Constitutional Law III: Gender and Race
- STA 330 - Cuba-Culture, History, and Politics
- STA 342 - El Salvador: Human Rights, Gender, and Globalization
- THEO 321 - Sexual Ethics
Additional Requirements:
- A minimum of seven courses in the major field must be completed at Dominican.
- Students may not take courses that count towards the major on a satisfactory/fail basis.
Additional Information
- Students may petition the SWG director to consider credit for additional classes; this may include relevant special topics courses, and directed and independent studies.
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