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:

Required Courses:

Complete the following foundation courses:
SWG 200 - Introduction to the Study of Women and Gender
SWG 221 - Gender Issues
SWG 330 - Human Sexualities
SWG 400 - Interdisciplinary Frameworks for the Analysis of Women and Gender (intensified for a total of 4 credit hours)
Complete one of the following two theory courses:
SWG 380 - Contemporary Feminist Theories
SWG 381 - Transnational Feminist Theories
Complete 3 semester hours chosen from:
an approved internship
an approved stand-alone service learning course
STA 330 - Cuba-Culture, History, and Politics
STA 342 - El Salvador: Human Rights, Gender, and Globalization
Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation at the junior or senior level.
Complete five of the courses listed as elective courses (below)

Elective Courses:

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.