Gender Studies (B.A., B.S.)

Gender Studies Major (B.A. or B.S.**, 34-35 hours)

Core Requirements	14 hours
GEND 3000 Perspectives in Gender	4 hours
GEND 3270/PHIL 3270 Feminist Theories	3 hours
GEND 3400/COMM 3400 Communication and Gender or GEND 2360/GEND 3360/SOC 2360/SOC 3360 Gender and Society	4 hours
GEND 4970 Gender Studies Internship	3 hours

Electives	12 hours
Select courses from the following; three different disciplines must be represented:
GEND 2050/THTRE 2050 Dramatic Literature: Gender and Sexuality
ENG 2010 Masterpieces of Literature (Coming of Age or Sexualities) or GEND 2200/ENG 2200 Topics in World Literature: Sexualities
GEND 2300P/PHIL 2300 Philosophies of Race and Gender
GEND 2300R/RELIG 2300 Women and Religion
GEND 2350/SOCWK 2350 Family Violence Across the Lifespan
GEND 2370/HIST 2370 History of Women in the United States
GEND 3530/GEND 4530/HIST 3530/HIST 4530 Queens, Crusaders, and Wonder Women
GEND 2380/GEND 3380/SOC 2380/SOC 3380 Women and Crime
GEND 2550/PSYCH 2550 Psychology of Women
GEND 2650/PSYCH 2650 Psychology of Gender
GEND 2700/POLSC 2700 Women and Power
GEND 2830/MUSIC 2830 Music and Gender
GEND 2850/MUSIC 2850 Sex and the Arts
GEND 3960 Special Projects
GEND 2970/GEND 4970 Gender Studies Internship
GEND 2360/GEND 3360/SOC 2360/SOC 3360 Gender and Society (If not used in core requirements)
GEND 3400/COMM 3400 Communication and Gender (If not used in core requirements)
GEND 3410/ENG 3410 Women Writing Across Cultures
GEND 3550/GEND 4550/HIST 3550/HIST 4550 Women of the American West
GEND 3730/THTRE 3730 Gender and the Art of Film GEND 3300/PSYCH 3300 Transgender Identities
GEND 3830/MUSIC 3830 Music History: Gender and Sexuality

Research Methods Requirement	4-5 hours
Select one course from the following:
COMM 3500 Research Methods
ENG 4980 Ways of Reading: Theory and Practice
POLSC 2000 Introduction to Statistics and SPSS and POLSC 3010 Research Methods I: Design/Qualitative Methods or POLSC 3020 Research Methods II: Quantitative Methods/Project Implementation
PSYCH 2110 Research Methods in Psychology
SOC 3960 Quantitative Research Methods
SOC 3970 Qualitative Research Methods

Capstone Courses	4 hours
GEND 4980 Senior Research	2 hours
GEND 4990 Thesis Writing	2 hours

Additional courses and appropriate selected topics courses may be used for the major with the approval of the Gender Studies Committee.

**A Gender Studies major customarily earns a B.A. or B.S. degree. However, if a student has a first major that is associated with a different baccalaureate degree, the Gender Studies major may serve as a second major for the degree associated with the first major (B.F.A., B.M., or B.S.N.).