The following FAS courses were pre-approved for WGS concentration credit in the 2009-2010 academic year. If you would like to petition to count a course that does not appear on this list, please submit a copy of the syllabus to the director of undergraduate studies along with a completed petition form, which is available on the website or in the front office.
General Education
Primarily for Undergraduates
For Undergraduates and Graduates
Primarily for Graduates
General Education / Core
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 26 (formerly Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1133). Gender and Performance
Literature and Arts A-63: Women Writers in Imperial China: How to Escape from the Feminine Voice
United States in the World 26: Sex and the Citizen
Primarily for Undergraduates
English 90ow: Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity
Freshman Seminar 34i: Girl Talk: Reflections on Gender and Youth in America
Freshman Seminar 42y: Women in 20th Century China
Freshman Seminar 45e: The Mother-Daughter Power Failure: Women, Leadership, and the Problem of Political Inheritance
Freshman Seminar 45k: The Politics of the Female Body in Modern America
Freshman Seminar 45o: Sexuality in American History, Politics, and Culture
Historical Study A-86: Men and Women in Public and Private: the US in the 20th Century
History 74c: Bodily Functions: Histories of Bare Life and Bio-Power
History 81f: Women's Voices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
History and Literature 90s: Cloak and Swagger: Fashioning the Body in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Visual and Environmental Studies 62: Film Fatale: Sculpture, Performance and Video Essay
For Undergraduates and Graduates
African and African American Studies 121: Please, Wake Up! - Race, Gender, Class and Ethnicity in the Early Films of Spike Lee
African and African American Studies 122: Caribbean Women Writers
African and African American Studies 133: Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropology 1712. Cultures of Reproduction
Economics 1356: Economics of Work and Family
* English 154: Literature and Sexuality
French 157: The Hermaphroditic Imagination
French 180: "The Words to Say It": Women Writing in French from Colette to Satrapi
History 1166: Marriage, Sex, and Family in Western Europe, 1250-1750: Conference Course
History 1259: European Sexual Modernities
Human Evolutionary Biology 1310: Hormones and Behavior
Human Evolutionary Biology 1312: Human Sexuality: Research and Presentation Seminar
Human Evolutionary Biology 1380: The Behavioral Biology of Women
Italian 162: Intimate Architectures: Dwelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Italian Women Writers
Japanese History 145: Lady Samurai in Medieval Japan
Japanese Literature 124: The Tale of Genji in Word and Image
Japanese Literature 162: Girl Culture, Media, and Japan
Religion 1060: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary
Religion 1082: Writing Lives: Women Writing Religion
Religion 1090: Voodooizations and Politics of Representations
Religion 1414: Gospel Stories of Wo/men
Religion 1458: Mourning, Melancholia, and Mysticism
Religion 1473: Christian Sexual Ethics
Religion 1485: Queer Theology
Religion 1486: Feminism and Global Christianity
Religion 1825: Themes in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview
Primarily for Graduates
Anthropology 2765: Gender in Conflict: Violence, Militarism and War
Government 2576: Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
History 2970: Gender History: Proseminar
Human Biology and Translational Medicine 306: Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Biomarkers, Women's Health
Japanese Literature 221: Gender, Nation, and Japanese Literature
Religion 2550: Women and Religion in Contemporary America: Seminar
Religion 2900: Ethnography of the African Diaspora: Race, Gender and Power
Romance Studies 201: Approaches to Theory