WST 101S - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of women and gender. Students will learn about the diverse histories that make women's studies a complex, but dynamic site for understanding how our ideas about healthcare, history, politics, media, and labor are shaped by gender, race, class, and nation. Students will also gain the conceptual tools, vocabulary, and methods that will help them analyze these ideas and contribute their own informed understandings to the study of women and gender. Every year. Credit: 4

	WST 277 - Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies
	An intermediate level study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's and gender studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): Varies. Credit: 2-4

	WST 297 - Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies
	An intermediate study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's and gender studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S or permission from instructor. Completion of Independent Study Form. Varies. Credit: 2-4

WST 330 - Contemporary Feminist Thought

In this course, students will concentrate on key texts from the late twentieth-and early twenty-first century that address core subjects of study in feminist theory.  Readings and discussion will address feminist approaches to identity, knowledge, power and resistance, the body, economics, globalization and transnationalism, and art and media. Race, class, gender, and cross-cultural perspectives are emphasized. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or permission of instructor. Every three years. Credit: 4

	WST 377 - Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies
	An advanced level study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S or permission of instructor. Varies. Credit: 2-4

WST 396 - Internship in Women's and Gender Studies

The internship in women's and gender studies offers students the opportunity to apply their understanding of the dynamics of gender and social change to the world at large while exploring possibilities for their own careers. Interns will design and carry out a project in ongoing consultation with a faculty advisor and a supervisor from a community organization. Interns will write a final paper and make a public presentation reflecting on the internship in light of their academic work in women's and gender studies. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S, WST 330. Every semester. Credit: 4-12

	WST 397 - Advanced Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies
	An advanced study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's and gender studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S or permission from instructor.  Completion of Independent Study Form. Varies.  Credit: 2-4