Interdisciplinarity

You may take elective courses with our Associated Faculty, those professors who teach gender and/or use feminist methods in a range of other departments and programs. For example, GWS students have had course offerings in other departments to choose from such as:

• the study of Toni Morrison or the films of Alfred Hitchcock or Postcolonial Literature in the department of Literatures in English
• Anthropology of Sex and Gender, 320, or Anthropology of Reproduction, 355
• Sociology courses in Family Violence, or Women in Higher Education, or Inequality or Globalization
• Government courses in Women and US Politics or Women in World Politics
• History courses in Gender in Mexico and the Andes, or Women in Multicultural America
• The Psychology of Women, or Men and Masculinity
• Gender and the Body, Philosophy
• Comparative Studies in Culture 227: Bodies for Sale: Prostitution in Early Modern and Modern Europe (France and England)
• History of Sexuality, American Studies/History 270
• Muslim Women's Voices, Religious Studies, 311
• Women and Religion in South Asia, Religious Studies 393
• Gender in Architecture, Art History 325
• Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, Hispanic Studies 433
• Growing up in Latin America: The Bildungsroman in Latin American Narrative, Hispanic Studies 433, 434

Students in any major may also earn a certificate from one of the College's innovative interdisciplinary academic centers. Requirements for the certificate programs include a challenging combination of coursework, in-depth research and a funded summer internship in the U.S. or abroad.

• Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (CAT)
• Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
• Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy
• Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA)

A fifth center, the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, the hub for researching and teaching race and ethnicity across the disciplines.