Interdisciplinarity in
Gender and Women's Studies

Gender and Women's Studies offers the rigors of a discipline with the interdisciplinarity of courses offered by professors in other departments. Our core courses have already incorporated a synthesis of the gendered analysis of humanities, the social sciences, arts, and sciences that have emerged in the academy over the past forty years.

You may also 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, which  may include: 

• the study of Toni Morrison or the films of Alfred Hitchcock or Postcolonial Literature in the English Department
• 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, or Suffragists and Welfare Warriors in the US and New Zealand
• 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 Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies
• 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.

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