Complete List of WGS Approved Electives

Women & Gender Studies Approved Electives as of Dec 2011

KEY

Ö - Courses that fulfill the pre-1800 requirement.

» - Courses that fulfill the outside the western norm requirement.

ANT             232I            Anthropology of Sex and Gender Ö

ARH             311            Gender Identity and Modern Art

CMS             310             Cinema and Women (WST 345)

CMS             486            Women in Film (WST 445)

CMS             498            Feminism and Film (WST 445)

CRM             317            Gender and Crime (WST 365)

ECO             322             Economics of Women and Work

ENG            326            Arab Women Writers (WST 345) »

ENG            263            New Woman in American Fiction (WST 345)

ENG            319            Species, Sex, Gender, and Science Fiction (WST 335)

ENG            344            Sex/Gender and Sexuality

ENG             342             Recent Theories on Gender & Sexuality

ENG            345            Racial Formations

ENG             348             David Bowie

ENG            353            Medieval Women Writers (WST 345) Ö

ENG             354             Joan of Arc Ö (WST 365)

ENG             366            Aphra Behn and the Libertine Tradition (WST 320)

ENG             377             Oscar Wilde

ENG             379             Earlier Women Writers Ö

ENG             387             Women Writers Since 1900 (WST 345)

ENG            387            Women Writers Since 1900: Lesbian Fiction (WST 345)

ENG            387            Other Feminisms (WST 345)

ENG            394            New Woman in American Fiction (WST 345)

ENG            445            American Contexts of Witchcraft (WST 445) Ö

ENG            491            Performing Race and Gender in 20th Century America

ENG             491            Women and Islam: The Veil (WST 445) »

GEO            302            Gender, Work, and Space (WST 365)

GEO             450            Gender, Race,  Class and the City (WST 465)

HRD            545            Gender and Learning (WST 320)

HTY            339            European Women’s History (WST 355)

HTY            341            Black Women in the Americas

HTY             364             History of Women in the United States (WST 355)

HTY             364             Maine Women’s Lives (WST            355)

HTY            394            Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (WST 365)

HTY            394            Modern China: Women, Culture, and Revolution »

HTY            394            Homosexuals and Heterosexuals in History

HTY            394            History of Women in 20th Century America

HTY            394            History of Women in Maine

HTY            394            History of Women in Latin America »

HTY            394            Pioneer Women in America West: Myth and Reality

HTY            394            Sexuality, Disease, Difference: 17th-20th Century Ö

HTY             394            American Women’s Lives: 20th Century

HTY            394            European Women’s History Ö

HTY            394            Russian Women’s History »

HTY            394            Caribbean Women: Barbados and Jamaica »

HTY            394            The Historical Construction of Sexuality

HUM            251H            Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Culture

HUM            342            Contemporary Women of Color in Fiction

HUM            342H            Women Writing Around the World

HUM            358H            Motherhood: Political Institution, Cultural Icon, Defining Experience           

HUM            389            Sexuality in Literature and Film

HUM            389H            Sexualities in US Literature and Culture (WST 320)

PHI             110E            Sex, Gender, and Society

PHI            112E/W             Introduction to Philosophy: Feminist Perspectives

PHI            220            Philosophy of Art (WST 245)

PHI            221            Philosophy of Film                                                           

Phi             245            African Diaspora, Social Justice and Exile (WST 245) »

PHI             265             Philosophy and Gender

PHI             312            Gender in African Literature and Film »

RUS            281H            Russian Literature in Translation: Women Writers »

SBS            341            The Family

SBS            361            Psychology and Sociology of Women

SOC             316             Sociology of Gender (WST 365)

SOC             330             Sociology of the Family

SOC             358             Sociology of Women’s Work (WST 365)

SOC            365            Sociology of the Body (WST 335)

SOC             380             Sociology of Sexuality

SOC             393            Women, Welfare, and the State (WST 365)

SWO            374            Sexual Harassment in Education and Work (WST 320)

SWO             375/575             Gender and Aging (WST 365/465)

THE            451            Women and Theater

THE            451            20th Century U.S. Women Playwrights

THE            451            Butches, Bitches, & Buggers: An Exploration of Twentieth-Century Queer Drama

WST            320            Gender and Faith Traditions: Critical Perspectives Ö

ANES            599            American Contexts of Witchcraft (WST 455) Ö

ANES            645            Advanced Topics: Women and Popular Culture (WST 420)

ANES            650            Shopping: The Gender and Politics of Consumption

ANES            650            Women Writing Across the Color Line (WST 445)

ANES             665             Sex in New England (WST 420)