2024-2025 Catalog 
  
    Oct 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Liberal Arts AA - Women’s and Gender Studies Option


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Code: AA.LA.WMST

The Women’s Studies option is an interdisciplinary major which examines women’s roles and achievements locally and globally. Various perspectives are presented through such courses as Women in History, Sociology of Gender Roles, Women in Literature, and Women and Religion.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

  1. Recognize how race, sexuality, class, ethinicity, ability, religion, and location intersect with gender identity in order to use this understanding in dialogue with others. [ACUE 2, Bloom’s 2]
  2. Apply feminism as both a concept and an analytical approach to study women and gender in different historical and cultural contexts. [ACUE 3, Bloom’s 3]
  3. Examine how diverse identities, cultures, and societies are structured by the intersections of categories including gender, race, sexuality, class, ability, religion, and global location. [ACUE 4, Bloom’s 4]
  4. Identify and evaluate core assumptions that are attached to contemporary systems of gender and sexuality. [ACUE 2/5, Bloom’s 2/6]

Recommended Semester Sequence


First Semester


Subtotal: 16 Credits


Second Semester


Subtotal: 16 Credits


Third Semester


  • History Elective 3 Credit(s)
  • Social Science Elective 3 Credit(s)
  • Humanities Electives 6 Credit(s)
  • Natural Science Elective 4 Credit(s)
  • WMST Core Course 3 Credit(s)

Subtotal: 16 Credits


Fourth Semester


  • Natural Science Elective 4 Credit(s)
  • Diversity Elective 3 Credit(s)
  • WMST Elective 3 Credit(s)
  • Free Elective 3 Credit(s)

Subtotal: 13 Credits


General Education Requirements


Subtotal: 9 Credits


History Electives


Subtotal: 6 Credits


Humanities Electives **


Two general education courses selected from the following fields, with no more than two courses in any one field: Arts (Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema Studies [CIN]); Literature (LIT); Philosophy and Religion (PHR); World Languages and Cultures (LAN).

Required:


One WMST course - choose either

Subtotal: 9 Credits


Social Sciences


Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology


  • Mathematics 4-credit Mathematics Elective OR (3-credit Mathematics Elective AND 1-credit INF); 4 Credit(s) *
  • Natural Science Electives 8 Credit(s) *

Subtotal: 12 Credits


Subtotal: 3 Credits


Subtotal: 45


PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS


WMST Core Courses


In addition to the WMST courses taken to satisfy General Education requirements, students will take three (3) WMST courses from the list below:

Free Electives ‡


Recommended: IST-123  

Notes: IST-123  will fulfill 3 credits of Free Electives for students who place into the course.

Subtotal: 6 Credits


Subtotal: 15 Credits


Total Credit Hours: 60


Specific Program Notes

Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.

Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.

* General Education Elective(s)  

** General Education Electives ;in Arts (ART, MUS,THR, CIN); Literature (LIT); Philosophy & Religion (PHR); or World Languages & Cultures (LAN).

‡ Recommended: IST-123  

IST-123  will fulfill 3 credits of Free Electives for students who place into the course

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