Major

Major Requirements: 10 Courses

Section I: Five Core Courses

  • WGS 200 Women, Culture and Society
  • WGS 325 Feminist Theories
  • WGS 398 Field Study in Women’s Studies
  • WGS 495 Senior Seminar


Choose one of the following:

  • WGS 260/AAS 280 Africana Women in Historical Perspective
  • WGS 360/LIT 334 Lit by Latinas & Latin American Women
  • WGS 375 Global Feminisms
  • WGS 376/LIT 316 Global Women Writers*
  • WGS 380/HON 338 Gender and Democracy
  • WGS 381/ANT 311 Women and Migration

* Elementary Education and Early Childhood majors must choose WGS 376/LIT 316 Global Women Writers or WGS 360/LIT 334 Lit by Latinas & Latin American Women

Section II: Women’s Studies Options

Five additional WGS courses.*

* Elementary Education and Early Childhood majors must choose:

  • WGS 225 Gender and Children’s Literature
  • WGS 302 Women in the US to 1900; or WGS 303 Women in 20th Century US; or WGS 361 African American Women’s History
  • Three additional WGS/History Courses
  • Two additional WGS/English Courses

Section III:

Five courses of the ten in the major must be at a level of 300 or above.

See WGS Course listings at http://wgs.pages.tcnj.edu/courses/undergraduate-course-information/

 

 

WGS/EDUCATION MAJORS

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