Thematic Concentration

Suggested Areas of Thematic Concentration

Feminism and Social Change

FG 118 Gender and Communication
FG 206 Feminist Political Thought
FG 206 The Feminist Sex (and Gender) Wars
FG 206 Women and Violence
FG 206 Women in Global Perspective
FG 210 and CS 212 Race, Class, and Gender
FG 216 Gender and Science
FG and PS 226 Gender and Politics
FG and HY 231 Women in America Before the Civil War
FG and HY 232 American Women in Industrial Society
FG and AN 238 Gender and Class in Latin America
FG and AN 239 Women, Men, and "Others": Gender Cross-culturally
FG, PS, CS 250 African-American Feminist Thought in Politics
FG, PS, and PA 348 Women's Liberation Movement in Communist China
FG and HY 360 Women and Public Policy in twentieth-century America
FG, SW 280 and EN 286 Poet as Witness to War
Other appropriate courses, with the approval of student's FGS adviser.

Feminism in Science and Technology

FG and PY Psychology of Gender
FG 206 Women and the Politics of Health Care
FG 206 and AN 211 Women in the Postcolonial World
FG 215 and EV 262 Ecofeminism
FG 216 Gender and Science
FG and GS 228 Human Sexual Behavior
FG 285 Women and the Body
FG 311 Feminist Research Methods
FG and BY 332 Animal Behavior
Other appropriate courses, with the approval of student's FGS adviser.

Gender and Sexuality Studies

FG and SO 112 Gender Inequality
FG 118 Gender and Communication
FG and PY 142 Psychology of Gender
FG and PY 160 Women and Madness
FG and PH 203 Philosophy and the Politics of Identity
FG 206 The Feminist Sex (and Gender) Wars
FG 206 and DR 200 Feminist and Queer Performance
FG 206 and FR 316 Images of the Prostitute
FG 206, PA and JA 250 Gender & Sexuality in Japanese Lit, Film, & Manga
FG 225 and CL 226 Empire& Power: Individual & Family in Ancient Rome
FG and GS 228 Human Sexual Behavior
FG and AN 239 Women, Men, and "Others": Gender Cross-culturally
FG and SO 258 Contested Masculinities
FG and EN 259 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature
FG and HY 271 History of Sex: Traditions
FG and HY 272 History of Sex: Modernity
FG 280 and EN 306 Queer Theory
FG 285 Women and the Body
Other appropriate courses, with the approval of student's FGS adviser.

Women of Color

FG 206 Women in Global Perspective
FG 210 and CS 212 Race, Class, and Gender
FG, AN and MU 222 Music and Gender Across Cultures
FG 224, PA 222, and CN 221 Chinese Women Writers and Their Works
FG and AN 238 Gender and Class in Latin America
FG 249 and RE 251 Feminist Religious Thought
FG, PS, CS 250 African-American Feminist Thought in Politics
FG, JA, and PA 251 Japanese Women Writers
FG and EN 274 Literature of the "New Woman" Era
FG 280 and EN 380, CS 200 "Words Will Never Harm Me": Interrogating Issues of Class, Gender, and Race in Children's Literature
FG 280 and EN 380 Black Women Writers and Slavery
FG, PS, and PA 348 Women's Liberation Movement in Communist China
FG, RE, and PA 357 Women in Hinduism and Buddhism
FG, PA, and RE 363 Devi: Goddesses of India
FG, EN, and CS 387 African-American Women Writers & Literary Tradition
Other appropriate courses, with the approval of student's FGS adviser.

Thematic Connections

Courses selected from any other area of concentration and/or other appropriate topics courses offered in a given academic year, with the approval of the student's FG major adviser, may be used to create a coherent concentration organized around an area of special interest to the student.

Other courses in recent years that might be included are FG and EC 202 Households and Markets: Women and the Economy; FG and AH 203 Women in Art; FG 206 and CO 200 Women on Top: Gender and Comedy; FG 206 and SW 200 Cowgirls and the West; FG 206 and HY 200 European Families; FG 206, CL 223, SO 190, and HY 200 Olympians and The Olympics: Ancient and Modern Sports Culture; FG and PH 284 Feminist Philosophies; FG and CL 220 Myth and Meaning; FG 225, CL 226, and HY 227 Empire and Power: Individual and Family in Ancient Rome; FG and SO 235 Sociology of Family; FG 249 and RE 251 Feminist Religious Thought; FG and EN 280 Issues in nineteenth century Literature: Mary Shelley and Jane Austen -- Monsters and Moralities; FG and EN 280 Issues in Medieval Literature: Joan of Arc; FG and EN 280 Morphing Bodies: Marie de France, Women and Medieval Romance; FG 280 and EN 310 Writing Medieval Women; FG and PS 321 Public Policymaking; FG and EN 326 Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Women; FG and EN 360 Women Writers of the Romantic Period; FG and RE 363 Devi: Goddesses of India; FG and EN 370 nineteenth century American Women Writers; FG and EN 381 Major Authors: Edith Wharton; other appropriate courses, with the approval of the student's FG major adviser.