Women’s and Gender Studies

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Melanie Blood, Coordinator
(Welles 217B)

geneseo.edu/wgst

HEGIS Code: 4903.00

The Women’s and Gender Studies major at SUNY Geneseo is a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary program designed to be flexible to accommodate multiple focuses. It includes feminist analyses of the construction and enforcement of gender differences and gender inequalities in various contexts, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, and nationality in the lives of women. Students are encouraged to apply what they learn in Women’s and Gender Studies classrooms to other areas of their lives. All students take a core set of Women’s and Gender Studies courses plus at least one course in five content areas in which the study of women and gender provide significant insights, using feminist methodologies and pedagogy. Additionally, each student completes a three course sequence in one of the clusters and completes a capstone experience designed to apply concepts from the Women’s Studies Program toward their future career goals.

Programs

• Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A.

• Women’s and Gender Studies Minor

Courses

• WGST 100 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGST 201 - Historical and Political Topics: (subtitle)
• WGST 202 - Topics in Representation in the Humanities and Arts: (subtitle)
• WGST 203 - Topics in Gender in the Social World: (subtitle)
• WGST 204 - Global Issues of Sex and Gender: (subtitle)
• WGST 205 - Topics in Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies: (subtitle)
• WGST 230 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• WGST 232 - Safe Zone Train-the-Trainer
• WGST 240 - Arab Women, Islam, and Feminism
• WGST 310 - Race, Class, and Gender
• WGST 320 - Gender and Sexualities
• WGST 330 - Feminist Theories
• WGST 340 - Gender and Global Education
• WGST 490 - Senior Capstone Seminar
• WGST 493 - Honors Research
• WGST 495 - Internship
• WGST 499 - Directed Study

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