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102 Courses of Study Gender and Women’s Studies Scripps College Catalog
Gender and Women’s Studies
Assistant Professor Guzaitis
Affiliated Faculty
Professors Abrams, Adler, Coats, Finkelpearl, Forster, Gonzales-Day, Greene, Hatcher-Skeers,
Liss, Macko, Marcus-Newhall, Neiman Auerbach, Rachlin, Roberts, Sperling, C. Walker, S. Walker
Associate Professors Alcalá, Deeb, Groscup, Jacobs, Jáquez, Kang, Koss, LeMaster, MacNaughton,
Weinberg
Assistant Professors Delmont, Golub, Harley, Lemoine, Sanjuán-Pastor, Wernimont
Lecturer Castagnetto
The Gender and Women’s Studies Department examines women, gender and sexuality in relation
to race, class, ethnicities, belief systems, and nationalities. We offer an interdisciplinary framework
through which to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality and the material impact of
those constructions on the lives of women and men. We explore how norms of gender and sexuality
arise in different times and places, are challenged, and persist. We offer historical, contemporary,
and transnational analyses of how women in many different situations experience the dynamics
of oppression and resistance. We value open inquiry and critical rigor as we study and participate
in the cultural processes that construct gender in global contexts. From our engagement with and
critique of disciplinary practices in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, we
formulate new questions and forge new critical paradigms and methods for generating feminist
knowledge. Our courses satisfy campus breadth requirements, develop critical analysis and writing
skills, and transform students’ understanding of and engagement with the world around them.
A student who majors in Gender and Women’s Studies will take a strong liberal arts background
linked to a range of practical experiences into a range of endeavors. Graduates may pursue
advanced training and degrees in the arts, humanities, social sciences, or law; or pursue work
in the private sector, government, social services, women’s advocacy programs, or NGOs. The
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) at Scripps participates in the Intercollegiate
Women’s Studies Program (IWS) at The Claremont Colleges.
Requirements for the Major
A student may choose to pursue either of the following tracks leading to a major in Gender and
Women’s Studies:
Gender Studies Track
Students choosing the gender studies track are required to complete a total of 11 courses:
1. GWS 26. Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
2. GWS 181. Feminist Community Engagement (or a GWS course with a feminist community
engagement component).
3. Four courses that constitute a concentration* in GWS. Two of the four courses must be upper
division and drawn from the GWS 187 offerings.
4. One upper division GWS course addressing issues of race.
5. GWS 184. Seminar in Feminist Theory.
6. GWS 189. Doing Feminist Research.
7. GWS 190. Senior Seminar.
8. GWS 191. Senior Thesis.
*Concentration to be decided upon in consultation with major adviser. Also, the student’s senior
thesis needs to be on a topic related to the concentration. Examples of concentrations include:
Gender and Media; Transnational Feminisms; Feminism, Science, and Technology; Gender and
Politics; Feminist Forms of Expression; Postcolonial Feminisms; Gender, Feminisms, and the
Politics of Representation; Gender and the Environment; Feminist Cultural Studies; Critical Race
and Feminist Theories; Gender and the Criminal Justice System
Queer Studies Track
Students choosing the queer studies track are required to complete a total of 11 courses:
1. GWS 26. Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies.
2. GWS 36. Introduction to QueerStudies .