2007-08 Academic Year - Humboldt State University

Women’s Studies
Bachelor of Arts degree
with an Interdisciplinary Studies
major—option in Women’s Studies
Minor in Women’s Studies
A certificate of study in Women’s
Studies is also available (see
Certificates of Study).
Program Leader
Kim Berry, Ph.D.
Women’s Studies Office
Lower Library 55
(707) 826-4329
www.humboldt.edu/~womensst
The Program
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary field
of study that encourages inquiry into the full
range of human experience by raising fundamental
questions about gendered relations
in human behavior, culture, and society.
As the academic branch of the women’s
movement, Women’s Studies challenges
assumptions upon which the Western tradition
of scholarship has been based and seeks
to integrate the diverse experiences and perspectives
of women into the curriculum.
Our core curriculum offers students the analytical
tools for understanding gender as it is
constructed within and through differences
of ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nationality.
It enables students to interpret the diverse
lives, issues, and voices of women in our
multicultural and transnational world.
Women’s Studies faculty, from departments
campuswide, work closely with the program
leader to offer a dynamic and student-centered
major, minor, and certificate of study.
Our program also works with the studentrun
Women’s Center and other women’s
groups on campus to provide a network of
resources, support, and referral on womencentered
issues, organizations, and events.
We sponsor programs of interest to women,
including workshops, speakers, and an
annual women’s retreat.
This program is useful in the following
careers: administrator of nonprofit women’s
organization, affirmative action officer,
attorney, community organizer, computer
software designer, coordinator of women’s
programs in government and business,
counselor, editor, environmental activist,
international development worker, journalist,
legal assistant, lobbyist for women’s issues,
political advocate, psychologist, rape crisis
specialist, researcher on women’s projects,
social worker, teacher, union organizer, urban
planner, women’s center director, women’s
health care specialist, writer.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
MAJOR OPTION
The Interdisciplinary Studies major option
in Women’s Studies is comprised of 42
units, including 25 units in core courses
and 17 units in one of four concentrations.
Proficiency in a second language is either
recommended or required, depending on
the concentration selected.
Concentrations:
•Women & the Environment
•Women & Global/International Studies
•Women in Social & Community Service
•Women’s Expression in Art & Language
Core Courses
(required for all four major concentrations)
Lower Division [9 units]
WS 106 Introduction to Women’s
Studies
WS 107 Women, Culture, History
WS/ES 108 Power/Privilege: Gender &
Race, Sex, Class
Upper Division [16 units]
WS 311 Feminist Theory & Practice
WS 315 Sex, Gender, & Globalization
WS/ES 330 Ethnic Women in America
WS 485 Seminar in Feminist Studies
WS 410 Internship or
WS 420 Community Service [2 units]
Concentration: Women
& the Environment
Required [9 units]
WS 340 Ecofeminism
WS 350 Women’s Health & Body
Politics
WS 365 Women Writing Nature
Proficiency in a second language is recommended.
Electives
Eight units from the courses below:
ANTH/WS 317 Women & Development
BOT 300 Plants & Civilization
ENGR 305 Appropriate Technology
ENGR 308 Technology & the
Environment
ENGR 380 Community Agriculture
ENGR 480 Sustainable Agriculture
GEOG/ES 304 Migrations & Mosaics
PHIL/WLDF 302 Environmental Ethics
PSCI 373 Politics of a Sustainable
Society
RS 391 Religions of the Goddesses
WS 303 Third World Women’s
Movements
WS 305 Feminist Science Fiction
WS 309/SPAN 309/HIST 309
Revolution, Reform,
Response: Latin America in
the 20th Century [3-9 units]
WS 480 Diversity Conference
Or other advisor-approved courses
Concentration: Women &
Global/International Studies
Required [9 units]
WS 303 Third World Women’s
Movements or
WS 309 Revolution, Reform,
Response: Latin America
in the 20th Century
WS 340 Ecofeminism
ANTH/WS 317 Women & Development
Study abroad is desirable.
Proficiency in an appropriate second language
is required.
Electives
Eight units from the courses below:
GEOG/ES 304 Migrations & Mosaics
MATH 301 Mathematics & Culture: an
Historical Perspective
WS 303 Third World Women’s
Movements
WS/FREN/GERM/SPAN 306
Sex, Class & Culture:
Gender & Ethnic Issues in
International Short Stories
WS 309/SPAN 309/HIST 309
Revolution, Reform,
Response: Latin America in
the 20th Century [3-9 units]
WS 350 Women’s Health & Body
Politics
WS 450 Threads of Communication
WS 480 Diversity Conference
Or other advisor-approved courses
186 Women’s Studies
2007-2008 Humboldt State University Catalog