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Majors and Courses of InstructionWomen’s and Gender StudiesRequirements for Women’s and Gender Studies major:• WGS 110• Choose one Theory Methods Course — PHIL 350, WGS 499A, 499B, 499C,499D, 499D, 499E.• Remaining Eight Units:• Program Courses (I) — WGS 200.2, 260, 300.1, 300.2, 300.3, 300.4, 490,491, 495, 499A, 499B, 499C, 499D, 499E• Discipline-Focused Courses (II) — ENG 224, 266, 268, 415, HIST 375,385B, HMCL 226, 251, PE 300.4, PG 260, PHIL 250, 350, PSYC 337, 339,SOAN 348, 349,• Related Courses (III) — ECON 277, ENG 226, 273, 278, 350, 360, 362, 369,FREN 379, GEOG 336, HMCL 124, 265, 375, PHIL 310, REL 352, SOAN351, 359, THEA 190.1, ZOOL 102, 251MinorMinor: Minimum five units consisting of WGS 110 and four units from program, disciplinefocused,or related courses. Of these four units, one unit must be from program courses.Courses 110. Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies (Schrock)This is an introductory survey course that exposes students to the current scholarship withinWomen’s and Gender Studies. WGS 110 specifically focuses on the diversity among women andpays particular attention to the ways race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and nationality affectwomen’s lives. Our topics of study include: a history of feminist movements and study of currentfeminist movements; violence against women; women and work; gender socialization; public policy;immigration; and global issues affecting women. This course fulfills the following: Diversity Courseand Group III (Humanities Literature) requirements.200.2. Multicultural Feminist Frameworks (Schrock)A variable content course where students will be introduced to institutions (such as “the economyor the labor market” or “media institutions”), processes (such as “migration” or “immigration”)and communities (such as growing youth market or U.S. communities of color or immigrantcommunities) through the framework of multicultural feminist scholarship. For instance, the WGS220 course specifically is targeted towards first and second year students (but open to all students)and is constructed in ways that facilitate and encourage future student apprenticeships/internships.Topics include: “Gender, Race and Work”, “Youth Cultures”, and “Gender, Race and the Media”.Comments: Group I Social Science Distribution; Diversity Course.300.1. Gender & Race in the Sciences (Richards, Tuhela-Reuning)This class has no prerequisite. We hope the science student who has not necessarily been exposedto women’s studies, the women’s studies student who does not really think of her/himself asa scientist, and any student interested in the ways that gender, race, and the physical sciencesintersect and affect our daily lives, will find these readings as enlightening as we have. Historically,students have been taught that science is free of the subjective, that proper use of the scientificmethod ensures a degree of objectivity. In the 1970s (and even earlier as our case study will reveal)feminist philosophers and academicians turned their gaze toward this assumption in a two-prongedapproach. Part of their, and our, project involves examining the difficulties women and peopleof color have had in the professional science fields and to call attention to those who have beenactive but not adequately acknowledged. Another aspect of concern to us, like the feminists, is275