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School of Arts and Letters

Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies

Coordinator: Dr. Bernadette Faith Jesse
Campus Office: CV 027
Telephone: (812) 941-2098
E-mail:  bfolson@ius.edu

Mission/Vision Statement

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at IU Southeast is interdisciplinary and draws from diverse specializations. In the program, students learn and share knowledge about the way gender, sexuality, and culture shape the experiences, ideologies, individuals, and politics in the world.  Students explore issues of gender, sexuality, and culture in the context of history, literature, class studies, religion, art, philosophy, sociology, the natural sciences and other areas.  The Women’s and Gender Studies program is dedicated to working for intellectual excellence, educational equity and a campus free of sexism, racism, heterosexism and other forms of discriminatory treatment.

Student Learning Goals

  • Students will analyze gender and sexuality as social constructions. 
  • Students will reflect on variations in women’s and men’s experiences across nations, cultures, time, class, race, religion, etc.
  • Students will learn to recognize the intersectional nature of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class.

Certificate Requirements

24 credit hours in women's and gender studies, including:

  • WOST-W200 Women in Society – Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • WOST-W400 Selected Topics in Women's Studies (Senior Seminar)
  • 18 credit hours in other women's studies courses which must include:
    •  two humanities courses from approved list of electives
    •  two social science courses from approved list of electives
    •  at least 12 of these 18 credit hours must be in 300- to 400-level courses 

Dept.

Course Number

Title

Credit Hours

Minimum Grade

WOST-W

200

Women in Society – Introduction to Women’s Studies

3

C-

Electives

Dept.

Course Number

Title

Credit Hours

Minimum Grade

CJUS-P

335

Race, Gender, and Inequality in the Criminal Justice System

3

C-

ENG-L

207

Women and Literature

3

C-

ENG-L

335

Victorian Literature

3

C-

ENG-L

378

Studies in Women and Literature

3

C-

FINA-A

485

Women and Gender in the Visual Arts

3

C-

FINA-A

490

Special Topics in Art History

3

C-

HPER-H

305

Women's Health

3

C-
LSTU-L 210 Workplace Discrimination/Fair Employment 3 C-
LSTU-L 290 Topics in Labor Studies: Preventing Sexual Harassment 3 C-
LSTU-L 290 Topics in Labor Studies: Family Medical Leave Act 3 C-
LSTU-L 385 Class, Race, Gender, and Work 3 C-
PHIL-P 345 Problems in Social and Political Philosophy: Gender and Sexuality 3 C-

PHIL-P

394

Feminist Philosophy

3

C-

POLS-Y

324

Women and Politics

3

C-

PSY-B

388

Human Sexuality

3

C-

PSY-P

460

The Psychology of Women

3

C-

REL-R

364

Topics in Gender and Western Religion

3

C-

SOC-R

320

Sexuality and Society

3

C-

SOC-R

326

Masculinity and Society

3

C-

SOC-S

338

Sociology of Sex Roles

3

C-

SOC-S

416

The Family

 3 

C-

SOC-R

463

Inequality and Society

3

C-

SPCH-S

450

Gender and Communication

3

C-

WOST-W

495

Readings and Research in Women’s Studies

3

C-

Capstone

Dept.

Course Number

Title

Credit Hours

Minimum Grade

WOST-W

400

Selected Topics in Women’s Studies (Senior Seminar)

3

C-

 

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