Coordinator: Dr. Kelly Alisa Ryan
Campus Office: CV 027
Telephone: (812) 941-2393
E-mail:  ryanka@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:

1.  

   Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
   WOST-W	200	Women in Society – Intro to Women’s Studies	3

   Electives

   Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
   ENG-L	207	Women and Literature	3
   ENG-L	378	Studies in Women and Literature	3
   ENG-L	335	Victorian Literature	3
   ENG-L	384	Studies in American Culture	3
   FINA-A	270	Women in the History of Art	3
   HIST-A	260	Early North American Women’s History	3
   HIST-A	261	Modern American Women’s History	3
   HIST-H	214	Comparative Women’s History	3
   HIST-H	231	The Family in History	3
   HPER-H	305	Women’s Health	3
   PHIL-P	345	Problems in Social and Political Philosophy: Gender & Sexuality	3
   PHIL-P	394	Feminist Philosophy	3
   POLS-Y	200	Contemporary Political Problems	3
   POLS-Y	324	Women and Politics	3
   PSY-B	388	Human Sexuality	3
   PSY-P	460	The Psychology of Women	3
   REL-R	364	Topics in Gender & Western Religion	3
   SOC-R	220	The Family	3
   SOC-R	320	Sexuality and Society	3
   SOC-R	326	Masculinity and Society	3
   SOC-R	463	Inequality and Society	3
   SOC-S	310	The Sociology of Women in America	3
   SOC-S	321	Variations in Human Sexuality	3
   SOC-S	329	Women & Deviance	3
   SOC-S	338	Gender Roles	3
   SOC-S	413	Gender and Society	3
   SOC-S	423	Sexual Patterns and Variations	3
   SPCH-S	450	Gender and Communication	3
   WOST-W	495	Readings and Research in Women’s Studies	3

   Capstone

   Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
   WOST-W	400	Selected Topics in Women’s Studies (Senior Seminar)	3

    

   • WOST W 200 - Women in Society – Intro to Women’s Studies
   • WOST W 400 - Selected Topics in Women's Studies (Senior Seminar)
   • 18 credit hours in other women's studies courses which must include:
     •  two humanities courses (ENG, FINA, PHIL, SPCH, or REL courses)
     •  two social science courses (HIST,POLS, PSY, or SOC courses)
     •  at least 12 of these 18 credit hours must be in 300- to 400-level courses