Program Requirements
Total units required: 18 units, 12 of which must be taken in courses numbered 3000 or higher.
Grade Requirement: C– or better; Pass/No Pass grades do not count for the minor.
Required Courses
Introductory Course: 3 credits
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| WGSS 1500 | Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
Any WGSS Course at the 2000 Level or Above: 3 credits
WGSS Courses, 2000-4999
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| WGSS 2060 | Introduction to Queer Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 2070 | Sexuality and the State: Introduction to Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 2080 | Constructions of Black Womanhood and Manhood in the Black Community | 3 |
| WGSS 2101 | Sophomore Seminar: Globalization and Its Disguises | 3 |
| WGSS 2210 | Gender and Texts | 3 |
| WGSS 2910 | Peer Counseling Training: Sexual Assault and Rape Anonymous Helpline | 3 |
| WGSS 2996 | Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective | 0 |
| WGSS 3000 | Sexual Politics: Power, Policy, and Pleasure | 3 |
| WGSS 3006 | Strangers at the Gate: Race, Sex, and Immigration in America | 3 |
| WGSS 3020 | Justice as Failure: Abolitionist Theory and Praxis | 3 |
| WGSS 3025 | On Love and Intimacy: Theorizing Kinship in the Multiple | 3 |
| WGSS 3030 | Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition | 3 |
| WGSS 3045 | Queer Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 3050 | Sex, Gender, and Popular Culture | 3 |
| WGSS 3055 | Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body | 3 |
| WGSS 3068 | Surveillance Tech and Sexuality | 3 |
| WGSS 3070 | Masculinities | 3 |
| WGSS 3071 | Feminism, Families, and Social Change | 3 |
| WGSS 3090 | Sex and Money: Economies of Desire | 3 |
| WGSS 3135 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3136 | Community-Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Youth Studies | 4 |
| WGSS 3155 | Gender, Health, and Society | 3 |
| WGSS 3165 | Queer Histories | 3 |
| WGSS 3170 | Community-Engaged Learning: Gender and Incarceration | 4 |
| WGSS 3175 | Community-Engaged Learning: Documenting the Queer Past in St. Louis | 4 |
| WGSS 3176 | Community Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Community Praxis | 4 |
| WGSS 3215 | Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3240 | Girls' Media and Popular Culture | 3 |
| WGSS 3256 | Sex Trafficking | 3 |
| WGSS 3340 | Feminist Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 3405 | Revolutionize It! the Radical History of Second-Wave Feminisms | 3 |
| WGSS 3446 | No Boys Allowed: Girlhood and Programming for Girls in 19th and 20th Centuries, United States | 3 |
| WGSS 3470 | Law, Gender, and Justice | 3 |
| WGSS 3475 | Queering the History of Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3500 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3510 | Women and Social Movements: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Social Movements | 3 |
| WGSS 3530 | Neither Man Nor Woman: Transgender Ethnographies in Global Context | 3 |
| WGSS 3555 | Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization. | 3 |
| WGSS 3575 | Confronting Capitalism: Feminism, Work and Solidarity | 3 |
| WGSS 3580 | Scribbling Women: 19th-Century American Women Writers | 3 |
| WGSS 3615 | Topics in Women,gender, and Sexuality Studies: Spectacular Blackness, Race, Gender, & Visual Culture | 3 |
| WGSS 3620 | Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3622 | Women, Health, and Media | 3 |
| WGSS 3640 | Gender, War, and Migration | 3 |
| WGSS 3650 | The Global History of HIV/AIDS | 3 |
| WGSS 3685 | Gender Violence | 3 |
| WGSS 3690 | Community-Engaged Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence | 3 |
| WGSS 3700 | Gender and Social Class | 3 |
| WGSS 3740 | Imperialism and Sexuality: India, South Asia, and the World: Writing-Intensive Seminar | 3 |
| WGSS 3996 | Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective | 0 |
| WGSS 4005 | Advanced Queer Theory: The Intimacy of Precarity | 3 |
| WGSS 4006 | Advanced Topics in Trans Theories: Femme | 3 |
| WGSS 4015 | Feminist and Queer Media Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 4016 | Queer of Color Critique | 3 |
| WGSS 4017 | Healing and Social Justice | 3 |
| WGSS 4020 | Transnational Queer Activism | 3 |
| WGSS 4045 | Queering Theory: Collaborating, Solidarity, and Working Together | 3 |
| WGSS 4085 | Everyday Unruliness: Feminist and Queer Resistance | 3 |
| WGSS 4115 | Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science | 3 |
| WGSS 4135 | The Politics of Pleasure | 3 |
| WGSS 4141 | Feminist and Queer Research Methodologies | 3 |
| WGSS 4150 | Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 4153 | Decolonization to Globalization: How to End an Empire | 3 |
| WGSS 4155 | Contemporary Feminisms | 3 |
| WGSS 4165 | From Mammy to the Welfare Queen: African American Women Theorize Identity | 3 |
| WGSS 4200 | Feminist Political Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 4230 | Black Sexual Politics | 3 |
| WGSS 4245 | Transnational Feminisms | 3 |
| WGSS 4270 | Thinking About Consent | 3 |
| WGSS 4280 | Sex and Gender in Public | 1.5 |
| WGSS 4350 | Queer and Feminist Geographies | 3 |
| WGSS 4370 | Reformers and Radicals: Feminist Thinking Through History | 3 |
| WGSS 4440 | Sex and Gender in Public | 1.5 |
| WGSS 4500 | Women, Law and Society | 3 |
Four WGSS or WGSS-Approved Courses at the 3000 Level or Above: 12 credits
All courses must be WGSS courses or WGSS-approved courses in other departments. Students may count up to 6 credit units from study abroad.
WGSS Courses, 3000-4999
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| WGSS 3000 | Sexual Politics: Power, Policy, and Pleasure | 3 |
| WGSS 3006 | Strangers at the Gate: Race, Sex, and Immigration in America | 3 |
| WGSS 3020 | Justice as Failure: Abolitionist Theory and Praxis | 3 |
| WGSS 3025 | On Love and Intimacy: Theorizing Kinship in the Multiple | 3 |
| WGSS 3030 | Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition | 3 |
| WGSS 3045 | Queer Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 3050 | Sex, Gender, and Popular Culture | 3 |
| WGSS 3055 | Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body | 3 |
| WGSS 3068 | Surveillance Tech and Sexuality | 3 |
| WGSS 3070 | Masculinities | 3 |
| WGSS 3071 | Feminism, Families, and Social Change | 3 |
| WGSS 3090 | Sex and Money: Economies of Desire | 3 |
| WGSS 3135 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3136 | Community-Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Youth Studies | 4 |
| WGSS 3155 | Gender, Health, and Society | 3 |
| WGSS 3165 | Queer Histories | 3 |
| WGSS 3170 | Community-Engaged Learning: Gender and Incarceration | 4 |
| WGSS 3175 | Community-Engaged Learning: Documenting the Queer Past in St. Louis | 4 |
| WGSS 3176 | Community Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Community Praxis | 4 |
| WGSS 3215 | Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3240 | Girls' Media and Popular Culture | 3 |
| WGSS 3256 | Sex Trafficking | 3 |
| WGSS 3340 | Feminist Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 3405 | Revolutionize It! the Radical History of Second-Wave Feminisms | 3 |
| WGSS 3446 | No Boys Allowed: Girlhood and Programming for Girls in 19th and 20th Centuries, United States | 3 |
| WGSS 3470 | Law, Gender, and Justice | 3 |
| WGSS 3475 | Queering the History of Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3500 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3510 | Women and Social Movements: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Social Movements | 3 |
| WGSS 3530 | Neither Man Nor Woman: Transgender Ethnographies in Global Context | 3 |
| WGSS 3555 | Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization. | 3 |
| WGSS 3575 | Confronting Capitalism: Feminism, Work and Solidarity | 3 |
| WGSS 3580 | Scribbling Women: 19th-Century American Women Writers | 3 |
| WGSS 3615 | Topics in Women,gender, and Sexuality Studies: Spectacular Blackness, Race, Gender, & Visual Culture | 3 |
| WGSS 3620 | Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3622 | Women, Health, and Media | 3 |
| WGSS 3640 | Gender, War, and Migration | 3 |
| WGSS 3650 | The Global History of HIV/AIDS | 3 |
| WGSS 3685 | Gender Violence | 3 |
| WGSS 3690 | Community-Engaged Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence | 3 |
| WGSS 3700 | Gender and Social Class | 3 |
| WGSS 3740 | Imperialism and Sexuality: India, South Asia, and the World: Writing-Intensive Seminar | 3 |
| WGSS 3996 | Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective | 0 |
| WGSS 4005 | Advanced Queer Theory: The Intimacy of Precarity | 3 |
| WGSS 4006 | Advanced Topics in Trans Theories: Femme | 3 |
| WGSS 4015 | Feminist and Queer Media Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 4016 | Queer of Color Critique | 3 |
| WGSS 4017 | Healing and Social Justice | 3 |
| WGSS 4020 | Transnational Queer Activism | 3 |
| WGSS 4045 | Queering Theory: Collaborating, Solidarity, and Working Together | 3 |
| WGSS 4085 | Everyday Unruliness: Feminist and Queer Resistance | 3 |
| WGSS 4115 | Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science | 3 |
| WGSS 4135 | The Politics of Pleasure | 3 |
| WGSS 4141 | Feminist and Queer Research Methodologies | 3 |
| WGSS 4150 | Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 4153 | Decolonization to Globalization: How to End an Empire | 3 |
| WGSS 4155 | Contemporary Feminisms | 3 |
| WGSS 4165 | From Mammy to the Welfare Queen: African American Women Theorize Identity | 3 |
| WGSS 4200 | Feminist Political Theory | 3 |
| WGSS 4230 | Black Sexual Politics | 3 |
| WGSS 4245 | Transnational Feminisms | 3 |
| WGSS 4270 | Thinking About Consent | 3 |
| WGSS 4280 | Sex and Gender in Public | 1.5 |
| WGSS 4350 | Queer and Feminist Geographies | 3 |
| WGSS 4370 | Reformers and Radicals: Feminist Thinking Through History | 3 |
| WGSS 4440 | Sex and Gender in Public | 1.5 |
| WGSS 4500 | Women, Law and Society | 3 |
WGSS-Approved Courses in Other Departments
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 3006 | Feminist Fire!: Radical Black Women in the 20th Century | 3 |
| AFAS 3255 | Black Masculinities | 3 |
| AFAS 3310 | Sabotage and Anarchy: The Study of Power, Mourning, and Resistance in Black Girlhood | 3 |
| AFAS 3644 | Look Here, Karen: The Politics of Black Digital Resistance to White Femininity | 3 |
| AFAS 3651 | Black Women Writers | 3 |
| AFAS 4030 | Sexual Health and the City: A Studiolab Course Course On the Politics of Reproduction | 3 |
| AFAS 4402 | Intersectionality | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3313 | Women and Islam | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4610 | Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations | 3 |
| ARTARCH 4913 | Queer: Arts, History, Theory | 3 |
| CLASSICS 3150 | Gender and Sexuality in Greco-Roman Antiquity | 3 |
| CLASSICS 3160 | The Women of Greek Tragedy | 3 |
| CLASSICS 4701 | Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 4270 | Technology and Feminist Practice | 3 |
| EDUC 3030 | Gender and Education | 3 |
| ELIT 3502 | Topics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction | 3 |
| ELIT 3690 | Reading Sex in Premodern England | 3 |
| ELIT 4102 | Medieval English Literature II | 3 |
| FILM 3450 | Sexual Politics in Film Noir and Hard-Boiled Literature | 3 |
| FILM 4250 | Seminar in Video Games: Video Games, Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
| FRENCH 4550 | Intersectional Identities in Medieval France | 3 |
| GLOBAL 4414 | Gender Analysis for International Affairs | 3 |
| HBRW 3090 | Israeli Women Writers | 3 |
| HISTORY 3056 | European Population Politics, 1900-2000 | 3 |
| HISTORY 3131 | Gender, Sexuality and Communism in 20th-Century Europe | 3 |
| HISTORY 3226 | Gender and Sexuality in 1950s America: Writing-Intensive Seminar | 3 |
| HISTORY 3416 | War, Genocide, and Gender in Modern Europe | 3 |
| HISTORY 3752 | Women in American History | 3 |
| HISTORY 4072 | Advanced Seminar: Sexuality in the United States | 3 |
| HISTORY 4080 | Nuns | 3 |
| HISTORY 4124 | Advanced Seminar: Women and Religion in Medieval Europe | 3 |
| HISTORY 4889 | Advanced Seminar: History of the Body | 3 |
| ITAL 4100 | Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context | 3 |
| JAPAN 4490 | Modern Japanese Women Writers | 3 |
| JIMES 3184 | A Rainbow Thread: A History of Queer Identities in Judaism and Islam | 3 |
| LATAM 3100 | Gender, Sexuality and Power in Brazil | 3 |
| MUSIC 3035 | Music and Queer Performance | 3 |
| POLSCI 3080 | Race and Ethnicity in American Politics | 3 |
| POLSCI 4218 | Gender and the Future of Work | 3 |
| PSYCH 3860 | Psychology of Black Women | 3 |
| RELPOL 3180 | The Abuse Crisis in Modern Christianity | 3 |
| SOC 3003 | Black Feminist Theory | 3 |
| SOC 3190 | Gender in Society | 3 |
| SOC 4721 | Race, Reproduction, and Justice | 3 |
Additional Information
- All minor courses must be WGSS courses or WGSS-approved courses in other departments. All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a grade, and students must earn a grade of C– or higher in all courses.
- We strongly encourage and support students who wish to study abroad and will accept up to 6 credits from approved programs. Please contact Amy Cislo, WGSS Study Abroad Supervisor, about this option.
Contact Info
| Phone: | 314-935-5102 |
| Email: | wgss@wustl.edu |
| Website: | https://wgss.wustl.edu |