Curriculum
As a collaboration between the Glenn College and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, curriculum dives into the role of women’s voices in shaping policy, the path toward leadership and the state of gendering in major societal institutions.
- WGSST 1110: Gender, Sex & Power
Choose one from the following list:
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WGSST majors must take PUBAFRS 2110: Introduction to Public Affairs
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Public Affairs majors must take WGSST 2550: History of Feminist Thought
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Students from other majors can choose either of the above courses
Students must take three elective courses.
Choose at least one course from the following list:
- WGSST 2325: Health and Inequality
- WGSST 2350: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Violence
- WGSST 3200: Breaking the Law — An Introduction to Gender Justice
- WGSST 3300.01S: Feminist Perspectives of Incarceration in the U.S.
- WGSST 3302: Gender, War and Peacebuilding
- WGSST 3370: Sexualities and Citizenship
- WGSST 4189.01S: Reproductive Rights and Justice (service learning)
- WGSST 4402: Black Women — Representations, Politics and Power
- WGSST 4404: Regulating Bodies — Global Sexual Economies
- WGSST 4524: Women and Work
- WGSST 4525: Feminist Critiques of Markets — Profiting from Inequality
- WGSST/AFAMAST/COMPSTD 4921: Intersections — Approaches to Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
- PUBAFRS/AFAMAST/COMPSTD 5240: Race and Public Policy in the United States
- PUBAFRS 5250: Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy
- WGSST/SLAVIC 5450: Global Human Trafficking — Realities and Representations
Additional Electives (students may choose up to two courses from this list):
- PUBAFRS 2120: Public Service and Civic Engagement
- PUBAFRS 2130: Leadership in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
- PUBAFRS 2150: Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations
- WGSST 2326(S): Feminist Perspectives on Addiction (regular or service learning)
- PUBAFRS 3000: Public Policy Analysis
- PUBAFRS 3140: Nonprofit Management and Governance
- WGSST 3385: Women in Political Leadership Internship
- PUBAFRS 3500: Public Management
- PUBAFRS 4010: Public Affairs Decision-Making
- PUBAFRS 4020: Contemporary Issues in Governance — Washington, D.C.
- POLITSC 4138: Women and the Law
- POLITSC 4170: Gender and Politics
- PUBAFRS 4191: Public Affairs Internship or WGSST 3191 Internship
- WGSST 4513/POLITSCI 4175: Women, Government and Public Policy
- WGSST/POLITSCI 4597: Gender and Democracy in the Contemporary World
- PUBAFRS 5591: Lobbying and Government Relations