SUNY Potsdam

32-37 credit hours required.
 
  Contact Person: Jacqueline Goodman, Director, of Women’s and  Gender Studies, and Department of Sociology, 311 Satterlee & 103 Morey, (315) 267-2116, goodmajk@potsdam.edu
 
  Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines  the historical construction and perpetuation of asymmetrical sex and gender systems, and their relationship to other systems of power. It  also explores the ways in which gender intersects with personal identities,  social arrangements, economic and political systems, and ways of knowing and understanding the world.
 
  Women’s and Gender Studies offers a major with course offerings from  fifteen departments in the School of Arts and Sciences, The Crane School  of Music, and the School of Education and Professional Studies. It also  offers a Women’s and Gender Studies minor.

Women’s & Gender Studies Major Requirements:
  The Women’s and Gender Studies major has four core requirements:

                       

1. Introductory Course	3. Feminist Theory
2. Research Methods	4. Senior Seminar

 
In addition, students take one course from four different disciplinary  perspectives:

                       

a. Historical	c. Artistic-Literary
b. Social-Political	d. Science-Health

Two additional W&GS electives are required as well. This interdisciplinary approach provides students with knowledge of key academic debates across the disciplines that frame the field of Women’s and Gender Studies.
 
All courses are 3 credits unless noted. Credits are divided as follows:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Required Courses		11-12
WMST 100	Women’s & Gender Studies 1 (3-4 credits)
WMST 360	Feminist Research Methods (4 credits)
WMST 462	Research Seminar (4 credits)
Feminist Theory Course		3-4
One of the following
POLS 353	Feminist Political Thought (4 credits)
PHIL 372	Feminism and Philosophy
Multidisciplinary Perspectives Courses		12-13
One course from each of the following four perspectives
Historical Perspective
HIST 304	History of American Women I
HIST 305	Modern American Women
HIST 450	Modern American Oral History
HIST 451	Witchcraft in Early America
ANTC 331	Women in Native America
COMM 416	Voices of American Women
Social-Political Perspective
ANTC 340	Anthropology of Gender
ANTL 342	Language and Gender
POLS 332	Women and Politics (4 credits)
POLS 323	Politics of Social Welfare (4 credits)
PSYC 363	Psychology of Women
SOCI 365	Sociology of Gender
SOCI 375	Women and Work
SOCI 376	Women and Crime
Artistic-Literary Perspective
DRAM 313	History of Theatre 2
DRAM 414	Contemporary Theatre Topics
LITR 355	Gender and Literature
LITR 445	American Women Writers
LITR 446	African American Writers
LITT 450	Images of Women in Francophone Cinemas
MUAH 350	Women in Music
Science-Health Perspective
ANTC 321	Cross-Cultural Aspects of Women’s Health
ANTC 346	Human Sexuality 2: Evolving Sex Roles
ANTC 421	Cross Cultural Aspects of Women’s Health
PSYC 363	Psychology of Women
HLTH 341	Issues in Sexual Health
HLTH 345	Issues in Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Health
HLTH 495	Women’s Health
Electives		6-8
Choose any two additional Women’s and Gender Studies courses. A         list of all approved Women’s and Gender Studies courses is available from the Director of the         Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Notes         Some courses have prerequisites in addition to WMST 100. See         catalog or instructors for other prerequisites. POLS 125 and SOCI 195 is the same as WMST 100. A minimum grade of 2.0 is required for all courses in the major. No course may double count for any of the above requirements. No more than two courses may double count with any other SUNY        Potsdam major or minor.