A social science perspective of women in psychological, sociological, historical, anthropological, economic, and political contexts; the changing roles, images, and institutions.

Carolina Core: GSS, VSR

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy

Basic functioning of the female body; effects of society on processes of health and disease. Not for natural sciences credit.

Carolina Core: GSS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Anthropological study of gender, with emphasis on cross-cultural investigation of the interaction of biological, cultural, and environmental factors including intersections of race, social class, and sexuality as influences gender behavior.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Childhood, maturity, old age, and gender socialization within the family.

Carolina Core: GSS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Supervised experience addressing a community organization’s needs and allowing the student to explore an aspect of the community related to women’s and gender studies issues. Contract approval by advisor required.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Offers a sociological lens to develop critical ways of thinking about sex and gender as social processes in everyday lives. This course considers how sex and gender shape and affect the experiences of women, men, girls, boys, and individuals who live in the spaces in-between (those who are intersex or transgender) across a wide range of social institutions (family, work, education, politics, etc.).

Carolina Core: GSS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

The psychological, physiological, and social characteristics of marriage.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Historical and contemporary power relationships in race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation.

Cross-listed course: POLI 305, SOCY 304

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Sociological perspectives related to various aspects of family behaviors, roles, and values.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

This course introduces anti-oppressive theoretical and applied approaches to understand and address intersections of gender and racial inequality. Social welfare policies and services available to women in contexts such as criminal justice, behavioral health, child welfare, and the military are examined.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Historical development of feminist theory and contemporary debates within feminism.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

An interdisciplinary survey of the contributions of African-American women to feminist theory.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Overview of theories, history, literature, politics, legal, health, and social issues connected to sexualities, including the intersections of gender, race, and social class.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Women’s experiences: childhood and adolescence, work, family, cultural images, adjustment and social change.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

The study of the relationship among persons of color, women, and the mass media in the United States.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Gender roles, standards of sexual behavior, evidence for women’s lives, as manifested in ancient Greek literary and archaeological evidence; attitudes toward homosexuality; the modern media’s representation of famous Greeks.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Sexuality as a social construct exemplified in standards of sexual behavior in ancient Rome and their reinforcement of the ruling ideology; feminine virtue, definitions of manliness, attitudes toward homosexuality.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Gender and sexuality in the shaping of social and individual identity in religious contexts.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Introduces feminist philosophy and applications to philosophical problems.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Introduces the connection between gender and the Chinese national imagination. Readings include cultural and historical documents that purport to explain the experience of women in China. Readings in English. Taught in English.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Kinship, systems of descent, marriage, and domestic organization in different cultures. Variations in childrearing practices, gender, and other aspects of social relations in kin groups. Cross-listed Course: ANTH 351

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Impact of gender on the distribution of power in society; foundations for intersections of gender, race, social class, and sexuality and their economic, social, and political concomitants.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

The role of women and gender in the construction of western science from historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives.

Survey of women in European history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Focus on women’s citizenship beginning with Enlightenment idea of rights through developments in modern feminism.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Examines the dialectic between globalization and the social construction of gender. Topics include the global assembly line, transnational markets for domestic labor and sex workers, and global feminist alliances.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Anthropological study of pregnancy and birth with a cross-cultural focus comparing the United States to other nations. Examination of cultural factors such as prenatal care, dietary practices, taboos, birth location, practitioners, and birthing styles.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

This course examines health concerns important in the lives of women around the world through an overview of contemporary issues and challenges in the field of global health, broadly construed.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and director of women’s studies required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences, GLD: Research

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Selected small action-research project on selected issue(s) in women’s studies.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences, GLD: Research

This course provides an overview of psychological, social, physical, and emotional issues related to men’s lives. Major topics include: gender construction, men and work, men and health, men in relationships, male sexualities, men in families, and masculinities in the media and popular culture.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

A historical and global exploration of gender and sexuality in India and beyond.

Representative works written by women.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

This course will examine LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and other nonnormative sexual identities) literatures and cultures.

Exploration of LGBTQ history and communities in America from the Colonial Era to the present, using lenses of gender and sexuality to understand historical events.

Constitutional and statutory case law dealing with gender equality issues. Topics include abortion, affirmative action, pornography, sexual harassment, fetal protection policies, employment discrimination, and women in the military.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

The social, political, and economic roles and changing status of women in America.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Study of rhetoric by and about women as manifested in speeches, essays, and other rhetorical artifacts.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 485, SPCH 485

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

An examination of literature by and about black women, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. This study will focus on issues that emerge from the creative representations of black women and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class that interrogate what is both particular and universal experiences.

Cross-listed course: AFAM 487, ENGL 487

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Supervised experience addressing a community organization's needs and allowing the student to explore an aspect of the community related to women's and gender studies issues. Contract approval by advisor required.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Representations of race and gender in comics with a special emphasis on the experiences of African Americans.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

An exploration of the connections between oppression of women and oppression of nature.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

An exploration of women’s health and health care concerns from multiple perspectives.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Application of skills and theories of adolescent mentoring taught in the classroom to a supervised, structured mentoring field experience.

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Impact of gender-based relations on crime and the criminal justice system.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Approaches to gender and language emphasizing the social grounding of both; how language reflects sociocultural values and is a tool for constructing different types of social organization.

Cross-listed course: ANTH 555, LING 541

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Public health issues, social and behavioral science, policies, programs, and services related to maternal and child health in the United States and other countries.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Health status and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Includes an examination of measurement issues and methodological considerations in research, as well as intervention efforts targeting LGBT populations.