Degree Requirements for Gender & Queer Studies

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General Requirements for a Minor

General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) at least four units of the major or three units of the minor be taken in residence at Puget Sound; 2) students earn at least a cumulative GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the major or the minor; and 3) all courses taken for a major or minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the major and minor degree requirements listed below.

Requirements for the Major in Gender & Queer Studies (BA)

Completion of a minimum of eight units, to include:

GQS 201 (introductory survey)
GQS 360 (theory and methods course)
GQS 494 (thesis course)
Transnational/International/Diasporic/Cross-Cultural Perspectives (marked with *T in the list below) Note: Courses approved for both *T and *I can fulfill either requirement, but not both requirements.
Intersectionality (marked with *I in the list below) Note: Courses approved for both *T and *I can fulfill either requirement, but not both requirements.
At least three electives (see list below)
Experiential Learning Milestone to be satisfied by completing GQS 498, REL 307, or an approved EXLN 360 internship as one of the three electives, or with a non-credit bearing internship or experience approved by the GQS Program Director.

Requirements for the Minor in Gender & Queer Studies

Completion of a minimum of five units to include:

GQS 201 (introductory survey)
GQS 360 (theory and methods course)
GQS 494 (thesis course)
At least two electives (see list below)

Notes for the major and minor

GQS 201 and GQS 360 are prerequisites for GQS 494.
No more than three classes at the 200-level may satisfy the major requirements.
A maximum of two courses used to meet the requirements of the GQS major or minor may also be used to satisfy the requirements of another major or minor.

Transnational/International/Diasporic/Cross-Cultural Perspectives

ARTH 310 Women, Gender, and Art, 1500-2000
BUS 493 Special Topics
FREN 391 African Women Writers Can fulfill this requirement or the Intersectionality requirement, but not both.
GLAM 323 Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity
HIST 305 Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 349 Women of East Asia
HIST 392 Men and Women in Colonial Africa
LTS 375 Queer-Latinx: Art, Sex, and Belonging in America
MUS 223 Women in Music
PG 385 Feminist Approaches to International Relations
REL 323 Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies
SOAN 304 Gender and Sexuality in Japan
SOAN 315 Identity Politics in Latin America
SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development
SOAN 318 Gender, Work, and Globalization
SPAN 313 Iberian Feminisms in Transatlantic Dialogue
SPAN 404 The Returning Resistance: Memory, Gender, and Nationalisms in Spain

Intersectionality

AFAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies
AFAM 305 Black Fictions and Feminisms
AFAM 355 African American Women in American History
ENGL 379 Special Topics in Theory Contemporary Black Feminist Theory
FREN 391 African Women Writers Can fulfill this requirement or the Transnational/International/Diasporic/Cross-Cultural Perspectives requirement, but not both.
PG 345 Intersectionality as Theory and Method

General topics

AFAM/COMM 370 Communication and Diversity
BIOL 102 Evolution and Biology of Sex
CLJ/REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education
CONN 340 Gender and Communication
CONN 354 Hormones, Sex, Society, & Self
ECON 244 Gender, Race, and the Economy
EDUC 290 Making Men: Schools and Masculinities (0.25 units.)
ENGL 206 Literature by Women
ENGL 346 Jane Eyre and its Afterlives
ENGL 365 Gender and Sexualities
ENGL 381 Major Authors Jane Austen, The Brontes, OR Katherine Mansfield
GQS/REL 215 Religion and Queer Politics
GQS 220 What is Queer?
GQS 291 Gender Studies Publication (0.25 activity units.)
GQS 310 Let's Talk about Sex
GQS 320 Queerly Scientific: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Scientific Knowledge Production Satisfies the Connections core requirement. Satisfies the Knowledge, Identity, Power graduation requirement.
GQS 340 Feminist and Queer Methodologies
GQS 360 Genealogies and Theories: Gender, Feminist, and Queer Theories
GQS 494 Gender Research Seminar
LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
PG/PHIL 390 Gender and Philosophy
PSYC 250 Human Sexuality
REL 298 Reproductive Ethics
REL 303 Sexuality and Religion
REL 321 Sexuality & Christianity: Then and Now
REL 368 Gender Matters
SOAN 202 Families in Society
SOAN 212 Sociology of Gender
SOAN 390 Men and Masculinities
STHS 318 Science and Gender