Women's and Gender Studies
Women's & Gender Studies Major
Major Requirements: 10 Courses
Section I: Five Core Courses
- WGS 200 Women, Culture and Society
- WGS 325 Feminist Theories
- WGS 398 Field Study in Women's Studies
- WGS 495 Senior Seminar
Choose one of the following:
- WGS 260/AAS 280 Africana Women in Historical Perspective
- WGS 360/LIT 334 Lit by Latinas & Latin American Women
- WGS 375 Global Feminisms
- WGS 376/LIT 316 Global Women Writers*
- WGS 380/HON 338 Gender and Democracy
- WGS 381/ANT 311 Women and Migration
* Elementary Education and Early Childhood majors must choose WGS 376/LIT 316 Global Women Writers or WGS 360/LIT 334 Lit by Latinas & Latin American Women
Section II: Women's Studies Options
Five additional WGS courses.*
* Elementary Education and Early Childhood majors must choose:
- WGS 225 Gender and Children's Literature
- WGS 301 Women in American; or WGS 302 Women in the US to 1900; or WGS 303 Women in 20th Century US; or WGS 361 African American Women's History
- Two additional WGS/History Courses
- Two additional WGS/English Courses
Section III:
Five courses of the ten in the major must be at a level of 300 or above.
For Program Requirements,
please use the link below to be directed to PAWS
http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/paws/index.html
