Required Coursework & Course Descriptions
A major in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies requires 36 credit hours of coursework including 4 required WGSS courses (intro, feminist theory, research methods, and senior seminar) and 20 additional hours which may include WGSS 451 (internship), WGSS 499 (undergraduate research), and/or related courses from the Social/Natural Sciences and Humanities.
For students with a major in another discipline, a minor in WGSS can be completed by taking a total of 18 credit hours of coursework including WGSS 100, feminist theory WGSS 365, and 10 credit hours of related courses from the Social/Natural Sciences and Humanities.
Review the course descriptions and WGGS major/minor requirements in the UNC Asheville Course Catalog.
Declaration of Major or Minor
Students can declare their major or minor online.
Before declaring a major, students must have completed WGSS 100 with a grade of C or better.Recent WGSS Electives in the Social Science/Natural Sciences:
- AFST 274 Black Women Leaders
- ANTH 339 Intersections of Gender in America
- ANTH 350 Body, Disability and Culture
- ANTH 361 Writing Gender
- ANTH 425 Manhood and Masculinities
- ECON 330 Women, Men and Work
- HWP 253 Health and Sexuality
- HWP 374 Gender and Health
- POLS 348 Women and Politics
- PSYC 333 Psychology of Women
- PSYC 367 Human Sexuality
- PSYC 368 Psychology of Close Relationships
- POLS 373 Queer Law / Sexuality & The American Legal System
- SOC 280 Sociology of Gender
- SOC 320 Sociology of Race
- SOC 330 Sociology of Families
- SOC 359 Women of Color and Feminism
- SOC 390 Queer Sociology
- SOC 374 Unauthorized Selves: Race and (Trans) Gender Construction
Recent WGSS Electives in the Humanities:
- CLAS 350 Women in Antiquity
- CLAS 356 Ancient Sexualities
- CLAS 374 Language and Gender
- HIST 301 Women in US History: 1890s to the Present
- HIST 358 European Feminisms
- HIST 383 Women in China
- LIT 359 Major Women Writers
- LIT 374 Womanhood in African American Literature
- LIT 374 Indigenous Pacific Women’s Writing
- MCOM 395 Power, Privilege, and Ideology Cultural Studies and Media
- MUSC 373 Women and Popular Music: 1920-Present
- PHIL 302 Philosophy of Sex and Gender
- PHIL 352 Being Bodies
- PHIL 374 Philosophy of Disability
- PHIL 374 Philosophy of Third World Feminism
- RELS 330 Religion and Gender
- RELS 374 Sex and Gender in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Additional elective and special topics courses may be approved by the Program Director.