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The complete list of the Women's and Gender Studies Program courses is available on the Registrar's Web site.
The WGS Minor
"A truly exciting moment for me was when I realized how many WGS elective courses were cross-listed with electives in the Health: Science, Society and Policy program. These courses were the perfect way to incorporate my interest in health and healthcare with my interest in gender issues."
- Lonnie Resser '09
Minor Requirements
The current requirements for the WGS minor became effective on November 17, 2005.
All students are encouraged to submit a senior paper on women and gender to be considered for the Giller-Sagan Prize, but only majors will now be required to do so.
A. Successful completion of WMGS 5a Women and Gender in Culture and Society
This interdisciplinary course introduces central concepts and topics in the field of women's and gender studies. Explores the position of women in diverse settings and the impact of gender as a social, cultural, and intellectual category in the United States and around the globe. Asks how gendered institutions, behaviors, and representations have been configured in the past and function in the present, and also examines the ways in which gender intersects with many other vectors of identity and circumstance in forming human affairs. Usually offered every fall and spring.
B. Four additional courses that either carry the WMGS designation or are approved as women's and gender studies electives (See the Brandeis University Bulletin)
No more than two of these courses may be drawn from a single department or program. Students are strongly encouraged to undertake an internship in women’s and gender studies as one of their electives. Students pursuing an internship for semester credit must spend eight hours per week engaged in significant work within a setting that can provide focus on women, gender and/or sexuality. At the placement, the student must work with a supervisor or mentor; at Brandeis, the student must enroll in an internship course with a faculty member who will guide the intellectual component of the internship, read the student's written work, and award a course grade. Students are expected to keep and submit weekly journals, to read from a list of relevant scholarship, and to produce a final paper of 15-20 pages in length. Visit the Hiatt Career Center Web site for more information about women's and gender studies internship opportunities.
No course with a final grade below C- can count toward fulfilling the requirements for the minor in women’s and gender studies.