Curriculum

Related Courses

The following courses from other departments may be counted toward the major in Women's Studies. For a course description, please refer to the appropriate department's courses in the Wellesley College online course catalog.

Courses for Credit Toward the Major

• AFR 212 Black Women Writers
• AFR 222 Blacks and Women in American Cinema
   
• AMST 286/ENG 286 New Literatures. Topic for 2011-12: Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century American Gay and Lesbian Literature
• AMST 315 Beats, Rhymes, and Life: Hip-Hop Studies
   
• ANTH 238 The Vulnerable Body: Anthropological Understandings
   
• ARTH 230 Frank Lloyd Wright and the American Home
• ARTH 245 House and Home: Domestic Architecture, Interiors, and Material Life in North America, 1600-1900
   
• CAMS 203/CHIN 243 Chinese Cinema (in English)
• CAMS 224 ITAS 212 Italian Women Directors: The Female Authorial Voice in Italian Cinema
   
• CHIN 230/330 Writing Women in Traditional China (in English)
• CHIN 232/332 Writing Women in Modern China (in English)
• CHIN 243/CAMS 203 Chinese Cinema (in English)
   
• CLPT 334 Literature and Medicine
   
• ECON 243 The Political Economy of Gender, Race, and Class
• ECON 343 Seminar. Feminist Economics
   
• EDUC 312 Seminar. History of Childhood and Child Welfare
   
• ENG 121 Jane Austen’s Novels
• ENG 269 Asian American Literature
• ENG 272 The Nineteenth-Century Novel
• ENG 286/AMST 286 New Literatures. Topic for 2011-12: Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century American Gay and Lesbian Literature
• ENG 383 Women in Literature, Culture, and Society. Topic for 2010-11: Jane Austen and Others
   
• EXTD 106 Women in Science: Their Lives and Work
   
• FREN 208 Women and Literary Tradition
• FREN 216 Mothers and Daughters
• FREN 313 George Sand and the Romantic Theater
• FREN 319 Women, Language, and Literary Expression
• FREN 327 A Fascination with Bodies: The Doctor’s Malady
• FREN 331 Desire, Sexuality, and Love in African Francophone Cinema
   
• GER 245 Radicals, Decadents, and New Women: Literature, Culture, and Society in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933 (in English)
• GER 329 Men Writing Women? Readings in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Literature
• GER 345 Radicals, Decadents, and New Women: Literature, Culture, and Society in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
   
• HIST 215 Gender and Nation in Latin America
• HIST 243 Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Europe
• HIST 257 Women, Gender, and the Family in American History
• HIST 293 Changing Gender Constructions in the Modern Middle East
• HIST 301 Seminar. Women of Russia: A Portrait Gallery
   
• ITAS 212/CAMS 224 Italian Women Directors: The Female Authorial Voice in Italian Cinema
• ITAS 274 Women in Love: Portraits of Desire in Italian Culture
   
• JPN 111 Gender and Popular Culture of Japan (in English)
• JPN 353/THST 353 Lady Murasaki and The Tale of Genji (in English)
   
• KOR 256 Gender and Language in Modern Korean Culture (in English)
   
• MUS 224/REL 224 Hildegard of Bingen
• MUS 222/322 Music, Gender, and Sexuality
   
• PHIL 217 Philosophy of Science: Traditional and Feminist Perspectives
• PHIL 249 Medical Ethics
   
• POL1 324S Seminar. Gender and Law
• POL1 330S Seminar. Race, Gender, and Representation
• POL2 301S Seminar. Gender, Islam, and Politics
• POL2 307S Seminar. Women and Development
• POL3 322 Seminar. Gender in World Politics
• POL4 344 Seminar. Feminist Political Theory
   
• REL 209 Women, Sexuality, and Patriarchalism in the New Testament
• REL 224/MUS 224 Hildegard of Bingen
• REL 225 Women in Christianity
• REL 226 The Virgin Mary
• REL 243 Women in the Biblical World
• REL 323 Seminar. Women Theologians on Jesus, Gender, and the Earth
   
• SOC 209 Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
• SOC 233 Gender and Power in South Asia
• SOC 234 Gender and International Development
• SOC 309 Critical Intersections: Race, Class, Gender, and the Nation
   
• SPAN 260 Women Writers of Spain, 1980 to the Present
• SPAN 271 Intersecting Currents: Afro-Hispanic and Indigenous Writers in Latin American Literature
• SPAN 279 Jewish Women Writers of Latin America
• SPAN 327 Seminar. Latin American Women Writers: Identity, Marginality, and the Literary Canon
   
• THST 212 Representations of Women on Stage
• THST 353/JPN 353 Lady Murasaki and The Tale of Genji (in English)