Program Requirements

Total units required: 18 units, 12 of which must be taken in courses numbered 3000 or higher.

Grade Requirement: C– or better; Pass/No Pass grades do not count for the minor.

Required Courses

Introductory Course: 3 credits

WGSS 1500Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3

Any WGSS Course at the 2000 Level or Above: 3 credits

WGSS 2060Introduction to Queer Studies3
WGSS 2070Sexuality and the State: Introduction to Sexuality Studies3
WGSS 2080Constructions of Black Womanhood and Manhood in the Black Community3
WGSS 2101Sophomore Seminar: Globalization and Its Disguises3
WGSS 2210Gender and Texts3
WGSS 2910Peer Counseling Training: Sexual Assault and Rape Anonymous Helpline3
WGSS 2996Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective0
WGSS 3000Sexual Politics: Power, Policy, and Pleasure3
WGSS 3006Strangers at the Gate: Race, Sex, and Immigration in America3
WGSS 3020Justice as Failure: Abolitionist Theory and Praxis3
WGSS 3025On Love and Intimacy: Theorizing Kinship in the Multiple3
WGSS 3030Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition3
WGSS 3045Queer Theory3
WGSS 3050Sex, Gender, and Popular Culture3
WGSS 3055Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body3
WGSS 3056European Population Politics, 1900 - 20003
WGSS 3068Surveillance Tech and Sexuality3
WGSS 3070Masculinities3
WGSS 3071Feminism, Families, and Social Change3
WGSS 3081From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America3
WGSS 3083Topics in Asian American Lit: Gender and Sexuality in American Literature3
WGSS 3090Sex and Money: Economies of Desire3
WGSS 3135The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health3
WGSS 3136Community-Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Youth Studies4
WGSS 3155Gender, Health, and Society3
WGSS 3165Queer Histories3
WGSS 3170Community-Engaged Learning: Gender and Incarceration4
WGSS 3175Community-Engaged Learning: Documenting the Queer Past in St. Louis4
WGSS 3176Community Engaged Learning: Feminist and Queer Community Praxis4
WGSS 3215Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies3
WGSS 3240Girls' Media and Popular Culture3
WGSS 3256Sex Trafficking3
WGSS 3340Feminist Theory3
WGSS 3405Revolutionize It! the Radical History of Second-Wave Feminisms3
WGSS 3446No Boys Allowed: Girlhood and Programming for Girls in 19th and 20th Centuries, United States3
WGSS 3470Law, Gender, and Justice3
WGSS 3475Queering the History of Health3
WGSS 3500Trans Studies3
WGSS 3503Global Italy: Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature, Cinema, and Media3
WGSS 3510Women and Social Movements: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Social Movements3
WGSS 3530Neither Man Nor Woman: Transgender Ethnographies in Global Context3
WGSS 3555Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization.3
WGSS 3575Confronting Capitalism: Feminism, Work and Solidarity3
WGSS 3580Scribbling Women: 19th-Century American Women Writers3
WGSS 3615Topics in Women,gender, and Sexuality Studies: Spectacular Blackness, Race, Gender, & Visual Culture3
WGSS 3620Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3
WGSS 3622Women, Health, and Media3
WGSS 3640Gender, War, and Migration3
WGSS 3650The Global History of HIV/AIDS3
WGSS 3685Gender Violence3
WGSS 3690Community-Engaged Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence3
WGSS 3700Gender and Social Class3
WGSS 3740Imperialism and Sexuality: India, South Asia, and the World: Writing-Intensive Seminar3
WGSS 3996Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Elective0
WGSS 4005Advanced Queer Theory: The Intimacy of Precarity3
WGSS 4006Advanced Topics in Trans Theories: Femme3
WGSS 4015Feminist and Queer Media Studies3
WGSS 4016Queer of Color Critique3
WGSS 4017Healing and Social Justice3
WGSS 4020Transnational Queer Activism3
WGSS 4045Queering Theory: Collaborating, Solidarity, and Working Together3
WGSS 4085Everyday Unruliness: Feminist and Queer Resistance3
WGSS 4115Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science3
WGSS 4135The Politics of Pleasure3
WGSS 4141Feminist and Queer Research Methodologies3
WGSS 4150Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory3
WGSS 4153Decolonization to Globalization: How to End an Empire3
WGSS 4155Contemporary Feminisms3
WGSS 4165From Mammy to the Welfare Queen: African American Women Theorize Identity3
WGSS 4200Feminist Political Theory3
WGSS 4230Black Sexual Politics3
WGSS 4245Transnational Feminisms3
WGSS 4270Thinking About Consent3
WGSS 4280Sex and Gender in Public1.5
WGSS 4350Queer and Feminist Geographies3
WGSS 4370Reformers and Radicals: Feminist Thinking Through History3
WGSS 4390The Arab & Muslim Americas: Feminist Perspectives3
WGSS 4440Sex and Gender in Public1.5
WGSS 4500Women, Law and Society3
WGSS 4690East Asian Feminisms3

Four WGSS or WGSS-Approved Courses at the 3000 Level or Above: 12 credits

All courses must be WGSS courses or WGSS-approved courses in other departments. Students may count up to 6 credit units from study abroad.

WGSS Courses
WGSS 3006Strangers at the Gate: Race, Sex, and Immigration in America3
WGSS 3030Queering Citizenship: Gender/Abolition3
WGSS 3135The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health3
WGSS 3155Gender, Health, and Society3
WGSS 3470Law, Gender, and Justice3
WGSS 3690Community-Engaged Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence3
WGSS 4016Queer of Color Critique3
WGSS 4115Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science3
WGSS 4141Feminist and Queer Research Methodologies3
WGSS-Approved Courses in Other Departments
AFAS 3644Look Here, Karen: The Politics of Black Digital Resistance to White Femininity3
ANTHRO 4134The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics3
ARTARCH 4913Queer: Arts, History, Theory3
COMPLITTHT 4270Technology and Feminist Practice3
ELIT 3502Topics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction3
ELIT 4102Medieval English Literature II3
GLOBAL 4414Gender Analysis for International Affairs3
JAPAN 4490Modern Japanese Women Writers3
POLSCI 4218Gender and the Future of Work3
SOC 3003Black Feminist Theory3

Additional Information

  • All minor courses must be WGSS courses or WGSS-approved courses in other departments. All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a grade, and students must earn a grade of C– or higher in all courses.
  • We strongly encourage and support students who wish to study abroad and will accept up to 6 credits from approved programs. Please contact Amy Cislo, WGSS Study Abroad Supervisor, about this option.

Contact Info

Phone:314-935-5102
Email:wgss@wustl.edu
Website:https://wgss.wustl.edu