Undergraduate Certificate

The undergraduate certificate in Women's & Gender Studies offers students an opportunity to engage in a rich academic program that addresses gender and its intersection with race, sexuality, class, and other aspects of diversity.  The certificate is comparable to a minor in that it requires about the same number of credit hours.  The advantage of the certificate is that it is interdisciplinary, allowing students to study issues relating to gender from a variety of perspectives.  As such, it provides an excellent complement to the wide variety of undergraduate majors available at Ohio University. 

Information packets are available at the Women's & Gender Studies Program offices, 004 Lindley Hall.  Please go the Advising page on this web site, or contact the Women's & Gender Studies advisor, Lynette Peck, for more information.

Note that requirements will change under semesters (beginning Fall '12).  Click here for information.

Requirements:

The undergraduate certificate requires 30 credit hours, including:

  • WGS 100: Introduction to Women's Studies

  • WGS 200: Issues in Women's and Gender Studies

  • WGS 350: Feminist Theory

  • WGS 480: Capstone in Women's and Gender Studies

14 additional hours in approved courses. See the Courses page for Women's & Gender Studies undergraduate core courses and/or our list of courses offered for WGS credit, below.

 
 

GEOG 327A    Social Geographies

GEOG 348       Gender, Environment, and Development

WGS 210         Women, Gender, and Rock & Roll

HIST 320A       Women in American History Before 1877

WGS 320         Sexual Revolutions

HIST 320B       Women in American History Since 1877

WGS 350         Feminist Theory

HIST 320C      Women's Health & Medicine in US Hist.

WGS 360         Internship in Women's and Gender Studies

HIST 332         Women in the Middle East

WGS 410         Global Feminisms

HIST 339         Women in African History

WGS 411         Women and Globalization

HIST 354A       History of Early Christianity

WGS 450         Advanced Feminist Theory

HIST 360A       Women in Early Modern Europe

WGS 460         Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

HIST 360B       Women in Modern Europe

WGS 461         Queer Theory

HIST 360C      Women Warriors

WGS 480         Capstone in Women's and Gender Studies

HIST 371A       Witchcraft 1400-1700

WGS 481         Writing Gender

HIST 381         History of the Family

WGS 493         Special Topics

HIST 453D      Studies in Medieval History: Women in Medieval Society

AAS 345          The Black Woman

HLTH 210        Health of Women

AAS 411          Racial Performativity

ILML 335         Italian Literature in English: Women of             the Italian Middle Ages

AAS 482          The Black Family

ILML 336         Gay and Lesbian Writers in Latin America            

AH 411             Representation of Gender in the History of Art

ILML 339A       19th Century Russian Lit. in English:Women, Transgression, and Crime

AH 412             Queer Theory and Visual Representation

ILML 339B       20th Century Russian Lit. in English:                         Love, Sex, & Gender

ANTH 345       Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

JOUR 413        Gender, Race, and Mass Media

ANTH 349       Life History: The Individual and Culture

LING 390         Language of Women & Men

ANTH 363       Gender in Prehistory

MDIA 481        Women and Media

BIOS 202         Sex Differences and the Brain

MDIA 486A      Age, Class, Gender, Race, and Sexuality     in the Media

CFS 462A        Diversity in Families

MGT 462          Women in Management

CLAS 343        Women in the Ancient Mediterranean

PBIO 217         Women in Science

CLWR 222       Religion, Gender, and Sexuality

POLS 319        Gay & Lesbian Politics

CLWR 432       Women in Buddhism

POLS 420        Women, Law & Politics

CLWR 484       Women and Religion

POLS 421        Politics of Law & Sexuality

COMS 320      Women and Health Communication

POLS 478        Feminist Political Theories & Movements

COMS 420      Gender & Communication

POLS 490        Gender and Political Development in Africa

COMS 422      Communication in the Family

POLS 490H     Women & Politics

ECON 522       Economics of Human Resources

POLS 490T     Feminist Legal Theory

ENG 153A       Writing & Reading: Gender

PSY 378           Psychology of Gender

ENG 306J        Women & Writing

SASM 400       Women in Sports

ENG 325          Women & Literature

SOC 220          Introduction to the Family

ENG 326          Lesbian & Gay Literature

SOC 407          Feminist Social Theory

ENG 447          Studies in Criticism: Contemp. Feminist                         Theory Senior Seminar

SOC 421          Comparative Studies of Family

ENG 460          Special Topics: Popular and Elite: Culture,    Race, Class, and Gender in the American Renaissance

SOC 422          The American Family System

                         

SOC 467          Violence Against Women

ENG 464          Major English Authors: Woolf & Winterson

SOC 470          Sociology of Gender

ENG 464          Major English Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft   and Her Circle

SOC 471          Gender & Justice

ENG 464          Major English Authors: Woolf, Mansfield, &     Rhys

 

ENG 466          Major International Authors: Contemporary     Narratives of Exile

 

FILM 471         Film Topics Seminar:  Masculinity and Film

 

FILM 472         Film Topics Seminar:  Primitivism and Film

 

 

See OU catalog page.