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.
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GEOG 327A Social Geographies |
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GEOG 348 Gender, Environment, and Development |
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WGS 210 Women, Gender, and Rock & Roll |
HIST 320A Women in American History Before 1877 |
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WGS 320 Sexual Revolutions |
HIST 320B Women in American History Since 1877 |
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WGS 350 Feminist Theory |
HIST 320C Women's Health & Medicine in US Hist. |
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WGS 360 Internship in Women's and Gender Studies |
HIST 332 Women in the Middle East |
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WGS 410 Global Feminisms |
HIST 339 Women in African History |
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WGS 411 Women and Globalization |
HIST 354A History of Early Christianity |
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WGS 450 Advanced Feminist Theory |
HIST 360A Women in Early Modern Europe |
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WGS 460 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture |
HIST 360B Women in Modern Europe |
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WGS 461 Queer Theory |
HIST 360C Women Warriors |
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WGS 480 Capstone in Women's and Gender Studies |
HIST 371A Witchcraft 1400-1700 |
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WGS 481 Writing Gender |
HIST 381 History of the Family |
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WGS 493 Special Topics |
HIST 453D Studies in Medieval History: Women in Medieval Society |
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AAS 345 The Black Woman |
HLTH 210 Health of Women |
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AAS 411 Racial Performativity |
ILML 335 Italian Literature in English: Women of the Italian Middle Ages |
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AAS 482 The Black Family |
ILML 336 Gay and Lesbian Writers in Latin America |
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AH 411 Representation of Gender in the History of Art |
ILML 339A 19th Century Russian Lit. in English:Women, Transgression, and Crime |
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AH 412 Queer Theory and Visual Representation |
ILML 339B 20th Century Russian Lit. in English: Love, Sex, & Gender |
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ANTH 345 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
JOUR 413 Gender, Race, and Mass Media |
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ANTH 349 Life History: The Individual and Culture |
LING 390 Language of Women & Men |
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ANTH 363 Gender in Prehistory |
MDIA 481 Women and Media |
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BIOS 202 Sex Differences and the Brain |
MDIA 486A Age, Class, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Media |
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CFS 462A Diversity in Families |
MGT 462 Women in Management |
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CLAS 343 Women in the Ancient Mediterranean |
PBIO 217 Women in Science |
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CLWR 222 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality |
POLS 319 Gay & Lesbian Politics |
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CLWR 432 Women in Buddhism |
POLS 420 Women, Law & Politics |
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CLWR 484 Women and Religion |
POLS 421 Politics of Law & Sexuality |
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COMS 320 Women and Health Communication |
POLS 478 Feminist Political Theories & Movements |
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COMS 420 Gender & Communication |
POLS 490 Gender and Political Development in Africa |
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COMS 422 Communication in the Family |
POLS 490H Women & Politics |
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ECON 522 Economics of Human Resources |
POLS 490T Feminist Legal Theory |
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ENG 153A Writing & Reading: Gender |
PSY 378 Psychology of Gender |
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ENG 306J Women & Writing |
SASM 400 Women in Sports |
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ENG 325 Women & Literature |
SOC 220 Introduction to the Family |
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ENG 326 Lesbian & Gay Literature |
SOC 407 Feminist Social Theory |
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ENG 447 Studies in Criticism: Contemp. Feminist Theory Senior Seminar |
SOC 421 Comparative Studies of Family |
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ENG 460 Special Topics: Popular and Elite: Culture, Race, Class, and Gender in the American Renaissance |
SOC 422 The American Family System |
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SOC 467 Violence Against Women |
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ENG 464 Major English Authors: Woolf & Winterson |
SOC 470 Sociology of Gender |
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ENG 464 Major English Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Circle |
SOC 471 Gender & Justice |
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ENG 464 Major English Authors: Woolf, Mansfield, & Rhys |
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ENG 466 Major International Authors: Contemporary Narratives of Exile |
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FILM 471 Film Topics Seminar: Masculinity and Film |
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FILM 472 Film Topics Seminar: Primitivism and Film |
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See OU catalog page.