About our concentrations
Concentrations Within the Women's Studies Major
1. Globalization and Poverty
While meeting the requirements of the major as stipulated above, students have the option to pursue a program of study within the major leading to a concentration in one of the following four areas:
- Globalization and Poverty
- Social Justice and Violence
- Sexuality Studies
- Cultural and Media Representations of Gender
A concentration would include the completion of five courses from one of the lists below, of which a minimum of two must be core elective courses offered by the women's studies program, and as many as three may be cross-listed electives. Upon the approval of the Director of the program, students may count appropriated courses that are not listed here towards the concentration.
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION1. Globalization and Poverty
- Gender and International Development*
- Gender and Global Laws
- Questioning Inequalities: Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality*
- Women's International Human Rights*
- Women and Violence*
- Gender, Labor, and Sexuality in Postcolonial World*
- Labor, Globalization, and Sexuality*
- ANTH-315 On the Move: Transnational Migration*
- GOVT-409 Comparative Ethnic Religious Conflict*
- JUPS-123 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies*
- MAAS-532 Women and Gender in Arab World*
- SOCI-249 Family and Gender in Japan*
- SPAN-435 19th Century Latin American Novel*
- Gender and Global Laws
- Women's Health in the 21st Century
- Women and the Law
- Women's International Human Rights*
- Women in American Politics
- Women and Violence*
- Violence, Gender, and Human Rights*
- ANTH-315 On the Move: Transnational Migration*
- ENGL-179 Staging Anti-Slavery
- ENGL-212 Gender/Class/Culture
- GOVT-409 Comparative Ethnic and Religious Conflict*
- HIST-293 Black History and Black Culture
- HIST-467 Islamic Law/Women/Gender*
- JUPS-123 Introduction to Justice and Peace Studies*
- PHIL-518 Gender & Inequality
- SOCI-299 Family Patterns
- THEO-133 Womanist Spirituality
- THEO-047 Womanist Theology
- Context for Sexuality Studies
- Sexual Politics
- Athletics and Gender
- Questioning Inequalities: Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality
- Women's Health in the 21st Century
- Women and Violence
- Labor, Globalization, and Sexuality
- ANTH-315 On the Move: Transnational Migration
- ENGL-104 Medieval Sexualities
- ENGL-170 Sexuality in US Literature 1790-1900
- GERM-043 Gateway: Witches
- HIST-417 Gender/Generation: Africa
- HIST-436 Women and Gender in Modern Europe
- HIST-455 Gender/Sexuality in Latin America*
- MAAS-532 Women and Gender in Arab World*
- SOCI-249 Family and Gender in Japan
- THEO-221 Adam and Eve
- Women and Literature*
- Other Women: Cultural Representations of Gender*
- Nationalism, Religion, and Gender in South Asia*
- Athletics and Gender
- ENGL-170 Sexuality in US Literature: 1790-1900
- ENGL-178 American Women Critics
- ENGL-212 Gender/Class/Culture
- ENGL-261 20th Century American Poetry
- GERM-043 Gateway: Witches
- HIST-293 Black History, Black Culture
- HIST-417 Gender/Generation: Africa*
- HIST-436 Women and Gender in Modern Europe
- HIST-455 Gender/Sexuality in Latin America*
- ITAL-040 Gateway: Mystical Literature
- LING-333 Cross-Cultural Communication
- LING-343 Women, Men, and Language
- SOCI-299 Family Patterns
- SPAN-350 Contemporary Spanish Women Writers
- SPAN-435 19th Century Latin American Novel*
- SPAN-497 Gender and Medieval Iberia Literature
- THEO-136 Medieval Women Mystics
- THEO-178 Politics of Gender: World Religions*
- THEO-221 Adam and Eve
The courses with the non-Western emphasis are denoted with an asterisk.
(For course listings for Women's and Gender Studies see http://explore.georgetown.edu/courses/)
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