COURSE CATALOGUE

WOMEN'S STUDIES

Women's Studies
201 Barnard Hall
854-2108
www.barnard.edu/wmstud

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR

Majors in the department are trained in interdisciplinary research skills and will focus their studies around a thematic or discipline-based concentration. The requirements for the major are the following 13 courses:

1.	WMST V 3111 Feminist Texts I
2.	WMST V 3112 Feminist Texts II
3-4.	Two semesters of a junior-level course to be chosen from among:
	WMST V 3311 Colloquium in Feminist Theory
	WMST V 3312 Theorizing Women's Activism
	WMST V 3313 Colloquium on Feminist Inquiry
5-6.	Two semesters of Senior Thesis Seminar, WMST V 3521-3522
7.	One course in Women's History (from a list specified by the department)
8.	One course with a focus on comparative studies of women and gender (from a list specified by the department)
9-13.	Five other courses devoting at least half of their content to issues of gender. At least three of these courses will have either a disciplinary focus or a thematic focus. Selection of these courses will be with the guidance and approval of student's adviser in the department.

Three thematic clusters are currently offered in the department: Gender and Representation; Gender, Science, and Health; Gender and Sexualities. Students can develop other thematic concentrations with the department's approval.

The thesis, Women's Studies V 3521-3522, provides an opportunity for senior majors to engage in original interdisciplinary research and to bring to bear the theoretical emphasis of feminist scholarship on a particular area of investigation. Further, in the senior seminar, majors have the opportunity to discuss methodological issues and problems of research in a directed and supportive environment.

Special projects using the city's resources may be developed into term papers or incorporated into the senior essay. An extensive project under the sponsorship of a faculty member may be offered for course credits as Women's Studies BC 3599 Independent Research.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMBINED MAJOR

The requirements for the combined major are as follows:

1.	WMST V 3111 Feminist Texts I
2.	WMST V 3112 Feminist Texts II
3-4.	Two semesters of a junior-level course to be chosen from among:
	WMST V 3311 Colloquium in Feminist Theory
	WMST V 3312 Theorizing Women's Activism
	WMST V 3313 Colloquium on Feminist Inquiry
5-7.	Three other courses devoting at least half of their content to issues of gender, one of which should be in a distribution field other than that of the combining major.

Two semesters of Senior Thesis Seminar to be taken either through Women's Studies or the other department or program. The senior essay shall integrate the two fields of inquiry.

The requisite number of courses in the combining field, to be determined by the chair of the department or program.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR

A minor in Women's Studies consists of the following five courses:

1.	WMST V 3111 Feminist Texts I
2.	WMST V 3112 Feminist Texts II
3.	One of the three junior-level courses to be chosen from:
	WMST V 3311 Colloquium in Feminist Theory
	WMST V 3312 Theorizing Women's Activism
	WMST V 3313 Colloquium on Feminist Inquiry
4-5.	Two other women’s studies courses.

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