Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, B.A.

University Core Curriculum Requirements — 40 credit hours

All University of Portland students progress through a set of shared course options as part of the University’s liberal arts Core Curriculum. This curriculum offers a foundation of multiple lenses to address enduring questions of human concern, integrating the liberal arts, the University mission, and the knowledge, skills, and values needed in a diverse society and in the workplace.

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GWSS 301 and GWSS 498 are the designated Writing in the Discipline courses for the B.A. in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.

College of Arts and Sciences B.A. Requirements — 24-33 credit hours

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Major Requirements — 28 credit hours

Gender: Approaches - 6 credit hours

Select two courses from the following:

CST 432	The Global Commons: Gendered Storytelling, Feminist Futures, and Liberation	3
ENG 370	Studies in Women Writers	3
PHL 410/ETHS 410	Decolonial Education and Politics	3
SOC 339	Sociology of the Family	3
SW 356/PSY 356	Perspectives on Human Sexuality	3
SOC 357/SW 357	Perspectives on Gender and the Body	3
SOC 432	Gender and Violence	3
SPN 350	Latin American Women's Voices	3

Required Courses — 16 credit hours

GWSS 301	Foundations of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies	3
GWSS 401	Gender Discourse and Politics	3
GWSS 498	GWSS Capstone	1
HST 321	Modern American Women's History	3
PHL 314	Metaphysics: Philosophy and Feminism	3
PHL 408	Race, Gender, and Colonialism	3

Gender: Themes — 6 credit hours