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Program checklist · B.A.

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

SUNY Old Westbury · Old Westbury, NY

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Program
Award
B.A.
Credential class
ceterms:BachelorDegree
Catalog edition
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The undergraduate degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) provides students with an interdisciplinary understanding of the creation, reconstruction, and perpetuation of asymmetrical gender, sex, and sexuality systems and their connections to other operations of power and inequities. Explorations of how gender, sex, and sexuality intersect with race, ethnicity, class, and disability include the imperial and globalizing contexts shaping these systems of power.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
196237
CourseShelf checklist
CK_196237_ed3e719d
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

1. Core Courses

3 items
  1. WS 1000
    Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  2. WS 3000
    Feminisms, Bodies, Power
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. WS 4900
    Practicum in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    4

2. Major Electives

2 items
  1. At least one (1) elective must be selected from each of Groups A, B, and C below.
    Not resolved to a course
  2. Four (4) electives (16 credits) must be upper-division courses.
    Not resolved to a course

Group A: Historical and Political Contexts

7 items
  1. WS 2110
    U.S. Social Movements
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  2. WS 3110
    African-American Women’s History
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. WS 3120
    History of Women in the U.S.
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  4. WS 3410
    Women in Medieval Europe, c. 400-c. 1550
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  5. WS 4110
    History of the Women’s Movement
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  6. WS 4410
    Women and Witchcraft
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  7. WS 4420
    Domesticity in the 19th and 20th Century
    Not resolved to a course
    4

Group B: Cultural Productions and Representations

9 items
  1. WS 1540
    Politics of Comics
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  2. WS 2340
    Women’s Voices
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. WS 3140
    Film and Gender
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  4. WS 3150
    Women and the Media
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  5. WS 4340
    Women and Narrative
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  6. WS 4350
    Black Women Writers
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  7. WS 4360
    Lesbian and Gay Literature
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  8. WS 4370
    Extraordinary Bodies: Disability in Literature
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  9. WS 4640
    Hispanic Women Writers
    Not resolved to a course
    4

Group C: Intersectionality

17 items
  1. WS 2285
    Care and Care Work
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  2. WS 2295
    Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. WS 2785
    Human Sexuality
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  4. WS 2885
    Psychology of Gender
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  5. WS 3185
    Sports, Media, and Society
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  6. WS 3285
    Policing Bodies
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  7. WS 3295
    Family and Society
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  8. WS 3299
    Gender and Society
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  9. WS 3585
    Women, Minorities, and the Worklpace
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  10. WS 3785
    Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  11. WS 3885
    Feminist Psychology
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  12. WS 3995
    Sex, Gender, and Technology
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  13. WS 4185
    Women of Color Feminisms
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  14. WS 4285
    Gender, Crime and Justice
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  15. WS 4585
    The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  16. WS 4795
    Women’s Health
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  17. WS 4885
    Sexual Identities & LGBTQ+ Psychology
    Not resolved to a course
    4

Additional Electives

3 items
  1. WS 3920
    Seminar in WGSS
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  2. WS 3940
    Special Topics in WGSS
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. WS 9990
    Independent Study
    Not resolved to a course
    1-4

Program Policies

5 items
  1. Students must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.0 in the major.
    Not resolved to a course
  2. Only three lower-division (1000 or 2000 level) courses will be counted towards the major beyond WS1000.
    Not resolved to a course
  3. Students must take at least one major elective course from each of the three groups (A, B, and C) listed above.
    Not resolved to a course
  4. Up to four courses transferred from another college or university may be accepted for credit toward the major.
    Not resolved to a course
  5. All students in their junior year should make an appointment with the Director of the WGSS program to make sure that they are on track for graduation.
    Not resolved to a course
Source. SUNY Old Westbury, catalog 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog — https://oldwestbury.catalog.acalog.com/preview_program.php?catoid=19&poid=1685&returnto=512. Captured page pages/0244.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.