14 courses with the subject WGST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WGST 110Gender History and Social Issues3
This interdisciplinary introductory course explores how gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality shaped individual identities and social systems throughout history. This course emphasizes how gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, disability, age, ethnicity, nationality, and other identities. By examining historical and contemporary case studies, students consider how gender and sexuality operate as both personal identity markers and forces of social organization, equipping them for engaged citizenship and leadership in order to address contemporary social issues.
This interdisciplinary introductory course examines how gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality are constructed, understood, and challenged through cultural representations, preparing students to become culturally engaged citizens and leaders. Emphasizing media literacy and cultural criticism, students explore how creators use formal and aesthetic strategies to depict gender and sexuality across various mediums and investigate how gender and sexuality function as both personal identity and cultural markers. The course emphasizes critical evaluation and creation of representations in literature, film, digital media, and/or other cultural forms and engages contemporary debates about representation, identity, and power.
WGST 313Gender and Sexuality in Popular Music and Art3
In this course, we will examine the ways in which popular music artists draw from other art forms, such as theater, painting, dance, mythology, poetry, and/or literature to create transformative works that speak to issues pertaining to gender and sexuality. We examine and analyze how artists challenge patriarchal systems that have subordinated and denied full artistic legitimacy to women and LGBTQ+ creators and how such artistic approaches inform our notions of popular music heritage and canon. A minimum amount of music terminology will also be covered.
In this course, students examine the interdisciplinary influence of zines on culture, politics, health, and communication. Specifically, this course looks at historical and modern zine culture to gather perspective on the use of zines for communication in marginalized communities (e.g., Feminist, Civil Rights, Black, Gay Liberation, and Reproductive Rights movements). Students can expect to also create their own zines in this course.
Crosslisted With: Selected topics in Women’s and Gender Studies. The topics may vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit when topics change.
Symposium in Women’s Studies sponsored by the Washington Center. 40 to 60 hours of lectures, panel discussions, workshops, site visits, and bi-weekly discussion groups over a 2 to 3 week period in Washington, D.C.
two courses in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2.5 GPA, and approval of the Directors of Women’s and Gender Studies. The work done in the Symposium will be evaluated by a faculty member designated by the Program Directors, and cannot be double-counted at Longwood to meet the requirements of other disciplines.
WGST 492Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies1-6
Directed practice in a public, private, or community agency or organization which has as one of its goals the improvement of the status of women. Students work with an on-site supervisor who guides their internship in collaboration with a faculty liaison appointed by the Directors of Women’s and Gender Studies.
WGST 498Senior Thesis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3
Students conduct an in-depth project in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies under the direction of a faculty member and the Longwood Senior Thesis Committee. May be repeated as 499.
WGST 499Senior Thesis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3
Students conduct an in-depth project in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies under the direction of a faculty member and the Longwood Senior Thesis Committee.
