Gender Studies (BA)

Lower Division

For the lower division, one of the following courses may be selected as the requirement:

• SWMS 210gmw Social Analysis of Gender Units: 4
• SWMS 212gp Studies in Gender and Sexuality: An Introduction Units: 4
• SWMS 215gp Gender Conflict across Cultural Contexts Units: 4

Upper Division

For the upper division, 32 units of SWMS courses, including SWMS 301 , SWMS 311  and SWMS 410 , are required.

• SWMS 301gm Feminist Theory: An Introduction Units: 4
• SWMS 311 Gender Studies and the Community: Internship Units: 4
• SWMS 410 Senior Seminar in Gender Studies Units: 4

Honors Program Requirements

The Gender Studies Program offers a two-semester honors program, in which qualified students spend their first semester in an honors track in an upper-division seminar, usually SWMS 410 Senior Seminar in Gender Studies . During the second semester, all honors students are required to take SWMS 492 Honors Thesis , in which each completes a  thesis project on a topic of his or her choosing under faculty direction. Contact the departmental honors director for further information. To graduate with honors, department majors must have a minimum GPA of 3.5 in their major course work.