General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) at least four units of the major or three units of the minor be taken in residence at Puget Sound; 2) students earn at least a cumulative GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the major or the minor; and 3) all courses taken for a major or minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the major and minor degree requirements listed below.
Requirements for the Major in Gender & Queer Studies (BA)
Completion of a minimum of eight units, to include:
- GQS 201 (introductory survey)
- GQS 360 (theory and methods course)
- GQS 494 (thesis course)
- Transnational/International/Diasporic/Cross-Cultural Perspectives (marked with *T in the list below) Note: Courses approved for both *T and *I can fulfill either requirement, but not both requirements.
- Intersectionality (marked with *I in the list below) Note: Courses approved for both *T and *I can fulfill either requirement, but not both requirements.
- At least three electives (see list below)
- Experiential Learning Milestone to be satisfied by completing GQS 498, REL 307, or an approved EXLN 360 internship as one of the three electives, or with a non-credit bearing internship or experience approved by the GQS Program Director.
Requirements for the Minor in Gender & Queer Studies
Completion of a minimum of five units to include:
- GQS 201 (introductory survey)
- GQS 360 (theory and methods course)
- GQS 494 (thesis course)
- At least two electives (see list below)
Notes for the major and minor
- GQS 201 and GQS 360 are prerequisites for GQS 494.
- No more than three classes at the 200-level may satisfy the major requirements.
- A maximum of two courses used to meet the requirements of the GQS major or minor may also be used to satisfy the requirements of another major or minor.
Transnational/International/Diasporic/Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- ARTH 310 Women, Gender, and Art, 1500-2000
- BUS 493 Special Topics
- FREN 381 African Women Writers Can fulfill this requirement or the Intersectionality requirement, but not both.
- GLAM 323 Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
- HIST 305 Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
- HIST 349 Women of East Asia
- LTS 375 Queer-Latinx: Art, Sex, and Belonging in America
- MUS 223 Women in Music
- PG 385 Feminist Approaches to International Relations
- REL 323 Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies
- SOAN 304 Gender and Sexuality in Japan
- SOAN 315 Identity Politics in Latin America
- SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development
- SOAN 318 Gender, Work, and Globalization
- SPAN 323 Iberian Feminisms in Transatlantic Dialogue
- SPAN 414 The Returning Resistance: Memory, Gender, and Nationalisms in Spain
Intersectionality
- AFAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies
- AFAM 305 Black Fictions and Feminisms
- AFAM 355 African American Women in American History
- ENGL 379 Special Topics in Theory Contemporary Black Feminist Theory
- FREN 381 African Women Writers Can fulfill this requirement or the Transnational/International/Diasporic/Cross-Cultural Perspectives requirement, but not both.
- PG 345 Intersectionality as Theory and Method
General topics
- BIOL 102 Evolution and Biology of Sex
- CONN 340 Gender and Communication
- CONN 354 Hormones, Sex, Society, & Self
- ECON 244 Gender, Race, and the Economy
- ENGL 206 Literature by Women
- ENGL 346 Jane Eyre and Its Afterlives
- ENGL 365 Gender and Sexualities
- ENGL 381 Major Authors Jane Austen, The Brontes, OR Katherine Mansfield
- GQS/REL 215 Religion and Queer Politics
- GQS 220 What is Queer? The Politics and Practices of Fashioning the Self
- GQS 291 Gender Studies Publication (0.25 activity units.)
- GQS 310 Let's Talk about Sex
- GQS 320 Queerly Scientific: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Scientific Knowledge Production Satisfies the Connections core requirement. Satisfies the Knowledge, Identity, Power graduation requirement.
- GQS 340 Feminist and Queer Methodologies
- GQS 360 Genealogies and Theories: Gender, Feminist, and Queer Theories
- GQS 494 Gender Research Seminar
- LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
- PSYC 250 Human Sexuality
- REL 298 Reproductive Ethics
- REL 303 Sexuality and Religion
- REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education
- REL 321 Sexuality & Christianity: Then and Now
- REL 368 Gender Matters
- SOAN 202 Families in Society
- SOAN 212 Sociology of Gender