Gender and Women's Studies Program

The Gender and Women's Studies Program is an interdisciplinary academic program offered at Knox. It offers one major and one minor.

Program Committee

Current

• Magali Roy-Féquière, Program Chair, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Nancy Eberhardt, Professor of Anthropology
• Brenda Fineberg, Associate Professor of Classics
• Penny Gold, Professor of History
• Lori Haslem, Associate Professor of English Literature
• Heather Hoffmann, Professor of Psychology
• Fred Hord, Professor of Black Studies
• Karen Kampwirth, Associate Professor of Political Science
• Lynette Lombard, Associate Professor of Art
• Elizabeth Carlin-Metz, Associate Professor of Theatre
• Robin Ragan, Associate Professor of Spanish
• Natania Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of English
• Kelly Shaw, Instructor in Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies
• William Young, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Gender and Women's Studies

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The program offers one Gender and Women's Studies major and one Gender and Women's Studies minor.

Gender and Women's Studies (major)

This major allows advanced study in Gender and Women's Studies.

Courses Required for the Gender and Women's Studies major

10 credits:

• All of the following:
  • GWST 101 (Women, Culture, and Society)
  • GWST 280 (Feminist Methodologies)

• One of the following:
  • GWST 206 (Theory in the Flesh: Writings by Feminists of Color)
  • GWST 243 (Philosophies of Feminism)
• One department course in the humanities
• One department course in the social sciences
• Four department electives, at least two of which must be at the 300-level
• Two credits outside the department (cross-listed courses count), at least one of which must be in a methods or theory course. The following are approved:
  • ANSO 300 (Modern Theories of Society and Culture)
  • ANSO 301 (Methodologies in Sociology and Anthropology)
  • ART 342 (Interpreting Works of Art)
  • BIOL 210 (Introduction to Research)
  • ENG 200 (Ways of Reading)
  • ENG 334 (Literary Criticism)
  • HIST 285 (The Historian's Workshop)
  • PS 220 (Comparative Politics)
  • PS 230 (Study of Politics)
  • STAT 200 (Introductory Statistics)
  • THEA 379 (Dramatic Theory and Criticism)
• One of the following:
  • Participation in the Antioch Women's Studies Abroad program
  • An internship
  • A community action project
  • An Independent Study project
  • An Honors Project

With department permission up to two non-department courses may count toward the major.

Gender and Women's Studies (minor)

This minor allows for intermediate study in Gender and Women's Studies.

Courses Required for the Gender and Women's Studies minor

5 credits:

• GWST 101 (Women, Culture, and Society)
• One of the following:
  • GWST 206 (Theory in the Flesh: Writings by Feminists of Color)
  • GWST 243 (Philosophies of Feminism)
  • GWST 280 (Feminist Methodologies)
• Three electives, one of which may be Independent Study

Meeting the Competency Requirements

• Writing Requirement: GWST 227, GWST 312, GWST 333
• Oral Requirement: GWST 217, GWST 271
• Information Literacy Requirement: GWST 280