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Oct 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Gender and Sexuality Studies (BA)
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Gender and Sexuality Studies is a relatively new field of study that seeks to correct institutional neglect, denial and devaluation of the study of women and gender in higher education. For students, this means learning how assumptions and policies regarding gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, physical ability, nationality and other social dimensions shape the material conditions of men’s and women’s lives all over the world. The curriculum is designed to focus students on the relationship between feminist theories and women’s activism throughout history. Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Gender and Sexuality Studies graduates are equipped to work in any field or profession where analysis and action are integrated.
Please see the UNLV College of Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies web page at www.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/gender-sexuality-studies for information about department programs, faculty and facilities. Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available at www.unlv.edu/degree/ba-gender-sexuality-studies.
Learning Outcomes
Gender and Sexuality Studies Student Learning Outcomes:
- Engage in constructive discussion and demonstrate knowledge of gender and sexuality’s relationship to social justice and diversity issues.
- Apply broad knowledge of the intersectionality of social categories/lived experiences, including but not limited to gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, and nationality.
- Identify the relationship between privilege and oppression on both individual and systemic levels.
- Analyze women, gender, and sexuality from a cultural and institutional perspective.
- Develop knowledge about feminist perspectives, including the following.
a. Identify feminist theories
b. Apply feminist research methods and ethics
c. Interpret evidence from a feminist perspective
6. Produce feminist research that integrates the praxis of local and global activism for the purpose of social change.
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Modality: Blended
This program requires some In-Person courses to graduate, while other courses can be taken online. A blended student is one who has committed to pursuing their degree, minor, certificate, or microcredential through both in-person and online education.
Gender and Sexuality Studies (BA) Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits
(See note 1 below)
General Education Requirements - Subtotal: 37-38 Credits
First-Year Seminar - Credits: 2-3
English Composition - Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
Constitutions - Credits: 4
Distribution Requirement - Credits:19
Please see Distribution Requirements for more information.
- Humanities and Fine Arts: 9 Credits
- Two courses 3 credits each from two different humanities areas - 6 credits
- One course in fine arts- 3 credits
- Social Science
- Automatically satisfied by Major requirements
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: 10 credits
- Two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must have a lab
- Analytical Thinking - 3 credits
Multicultural and International
Multicultural, one 3 credit course required
International, one 3 credit course required
These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: www.unlv.edu/provost/multicultural-requirements.
Gender and Sexuality Studies Major Requirements - Subtotal: 51 Credits
(see note 2-4 below)
Core Major Requirements - Credits: 33
Additional Gender and Sexuality Studies Requirements - 18 Credits
Fine Arts - Credits: 3
Foreign Language/Foreign Culture - Credits: 6
Social Science - Credits: 9
General Electives - Credits: 31-32
Notes
- All Gender and Sexuality Studies course work must be completed with a grade of C or higher.
- Students may satisfy up to six credits of the 21 required credits of WMST electives through study abroad. Only courses approved in advance by the Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies or the undergraduate adviser may be used in fulfillment of requirements for the Gender & Sexuality Studies major or minor.
- Students should consult advisers to plan their schedules early in their UNLV careers because most Gender and Sexuality Studies courses are offered only once annually. or is a pre-requisites for , and WMST 301 is a pre-requisite for WMST 302 . and are both pre-requisites for WMST 497. If possible, we recommend you plan on taking before taking . We recommend taking immediately after : in the Fall of your senior year, and in the Spring of your senior year.
- Recommended sequence for core major and minor requirements: , , , ,
- WMST 301 and WMST 302 are Milestone Experience courses for Gender and Sexuality Studies B.A.
- WMST 497 is a Culminating Experience course for Gender and Sexuality Studies B.A.
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