Gender, Sexuality, & Race Studies Approved Courses

Core Courses
GSRS 201 – Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies (required of majors & minors, offered every semester)
GSRS 301 – Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Race (required of majors & minors, offered every fall semester)
GSRS 499 – Senior Capstone (required of majors, offered every spring semester)

GSRS electives are scheduled by their respective departments. Please check the Banner class schedule to determine which electives are being offered in a given semester.

GSRS Approved Elective Courses – Gender & Sexuality Distribution

  • ARTD 490: Gender and Art
  • BIOL 287/387/389 when taught as “Biological Effects of Sex & Gender”
  • COMA 303: Gender and Communication
  • ENGL 217 when taught as “Queer American Literature:
  • ENGL 232: Women’s Literature
  • ENGL 348 when taught as “19th Century American Women Writers”; “Anne Frank: Holocaust Icon”
  • ENGL 395: Studies in Literature, Gender, and Sexuality
  • ENGL 397: Sex, Gender, and the Holocaust
  • FREN 306/406: French and Francophone Feminisms
  • HISP 433 when taught as “Politics and Gender Identities in Contemporary Southern-Cone Narrative and Cinema”
  • HIST 218: Women & Gender in World History
  • KINS 315: Body Image
  • RELI 330 when taught as “Sex and the Bible”
  • RELI 366: Race, Gender, and Christianity
  • RELI 368: Feminist, Womanist, Latinx, and Queer Theologies
  • RELI 390 when taught as “Women in the Ancient World”
  • PSYC 375: Psychology of Women
  • SOCI 210: Gender and Society
  • SOCI 494: Gender and Violence
  • SOCW 487: ST: Queer Children, Youth, and Families

GSRS Approved Elective Courses – Critical Race Studies Distribution

  • COMA 304: Intercultural Communication
  • ENGL 216 when taught as “Literature of the Raj”
  • ENGL 217 when taught as “Asian-American Literature”; “Civil Disobedience: American Protest Literature of Race and Justice”
  • ENGL 380 when taught as “Global Refugee Literature”
  • HIST 305: Slavery in the Americas
  • IHON 112: Liberty, Power, and Imagination
  • NAIS 363: Race and Indigeneity
  • POLS 265: Latino Politics
  • POLS 288 when taught as “Latino Experience in America”
  • POLS 365: Racial and Ethnic Politics
  • POLS 370: Prisons & Prisoners
  • PSYC 335: Cultural Psychology
  • PSYC 339: Race, Anti-Racism, and Child Development
  • RELI 236: Native American Religious Traditions
  • RELI 240: African-American Religious Traditions
  • RELI 241: Islam in The United States
  • RELI 397: Indigenous Religions and Culture of the Pacific Northwest
  • SOCI 332: Race and Racism
  • SOCI 387 when taught as “Race, Class, Gender, and Crime”
  • SOCI 410: Social Stratification
  • SOCW 290: Anti-Racism, Diversity, & Equity in SW Practice