Arts and Letters

The concentration in Arts and Letters draws on work in literature, popular culture, fine art, art history, theatre or drama, and history. The grouping together of these courses reflects the way that work in Women’s Studies in these areas has smudged the traditional disciplinary boundaries and has created new ways of conceptualizing knowledge.

The following courses will form the area of concentration in Arts and Letters. In some cases a course may count in two areas of concentration, but may only be taken for credit in one.

200-level Courses:

• WMS 200: Special Topics in Women’s Studies
• WMS 209 (HST 207) – Women’s History in the United States: Colonial to the Present
• WMS 212 (HST 212): The Case of Lizzie Borden
• WMS 214 (ENL 214): African-American Literature
• WMS 245 (ENL 245): Images of Women in Literature
• WMS 246 (ENL 246): Women Writers
• WMS 260 (POR 260): Gender and Sexuality in Lusophone Literatures
• WMS 270 (HST 270): Latin American Civilizations (3)

300-level Courses:

• WMS 300: Topics in Women’s Studies
• WMS 316 (HST 316): Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1)
• WMS 317 (HST 317): History of European Women (3)
• WMS 318 (HST 318): Women’s Biography and Autobiography
• WMS 323 (ARH 323): Women, Film, and Popular Culture
• WMS 333: Mothers and Daughters
• WMS 346 (ENL 346): Wise Women
• WMS 347 (ENL 347): Special Topics in Women’s Literature
• WMS 348 (ENL 348): American Women Playwrights
• WMS 364 (HST 364): Social and Cultural History of Russia (3)
• WMS 370 (ENL 370): Women, Writing and Media
• WMS 368 (HST 368): History of Feminist Thought
• WMS 380 (ARH 380): Feminist Perspectives on Art History (1)
• WMS 391 (HST 391): Topics in African History (depending on topic)
• WMS 327/328 (ENL 327/328): African American Literature I and II

400-level Courses:

• WMS 401 (AAS 401, HST 401, JST 401): Seminar in American History (depending on content)
• WMS 402 (AAS 402, HST 402, JST 402): Seminar in European History(depending on content) (3)
• WMS 403 (AAS 403, HST 403, JST 403): Seminar in World History (depending on content) (3)
• ENL 403 (WMS 490): Seminar in American Author crosslists with WMS depending on instructor.
• WMS 421 (ENL 421): Seminar: American Literature Theme (depending on content)
• WMS 490: Advanced Special Topic in Women’s Studies
• WMS 495: Independent Study

(1) May also be taken for the concentration in Gender Studies
(2) May also be taken for the concentration in Politics, Justice and Policy
(3) May also be taken for the concentration in Cross-Cultural Inquiry