WN 3316 Gender Politics (same as PO 3316)
3 semester hours
This course examines and assesses the role and participation of women in American political life. Topics include: women and men as voters, candidates and officeholders, the Women’s Movement, civil rights, grass roots participation, and key policy issues that have particular relevance to women.

WN 3320 Social Stratification (same as AN, CJ/CR 3320)
3 semester hours
An analysis of social stratification utilizing social class as the unit of study. The course will focus on the structure of social classes in the United States as a major factor influencing individual and group life chances with regards to education, crime, health and disease, and world views and life styles.

WN 3337 Human Sexuality (same as PS 3337)
3 semester hours
A psychological overview of human sexuality emphasizing socio-psychological, physiological, and ethical aspects.

WN 3343 The Family (same as SC/AN/CR 3343)
3 semester hours
A study of the family as an institution and social system, including discussions of dating and mate selection, premarital and extramarital sex, birth control, abortion, illegitimacy, family planning, spousal relationships, interracial and interfaith marriages, socialization, social control, and change.

WN 3352 U.S. Women’s History (same as HS 3352)
3 semester hours
Study of women and gender in the history, politics, and culture of the United States, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.

WN 3356 Marriage and Family Today (same as TH 3356)
3 semester hours
The nature of marriage as understood by the Catholic Church; the role of marriage and the family as the foundation of civil society; Natural Family Planning; and the specific social and personal challenges that married couples meet such as monogamy, fidelity, abstinence, finances, the extended family, and emotional differences.

WN 4300 Concepts in Women’s Studies
3 semester hours
Highlights the most important issues addressed in various disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields of study.

WN 4310 Women’s Issues: Health and Science
3 semester hours
Issues can include: reproduction; mental and physical wellness; aging and medical ethics; disease and treatment protocols; and women’s issues in psychology. Faculty and topics can vary by semester and may be drawn from biology, engineering, psychology, exercise and sports science, and philosophy (if concerned with medicine and science).

WN 4320 Women’s Issues: Politics, Law and Society
3 semester hours
Issues can include: marriage and family, violence and society, employment, social and political structures, education, sex discrimination, feminism, sexuality and the law, family law,and critical legal theory. Faculty and topics can vary by semester and may be drawn from political science, speech communication, anthropology, history, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, languages, and the School of Law.

WN 4330 Women’s Issues: History, the Arts and Literature
3 semester hours
Issues can include: art, drama, music, and literature; feminist theory; religion and spirituality; popular culture and mass media; marketing and communications careers. Faculty and topics can vary by semester and may be drawn from English, history, communications, art, music, drama, theology, philosophy, and languages.

WN 4336 Critical Inquiry in Sex and Gender (same as PL 4336)
3 semester hours
A exploration of a variety of key authors and texts about gender relations are used as the basis of making a critical assessment of the need for and the adequacy of various theories of sex and gender.

WN 4340 Women’s Issues: Business, Economics, and International Relations
3 semester hours
Issues can include: national and global economics, women and development, corporate and business structures, the glass ceiling effect, workplace discrimination, comparable worth, feminization of poverty and welfare, gender and human rights, gender and immigration law, gender and war. Faculty and topics can vary by semester and may be drawn from the Bill Greehey School of Business and the School of Law, and from economics, political science and international relations.

WN 4350 Capstone Seminar in Women Studies
3 semester hours
The capstone course will include a service-learning project in various fields and provide the opportunity for viable synthesis. Students must have senior standing. 

WN 4375 Internship on Women’s Issues
3 semester hours
Experience-based education in the context of an acceptable pre-professional and/or gender-based organization or agency, to include work under a supervisor approved by the academic adviser. Ordinarily junior or senior status is preferred. It is generally recommended that to obtain 3 semester hours credit, the student must spend 10 internship hours per week. A research paper, tied to the internship, is also required. Students work with an academic adviser.

WN 5330 Women Authors (same as EN 5330)
3 semester hours
Cross-cultural reading of the works of women authors; study of the development of a woman’s tradition in literature, with emphasis on the themes, genre, and writing styles created by 20th century female authors.