Fall 2008

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Gateway Courses:

At least one gateway course is required for the major or minor.

• CAST 100 - Introduction to Comparative American Studies (Raimondo)
• CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Ormand)
• FYSP 110 - Black Women and Liberation (Brooks)
• SOCI 233 - Gender, Social Change, Social Movements (Hasso)

Elective Courses:

Of the approximately 18 elective course credits, students must take courses in at least two different departments or programs.

• AAST 228 - Katrina and the Black Freedom Struggle in Louisiana (Brooks)
• AAST 285 - African American Women's History (Brooks)
• CAST/EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb (Kozol / Sherif)
• CAST 321 - Transnational Sexualities: National Borders, Global Desires (Raimondo)
• ENGL 388 - Selected Authors: Salman Rushdie (Needham)
• FYSP 103 - Bridging the Body/Mind Divide (Cooper Albright)
• FYSP 141 - Women and Their Writings in Japanese Culture (Gay)
• FYSP 146 - HIV/AIDS in America (Raimondo)
• FYSP 154 - Freud's Vienna (Sammartino)
• HISP 338 - Tango: A Cultural History (Cara)
• HIST 270 - Latina/Latino Survey (Mitchell)
• HIST 328 - American Mixed Blood (Mitchell)
• POLT 303 - Seminar: Equal Protection and Implied Fundamental Rights (Kahn)
• RELG 108 - Introduction to Religion: Women and the Western Traditions (Kamitsuka)
• RELG 261 - Gender Theory and the Study of Religion (Kamitsuka)
• SOCI 203 - Desire to be Modern: Sociology of Sexuality (Mattson)
• SOCI 450 - Beyond Us vs. Them: How We Manage Contradictory Categories (Dhingra)

Feminist Research Methodologies:

This is a required course for majors and will be offered once a year.

• SOCI 305 - Feminist Research Methodologies (Hasso)

Advanced Seminars:

At least one advanced seminar is required for the major. Students can petition to have a seminar count for this requirement that is not on this list.

• CAST 407 - Seminar: Picturing War: American Visual Culture, Militarization and Crises of Identity (Kozol)