WGST 498 - Women’s and Gender Studies Senior Seminar

Prerequisites, WGST 101 or WMST 101, senior standing, or consent of instructor. Students will explore feminist theory as a social, cultural, and political critique, and feminist methodology as ways of knowing about the world and women’s lives. Students will examine current debates in feminist theory, and consider knowledge in the disciplines, how such knowledge is traditionally produced and used, as well as how it is resisted and reconstituted through feminist inquiry. This course is the capstone experience for the women’s and gender studies minor. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits