WGST 551: Adolescent Mentoring
Application of skills and theories of adolescent mentoring taught in the classroom to a supervised, structured mentoring field experience. Cross-listed course: CRJU 551
A full list of course descriptions is available in the Academic Bulletin. Each semester's courses with additional information can be found on the WGST Courses page.
Spring 2026
WGST 554: Women, Gender, and Crime
Impact of gender-based relations on crime and the criminal justice system. Cross-listed course: CRJU 554
WGST 555: Language and Gender
Health status and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Includes an examination of measurement issues and methodological considerations in research, as well as intervention efforts targeting LGBT populations. Cross-listed course: HPEB 627Must be upper-division undergraduate (junior/ senior standing)
WGST 598: Topic: A History of Women's Health
In this course, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students examine the history of women’s health and healing in Europe and North America since 1600. Across time and space, health and healing have been imbued with complex and changing gendered meanings. This course foregrounds how gender combined with race, sexuality, religion or spirituality, and class in forming healing practices and cultures. Specific issues covered include gendered ideas of illness and health, the spaces of healthcare, healing practices, women healers, the medicalization of healing, the women’s health movement, and how health and healing have been linked with legal systems, colonialism, and the modern state. Students will explore not only women’s health-related experiences but also the larger political, social, and cultural meanings of gender, health, and healing in the past. A focus of legal, religious, and medical texts, health and healing also have made their way into the historical record through personal narratives, oral traditions, rituals and myths, legal and court records, written correspondence, material culture and artifacts, literature, and art; these sources and more will serve as the basis of this course. Cross-listed course: HIST 599
WGST 621: Maternal and Child Health
Public health issues, social and behavioral science, policies, programs, and services related to maternal and child health in the United States and other countries. Cross-listed course: HPEB 621
WGST 796: Topics: Service Learning and Social Justice: The Art of Grant Writing
This course provides an introduction to grant writing and grants administration in reference to global women’s rights. It is designed for students in various disciplines who want to understand the grant process from the introductory stages to the final stages of implementing the grant. Beginners in grant writing and those who already have some grant writing experience are welcome. The class will particularly focus on grants that apply to women and gender issues from both a national and international perspective. Students will be required to locate and write a grant which will include a letter of inquiry, a cover letter, a project narrative, and a budget. Service learning is a component of the class so applicable grants will be submitted to relevant organizations. Each student is limited to 20 contact hours with their chosen organization. Cross-listed course: POLI, ARTH
WGST 797: Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies
A capstone seminar applying women’s studies theories and methodologies to professional or discipline-based research projects. Prerequisites: WGST 701.