2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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22nd Floor, 25 Park Place Building
P.O. Box 3969
Atlanta, GA 30302-3969
Phone: 404-413-6587
Fax: 404-413-6585
Email: wgss@gsu.edu
wgss.gsu.edu
Stephanie Evans, Director
Julie Kubala, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Georgia State University contributes to the University’s broader mission of encouraging critical thinking through a focus on feminist interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and community participation. WGSS makes explicit the ways in which gender and sexuality, in connection with other categories such as race, class, ability, and age, construct our understandings and experiences of the world. Furthermore, WGSS analyzes the ways public discourse relies on gender and sexuality to conceptualize such issues as war and militarism, policy, the environment, education, healthcare, economics, the media, and popular culture. In order to explore these issues, WGSS emphasizes the following areas of study: sexualities, race and globalization, and social change.
Program Admission
Students wishing to major or minor in WGSS must meet the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree as described earlier in this catalog. Students should come to the institute office to receive advisement.
Academic Advisement for Undergraduate Students
Academic advisement for undergraduate students is provided through the University Advisement Center (freshman through junior status/fewer than 90 hours) and the college’s Office of Academic Assistance (senior status/90 or more hours). See Office of Academic Assistance for additional information.
Program Degree Requirements
To take WGSS 4930 - Senior Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies-CTW or WGSS 4930 - Senior Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies-CTW , students must first receive approval from the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Students wishing to major or minor in WGSS must meet the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree as described earlier in this catalog. Students should come to the Institute office to meet with the Undergraduate Director.
University Grade-Point Average and Grade Requirements
Georgia State University undergraduate students must achieve an overall institutional grade-point average of 2.0 and a major GPA of 2.0 in Areas G and H to receive a bachelor’s degree from the university. Grades of C- can be used to satisfy graduation requirements. However, some courses have prerequisites that require a grade of C or higher. (See 1460 GPA Requirement for additional information.)
Graduation with Distinction in the Major
This unit offers undergraduate students the opportunity to earn the designation of graduation with distinction in the major. Faculty can nominate students for graduation with distinction. They should meet minimum grade requirements and be recognized for outstanding research, leadership, and/or service.
Criteria for significant contributions to the field include the following. Additional possibilities may be approved at faculty discretion.
- Minimum GPA of 3.5 either overall or in the major
- Significant contribution to the field such as the following:
- Presentation of a scholarly paper at a conference
- Authorship (or significant co-authorship) on a manuscript submitted for publication
- Exceptional service to the department
- Leadership in a women’s/gender/sexuality studies organization, such as Faces of Feminism or BlackOUT
- Outstanding community activism
ProgramsDual DegreeMinorOther ProgramsCoursesWomen’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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