Explore Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Courses

The University of Oregon course catalog offers degree plans and a complete list of courses in the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Featured Courses

WGS 101 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Interdisciplinary examination of the diverse experiences, status, and contributions of women in the United States. Topics include social construction of gender, race, sexualities, work, class, violence, and health.

WGS 250 Gender, Literature, and Culture

Examines literary and other cultural representations of gendered experiences using novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and visual cultural production. Gen Ed Requirements: Arts and Letters; Identity, Pluralism and Tolerance

WGS 361 Gender, Film, and the Media

Students read, view, examine, discuss, and write about film and media in terms of feminist, gender, and queer theory.

Finding Courses in Other Departments

Students can take courses outside of the WGSS department that will meet their chosen major or minor degree requirements. There are several ways to find more courses outside of the WGS code that you can use to count for your major or minor.

Gender studies, queer studies and feminism are interdisciplinary by nature. You will find many other fields incorporate them into other classes. Check the schedule or course catalog for your major and look for courses that mention gender, sexuality, feminism or women in the title.

If you see or hear about a class that sounds like it should count for WGS credit, check our website and our class schedule to see if we are already aware of it. If not, email us! It is difficult to keep tabs on every class and to list them all on our schedule.

Use the form below if you have a course in another subject code or from another university that you’d like to apply to your WGSS major or minor or QST minor. Transfer students please note: Many courses are automatically imported. Use this form only if one is not applied to UO WGSS automatically and you believe it is relevant.

Check the Areas of Inquiry List

The registrar maintains a list of courses that satisfy group requirements/general ed requirements called the Areas of Inquiry (formerly group-satisfying) list. It is linked on the class schedule page.

Scroll down until you see the table with class names. Use the search field on top of it to filter by keywords. Suggestions: ‘Gender’, ‘Sexuality’, ‘Queer’, and etc. This should help you start your search; you can investigate more about each course that sounds interesting to you by finding it in the class schedule or on the course catalog, the master list of all UO courses.

Note that since these are just courses that satisfy area of inquiry requirements, the list may exclude some courses.

Check our “Courses in Other Codes” List

The courses listed below will also satisfy the upper division requirements of the WGSS major/minor. 8 credits from the approved “Courses in Other Codes” list will automatically be applied towards the WGS major; an additional 4 credits from the list may be approved with WGS Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) approval. For the WGS minor, 4 elective credits (1 course) will automatically be applied. These are courses that have been historically counted for various students.

Please note that this list is always under construction as faculty continually devise new classes. There may be courses in other codes that are not yet listed here but that will in fact count. There may be courses on this list that we once counted for a student but are no longer offered. When in doubt, email us and ask!

WGSS Major/Minor Satisfying Classes

QST Minor Satisfying Courses

Case-by-Case Basis Evaluation

Psychology

PSY 388 Human Sexuality

* Part of a topic-changing course code. In the instance given, the course had a gender studies focus and was counted. Topic-changing courses are not always the same. Check with your advisor if you are unsure if a class will count.