Dec 02, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A.


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Co-Directors
Dennis Denisoff, English
Jan Wilson, History

The program in women’s and gender studies at The University of Tulsa considers how gender and other intersecting factors, such as race, class, culture, sexuality, and age, have worked to shape the life experiences of people from diverse backgrounds. The program analyzes the contemporary and historical factors that underlie the current statuses of diverse individuals from all parts of the world and explores the various means by which people have sought to achieve equality.

The program’s dual emphases on interdisciplinary and intersectionality offer students analytical frameworks and methodological tools with which to understand people’s life experiences, interactions, and economic and social institutions. Courses promote awareness and knowledge of status-based oppression, people’s interrelationships, and the ways in which civil rights movements throughout history have struggled for equity. The program seeks to contribute to changing the attitudes and practices that either silence people’s voices or that work to devalue, marginalize, or subordinate certain people’s choices and life experiences. The Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in this area.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  1. Understand and analyze different ways in which genders and sexualities impact individuals and societies.
  2. Analyze and evaluate facts and ethical positions regarding real-world women’s issues in local and global contexts.
  3. Analyze and evaluate feminist, gender, and sexuality theories, and apply them to historical and contemporary texts and situations.
  4. Write and communicate effectively in styles appropriate to the program’s participating disciplines.

Tulsa Curriculum Requirements (53 hours)


General Curriculum (25 hours)****


  • Block I Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Experience (6 hours)
  • Block II Historical and Social Interpretation (12 hours)
  • Block III Scientific Investigation (7 hours including one lab)

Notes:


*AS 1001  is required for freshmen matriculating at TU immediately after graduating from high school.

**AS 2001  is required for sophomores.

***Language requirement may vary depending upon placement.

****No more than two courses from any one discipline may be used to fulfill General Curriculum requirements. Two courses must be taken which meet the Cultural Diversity and Gender Studies  requirement.

Some students may be required to take ENGL 1004 Introduction to College Writing  and MATH 1053 College Algebra .

Major Requirements (30 Hours)


The women’s and gender studies major requires a minimum of 30 hours of coursework, six hours in the women’s and gender studies core and 24 hours in women’s and gender studies electives. Courses from at least three disciplines must be included in the elective credits, and 18 hours must be six courses at or above the 3000 level. Special topics courses and other variable content courses may be counted toward elective course requirements with the approval of the women’s and gender studies governing board. The capstone to the major is the senior project (a College requirement).

Women’s and Gender Studies Electives


Majors choose 24 hours.  Minors choose 6 hours.

Minor (12-15 hours)


General Electives (26-29 hours)


Total: 124 hours


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