Women's Studies Courses
We offer a wide range of engaging courses that meet our student learning objectives (SLOs). The SLOs for these undergraduate courses are:
- Ability to engage in critical thinking and meta-cognition.
- Evidence of mastery of key concepts in Women's Studies, including the social construction of gender; sexuality/gender connections; intersectionalities among gender, race, class and other vectors of power and identity; social stratification.
- Ability to apply interdisciplinarity to area of focus/study.
- Evidence of superior writing ability.
- Evidence of superior oral communication skills.
- Ability to apply gender analysis in an Pacific-Asian context.
- Ability to connect the classroom with "real world" feminist issues.
- Evidence of mastery of key concepts pertaining to men and masculinities.
Note:
Highlighted courses satisfy the gender/race & ethnicity in transnational perspective requirement.
For complete course descriptions, please visit the UH Manoa website.
For course availability, please visit the UH Manoa website.
| Course | Credits | Title |
|---|---|---|
| WS 151 | 3 | Introduction to Women's Studies |
| WS 175 | 3 | History of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Global Perspectives to 1500 CE |
| WS 176 | 3 | History of Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Global Perspective, 1500 CE to the Present |
| WS 200 | 3 | Culture, Gender, and Appearance |
| WS 202 | 3 | Psychology of Gender |
| WS 230 | 3 | Women and Sport |
| WS 245 | 3 | Women Writers of World Literature |
| WS 257 | 3 | Sexual Identity in Literature |
| WS 304 | 3 | Women, War, and the Military |
| WS 305 | 3 | Women and Health |
| WS 306 | 3 | Indigenous Women's Health |
| WS 311 | 3 | U.S. Women's History |
| WS 315 | 3 | Sex and Gender |
| WS 318 | 3 | Women and Social Policy |
| WS 339 | 3 | South Asian Migrants: Culture and Politics |
| WS 345 | 3 | 20th-Century Literature by Women |
| WS 346 | 3 | 20th-Century Chinese Women Writers |
| WS 350 | 3 | Sex Differences in the Life Cycle |
| WS 351 | 3 | Women, Ideas, and Society |
| WS 356 | 3 | Women and Religion |
| WS 360 | 3 | Pacific/Asian Women in Hawai'i |
| WS 361 | 3 | Seminar: Women and International Development |
| WS 362 | 3 | Sociology of Gender |
| WS 375 | 3 | Women and the Media |
| WS 381 | 3 | Gender, Sexuality and Literature |
| WS 384 | 3 | Women and Politics |
| WS 390 | 3 | Gender and Race in U.S. Society |
| WS 392 | 3 | Sexualities |
| WS 399 | V | Directed Reading |
| WS 400 | 3 | Food, Body, and Women: Analysis of Biopolitics |
| WS 410 | 3 | Gender and Politics in U.S.-Okinawa Relations |
| WS 414 | 3 | Women in Drama and Theater |
| WS 418 | 3 | Women and Work |
| WS 419 | 3 | Feminist Issues in Philosophy |
| WS 424 | 3 | Gender, Sexuality, and Cyberspace |
| WS 430 | 3 | Seminar in the Biology of Women |
| WS 434 | 3 | Women and Madness |
| WS 435 | 3 | Women and Crime |
| WS 436 | 3 | Gender, Justice and Law |
| WS 437 | 3 | Gender and Violence: Transnational Feminist Analyses |
| WS 438 | 3 | Gender and Environmental Philosophy |
| WS 439 | 3 | Feminist Theory |
| WS 440 | 3 | Feminist Methods and Research |
| WS 445 | 3 | U.S. Women's Literature and Culture |
| WS 446 | 3 | Gender Violence Over the Lifecycle |
| WS 452 | 3 | Marriage and Family: Feminist Perspective |
| WS 453 | 3 | Gender Issues in Education |
| WS 456 | 3 | Politics of Men and Masculinity in U.S. Culture |
| WS 460 | 3 | Feminism, Nation and Empire |
| WS 462 | 3 | Asian Women |
| WS 463 | 3 | Gender Issues in Asian Society |
| WS 481 | 3 | Women and Film |
| WS 483 | 3 | Studies in Literature and Sexuality and Gender |
| WS 492 | 3 | Women and Revolution |
| WS 495 | 3 | Selected Topics |
| WS 496 | 3 | Teaching Women's Studies |
| WS 602 | 3 | Transnational Feminist Teaching and Research |
| WS 610 | 1 | Faculty Seminar Series |
| WS 612 | 3 | Women in American Culture |
| WS 613 | 3 | Feminist Research and Methods of Inquiry |
| WS 615 | 3 | Feminist Theory |
| WS 620 | 3 | Feminism and Its "Others" |
| WS 623 | 3 | Topics in Feminist Social Policy Research |
| WS 650 | 2 | Research in Feminist Studies: Capstone Experience |
| WS 699 | V | Directed Reading and Research |
| WS 753 | 3 | Research Seminar in Chinese Literature |
