Women’s Studies - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

An Arts and Sciences Area of Concentration

Application Code 275

For curriculum information, contact the Arts and Humanities Division–Room HVPA-200–443-518-1480.

This curriculum is designed for those students who want to use an interdisciplinary approach in the pursuit of knowledge. Women's Studies is designed to transfer to a four-year school where students would further their studies in a similar concentration. The curriculum gives the student flexibility to pursue a major interest and, at the same time, to fulfill the lower-division general education requirements for transfer to a baccalaureate degree program. Students should seek guidance from advisors and the institution to which they intend to transfer to determine appropriate coursework for specific transfer programs.

Suggested Semester 1

Course Number	Title	Credits
ENGL 121	College Composition	3
WMST 111	Introduction to Women's Studies: Women, Gender, and Society	3
WMST 225	Women in American History: Colonial Era to 1880	3
Gen Ed Core	Arts & Humanities Core Group A (except WMST)	3
Gen Ed Core	Mathematics Core Course	3

Suggested Semester 2

Course Number	Title	Credits
WMST 270	Women and Film	3
Gen Ed Core	Science Core Course	3
Gen Ed Core	Social & Behavioral Sciences Core Group A	3
Core Elective	Any General Education Core Courses	6

Suggested Semester 3

Course Number	Title	Credits
HEED 150	Women's Health	3
WMST 227	Women in American History: 1880 to the Present	3
Gen Ed Core	Science Core Course (must include lab)	4
Elective	Electives*	6

Suggested Semester 4

Course Number	Title	Credits
WMST 193	Introduction to Women's Studies: Women, Art, and Culture	3
WMST 228	Women in European History: 1750 to the Present	3
Gen Ed Core	Social & Behavioral Sciences Core Group B	3
Elective	Electives*	5

*Electives - Select from the following:

Course Number	Title	Credits
ENGL 212	By and About Women	3
PHIL 101	Introduction to Philosophy	3
PHIL 260	Film and Philosophy	3
WMST 229	African American Women's History	3
WMST 230	Women in Colonial Maryland	1
WMST 231	American Women and Suffrage	1

A graduate should be able to

1. Identify, understand, evaluate, and apply ethical reasoning.
2. Develop intellectual curiosity, open-mindedness, and tolerance.
3. Understand the construction of gender and its intersection with race, sex, and class to create an oppressive gender system.
4. Use the analytical frameworks generated by women's studies' scholarship to restore women's contributions to the historical record.

Total Credit Hours: 60

The Arts & Humanities Core requirement may alternatively be fulfilled by completing a World Language Sequence plus WMST 193. Students who choose to complete a World Language Sequence are not required to complete General Education Core Electives.