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Advisor's Checklist

(Printable Version)

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Advisor’s Checklist  - Women’s Studies BA

(Sample plan for student entering WVU beginning in Aug. 2001)

(note: this checklist only uses the new course numbers.  We will provide another one for students who entered before August 2001 that includes the old course numbers.  Also, in reviewing these requirements, no courses were double-counted for college and university requirements.  Students will gain more flexibility if they double-count the maximum number of requirements as noted below for each requirement and may need more than 128 hours to complete two majors).

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WOMEN’S STUDIES ENTRANCE and MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:  

58 credit hours, a minimum  2.0 overall GPA, students are required to earn a minimum GPA of 2.5 in the 9 required hours and an overall 2.0 in all their major courses.  Students must complete 30 hours of approved women’s studies courses. 

Level	Requirement	Course/s Used	Hours	Grade	Date Completed
WVU	English 101	ENGL 101: Composition and Rhetoric	3
WVU	English 102	ENGL 102: Composition and Rhetoric	3
WVU	“W” course - 3 cr. hrs., PR Engl 101, 102; can use WMST 215 but not required		3
WVU	Foreign/Minority/Gender Studies requirement - 3 cr. hrs.; (MAY be used simultaneously to meet "Cluster" requirements.); see list below for options		3
WVU	Mathematics/statistics - 3 cr. hrs. ; may not be used simultaneously to meet “Cluster” requirements; see list below for options.		3
WVU	Cluster A: (Humanities and Fine Arts) 12 hours – must include three disciplines; two courses must be in same discipline; no more than 1 MDS course; no more than 1 1st-semester course of a foreign language		3
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			3
WVU	Cluster B: (Social & Behavioral Sciences) Humanities and Fine Arts) 12 hours -- must include three disciplines; two courses must be in the same discipline; two courses must be in same discipline; no more than one MDS course.		3
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			3
WVU	Cluster C: (Natural Sciences & Math) 11-12 hours -- must include two disciplines; at least one four hour lab science course; no more than one MDS course		3
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College	Foreign Language - 12 cr. hrs.  (May not be used simultaneously to meet Cluster A requirement).		3
			3
			3
			3
College	Fine Arts -3cr. hrs.; May NOT be used simultaneously to meet "Cluster" requirements.); see list below for options.		3
College	International Studies - 3 cr. hrs.; MAY be used simultaneously to meet "Cluster" requirements.); see list below for options.		3
College	Minor field - at least 15 cr. hrs. in 1 discipline.		15
CWS	Introductory Course - 3 cr. hrs	WMST 170: Intro to WS	3
CWS	Intermediate Women’s Studies courses - 9 cr. hrs. maximum; see list below for options.		3
			3
			3
CWS	Advanced core Women's Studies courses	WMST330: Fem Theory	3
		WMST 494: Seminar	3
CWS	Advanced Elective Courses (12 cr. hrs. minimum at upper-division - 300/400 - level for total of 21 hours of electives at the intermediate and advanced levels; see list below for options.		3
			3
			3
			3
CWS	Electives or 2nd major requirements		15
	Total Hours		128

Fine Arts course options:

Art 101; CLAS 232; COMM 305; Engl 261,262, 241, 242, 131, 132, 154, 139, 225 &226, 231, 232, 233, 252, 263, 272, 257; FLIT 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 18, 211, 212, 225, 226, 205, 206, 241, 242, 251, 252, 261, 262, 266, 231, 232, 273, 274; HUM 101, 102, 105, 110, 111, 120; MUSIC 170, 171, 172, 174, 175;  SOCA 257, Thet 101,102, 420, 361, 362, 363, 364, WMST 215.

International Studies course options:

COMM 316; ENGL 139, FLIT 116, 117, 252, 266, 271, 274; GEOG 102, 243, 310; HIST 104, 105, 106, 218, 242, 409, 425, 428, 430; HUM 105, 120; PHIL 350; POLS 103, 250, 260, 350, 351, 354, 355, 356, 358, 366, 367, 369; RELG 230, 231, 232; SOCA 105, 255, 256, 322, TE 430, WMST 215.

Foreign/Minority Cultures/Gender Studies - see university handbook for details.

Mathematics/Statistics

MATH 126, 128, 180, 129, 155, 156, 121, 150, 231, 218; ECON 225; STAT 211

Liberal Studies Program courses: See current undergraduate catalogue for appropriate courses or printed course schedules to meet Cluster A, B, and C requirements.

Intermediate Women’s Studies courses :  The following courses will count toward this requirement: WMST 215: African Women Writers, WMST 225: Women in Appalachia (currently being submitted as new course, converted from special topics number); WMST 245: Women in International Development; WMST 281: American Indian Women Writers; WMST 293: Special Topics Courses; ENGL 285: Images of Women in Literature; ENGL 288: Sexual Diversity in Film & Literature; FLIT 243: Women Writers of Spain; FLIT 263: French Women Writers; MDS 122: Human Sexuality; MDS 123: Intro to GLBT Studies; PSYC 232: Sex Roles and Behavior; SOCA 221: Family and Society; SOCA 235: Race Relations

Advanced Women’s Studies elective courses:  The following courses will meet this requirement:  WMST 310: The Aging Woman; WMST 320: Women Religion and Spirituality; WMST 340: Gender and Violence (currently being submitted for approval as new course by faculty senate); WMST 448: Sexuality in American Culture; WMST 449: Women’s Movements Since 1960; WMST 493: Special Topics courses; CHPR 390: Women and Health; ENGL 385: American Women Writers; ENGL 386: British Women Writers; ENGL 387: Topics in Women’s Literature; GEOG 412: Seminar Geography of Gender; HIST 445: History of American Women; HIST 446: History of European Women to 1700; SOCA 360: Women & Men in Society; SOCA 405: Intro to Social Inequality.  Included in the 12 hours may be no more than 6 hours of independent study (WMST 495) or field experience (WMST 491) credit.

All 21 hours may be courses with a WMST prefix, or a student’s program of study may include approved courses distributed across at least two other units in addition to those with a WMST prefix.  These 6 hours may also be courses that students could take to fulfill the requirements of a second major, i.e., in history or English.  The Center maintains a list of available courses that students may use for these electives.           

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Rev: 6/95, UASC