WST Minor

Only one course (no more than three credits) offered for the minor may be taken for Pass/No Credit.
At least 15 credits letter grade (A through F) 
No more than 3 credits P/No Credit 
No more than 6 credits S/U. 
Completion of the minor requires 21 credits. 

1. WST 102 (F) or WST 103 (G) Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

2. WST 291 (G) Introduction to Feminist Theory or 301 (K) Histories of Feminism

3. WST 407 Senior Research Seminar for Women's and Gender Studies Minors

4. Twelve credits chosen from among WST courses (or their crosslisted equivalents) and the list below.

At least six credits must be numbered 300 and above.
AFS 345 Culture and Gender: Women in Africa and the Caribbean
AFS 370 The African-American Family 
ANT 295 Sex and Human Nature 
ANT 367 Male and Female 
CFS 308 Violence in the Family 
EGL 371 Topics in Gender Studies 
HIS 394 Topics in History of Medicine and Reproduction 
HUM 122 Images of Women in Literature 
HUM 123 Sexuality in Literature 
HWC 349 Overview of Gay and Lesbian Issues 
PSY 240 Survey in Social Psychology 
RLS 426 Feminine Spirituality 

Related special topics courses given in various departments are acceptable for the Women's and Gender Studies minor and major with the approval of the undergraduate director. A list will be available in the Women's and Gender Studies Office (0300 Melville Library) at preregistration each semester. The list will also be available on the WST community blackboard web site.

 

Undergraduate Advisor for Women’s and Gender Studies:

Professor Ritch Calvin

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/cat/people/cat_faculty/RitchCalvin.html

 

Ritchie.Calvin@stonybrook.edu |631.632.7607 |2119 Humanities Building

Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355
Phone:(631) 632-7460  Fax:(631) 632-5707

 

Course Descriptions via the Undergraduate Bulletin:

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/bulletin/current/academicprograms/wst/courses.php

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Department

Brooke Belisle, a 2013 New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies will join the department next year. "Click here for more info"

Vivien Hartog Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Alexis Chartschlaa and Laura James, winners of the 2013 Vivien Hartog Travel Award.
 
New MA/PhD in Women's and Gender Studies
The Department is pleased to announce that the new MA/PhD program in Women's and Gender Studies has received official certification.

Faculty
E.K. Tan published a peer-reviewed journal article, 華語語系研究:海外華人與離散華人研究之反思 [Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies] in 中國現代文學 [Journal of Modern Chinese Literature (Taiwan)] 22 (Winter 2012): 41-58; and an essay, “Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture” in Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai (Columbia University Press 2013).
Robert Harvey gave a lecture entitled "Partage informe: Foucault's Transgression" at a philosophy & literature symposium at Brown University on April 5.
Jackie Reich will be speaking at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on Thursday, April 25 and at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY on May 4.  
Ray Guins is a co-organizer of the History of Games conference in Montreal, June 21-23:  http://www.history-of-games.com/
E.K. Tan's new book, "Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World" was published with Cambria Press in January.
 
Students 

 

Sarah Paruolo, gave a paper at ACLA 2013 in Toronto titled "Shadows of Trujillo:Oscar Wao and the Haunting of a People."

Marcus Brock, was admitted into the 2013 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, was invited to moderate the VIP screening and reception for the filmPortrait of Jason, and will give a talk at the Stony Brook LGBTA Spring Retreat.

Celina Hung,  has accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Literature at NYU-Shanghai.  She will be stationed in Shanghai with affiliation with the Comparative Literature Department in the NYU Manhattan campus.
Laine Nooney, has received a Distinguished Travel Award from the Grad School and GSO, a Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, and was selected for the Provost's Lecture Series.
Joana Moura has been awarded a doctoral grant (approximately $16,000 per annum) by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.
Kudos Newsletter
January 2013

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