Undergraduate Program

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Professor Andrea Mays

For general academic advising, please contact asadvise@unm.edu or (505) 277-4621

College of Arts and Sciences and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Undergraduate Admission Requirements

A minimum of 26 credit hours; 23 credit hours must be in courses acceptable toward graduation.

A cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00 on all work.

Transfer students must have a 2.00 transfer GPA.
Continuing UNM students must have a 2.00 institutional GPA.

Demonstrated academic achievement by satisfying the following:

Completion of General Education Curriculum: Communication.
Completion of General Education Curriculum: Mathematics and Statistics.
Completion of General Education Curriculum: Second Language.

Completion of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program admission coursework with a grade of "C" or better:

One GNDR or WGSS course at any level.

Degree Offered

Bachelor of Arts in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (B.A.)

Major Study

Requirements

		Credit Hours
GNDR 2110	Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	3
WGSS 304	Feminist Theories: Identity, Knowledge, and Power	3
WGSS 325	Race, Class and Feminism	3
WGSS 498	Feminism in Action	3
	Sexuality Studies Area Requirement (select from): WGSS 336 Queer Theories or WGSS T: Feminist Sexuality Studies.	3
	Focus Area Requirement Choose 12 credit hours from one focus area, and 9 credit hours from at least two additional focus areas: • Feminist and Gender Theory • Literature, Film, and Arts • Regional/Global • Sexualities • Social Sciences	21
	Total	36

Refer to Arts and Sciences Advisement or the program Web site for the current list of courses approved for each focus area.

Second Major Study

Requirements

		Credit Hours
GNDR 2110	Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	3
WGSS 304	Feminist Theories: Identity, Knowledge, and Power	3
WGSS 325	Race, Class and Feminism	3
WGSS 498	Feminism in Action	3
	Sexuality Studies Area Requirement Choose 1 course from the following courses: WGSS 336 Queer Theories WGSS 379 T: Feminist Sexuality Studies	3
	Focus Area Requirement Choose 6 credit hours from one focus area, and 3 credit hours from one additional focus area: • Feminist and Gender Theory • Literature, Film, and Arts • Regional/Global • Sexualities • Social Sciences	9
	Total	24

Refer to Arts and Sciences Advisement or the program Web site for the current list of courses approved for each focus area. HIST 345 may be subsituted with another history course as approved by advisor. The history course taken to fulfill the second major core requirement may not be used to fulfill focus area requirements. Other courses may be used upon petition to the Program Director.

Minor Study

Requirements

		Credit Hours
GNDR 2110	Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	3
WGSS 304 -or- WGSS 325	Feminist Theories: Identity, Knowledge, and Power Race, Class and Feminism	3
WGSS 498	Feminism in Action	3
	Sexuality Studies Area Requirement Choose 1 course from the following courses: WGSS 336 Queer Theories WGSS 379 T: Feminist Sexuality Studies	3
	Focus Area Requirement Choose 6 credit hours from one focus area, and 3 credit hours from one additional focus area: • Feminist and Gender Theory • Literature, Film, and Arts • Regional/Global • Sexualities • Social Sciences	9
	Total	21

Refer to Arts and Sciences Advisement or the program Web site for the current list of courses approved for each focus area.

Departmental Honors

To be eligible for the undergraduate departmental honors program, a student must be a major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, have an overall GPA of 3.0 or better, and a GPA of at least 3.5 in program courses.

Requirements

		Credit Hours
GNDR 2110	Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	3
WGSS 304	Feminist Theories: Identity, Knowledge, and Power	3
WGSS 325 -or- WGSS 331	Race, Class and Feminism Transnational Feminisms	3
WGSS 492	Senior Seminar	3
WGSS 498	Feminism in Action	3
HIST 345	U.S. Women since 1865	3
	Focus Area Requirement Choose from one focus area: • Feminist and Gender Theory • Literature, Film, and Arts • Regional/Global • Sexualities • Social Sciences	9
	Electives Choose from outside the focus area.	9
WGSS 493	Senior Honors Thesis	3
Total		39

Refer to Arts and Sciences Advisement or the program Web site for the current list of courses approved for each focus area.

Process for Admission

Qualified students who are interested in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departmental honors program must: 1) select an honors thesis faculty advisor, in consultation with the Program Undergraduate Advisor; 2) submit an application letter and form. Eligible students are strongly urged to submit their letter of application and form, co-signed by the honors thesis advisor, by October 15^th of their junior year; 3) submit verification of scheduled, or taken, honors sequence, 4) provide a copy of an unofficial transcript.