Gender & Women's Studies Certificate (GWSC)

2024-2025 Gender & Women's Studies

Certificate, Liberal Studies Division

Recommended Course Selection Sequence

Course Number	Title	Credits
GWS104	Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies	3
ANT102	Cultural Anthropology	3
	OR
SOC106	Introduction to Sociology	3
	DIR-ELECTIVE-Directed-Elective-3	3
GWS201	Masculinities	3
PSY200	Psychology of Gender and Women	3
	OR
SOC202	Race, Gender, and Class	3
	GWS Elective 3	3
Total Credit Hours:		18

Total Credit Hours: 18

Program Notes

• Communication and Mathematics proficiency required to graduate.

Campus Information

• Danvers, Lynn, and Online

Additional Graduation Requirements

• Cumulative CLGPA at or above 2.0
• Submit your intent to graduate form www.northshore.edu/registrar/

Advising Notes

• Courses are listed in the recommended order you should take them. 
• Some courses have prerequisite requirements that must be fulfilled to be eligible to enroll in the course. 
• All student degree audits for graduation purposes will be based on the official program of study the student is enrolled in.   
• Students should meet with an advisor to discuss transferability of elective options prior to registering for an elective.

Directed Elective: Choose one of the following: ANT102 Cultural Anthropology, Any GWS course,HIS136 History of Sexuality, HIS124 African‐American History, IDS102 IDS Seminar, IDS136 Martin & Malcolm, IDS190 Keeping Score: Cultures of Sport, LIT214 Literature of the American Peoples I: American Indian Literature, LIT216 Literature of the American Peoples II: Latin American Literature, MDA201 Media Studies, PSY142 Human Sexual Behavior, PSY200 Psychology of Women & Gender, SOC106 Intro to Sociology, SOC202 Race, Class, and Gender.

Gender & Women's Studies (GWS) Elective: Choose one of the following:GWS106Revolutionary Women: Combating Inequality, Poverty, and Power,GWS102Intro to GLBTQ Studies, GWS203 Politics of the Veil, GWS205 Women and War