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College Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Students planning a program of study or concentration are urged to review program requirements and course descriptions before meeting with their advisors. Not all courses listed here are taught every year, and students should consult the Course Schedule on the Wheaton website for information about offerings in a particular semester. Courses are numbered to indicate levels of advancement as follows: 100–199, elementary or introductory; 200–299, intermediate; 300 and above, advanced. Departments often design new courses, either to be offered on a one-time basis or an experimental basis, before deciding whether to make them a regular part of the curriculum.  These courses are numbered 098, 198, 298 or 398.

Information is available online through WINDOW about prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling in a course, as well as the curriculum and general education requirements that a course fulfills. Most courses are offered for one course credit; a course credit at Wheaton is the equivalent of four semester hours.
 

Women’s and Gender Studies
  

  • WGS 401 - Senior Seminar

    A semester of directed reading and research where students will examine significant issues at the forefront of feminist theory and research, as well as the principal theoretical debates within the field of women’s studies. Topics chosen for discussion will depend on class interest, recent research and timeliness. Potential topics include postcolonial feminisms, women and war, and black feminist theory.

    Prerequisites
    Open only to Senior Women’s and Gender Studies Majors and Minors

    Credits 1
  

  • WGS 499 - Independent Research

    Advanced students, in consultation with an instructor, may arrange to pursue independent study on topics not covered by the regular course offerings.

    Credits 1
  

  • WGS 500 - Individual Research

    Open to senior majors by invitation of the Program. All other interested students should speak with the program coordinator or Women’s Studies academic advisor.

    Credits 1

Wheaton Credit Internship
  

  • WCI 098 - Wheaton Credit Internship

    This course, designed for students who have secured an internship, integrates on-site and academic learning. Supervised by a faculty member, students consider academic perspectives that complement and contextualize their internship experience. Course credit varies from .25 to 1 credit, depending upon the internship and the nature of the course work. 

    Before enrolling in a WCI course, students must complete a WCI Internship Agreement Form detailing the plan for the internship, and obtain signatures from Career Services, the internship onsite supervisor, and the faculty supervisor.

     

    Prerequisites
    Secured Internship

    Credits .25 to 1



    Notes
    This course is graded as “Pass” or “Fail.” A grade of “P” is not factored into a student’s grade point average, and does not count as one of the three “P” grades that a student can earn through the “G/P/F” option. A grade of “F” will be factored into a student’s grade point average.
 

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