Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Required Courses
- WGSS 565 - Women: Health, Healing, and Medicine
- WGSS 570 - Gender, War, and Peace
- WGSS 572 - Women and Violence
- WGSS 575 - Digital and Networked Feminisms
- WGSS 580 - Gender and the Global Economy
- WGSS 581 - Women's Experiences of Migration
- WGSS 582 - Feminist Science and Technology Studies
- WGSS 585 - Local Feminist Activism and Organizations
- WGSS 590 - Feminist Thought
- WGSS 601 - Foundations of Feminist Scholarship
- WGSS 602 - Seminar: Methods of Inquiry in Women's Studies
- WGSS 603 - Seminar: Topics in Advanced Feminist Theory
- WGSS 604 - Seminar: Gender, Culture, and Representation
- WGSS 605 - Seminar: Women and Social Policy
- WGSS 606 - Seminar: Narrating Women’s Lives
- WGSS 608 - Seminar: Body Politics
- WGSS 609 - Seminar: Topics in Transnational Issues and Gender
- WGSS 610 - Seminar in Sexuality
- WGSS 611 - Seminar: Gender and Diaspora
- WGSS 612 - Seminar: Feminist Pedagogies
- WGSS 510 - Black Feminist Thought
- WGSS 512 - Latinas in the Americas
- WGSS 515 - Women: Myth, Ritual, and the Sacred
- WGSS 520 - Reproductive Rights and Justice
- WGSS 522 - Women: Madness and Sanity
- WGSS 530 - Women’s Movements and Activism
- WGSS 533 - Trans Feminisms
- WGSS 535 - Lesbian Lives and Cultures
- WGSS 536 - Gender, Race, and Class
- WGSS 542 - Feminist Disability Studies
- WGSS 544 - Queer Theory
- WGSS 552 - Feminist Approaches to Film
- WGSS 555 - Climate Justice and Feminisms
- WGSS 560 - SWANA, Islam, and Gender Justice
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2026-27 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.