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CROSSLISTING COURSES WITH WGSS
First or second time | Beyond second time | Students
TO FACULTY MEMBERS ON HOW TO CROSSLIST WITH WGSS
WGSS encourages interested faculty members from all departments and programs to consider crosslisting courses that reflect the mission of WGSS.
Mission
In the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (WGS) at Macalester College, students investigate key questions raised by scholarship on women and gender. The department has a strong focus on understanding women's and men's lives and the meaning of gender in the context of major interlocking systems of cultural and political differences based on race, nation, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. In addition to courses in the discipline of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, students engage in coursework across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and fine arts. Using transnational and national perspectives, feminist theories, and issues in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, WGS is designed to help students develop crucial theoretical and practical skills for understanding the social and cultural changes that are shaping our world. Students often apply their new knowledge in internships and, after graduation, to a wide variety of careers. Students may major or minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Guidelines
A course is generally considered eligible for crosslisting if it meets one or more of the following criteria:
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Whether it focuses on authors, issues, regions, historical periods, theories, philosophies or genres, it interweaves analyses of gender and sexuality with questions/issues of race, class, nation, globalization, disability, religion or other relevant discourses;
The first or second time 
1. Describe, in about 50-100 words, the match between your syllabus and the goals defined in the WGSS mission statement. Using an example or two from the syllabus, explain how the course contributes to the WGSS curriculum.
OBSERVATION: As the guidelines above describe, much of the WGSS curriculum focuses on binary categories of thought (e.g., man/woman, male/female, homosexual/heterosexual, masculine/feminine). WGSS is equally interested in courses that transcend or problematize binary modes of thinking (e.g., by focusing on transgender, intersexed, transsexual, and queer cultures). The department also emphasizes methodologies that help to analyze structures of thought regarding the relationship of gender and sexuality with society, politics, and culture.
EXAMPLE: Postcolonialism is both a field of enquiry and a state of mind in which one can analyze the effects of colonialism as well as think about the present that reconfigures the same principles (neo-colonialism) or possible futures that might not replicate colonial inequalities. The crucial roles that gender, race, class, nation, religion, or sexuality play in colonialism, and its ‘post’ or ‘neo’ forms creates the basis for a feminist and/or queer critical perspective.
2. Attach your syllabus.
3. Send to Chair of WGSS, c/o Dept. Coordinator, by campus mail or email as attachment in MSWord document (wgs@macalester.edu).
4. The materials are submitted to the WGSS steering committee. Please allow 2-3 weeks for a decision. The Chair will relay that decision to you by email.
5. Suggestion: For any given academic term in which you wish to offer the submitted course as a crosslist, please send the materials in the previous semester. RECOMMENDED DATES: March 1 or October 1 of each year. This suggested timing works best for students who would like to be informed for registration week and apply the course towards WGSS credit.
6. The course will either be advertised as “approved for WGSS credit” or crosslisted with a WGSS course number.
If the course changes in content and method significantly from the previous time when you submitted it, you are requested to submit the changed course to WGSS according to the guidelines above.
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Beyond the second time
The Registrar requires a regular course number (not a topics course number) for a class taught more than twice, even if the same course is offered again only occasionally (e.g., every other year). If you would like to crosslist your course on a long-term basis, WGSS would be very happy to help in the process.
1. Obtain a Course Change Proposal form from the Registrar’s website or office and attach it to the course description and rationale. Follow steps 1 through 3 from the previous section.
2. The materials are submitted to the WGSS steering committee. Please allow 2-3 weeks for a decision. The Chair will relay that decision to you by email. The committee may have further questions or suggestions about the match between your course and the mission of WGSS.
3. When this process is complete, the Chair of WGSS or the faculty member submitting the course will forward the forms and course description to EPAG.
4. Suggestion: For any given academic term in which you wish to offer the submitted course as a crosslist, please send the materials EARLY in the previous semester. RECOMMENDED DATES: FEBRUARY 28 or SEPTEMBER 30 of each year. This suggested timing works best for students who would like to be informed for registration week and apply the course towards WGSS credit.
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TO STUDENTS ON HOW TO REQUEST WGSS CREDIT FOR NON-CROSSLISTED COURSES (from campus, study away, study abroad, and ACTC schools)
1. Please check the announced crosslistings from the WGSS department to establish whether the course already has been approved for crosslisting. Check the class schedule for that semester, the catalog copy, and on the courses listed on the WGSS website.
2. If not, please submit a copy of the syllabus along with a 200-word rationale describing how the course
a) matches the WGSS mission statement
b) follows upon the courses you have taken in the WGSS department, both in content and methodology
c) fulfils the goals you have in taking the WGSS major or minor.
3. Send to Sonita Sarker, Chair of WGSS, by campus mail. The department mailbox is in Old Main 409.
4. The materials are submitted to the WGSS steering committee. Please allow 2-3 weeks for a decision. The Chair will relay that decision to you by email. The committee may have further questions or suggestions about the match as stated above.
5. If you believe the crosslisting of this course with WGSS would benefit other students, please direct the faculty member teaching the course to the guidelines in the section above.
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