Transnational Studies and Solidarity
Learn beyond borders. Get a broader perspective.
Study Abroad
All Women's and Gender Studies majors are highly encouraged and typically required to complete either WMNST 598 (Internship) or satisfy an international educational experience.
To browse the numerous other study abroad opportunities available at SDSU, visit the SDSU Global Education Portal, the database of all pre-approved study abroad programs. From short-term, semester and yearlong study abroad programs, to international internships, service-learning or research opportunities, SDSU provides hundreds of options for students to incorporate an international experience into their SDSU experience.
Classes with a transnational focus
- WMNST 310 Global Cultures and Women’s Lives
- WMNST 340 History of Women and Sexuality in Modern Europe
- WMNST 512 Latinas in the Americas
- WMNST 560 Women in Muslim Societies
- WMNST 580 Women, Development, and the Global Economy
- WMNST 581 Women’s Experiences of Migration
- WMNST 609 Transnational Issues and Gender
- WMNST 611 Gender and Diaspora
Faculty Research Projects
- Anne Donadey -- The Algerian War in French Film
- Anh Hua -- Diasporic and Postcolonial Women’s Arts.
- Amira Jarmakani -- Comparative Orientalisms in the Americas
Recent MA Theses
- Olivia Jaffe-Pachuilo, Voices of Women of North African Descent on the French Island of Corsica (2017)
- Mary Marchan, Reproductive Health in Siquijor, Philippines (2016)
- Taylor Wondergem, Western Feminist Imperialism in the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on women’ (2015)
- Sanam Kalhoro, The Politics of Space and the Creation of the Third: a Study of the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus in Pakistan (2014)
- Damien Sutton, The Interpersonal is Political: Contesting Patriarchy Within the Chaldean Community (2014)