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The Women's Studies Program provides an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum designed to give students the theoretical bases and methodological skills necessary for analyzing the historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts that influence women's lives.
The program has four main aims:
- To instruct students in the rapidly expanding scholarship on women and gender;
- To explore the multicultural and international contexts of women's lives;
- To introduce students to the social, cultural, economic, and political contributions of women to the societies in which they live; and
- To explore with students their individual investments in issues of gender - past, present. and future - with an intellectually coherent curriculum.
In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the Women's Studies Program, its faculty come from many Departments in the University, including: Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Communications, English, German and Slavic Studies, History, Romance Languages and Literatures, Psychology, and Sociology. Courses in the curriculum focus on women in the multi-cultural United States, as well as in the countries across the globe. In addition to its interdisciplinary courses, the Program also gives credit for specific courses that are cross-listed with or offered in each of these departments.
The Program offers both an undergraduate co-major (32 credits) and a minor (18 credits). The co-major is designed for students who wish both the diversity of a wide array of gender-related courses reflecting the range of university disciplines and the specialization to be derived from a substantial project utilizing gender theory and methods. The minor is intended for students whose programs are too demanding to accommodate the co-major requirements but who wish to pursue a significant amount of work in women's and gender studies.
Students wishing to pursue a co-major or minor in women's studies should meet with the program director, Dr. Frances Ranney, for advising.
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