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Women's Studies

Major/Minor

Women’s studies offers students new ways of seeing and new standards for evaluating diverse women’s and men’s contributions to knowledge and society, thus creating a more representative and transformative understanding of themselves and the worlds in which they live. The Bachelor of Arts program in women’s studies is organized around three major areas of inquiry: feminist thought, women in multicultural perspective, and women in international perspective. Women’s studies is particularly concerned with how varying sex/gender systems are constructed and perpetuated over time and across cultures.

  • The women’s studies minor is open to students from all majors.
  • An undergraduate certificate in women’s studies can be completed by non-degree students who wish to gain a professional credential for working with women and on women’s/gender issues in various occupations.
  • The global gender studies track in the international studies major enables students to study women and gender issues from an international and cross-cultural perspective.
  • A major in women’s studies prepares students for a wide array of graduate and professional programs and a broad range of careers in such areas as research, writing, teaching, public policy, social and health services, law, business, and communication.
Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies—Suggested Curriculum
Freshman
English Comp I & II
Math & Modern World
GE History
GE Non-Western Course
GE Human Expression
Social Life
GE Human Behavior
College Component
GE Sciences (3)
Foreign Languages
Sophomore
GE Additional Courses (2)
Computer Literacy
Logic
Statistics
Approaches to Women’s
Studies
US Women’s History in
Multicultural Perspective
Women & Religion in America
Foreign Languages
Electives
Junior
Women in Multicultural
Perspective
Women Playwrights &
Feminism I
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on
Women
International Human Rights
Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Studies in Literature, Gender,
& Sexuality
African-American Politics
American Texts: Later 19th
Century
Electives
Senior
Independent Field Experience
Women in International
Perspective
Feminist Thought
Religions in the Biblical Period
Electives

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