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Women's Studies
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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 Social Life Foreign Languages College Component GE Sciences (3) GE History GE Non-Western Course GE Human Expression |
Sophomore Computer Literacy Logic Statistics Approaches to Women's Studies US Women's History in Multicultural Perspective Women & Religion in America Foreign Languages Electives GE Human Behavior GE Additional Courses (2) |
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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