Women’s Studies provides students a coherent, but flexible, program of study examining scholarship and theory on the history, status, contributions, and experiences of women in diverse cultural communities.

The interdisciplinary perspective of the field expands our intellectual vision and our capacity to resolve problems. The traditional disciplines have led to inadequate and incomplete understandings of human experience. Women’s Studies is committed to an expanding recognition of the impact and strength of difference and diversity in women’s lives.

The Women’s Studies minor and/or two-year associate degree program enables students to analyze how gender, in its dynamic interrelationship with race and class, has shaped and given meaning to women’s lives.

The Women’s Studies program is administered by the director and the Women’s Studies Governing Board. The following faculty teach* Women’s Studies courses and serve on the Women’s Studies Governing Board: Bender, Bennion, Borshuk, Brittenham, Chen, L. Collins, Gindele, Lucal, McGuire, Roth, Scanlan, Tetzlaff, Torstrick, and Walker.

Minor in Women’s Studies

Requirements (15 cr.)

One of the following:

WOST W100 Gender Studies
WOST W200 Women in Society: Introduction to Women’s Studies

WOST W301 Global Perspectives on Women *

One 400-level seminar course (excluding WOST W495 Readings and Research in Women’s Studies) *

Electives

One additional elective from among WOST core or joint-listed courses

One additional elective from among WOST cross-listed, core, or joint-listed courses *

*Students may receive credit if they choose to enroll in the departmental equivalent of the course.

Associate of Arts with a Concentration in Women’s Studies

(All courses are 3 cr. hours unless otherwise designated.)

Requirements (15 cr.)

One of the following:

WOST W100 Gender Studies
WOST W200 Women in Society: Introduction to Women’s Studies

WOST W301 Global Perspectives on Women *

One 400-level seminar course (excluding WOST W495 Readings and Research in Women’s Studies and WOST W480 Practicum in Women’s Studies) *

Electives

One additional course from among WOST core or joint-listed courses

One additional course from among WOST cross-listed, core, or joint-listed courses

Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies

(All courses are 3 cr. hours unless otherwise designated.)

Requirements (30 cr.)

Core courses for the major (12 cr.)

One of the following:
WOST W100 Gender Studies
WOST W200 Women in Society: Introduction to Women’s Studies

Students must also take:
WOST W301 Global Perspectives on Women *
WOST W402 Seminar in Women’s Studies
WOST W480 Practicum in Women’s Studies

Electives for the major (18 cr.) *

Two WOST joint-listed courses in the humanities

Two WOST joint-listed courses in the social and biological sciences

One additional elective from WOST core or joint-listed courses

One additional elective from WOST crosslisted, core, or joint-listed courses

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