WOMEN'S STUDIES

Women's Studies is a concentration within the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, in which students investigate a subject from te viewpoints of several disciplines.  In taking an interdisciplinary approach, students acquire the knowledge and skills of the liberally educated person while enjoying flexibility and an individualized approach to their education.

Women's Studies is designed for students who wish to enrich the study of their academic discipline with an understanding of the ways in which gender affects the organization, methodology, premises, and practices of that discipline.  Thus, Women's Studies students bring a more informed perspective to her scholarship and career and functions more effectively in all areas of life through heightened awareness of the generally hidden interconnections of gender and power.


REQUIREMENTS

To ensure a gender-informed interdisciplinary perspective, the Women's Studies track offers a coordinate major as follows:
  • Fulfill the requirements of a disciplinary major,
  • Complete 24 credits of Women's Studies including:
    • Women, Gender and Power as the methodology coure
    • 3 credits in Women's Studies seminar or independent study
    • 18 additional credits of Women's Studies designated courses, not to include credits counting toward the disciplinary major or minor
    • A final project of an interdisciplinary nature

 

 

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