Women's Studies | Academic Requirements
Minor in Women's Studies | Courses | Faculty

The Women's Studies Program

The Women’s Studies Program, which offers a major leading to the B.A. degree as well as a minor, examines women’s lives and issues using an interdisciplinary approach. Consisting of a variety of courses drawn principally from the liberal arts, the program offers students the opportunity to study women’s struggles, achievements, and contributions in past and present societies, across cultures, and from a feminist perspective. Designed to enhance feminist scholarship and activism, the program equips students with reading, writing, research, and analytical skills that enable them to:

1. describe past and present conditions of women in various cultures and societies;
2. understand the causes and consequences of women’s subordination;
3. evaluate a range of empirical and normative theories of gender construction and inequality;
4. learn strategies and organizational skills needed to address gender inequalities; and
5. develop the ability to analyze primary sources and produce coherent research reports.