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About Gender and Women's Studies

The mission of the Gender and Women's Studies Program is to provide students with a critical and interdisciplinary perspective on the social construction of gender and opportunities to bring this framework to bear in a variety of careers and areas of graduate study.

Specific goals include the following:

1. To prepare students to understand a range of disciplinary approaches to the study of gender and women.

2. To ensure that students have the knowledge and skills needed to analyze women’s participation in, transformation of, and contributions to social life.

3. To prepare students to synthesize information regarding historical and cross-cultural variation of social norms pertaining to gender.

4. To prepare students to analyze ways in which masculinity and femininity intersect with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, and understand how power and privilege function in relation to these intersections.

5. To prepare students to assess and apply the variety of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives used in Gender and Women’s Studies, including the connection between experience and practice

Gender and Women's Studies Courses Offered Spring 2011

ANT 4XX: Latin American Masculinities

GDS 100: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies

GDS/SOC 3XX: Social Inequality

SOC 211: Sociology of the Family

SOC 402 Feminist Thought

SOC 410: Directed Research