Women's and Gender Studies 2009-2010

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Overview

Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that includes more than 50 courses offered in art and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Offering a critical perspective that places gender at the center of analysis, Women’s and Gender Studies reexamines traditional beliefs, supports new kinds of research, explores feminist theory, and enables students to better understand the societal positions and global processes affecting both women and men throughout the world. Women’s and Gender Studies courses probe the way cultures construct concepts of gender, introducing students to differences of class, race, ethnic, and sexual orientation in a range of societies. Students are encouraged to think about gender and racial stereotypes and to become aware of unexamined assumptions about sexual and gender differences.

Program Director: Professor L. Marso (Political Science)

Advisory Board: Professors S. Gmelch (Anthropology), V. Barr (Computer Science), T. Meade (History); Associate Professors A. Feffer, A. Foroughi (History), C. Batson, M. Chilcoat (Modern Languages), J. Matsue (Music), Z. Oxley (Political Science), D. Hill Butler (Sociology), D. Ogawa (Visual Arts); Assistant Professor S. Raucci (Classics); Lecturer G. Donaldson (Psychology); G. Golderman (Schaffer Library)