Coordinator: Beverly Ayers-Nachamkin, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology

The Women’s Studies program represents an interdisciplinary approach to the integration of feminist scholarship into established academic programs and addresses the following objectives:

1) to provide opportunities to examine the traditional images of women, to explore misconceptions, and to envision new possibilities;

2) to provide opportunities to learn about the social construction of gender as it interacts with class, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual identity in a variety of settings, cultures, and times; and

3) to increase the range of career options by providing skills and pre-professional education in a liberal arts framework.  Women’s Studies is excellent preparation for graduate school and for careers in areas that affect women’s lives, such as counseling, teaching, work with civil/environmental rights organizations, displaced homemakers programs, fund-raising organizations, political action groups, publications, reproductive services, and women’s centers.

Required courses for a minor in Women's Studies:

SOC 215 Women in Society
or
PS 221/321 Women in Global Perspective
WS 222 Introduction to Feminist Perspectives 40

In addition, in consultation with the major advisor and the coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, the student will select four electives, at least one of which must be a 300- level course other than an Internship.