Women’s and Gender Studies

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Director: Associate Professor A. Foroughi (History)

Faculty: Professors T. Meade, A. Feffer (History), L. Marso, Z. Oxley (Political Science); Associate Professors C. Braken (English), J. Lewin (English), D. Butler (Sociology), J. Lewin (English), E. Nelson (Modern Languages & Literatures), D. Ogawa (Visual Arts); S. Raucci (Classics); Assistant Professor J. Murphy (English);  Lecturer G. Donaldson (Psychology)

Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that includes a wide variety of courses offered in arts 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 all genders throughout the world. Women’s and Gender Studies courses probe the way cultures construct concepts of gender, introducing students to differences of class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and life cycle 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.

Programs

• Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A.

• Women’s and Gender Studies, B.A.

• Women’s and Gender Studies Minor

Courses

• WGS 100 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 479 - Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 495 - Capstone Course on Women and Gender Theory
• WGS 498 - Senior Thesis 1
• WGS 499 - Senior Thesis 2

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