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Women’s and Gender Studies Minor
Over the past two decades, a distinct body of scholarship on gender has
developed in almost every academic field. This scholarship raises basic
questions about women, men, and society which transcend disciplines
and challenge traditional ways of teaching and conducting research. The
feminist framework informing Women’s and Gender Studies addresses
the following issues with respect to gender:
1. It challenges the androcentric bias in thought, language, and social
and intellectual systems.
2. It rethinks the central western dualisms—e.g., mind/body,
subject/object, thinking/doing.
3. It involves a critique of all forms of oppression including class, race,
sex, sexual-affectional preference, 1 st world-3 rd world, violence,
militarism, ecological destruction, political inequality and hierarchies of
power.
Faculty
Connie Anderson, Elizabeth Ayer, Robert Bensen, David Cody, Lisa
Darien, Fiona Dejardin, Sharon Dettenrieder, Marilyn Dunn, Laurel
Elder, Lynn Elmore, Carlena Ficano, Vicki Howard, Katharine Kreisher,
Cherilyn Lacy, Laura Malloy, Adrian McFarlane, Enrique Morales-Diaz,
Susan Navarette, Mieko Nishida, Kim Noling, Katherine O’Donnell,
Edythe Quinn, Leesa Rittelmann, Stefanie Rocknak, Esperanza Roncero,
Margaret Schramm, Linda Swift, Mireille Vandenheuvel, Mary
Vanderlaan, Marilyn Wesley, Mark Wolff
Courses
166 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (3 credits)
(INTR) This course introduces students to feminist scholarship and
acquaints them with the intellectual, ethical, social, political, historical
and cultural forces constructing gender. The class is interdisciplinary and
grounded in feminist pedagogy. (Required)
360 Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies (3 credits) (INTR)
This seminar explores a broad range of classical and contemporary
feminist theory and contrasts it with existing, normative theoretical
paradigms. A feminist framework is used to focus on a specific academic
field, i.e., history, literature, labor, science. Emphasis is placed on
cultivating self-development through student participation in pedagogical
experimentation, project creation and reading choices. Prerequisite: two
of the courses listed or permission of the instructor. Directed and
independent courses in Women’s and Gender Studies may be arranged in
consultation with the program’s faculty.
Women’s and Gender Studies Minor
Requirements for the minor in Women’s and Gender Studies:
19 credits:
Required courses:
166 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (Intr)
360 Capstone Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies
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