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Women's Studies Minor: |
- Is an interdisciplinary academic curriculum that exposes
students to women's historical and contemporary roles, their
accomplishments, and their experiences in our society and
across cultures.
- Introduces students to valuable, often neglected information
about women in many spheres of life (e.g. family, workplace,
science, religion, politics, arts, and education).
- Raises questions about gender, race, nationality, class
and sexual identity, and explores how these conditions shape
human experience.
- Helps us understand the complexity of women's and men's
lives.
- Challenges stereotypes and encourages students to think
critically about themselves and the world in which they
live so they can become advocates for social change.
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| Women's Studies Minor Requirements: |
- A minimum of twenty-one (21) semester hours, which include the required
courses, WS101 Introduction to Women’s Studies (3), WS/HY309
Women in American History (3), and WS/PS325 Femiminist Theory
and Activism
- 12 elective credit hours of course offerings from the list
of courses offered below:
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| Courses
- Full Listing |
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| WS100 Introduction to Women's Studies
(3) |
| This course is designed to introduce students
to Women's Studies as an area of interdisciplinary study and
research. Students will read classic and contemporary texts
from a variety of disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences,
and Sciences. Topics include: women's contributions to the
arts, sciences, and religion, an overview of feminist/womanist
theory, epistemological issues, and feminist research methodologies.
This course offer students the opportunity for cultural and
cross-cultural study of the effect of representations and
the various ways assumptions about gender, race, class, ethnicity,
and sexual orientation impact identities and shape perceptions,
thinking, and actions in everyday life. |
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| WS/PH160 Philosophy and Women (3) |
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| WS200 Special Topics in Women's Studies
(Variable) |
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| WS/SY207 Arab Women (3) |
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| WS/PH/PS250 Legal Issues forWomen
(3) |
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| WS/EH255 Women Writers (3) |
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| WS/TY265 Women and Ministry (3) |
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| WS/TY267 Women and Spirituality (3) |
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| WS/SY305 Sociology of Gender (3) |
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| WS/HY309 Women in American History
(3) |
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| WS/CN311 Gender Communication (3) |
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| WS314/SY311 Sociology
of Women (3) |
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| WS/PS325 Feminist Theory and Activism (3) |
| WS325/PS325 Feminist Theory and Activism is designed to explore different
ways of thinking about sex/gender, power, and justice, and examines how different
theories of gender, power and justice shape political activism. By comparing
a variety of theoretical perspectives (such as liberal, Marxist and radical feminism),
we look at different possibilities for analyzing core feminist concepts and
the practical implications of theory. |
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| See
the current course listing for other approved Women's Studies
courses that are offered periodically. |
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| Options of WS 397 Field Experience, WS
398 Independent Readings, WS 399 Independent Project, may
be taken with approval of the Director of the Women's Studies
Program, Susan Haworth-Hoeppner. |
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| Careers in Women’s Studies |
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| The Women’s Studies Program prepares
students for leadership in a variety of career areas, particularly
political advocacy, health and human services, social work,
education, human rights, government, journalism, advertising,
broadcasting, public relations, community organizing, law,
management, business, and non-profit services. |
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| Women’s Studies empowers students, regardless
of their career choices, to become catalysts for change and
voices for equality and social justice on campus, in our society,
and around the globe. |
