Women’s and Gender Studies

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Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) provides a critical, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural understanding of women, gender, and power in a global context.

About the Program

Focusing on the social inequalities that result from interlocking oppressions, WGS engages students in the discovery and production of knowledge from feminist perspectives and empowers them to link their academic pursuits with a call to activism. Within the context of the historic Christian faith, students learn to:

• Think more critically about their own lives
• Value complexity, diversity and difference
• Mobilize feminist theories
• Become agents of justice in the world

Whereas, historically, the voices of women and other minorities (including feminist men) have been muted, Women’s and Gender Studies puts these voices at the center of the curriculum.

Programs

• Women’s and Gender Studies, BA

• Women’s and Gender Studies Minor

Courses

• WGS 130 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 160 - Women in a Global Society
• WGS 195 - Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 295 - Special Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 301 - Transnational Feminisms
• WGS 350 - Feminist Visions of Justice: Theory and Methodology
• WGS 395 - Special Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 490 - Independent Projects
• WGS 494 - Keystone Seminar
• WGS 495 - Advanced Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies
• WGS 496 - Internship Program in Women’s and Gender Studies

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