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Women and Gender Studies Major

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Women and Gender Studies Major

Description

The Women and Gender Studies Program is committed to exploring gender and women’s issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, across different populations, and within a local, national and transnational context. Program knowledge seeks to provide students with the occasion to investigate the intersections of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality and ability as dimensions of social identity. The program offers both a major and a minor with course work dedicated to heightening the awareness of the political, socioeconomic, and cultural ideologies related to gender theory. The Women and Gender Studies curriculum seeks to support pedagogy rooted in social justice and equality and to establish the classroom as a collaborative space where both faculty and students participate in knowledge production. As an interdisciplinary field, Women and Gender Studies provides its students with diversity training, leadership skills, competitive writing and editing expertise, public speaking experience, and the ability to complete original research and analyze data. These disciplinary skills equip Women and Gender Studies majors and minors with valuable preparation for careers in public service, law, social work, education, criminal justice and the health professions. Women and Gender Studies also provides a unique and highly useful foundation when considering graduate study. Recent Women and Gender Studies graduates have gone on to highly competitive masters and doctorate programs in law, sociology, gender studies, history, social work, communications, public health, and English at nationally recognized research universities. The Women and Gender Studies Program works to make the diversity of women’s and gendered perspectives visible and to promote student success within an academic, professional, and personal context.

What can I do with a women and gender studies major?

Admission to the Program

Anyone can declare this major.

Program Requirements

Students in the women and gender studies major pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree, and must complete its requirements.

In addition to the course requirements below, students must meet the following requirements:

  1. A grade of "C" or higher must be earned for all courses in the major.

Core Courses

  • WMS 101 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
  • WMS 271 Gender, Race and Class
  • WMS 360 Sex and Culture
  • WMS 409 Feminist Theory
  • WMS 411 Feminist Research Methods
  • WMS 420 Practicum in Women and Gender Studies (3-9 credits)
  • WMS 421 Senior Seminar in Women's Studies
  • At least one of the following courses in Women's History
    • WMS 324 Politics in America 1780s-1900s; Sex, Race, Culture and Party
    • WMS 328 Women in America
    • WMS 344 Sex, Sin and Sorority
    • WMS 358 History of Family: Social Change in American History
    • WMS 359 History of Family: European Women
    • WMS 367 Gender in the Islamic World
    • WMS 438 Women and Gender in Latin American History
    • WMS 444 Medieval Women
  • FOUR electives from approved, interdisciplinary cross-listed courses

Total Number of Credits: 36

Course Descriptions

Women and Gender Studies Program

Department Chair: Barbara LeSavoy
Location: Dailey 201A
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Email: blesavoy@brockport.edu
Phone: (585) 395-5700
Fax: (585) 395-5999

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Faculty & Staff

    


Barbara  LeSavoy Ph.D
 (SUNY At Buffalo)  
Director Women + Gender Studies
Barbara  Mitrano EDD
 (University Of Rochester)  
Lecturer (10 Month)