Forms, information for prospective student-athletes.
The Women's Studies Program represents an interdisciplinary approach to feminist scholarship whose purpose is to examine the changing roles of women locally, regionally, nationally, globally, and cross-culturally through time. Courses within this program, including cross-listed courses, should not only reflect this approach, but should also meet the following criteria:
- The course content must clearly reflect and acquaint students with recent scholarship on women, gender, and/or feminist theory. Traditional texts, when used, should be put into a dialogue with a feminist perspective(s) designed to challenge their assumptions.
- Race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation and other systems of domination affect how one experiences gender, subordination, and agency. A Women's Studies course addresses, rather than ignores or dismisses, these differences.
- A Women's Studies course should do one or more of the following:
- critically examine cultural assumptions about gender (as well as race, class, etc.) E.g., the gender assumptions in the traditional methodologies, theories, and research of particular disciplines,
- explore the production of knowledge in art, literature, and other disciplines that reflect on women's gendered, race-affected, and class-bound, etc. experiences.
- equip students to identify and analyze systems of domination that constrain women's lives,
- focus on providing information about women, their psychology, biology, roles, experiences, history and contributions.
- Women's Studies courses should examine feminist genres, research methods, structures, analytical tools, aesthetics, criticism, contemporary issues, pedagogy, political theory,etc.
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Adopted: WST Curriculum Committee 10/26/95 |