As the academic branch of the women’s movement, Women’s studies challenges assumptions upon which the Western tradition of scholarship has been based and seeks to integrate the diverse experiences and perspectives of women into the curriculum.
Our core curriculum offers students the analytical tools for understanding gender as it is constructed within and through differences of ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nationality. It enables students to interpret the diverse lives, issues, and voices of women in our multicultural and transnational world.
Women’s Studies faculty, from departments across campus, work closely with the program leader to offer a dynamic and student-centered minor, certificate of study, as well as the pathway in Women’s Studies within the Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies major. Our program also works with the student-run Women’s Resource Center and other women’s groups on campus to provide a network of resources, support, and referral on women-centered issues, organizations, and events. We sponsor programs of interest to women, including workshops and speakers.
This program is useful in the following careers: administrator of nonprofit women’s organization, affirmative action officer, attorney, community organizer, computer software designer, coordinator of women’s programs in government and business, counselor, editor, environmental activist, international development worker, journalist, legal assistant, lobbyist for women’s issues, political advocate, psychologist, rape crisis specialist, researcher on women’s projects, social worker, teacher, union organizer, urban planner, women’s resource center director, women’s health care specialist, writer.
Requirements for the Minor (16 units)
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